The first was 15 when he married her; so (probably) was the last. One was divorced, one was annulled in under 48 hours, three lived with him in Abbottabad, and four are now co-widows. Tim McGirk reports on the six wives of Osama bin Laden. (PS: He was still two wives short of Mickey Rooney.)
He’s done for 2012, though he totally would have won:
The remarkable story of James Zwerg, beaten in Alabama in 1961 for riding a desegregated bus.
It is not a puzzle why they have been overlooked until now; Bainbridge dismissed them herself. If anyone admired a painting, “she’d pull a face and say, ‘Oh, darling, don’t be silly'”.
Johnny Depp lets his suspenders down as he poses for photographers at Cannes this weekend.
Actress Megan Fox was born on this day in 1986 in Rockwood, Tennessee.
The wonderful, spend-all-day-there site The Art of the Title Sequence has a great feature on the opening credits for the new TV mini-series Game of Thrones. The sequence, presented here, …..
The New Kids on the Block pose in Miami before the NKOTB Cruise 2011, which started yesterday. For as little as $699 you could have joined The Kids for a four-day cruise from Miami to the Bahamas.
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has been queen for 21,645 days, making her second only to Queen Victoria as the longest reigning monarch in 1,000 years of British history.
She just surpassed the reign of King George III, who was on the throne from 1760 until 1820.
“Take a look in the mirror. Can you see the white on the top of the iris of your eye in relaxed position? Can you see your nostrils looking at your face straight on? Can you see the gums above your top teeth when you smile? Is your forehead longer than the space between the bottom of your nose and the bottom of your chin? If you are a man, do you have a very small head? If you are a woman, do you have a very big head?