Brendan Da Costa articles

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John Henry “Doc” Holliday was the dentist-turned-outlaw who gambled and gunned his way across the Wild West.

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Brutus may be best known for orchestrating the gruesome death of Julius Caesar—but his own downfall was history’s greatest horror story of all.

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Over the course of her glorious career, Doris Day enchanted fans and made millions—but behind the scenes, she endured deep disappointment and tragedy.

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Although his flirtation with power was relatively brief, Lord Darnley still managed to find himself at the heart of two of history's bloodiest scandals.

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Mary Tyler Moore defined a new type of American woman with her characters in series like The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Sadly, her personal life was full of old traumas.

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Rudolf II was the occult Holy Roman Emperor whose “cabinet of curiosities” and art collection has left historians scratching their heads.

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Anita Ekberg always said she made Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita famous, not the other way around. But that didn’t save her from a sad Hollywood story.

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Michael Alexandrovich tried to warn his brother, Tsar Nicholas II of the wolves in their midst. Sadly, no one took him seriously, until it was too late.

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Joanne Woodward had a heartthrob husband and an Academy Award, but being a Hollywood darling was both a blessing and a curse.



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