287 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the oldest continuously working opera house in the world, and a beautiful piece of architectural history adjacent to the Palace of the Borboni and the Piazza Plebiscito. READ more about this storied building… (1737)…
Diane Ladd, three-time Academy Award nominee and star of Wild at Heart, has died at 89. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed her death on Monday. “My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning,” Dern said in a statement, adding that her final moments…
Louise Walters with her father (left) after finding him in 2014, and with her sister Zoe (right) – credit, Louise Walters, via SWNS Thanks to a good old newspaper back page ad, an English woman has found a whole new side to life—her father’s, whom she had never met. It started when Louise Walters was…
There will be a Test Match Special podcast every day once the series gets under way, with Agnew, Vaughan and the team providing the definitive review of play plus all the latest news and details between games. The Tailenders team, featuring England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson, will also have regular podcasts, and they…
69 years ago today, The Wizard of Oz was televised for the first time, and was so successful—with 53% of US television viewers tuning in—that it was destined to become an annual event in American homes. CBS ran it again three years later during the holidays and gained an even larger television audience. READ more about…
BBC A nine-month-old baby has been killed in a dog attack in south-east Wales, according to Gwent Police. Officers and paramedics went to a property on Crossway in Rogiet, Monmouthshire, at about 18:00 GMT on Sunday. The dog was seized and removed from the address, the force said. Ch Supt John Davies said: “Officers are…
J.P. Knudsen, owner of Northtowne Auto Group outside of Kansas City, Missouri Don’t you wish all used car salesmen were like this one in Gladstone, Missouri? Back in June, a mom came in to buy a vehicle for her college student who needed it for regular commutes to school in Kansas. J.P. Knudsen, the owner…
Maia Davies & Harry Sekulich “Run, there’s a guy stabbing everyone”: Eyewitnesses describe attack Passengers travelling from Doncaster to London were attacked in a mass stabbing on a train on Saturday night. Ten people were injured and taken to hospital, nine of whom are believed to have life-threatening injuries. Witnesses reported that police used a…
64 years ago today, Jersey Joe Walcott, the Hall of Famer heavyweight boxer and three-time organization champ, became the first African American to be elected as a Sheriff in the United States. Elected on Tuesday, November 2 by a two-to-one margin, he ran as a Democrat and said he wanted to use the position to…
Hybrid players are a bit like concept cars – glitzy, intriguing ideas but, when push comes to shove, coaches have invariably chosen something more reliable and conventional to actually go from A to B. Eddie Jones talked up the possibility during his time as England coach. He thought wing Jack Nowell could work as a…
