Barbie’s predecessor, Lilli, was a brazen German woman who liked to have a good time
Terry, the ultra-professional canine actor who played Toto, earned more than most of “The Wizard of Oz” cast
Joseph Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco, infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as undercover FBI agent
New film to portray the relationship of writer Virginia Woolf with Vita Sackville-West
The mysterious disappearance of Lionel “Buster” Crabb inspired Ian Fleming’s “Thunderball”
Famous lawyer Clarence Darrow, opposed to the death penalty, lost only one client to execution
The Hanging Houses of Cuenca, a harmony between nature and architecture
Nietzsche “Supermen” who talk to teddy bears: The 1920s perpetrators of the “perfect crime”: Leopold and Loeb
Patty Hearst took the name “Tania” from a 1960s Communist revolutionary in Bolivia who mastered the art of disguise
The Giant Norias of Hama: 17 magnificently engineered water wheels believed to date to the 4th century BC
