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Curious Historian

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By | June 7, 2019 Babe Ruth at 20 years old and playing as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. Source: (Wikimedia Commons) The most famous baseball player in history, Babe Ruth, was born George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore Maryland. He was one of eight children born to George Herman Ruth Sr. and Kate Schamberger-Ruth. Sadly, of the eight children, only Ruth and his sister Mamie survived infancy. Read More...

Joaquin Phoenix Fled from Her Set During Bizarre Orgasm Scene Says Scarlett Johansson

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It looks like Joaquin Phoenix has left the building. Scarlett Johansson talked about how her co-star in the 2013 movie “Her” felt about the “bizarre” orgasm recording she did for the movie. “We tried to get through one take, and he was, like, losing it,” the actress said in Monday’s episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “He left the studio. He needed a break.” In the movie, Johansson played Samantha, a phone operating system that was a lot like Siri. Read More...

Why You Should Play Hooky With Your Spouse

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My wife and I exist in a world of opposition. This is not an issue of having deeply divergent social or political views but rather one of scheduling: I have a traditional Monday-through-Friday, 9-6 gig; my wife’s schedule is more, shall we say, irregular. Her online calendar looks like a very competitive game of Connect Four. She has four part-time jobs as well as a number of classes and extracurriculars that require various chunks of her weekends, afternoons, nights, mornings, mid-mornings, dawns, dusks, twilights, and the occasional gloaming hour. Read More...