Month: December 2023

TODAY: In 1901, 35-year-old writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter prints 250 copies of her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, after getting fed up with receiving rejection letters from publishers.    “It’s the thought that counts, we say of gifts, and with books, well, there’s a whole lot of thought—six hours? twelve?—required to truly
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Another shake-up on “Jeopardy!” … Mayim Bialik says she is being removed as host. Mayim just announced the change, explaining … “Sony has informed me I am no longer hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!” She adds … “I am incredibly honored to have been nominated for a primetime Emmy for hosting this year and
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December 15, 2023, 11:28am On Wednesday, German newspaper Die Zeit broke the news that the ceremony to award the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen would be postponed (though not cancelled entirely) because one of the award’s main sponsors (the Green party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation), as well as the city of Bremen, had
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Before this baby sippin’ on an empty brewski bottle turned into a triple threat in Hollywood, she was just performing and acting in plays, singing the national anthem at local events and growing up in Orlando, Florida back in the ’80s. Fast forward to 1999 … she hit the road with iconic boybands, *NSYNC and
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