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#23 Archaeologists In Spain May Have Just Found The Legendary Lost Temple Of Hercules
Ricardo Belizón, a graduate student in southern Spain, was studying topographic maps of the Bay of Cádiz last year when he noticed an intriguing shape just off the coast. Under the waters of Caño de Sancti Petri, he noted a roughly 1,000 by 500-foot structure — and he believes it may be the lost Temple of Hercules. Long regarded as a “holy grail” for archaeologists, many ancient Greek and Roman leaders traveled to this site to pray for strength some two millennia ago.
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#24 “I Never Knew Marilyn Monroe… I Knew And Loved Norma Jeane.”
James Dougherty was 21 years old when he married a teenage Norma Jeane Baker — who would go on to become one of the most famous women in modern history. At the time, however, Baker was just 16 and set to return to an orphanage unless she found a husband quickly. Her foster mother set her up with Dougherty, but though their relationship began as one of convenience, the pair soon “loved each other madly.” Just two years after they wed on June 19, 1942, Dougherty was deployed to the Pacific Theater of World War II. While he was gone, a photographer discovered Norma Jeane Baker working in a factory — and soon, Marilyn Monroe was born.
Dougherty was on a ship in the Yangtze River outside of Shanghai when he was served with divorce papers. Monroe wanted to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox, and it stipulated that she couldn’t be married, because the executives didn’t want her to get pregnant. Their divorce was finalized in 1946, and Dougherty remarried shortly after to a woman who wouldn’t let him watch any of his ex-wife’s films. Although Monroe moved on as well, famously marrying Joe DiMaggio and then Arthur Miller, Dougherty was still devastated when she died in 1962. “She was too gentle to be an actress,” he later lamented. “She wasn’t tough enough for Hollywood.”
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