Harold Washington: 1922-1987
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Actor Wale Ojo says he once trapped a cockroach to prepare for a role
In a recent interview with ThisDay, the actor said that he started acting like the cockroach to play the role well. “I had to be a cockroach and play a cockroach and drop from a ceiling onto the floor and all kinds of things. It took a lot and that was one of my most memorable. I trapped a cockroach in a bottle and I studied the way the cockroach moves in preparation for the role.
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America's First Supermarket at 100: How It Changed the World
Picking up a basket while grocery shopping may seem second nature now, but the idea was once groundbreaking. And that was far from the only thing that changed when Piggly Wiggly, the first modern American supermarket, opened 100 years ago.
Clarence Saunders opened the first Piggly Wiggly on Sept. 11, 1916 in Memphis, Tenn.—after a few construction delays, which is why the company celebrates the anniversary on the 6th—and thus pioneered a self-service model that was drastically different from the way things had long been done.
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Americas Pest Problem: Its Time to Cull the Herd
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Faced with an outbreak of lyme disease and rising deer-related car accidents, the city council of Durham, N.C., authorized bow hunting inside city limits in November. Authorities in San Jose, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, voted to allow hunting wild pigs within that city in October. Rock Island, Ill., one of the five Quad Cities on the Mississippi River, recently approved bow hunting in town, provided that it occurs in green spaces–golf courses, parks, cemeteries–or on private land.
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Apple TV+s Renewed Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Relocates Production to Australia
The second season of Apple TV+ and Legendary Entertainment’s “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” will shoot in Queensland, Australia. That represents a relocation after the first season of the action-adventure series was largely filmed in Canada’s British Columbia.
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Battler for Gene Therapy | TIME
* The 1990 Acura Legend pulls into the garage in San Marino, California, and out steps a slightly built man with graying hair, in suit and tie, just back from work. He calmly surveys the workout equipment he has set up in the adjacent parking slot: two heavy bags and a pair of rigs, one supporting a stack of five 1-in.-thick pine boards, the other a stack of three. Suddenly he explodes into violence.
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BBCs Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore Discusses Channel 4, #MeToo and Diversity at Wid
The BBC‘s chief content officer, Charlotte Moore, tackled a number of subjects at the Edinburgh TV Festival including the potential privatization of Channel 4, doing more for freelancers to report harassment and bullying, and improving diversity.
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Betty Grable and Her Legs: An Iconic Century
December 16, 2016 9:00 AM EST
When Betty Grable was profiled in the June 7, 1943, issue of LIFE, she shared headline status with another entity: her own legs, which the magazine dubbed a “major Hollywood landmark.” The previous February, an impression of her leg had been immortalized in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and the limbs were reportedly insured for $1 million at one point.
In fact, the published photo essay was nearly all legs.
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Books: Secret Life of Russell Kirk
OLD HOUSE OF FEAR (256 pp.)—Russell Kirk—Fleet Publishing ($3.95). In an ancient, canopied bed lies corpselike old Lady MacAskival. Birds screech outside the window, ghosts roam the castle’s corridors, haunted eyes gleam in the dark. In a pit beneath the trap door in the cellar lies a mysteriously deformed skeleton. “This Gothick tale,” says Author Russell Kirk, is “in unblushing line of direct descent from The Castle of Otranto.” He is wrong.
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Caitlin Clark (Basketball Player) - On This Day
Profession: Basketball Player
Biography: Caitlin Clark is an American college basketball player best known for her dominant performances with the Iowa Hawkeyes. As of her senior season, she became the NCAA Division I women's all-time leading scorer and is projected to be a top pick in the 2024 WNBA draft.
Clark started playing basketball at age five. Influenced by WNBA player Maya Moore and Harrison Barnes, she became a standout player at Dowling Catholic High School.
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