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Showing posts with label 15 Minutes of Fame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15 Minutes of Fame. Show all posts
31 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Medieval Fashion

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By Lindsay Townsend For many centuries in the Middle Ages the basics of fashion for men and women remained the same - a gown for women and ...
30 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Lucius Cornelius Balbus

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By: Stephanie Dray With the wicked Egyptian seductress dead, the Romans had every reason to believe the Republic would return to normal. Oh,...
27 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: The Emperor Who Wasn't

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By Anna Randol In November 1825, Tsar Alexander I died unexpectedly of typhus while taking his sick wife to a southern Russian city. The ...
25 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Richard Trevithick

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Michelle Styles When most people think of the railway or even the horseless carriage, they consider it happen long after the beginning of t...
24 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Grace Metalious, Author of Peyton Place

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Anna C. Bowling Petyon Place . Even for those who haven’t read the book, seen the movie or watched the television adaptation, the name br...
23 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Clara Bow

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by Lorelie Brown Clara Bow was the It Girl of a generation, and yet today people hardly know her name. Born in a Brooklyn tenement in 19...
16 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: The Rebellion of 1088

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By Lisa Yarde After the death of William the Conqueror in 1087, his sons Robert, William Rufus and Henry vied for the greatest share of th...
11 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Regina Strinassachi

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By Carrie Lofty On April 29, 1784, a young woman performed with Mozart for Joseph II, the Holy Roman Emperor. But that woman, Regina Strinas...
10 May 2011

15 Minutes of Fame: Queen for Seven Weeks

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Blythe Gifford James V of Scotland is remembered primarily for being the father of Mary, Queen of Scots, but Mary, born six days before his...