Marijuana seeds were brought to South America by Moorish slaves taken to plantations by the Spaniards. There was a certain notorious smuggler ... Jim .... who smuggled grass into the US by plane. He landed in the desert to bury the load then took off and landed as normal in LA. He travelled around South America to get the best crop.... often from plants grown at 10,000 feet. He even travelled to Iran seed hunting ! In the end his plane collided with a hot air balloon and he died in a crash landing. 75% of suicides in the UK are men. The First World War polorized Spain... the heirarchy became strict Germanophiles while the socialists and the left supported the French and the Allies. Elvis......... blue/black hair... olive skin.... startling green eyes. The movie ..Endless Night... was shot on the Isle of Wight. Hayley Mills age 26 was newly married to Roy Boulting age 58 . Brit Eckland was also in the movie. Twiggy was born in sept 1949 ... the youngest of 3 daughters .. each daughter seperated by 7 years. The BeeGees dad was a drummer in a big band during WW2 their mum was the singer. Bob Hope had two daughters, they both married but both marriages broke up and they became lesbians. In the early 60s the Grade Organization branched out into films and distribution... spearheaded by Robin Fox.... father of Edward, James and Robert. Carole White in her younger years had a black leather biker phase and a biker boyfriend age 19. He drove his white and gold Triumph head on into a lorry. Carole often wondered if he had done it on purpose. John Mayall's strange, acid trip house in the Hollywood Canyons had a procession of top Rock stars who used to meet up there. Alas the house was burned down in forest fires of 1975 and John lost everything ... including all his prized guitars. Bray studios had 5 bedrooms, a tennis court and a boathouse on the Thames... a very civilized location for the Hammer Horror Movies. England......... from the Norse word ... Enge = Meadow so the real meaning behind the word England.... is Meadowland. One of the heirs to the Astor fortune in America came to London at the end of the 19th cent ... got a peerage and became...... 1st Viscount Astor. He bought Clivedon ... a snip at £10million.......... a wonderful stately home set in 400 acres overlooking the Thames. The garden alone employed 50 gardeners. In the 1960s Clivedon became the notorious centre of the Profumo scandal. The novel Lolita was published in 1958. Richard Beckinsale was born in Nottingham. He and Judy Loe worked in Crewe Rep together and had a daughter Kate Beckinsale. Tragically Richard died age 31. Margot Fontaine age 43 found a new and exciting partner in Rudolf Nuryev... age 24 Lysette Anthony's mother is Bernadette Milnes.... movie actress and TV star of yesteryear. The movie ....Chariots of Fire .... grossed £30 million in the USA ... a record at the time for a non US movie. But the bulk of the cash stayed firmly in the hands of the US backers of the movie. There was another big pay day for them when the BBC payed them £1million to broadcast it on UK TV. Olivia Newton John earned an estimated $10million from the movie Grease. She played a teenage American schoolgirl in the movie while at the time she was pushing 30 ! Doris Day worked hard at her movie career and was a top earner in Hollywood. She trusted her husband Martin Melcher who looked after her money and invested it for the future. After his death she investigated her finances and realized that she had lost all of her money in dodgy investments and to add inslult to injury she was even in debt. She sued Martin's business partner for $23 million and managed to salvage $6 million which was repaid over the next 23 years. The movie ... Birth of a Nation... made in 1918 by D.W. Griffith... cost $200,000 to make and earned $22million. In 1994 Granada bought London Weekend Television for £770 million. ( One of the founders of London Weekend TV was David Frost ) William Randolf Hearst's dad struck paydirt....... silver..... the biggest silver deposit in the entire world. With the proceedings he bought up land in California including San Simeon and the surrounding 40,000 acres. ( he paid 60 cents an acre ) William increased these holdings till San Simeon reached 250,000 acres. John Constable, the famous landscape artist, never set foot in Scotland or Wales. There used to be 200 coal pits in County Durham......... today there is not one in action. Catherine the Great of Russia was an avid collector of curiousities. She ordered a 952 piece tea service from England's Wedgewood Pottery insisting that each piece should have a different view of the English countryside. |
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