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Sophia Loren, born in 1934, in Rome, Italy, is known as the most famous Italian actress of all time.
She became an international film star due to a five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in the late 1950s.
Her films include Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins, based on the Eugene O’Neill play; Houseboat, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant; and George Cukor’s Heller in Pink Tights. In 2021, she starred in the documentary What Would Sophia Loren Do? She was married to film producer Carlo Ponti from 1957 until his death in 2007.
Quote of the Day
“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
~ Sophia Loren
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
On This Date
1502 – The first use of the name
“Newfoundland” appeared in the Daybooks of King’s Payments.
Newfoundland is Canada’s oldest place name of European origin.
1973 – Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in a tennis match that was billed as “The Battle of the Sexes.”
King won $100,000 in prize money and the satisfaction of beating Riggs, who insisted that women were inferior players to men.
Daily Trivia
The world record for skipping stones on water is 88 skips, set by
Kurt Steiner in 2013. Physicists have discovered that an angle of about 20° between the stone and
the water’s surface is optimal.
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Passing Fancy
In the 1930s, magazines would routinely make wild health and diet claims, and readers would frequently be taken in by them. The soap diet did not entail eating soap for three square meals, but lathering one’s fattier body parts (think hips, thighs, and buttocks) with a soap that could wash the inches away.
Readers were told that the soap would penetrate the fat layer below the skin and burn away the pounds.
These slimming soaps were, of course, completely ineffective, doing little good for people’s
“bottom” lines.
Who Said So?
This New York attorney-turned- politician said, “I have never in my life learned anything from any man
who agreed with me.”
Root of the Matter
jaywalk
Despite its name, jaywalking has nothing to do with how a person illegally crossing the street seems to follow a letter J pattern. Instead, it comes from the term jay-driver, which at the opening of the 20th century referred to
drivers of horse-drawn
carriages and automobiles who would
drive on the wrong side
of the street. The term jay here means a greenhorn, bumpkin, or inexperienced person, someone who used a busy road as their private
On this day
in 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome. King’s victory did not just help legitimize women’s sports but propelled the women’s rights movement.T
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