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April 1922. Rural Kansas. Both parents dead within one week—mother from a burst appendix, father from a sudden heart attack in the barn. Five children left behind. No relatives nearby. …
A 14-year-old girl became mother, father, and farmer to four siblings—and no one noticed for eight months. Read MoreShe wasn’t chasing fame. She wasn’t planning a comeback. She was doing math no parent should have to do. In 2010, Mayim Bialik had everything that supposedly defines success. A …
She Had a PhD, Two Babies, and an Expiring Insurance Card — So She Took an Audition She Never Wanted Read MoreOctober 1979. Gary Burghoff stands on the MASH set, clutching a teddy bear that’s become nearly as famous as he is. He tells the producers he’s done. They’re stunned. MASH …
“He walked away from the most popular show on television—not for money, not for creative differences. He left because playing the character was erasing who he actually was. Read MoreHe told her he was developing a new sitcom called The Jeffersons. There would be an interracial married couple living next door to the main characters. A Black woman married …
In 1975, Norman Lear called Roxie Roker into his office with a warning Read MoreCuban diplomat says Havana is ready for dialogue with Washington, but certain things are off the table, including the constitution and its socialist government. Cuba and the United States are …
Cuba in contact with US, diplomat says, as Trump issues threat to block oil Read MoreMusk says solar powered and space-based data centres are the only way to meet AI’s burgeoning energy demands. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his AI company xAI as part of …
Musk merges SpaceX and xAI firms, plans for space-based AI data centres Read MoreThe US president had slapped India with a punitive 25 percent tariff for buying Russian oil on top of a 25 percent ‘reciprocal’ tariff. United States President Donald Trump has …
Trump cuts India tariffs to 18% as Modi agrees to stop buying Russian oil Read MoreIt wasn’t supposed to be dramatic. Her mother had driven her to a hotel near what they both assumed was a quiet summer festival — three days of peace, music, …
In August 1969, twenty-two-year-old Melanie Safka climbed into a helicopter and left her mother behind. Read MoreWhen Lillian Moller Gilbreth was born in 1878 in Oakland, California, no one expected her to change the way the world worked. She was the oldest of nine children in …
She won those battles one by one. In 1900, she stood before a crowd at the University of California Read MoreAnd then she grabbed a pair of scissors… and cut the feet off her pantyhose. That tiny, impulsive act in 1998 would change everything. This is Sara Blakely’s story. Florida, …
She was 27. Selling fax machines door-to-door. Frustrated. Read More