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The two-time Oscar winner, who is 100 and resides in Paris, is the only living person portrayed as a major character on the FX limited series. Olivia de Havilland, the only movie star portrayed on the acclaimed FX limited series Feud who is still alive, tells The Hollywood Reporter that she hasn't seen the series, but that "in principle, I am opposed to any representation of personages who are no longer alive." One of the most critically hailed and highly rated shows of the season, Feud was created by Emmy winner Ryan Murphy and stars two-time Oscar winner Jessica Lange...

Fellow FReepers, I am working on a new book and could use some expert FReeper researcher/knowledge help. The book is essentially about a history of evil. The 20th Century atrocities are pretty easy to summarize but I want to go all the way back to Cain and Abel. Would you mind listing off any historical figures or events that you think show great evil down through the ages? I want to be as comprehensive as I can be and not skip things through my own lack of familiarity. Here is a list of things that come to mind for me:...

The new Christian Bale film 'The Promise' won't be out in theaters until Friday, but it's IMDB rating has already been tanked by tens of thousands of one-star reviews. In the film, set at the end of the Ottoman Empire, Bale plays an Associated Press reporter covering the Armenian genocide. While the atrocities are largely considered to be the first genocide of the 20th century, Turkey still refuses to use the term in reference to the mass killing. After hearing the topic of the film, trolls organized on a Turkish message board similar to 4Chan or Reddit to protest the...

A Confederate war memorial that outlived the student protest group that tried to get it removed from campus has been targeted with graffiti for the fourth time in two years. “Love is understanding why others hate. Love [is greater than] Hate. BLM,” a vandal had written in black paint on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill monument, known as “Silent Sam,” when a Daily Tar Heel photographer found it Friday.

An extraordinary collection of rare colour photographs reveal the Second World War as the people living through the conflict would have seen it. They range from the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force preparing parachutes for use during the invasion of Europe to shots of troops in training, stationed in Italy and Tunisia, and sightseeing in Greece. There are images of General Dwight D Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London in February 1944 and Winston Churchill and his chiefs of staff in the garden at Downing Street in May 1945.

Stunning colourised portraits have emerged showing the lethal Russian female snipers of World War Two - including one dubbed Lady Death after picking off 309 Nazis. Pictures of the fighters were brought to life by translator Olga Shirnina, from Moscow, Russia, and show women posing with their sniper rifles. They feature portraits of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, considered the most successful female sniper in history. In one image Pavlichenko, dubbed Lady Death after taking out more than 300 Nazis, stands proudly with her weapon. In another portrait she is pictured wearing full uniform beneath a framed picture of Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin....

On the USS Iowa BB-61, the center 16 in gun in turret two exploded during a firing exercise, killing 47 sailors.

A long lost 16th century civilization has been unearthed in rural Kansas — all thanks to a plucky teen who helped archaeologists confirm the incredible discovery. The metropolis — where up to 20,000 Wichita Indians once lived — was discovered in Arkansas City, in the south-central part of the state, when a high school boy found a cannon ball that tipped off the experts that their long-held suspicions about the existence of Etzanoa were correct, the Kansas City Star reported. The city, whose name means “The Great Settlement,” is believed to be the second-largest Native American city in the US...

The Lower Merion resident gave President Roosevelt some unpleasant news on the Soviet massacre.Gov. George H. Earle (wearing the spotlight cap) with striking coal miners in 1937 Most people who work for the president of the United States know not to bring him news he doesn’t want to hear. But some just can’t help themselves—and so they suffer the consequences. Take George H. Earle III of Lower Merion, who, in 1944, passed on to Franklin Roosevelt some unpleasant facts about the Soviet Union’s massacre of an estimated 22,000 Polish army officers in 1940. The Soviets had blamed the atrocity...

North Korea, the troglodyte equivalent of a nation state run by a 33 year-old dictator with a penchant for bad haircuts and worse suits, has been an international pariah for decades. Since the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991, and a devastating famine between 1995 and 1998, its actions have become more desperate and dangerous. In a never-ending quest for food and fuel aid, it has acted the part of a petulant child, committing increasingly-hostile military provocations which only temporarily diminish when someone provides a handout. The US has tried time-and-again to negotiate with North Korea, to no avail....

Short & Sweet.....POTUS, Donald J. Trump, get rid of Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House. He has failed you with driven purpose!!! Broom him...he is poison for you & the entire Republican Party!!! End of story!!!

A freezer malfunction caused tens of thousands of years of history to melt away, posing a threat to the future of research into the Earth’s climatic history. The incident occurred at the University of Alberta and left a portion of the world’s largest collection of ice cores from the Canadian Arctic in puddles, the Guardian reported. Part of the freezer’s cooling system malfunctioned, causing it to try to “get itself back into action and, in the process, piped hot air back into the room,” Sharp told the New York Times. Roughly 13 percent of the archive was zapped by the...

Special Election today, in Georgia, 6th CD. Time for the good, America loving, voters in the Georgia 6th CD, to turnout in huge numbers and vote for any Republican running for Congress against, Obama/Clinton, Democrat, Anti-American, Jon "Pajama Boy" Ossoff!!! Mr. Ossoff has spent over eight million dollars...none, if any, of it, from folks that reside in the Georgia 6th CD. His money support comes from the likes of George Soros and the "Hollywood" low life!!! Should Mr. Ossoff be elected, he will not effectively support the voters in the 6th CD, but, rather will join the Democrat Party scum...

Confederate States President Jefferson Davis issued a proclamation calling on Southern mariners to serve as privateers and raid United States shipping. He requested authorization from the Confederate Congress to issue Letters of Marque to those serving as privateers. On April 29 the Confederate Congress gave Davis the authority to issue letters of Marque.

Emmy-winning actor Eric Braeden spent 37 years playing self-made businessman Victor Newman on "The Young and the Restless." He joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss his new memoir, "I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama."

Solitaire has been a staple for office distraction since Microsoft first included the game in Windows 3.0 in 1990. But the digital adaptation wasn’t made by an iconic coder or just one of the company’s many full-time employees. It was programmed by an intern. Great Big Story has an interview with Wes Cherry, who was an intern at Microsoft in 1988. He describes the experience as “all-encompassing,” but even internships at Microsoft have lulls. He put the downtime to good use. “I came up with the idea to write Solitaire for Windows out of boredom, really,” Cherry said. “There weren’t...

Early on the morning of April 17, 1863 La Grange, Tennessee Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Cavalry Division, XVI Corps, Army of Tennessee lead ou this Horse Soldiers, his orders included nothing less than an invasion of Mississippi–one of the most daring and successful cavalry raids of the Civil War.

Intriguing new details have emerged about a medieval mummy known for her 'Adidas' boots - which she wore more than a millennia ago. The body of the woman was discovered a year ago this week in the Altai mountains region of Mongolia. And her body and possessions remained so remarkably preserved that experts are still uncovering some of the secrets they keep. ... And her trademark felt boots - boasting red and black stripes - have been carefully cleaned, with new pictures revealed today by The Siberian Times. Experts from the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia now believe the...

Who is Democrat, Jon Ossoff? He is a thirty year old, extreme left-wing, progressive, "Hate America" Democrat, who is gay, LGTB or trans gender. Nothing wrong with any of that, but....he is far from being congress person suitable material. He truly belongs in the company of failed felons, criminals, bigots, America haters like Democrats, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, Pelosi, Rice, Jarrett, Lerner, Warren, Sanders, and "all" the other nutcases in the "adrift", with no purpose" Democrat Party, who mission in life is destroy the American Republic!!! End of story!!! Every single "legal" voter in the 6th CD of Georgia, whether Democrat,...

German tanks during World War II were often outmatched by superior Red Army designs beginning with the T-34. Armor, reliability and firepower were all—at various times—serious shortcomings. To counteract the Soviet beasts, Germany rushed ahead with tank destroyers—armored vehicles designed to inflict long-range firepower from concealed positions—but these also had a mixed record. The introduction of the Ferdinand during the 1943 Battle of Kursk turned into a disaster as the vehicles broke down from mechanical failures.