Articles for tag: 1920's, Celebrities, Sports Celebrities

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Celebrities of the 1920s

Who were the Britney Spears’, Robert De Neros, and Michael Jordans of the 1920’s? The stars of yesterday, forgotten today. You may not have heard of them all, but you may be surprised about how much you really do know about the 1920’s. These years were the rise of what we now know as,”super-stars.” At ...

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Six Celebrities that Died from Emphysema

Emphysema is an incurable lung disease, usually brought about by the long term effects of smoking. It robs the people that have it of the ability to breathe easily, as it damages the air sacs in the lungs. Over the years, many famous people have succumbed to the effects of emphysema, such as Dean Martin ...

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How to Meet Celebrities – Some Simple Tips

So often we see people glorified on television and in movies that we tend to forget that they are still just as human as the rest of us. Add to that the endless parade of paparazzi pictures and stories and it seems the people we know as celebrities, more and more are viewed as icons, ...

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Terrell Owens Cries During Press Conference

Though Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) told a sobbing player in “A League of Their Own” that “There’s no crying in baseball,” evidently it’s okay for the tears to flow in football. NBC 10 in Philadelphia reports that Wide Receiver Terrell Owens cried during a press conference following the Dallas Cowboy’s disappointing loss to the New ...

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Celebrity Influence on Teens Through Advertising

America is saturated with advertising. It is a nation whose people are stigmatized with the label of “over-consumption.” Rightfully so, the citizens of the United States are perceived as self-indulgent people not only by other nations, but by many of their fellow Americans. This behavior is derived from materialism. This notion of materialism is defined ...

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Little Known Facts About Soccer Superstar David Beckham

Recently, British soccer phenomenon, David Beckham, converted his celebrated skills into a mega $250 million contract to play in Los Angeles for an American soccer team. While Beckham is known worldwide among soccer fans, he is probably less known in the United States than any other sports figure coming here to make that kind of ...

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Rarest Sports Autographs

Sports autograph seekers have aspirations of acquiring that rare sports autograph and adding it to their collection. However, for many collectors, these autographs are priced far out of their collecting budgets. These rare autographs can range in price from hundreds of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars. There is no argument that rare autographs ...