Johnny Cash's met his first wife, Vivian Liberto, shortly before he shipped out to Germany with the Air Force. According to SFGate, they exchanged some 10,000 pages of love letters during his enlistment. They married when he returned in 1954.
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"Free Bird" has become a running joke to request the song at concerts. During Skynyrd's concerts, the song might last an extra 5 minutes, or slightly more than a ding-a-length. It didn't start off that way, though. So how did "Free Bird" become a run-on song?
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Lee was born in San Francisco, but moved to Honk Kong with his family when he was three years old. When he was 18, he returned to the US. Why? Well, the story goes...
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If there's one band that's synonymous with the heavy metal genre, it's Metallica, and not just because they have the word "metal" in their very name. Here's how precious, monetarily speaking, their metal is.
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Among the many public events and groups impacted by the pandemic, the novel coronavirus has struck the international athletic community, causing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to announce postponement of the 2020 Summer Games and Paralympics, originally scheduled for Tokyo, Japan.
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Billy Joel has been around for a long time, and written enough hits that even if you've never paid attention to the guy, you probably recognize at least half a dozen of his tunes. But while songs like "Piano Man" are part of our everyday life, it seems he hasn't been up to much in recent years.
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Elon Musk has opinions. Recently, the Tesla founder expressed his opinions about the current coronavirus pandemic on Twitter. He thinks that it's, and this is a quote, "dumb." That statement might have had to do with what it did to his bank account.
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Johnny Cash, or J.R. Cash, as he was born, had a widely varied career. Most associated with show business, he was also an ordained minister, dealing with the Ring of Fire on multiple fronts.
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Truly, there have been very few people who can even think of attempting to do what Bruce Lee did in his specialized art of ... cha-cha dancing. Wait, hold on. What?
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With millions of people confronting the prospect of unexpected expenses and unprecedented levels of unemployment, you might be asking yourself: How is billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doing financially, during all of this?
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Mick Fleetwood liked doing drugs, and in the late 1970s it was possible to afford thousands of dollars worth of cocaine in any given month just by being the drummer from Fleetwood Mac. He would end up bankrupt because of it. This is the stunning amount of money Mick Fleetwood blew on drugs.
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Don't watch these movies with your parents. None of you will have a good time.
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The Romanovs were assassinated in 1918, but that’s just the final act of their heartbreaking story. From troubled romances to major health issues, here’s the tragic real-life story of the Romanovs, the last imperial rulers of Russia.
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What if Bruce Lee had a temper? Imagine how horrifying a guy with his skillset would be, should he have a propensity for temperamental outbursts. That's scary, and also worthy of further investigation.
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After the stock market plunge of early 2020, how is Bezos faring?
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If you're not familiar with the name Randy Rhoads, chances are you've still heard him play. Rhoads was the virtuoso guitar player who shredded on Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo records, and a major part why the Ozzman managed to pick himself up from the slump he'd been in ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to steal the international spotlight, infecting hundreds of thousands and tanking the stock market. Meanwhile, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates appears to have dropped a considerable amount of cash in the past few months.
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Merle Haggard's youth really does sound like a country song: raised in a converted boxcar during the Great Depression, his father died when he was eight years old, after which he became a juvenile delinquent. In 1957, though, he pushed his luck a little too far.
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Someone of Andre the Giant's size and professional stature is bound to have some stories attached to him, true or not -- though as an old theater professor once said, "All my stories are true. And some of them really happened." So what really happened to Andre?
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Frida Kahlo is one of the most admired artists of the 20th century. But Kahlo's artistic genius came at a price. Her personal life was marred with tragedy, loss, illness, infidelity, and chronic pain that plagued her throughout her time on Earth. This is the tragic real-life story of Frida Kahlo.
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During the 1998-99 NBA season, the league went the extra mile to grab fans' attention after a contentious lockout. As part of that promotional effort, the Charlotte Hornets invited Master P (real name Percy Miller) to give it his best shot during a preseason tryout.
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Finding the optimism in Sixx's dire recollections and warnings often feels like sifting for diamonds on a beach. You'll find them, though, if you look hard enough.
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If you're not sure about shelling out $6.99 a month for a Disney+ subscription, don't worry: the Disney family definitely does not need your pocket change.
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More than a mere way to pad the DVD, movie commentary is sometimes even better than the films themselves.
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Mindhunter is a Netflix thriller series about a small unit of FBI agents who revolutionized the way law enforcement hunts for serial killers by using psychological profiles drawn up by interviewing dozens of incarcerated killers and figuring out how their minds work. But how real is Mindhunter?
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Florence Nightingale invented the modern nursing profession and changed the course of public health forever. But the woman who did so much to improve health care spent much of her own life sickly, reclusive, and averse to media attention. This is the tragic life of Florence Nightingale.
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There is, in fact, a verified holder of the record for most world records. Known to the world as Ashrita Furman, he is a pinnacle of human achievement.
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