Oscar-winner Charlton Heston died Saturday, April 5, 2008. According to the latest news from the L.A. Times, the world-renowned actor died at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 84 years old. From his early career to his later days, Heston has served as a lingering symbol of popular culture for many generations of movie-goers ...
Aphrodisiacs in various forms have long been used to arouse sexual excitement. Some forms that aphrodisiacs take are visual (pornography and sexy pictures), olfactory (the scent of your lover and aromatherapy), demonstrative (your partner’s touch, or the brush of a feather), and auditory (music, sexual sounds and communications). More tangible things like food and alcohol ...
The Julio-Claudian Dynasty was the first family to rule the Roman Empire, and they have gone down in history as one of the most fantastical and interesting characters in the history of Rome. Ranging from the first emperor Augustus to the last, dissolute Nero, the emperors of the first dynasty established the political office that ...
There is an old story about Cleopatra that’s pretty good, even though it can’t compare to the Hollywood version. The queen really liked to flaunt her assets and impressed the Romans with her emerald flair. She not only seduced Julius Caesar and married Marc Antony, but was also famous for her generosity. She gave gifts ...
Marcus Antonius came from a distinguished family that was rumored to be descended from Hercules. His grandfather, a consul and censor, was considered one of the great orators of his time, and his father was “a man of no great repute in public life, nor illustrious, but kindly and honest .” More importantly, though, for ...
Marlon Brando is widely acknowledged to be the greatest movie actor of all time, yet, in America, there is still a lingering sense of disappointment in his career, the feeling that he did not extract the most from his phenomenal talent and thus, had cheated his audience. (In their feelings of cultural inferiority vis-à-vis Europe, ...
I recently visited Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia to see if the rumors of it being one of the ten most haunted places in America were true; they were. Springer Opera House is no stranger whatsoever to visits from the other side: there are regular sightings of orbs of light, cold spots in the ...
The year was 1818. The location was ruins of the Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Villa outside Rome. The wealthy owner of the estate grounds on which the ruins lay had his head groundskeeper engaged in a general cleanup and renovation of the site. Since there was a considerable amount of usable scrap lumber on the estate, ...
