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In the 1920s, US Radium told teenage girls the only side effect of licking radium paint off their brushes was rosy cheeks. Scientists at the same plant wore lead aprons and tongs. Grace Fryer sued them anyway. They still glow in their coffins today.

In the 1920s, US Radium told teenage girls the only side effect of licking radium paint off their brushes was rosy cheeks. Scientists at the same plant wore lead aprons and tongs. Grace Fryer sued them anyway. They still glow in their coffins today.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 18 hours ago

Actress-singer Lilian Valez is one of recognized faces of Filipino cinema during late 1930s and 1940s, was subject of her co star Narding Anzures's obsession despite she was happily married to José Clímaco whom she had daughter named Vivian until LVN pictures cast Jaime de la Rosa instead Anzures

u/Beginning-Passion676 — 19 hours ago
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Brando did not “smuggle” his daughter Cheyenne away to protect his son; he wanted to protect her. But LA prosecutors exploited this to drain Marlon emotionally and financially.

Brando did not “smuggle” his daughter Cheyenne away to protect his son; he wanted to protect her. She was mentally unstable giving conflicting accounts to police , but LA prosecutors exploited this to drain Marlon emotionally and financially.The Drollet family’s strong influence over lawyers and judges in Tahiti could not establish that she was mentally competent to testify.

Since the night of the incident in May 1990, Cheyenne was absent from the room and severely mentally unstable, making her contradictory statements legally void and inadmissible as court evidence. Official interrogations in Tahiti between 1990 and 1992 by judges and the victim’s father failed to establish her legal competency or provide any evidence implicating Christian in premeditated murder or involving her in a full murder crime. This refutes the media narrative that Marlon "smuggled her away" to protect Christian, as she was relocated solely due to her mental inability to provide legal testimony before any court. The prosecution exploited her psychological breakdown to drain Marlon emotionally and financially, despite knowing that reaching a plea deal with Christian was inevitable regardless of her presence.

u/Useful_Culture_3082 — 21 hours ago

At 16, Jeremiah Coghlan dived into a raging storm to save 50 lives. The Navy noticed. He went on to board a French warship with 20 men against 87, took a pike through the thigh, and killed every officer on board. He later dined with both Nelson AND Napoleon

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 2 days ago

At the War of the Breton Succession, noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson's happy life was shattered when her third husband, Olivier IV de Clisson, was arrested for treason after Philip VI of France accused him of being a traitor for siding with the English.

Jeffery Hudson entered royal life at age 8 by emerging from a giant pie before the King of England. He became a royal knight and cavalry captain. His dueling opponent showed up with a water pistol. Hudson shot him dead.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 3 days ago
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In 1666, 15-year-old Margaret Theresa of Spain married her uncle Leopold, Holy Roman Emperor. In six years, she endured six pregnancies. Three of her four children died in infancy. When she died on March 12, 1673, aged 21, an autopsy revealed she was pregnant again.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 4 days ago

Ada 'Bricktop' Smith was born to parents who had been enslaved in the American South, became the queen of Parisian jazz society, mentored Josephine Baker and Duke Ellington and almost no one knows her name today. She taught the future King Edward VIII how to do the Charleston.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 5 days ago

Ayhan Aydan was beloved opera singer with soulful voice who met Adnan Menderes at Çubuk though her uncle in 1951. despite being other to other people, Ayhan and Adnan had affair.

u/Beginning-Passion676 — 3 days ago

Yun Sim-deok is considered Korea's professional soprano, whose song 'Hymn of Death' has reached 100 million copies. While studying at Tokyo Music School, she met fellow student Kim U-jin, an aspiring playwright who was married. Despite this, they fell in love.

u/Beginning-Passion676 — 5 days ago

Alexandra of Denmark was adored by millions as Britain's Princess of Wales. Her husband kept mistresses for decades. She bore it in silence. The future Queen of Britain had shared an attic bedroom with her sister and sewed her own clothes.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 7 days ago

Wanrong (1906–1946) was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China, along with Wenxiu. She is well known for her volatile temper, enjoyment of jazz, and affairs with her royal attendants Li Tiyu and Qi Jizhong.

u/Beginning-Passion676 — 7 days ago

An enslaved woman named Tituba was beaten into confessing witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials. The two women who told the truth were hanged. Tituba survived then was sold for the price of her jail fees and vanished from history.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 9 days ago

Annie Oakley was enslaved as a child laborer at age 10. By 15, she'd paid off her family's mortgage. She offered to raise a female military regiment twice. The U.S. rejected her both times. Her husband stopped eating when she died. He followed her three weeks later.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 10 days ago

Arthur Allen Miller, better known as Bill Miner, pulled Canada's first train robbery in 1904. The next morning, he sat down for breakfast with the detectives hunting him. He is also credited with coining the phrase 'Hands up.'

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 8 days ago

After the Portuguese killed her husband at sea, Keumalahayati was promoted to chief admiral of his fleet, recruited 2,000 war widows into her own army, and forced the Dutch Republic to send formal apology letters to her sultan

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 13 days ago

Rosalie Duthé was the mistress of the man who would become Charles X of France, and companion to French kings and nobility. A satirical play mocking her kept all of Paris laughing for weeks. She offered to kiss anyone who defended her honor. Nobody came forward. Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830) was one

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 14 days ago

Actor and singer M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was considered the first superstar of Tamil cinema, due to the fact that his film Haridas (1944) was a box office hit, running for one year until he was accused of murder of journalist C. N. Lakshmikantan in 1944

u/Beginning-Passion676 — 10 days ago

Antonio Luna is one of finest general during the Philippine–American War, was courted by Nellie Boustead, a woman who was also courted by José Rizal, between 1889 and 1891 which he insulted Boustead while drunk on party.

u/Beginning-Passion676 — 9 days ago