December 14, 2025
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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September 30, 2025 No Comments
I remember asking my mother, “How can that be?” when we visited the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Can it be that millions of nine-year-olds asked the same question?