New Photo: Is that Really JFK on a Yacht with Naked Women?

Posted Dec 28th 2009 2:07AM by TMZ Staff TMZ has obtained a never-before published photograph which appears to show John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women — it’s a photo that could have altered world events. We believe the photo was taken in the mid-1950s. It shows two naked women jumping off [...]

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Charles Dickens: Ragged Factory Boy

By the time Charles Dickens turned ten, his family had lived in six different houses, each poorer than the one before. Although Charles’ father John Dickens was employed as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, he lived well beyond his means. Plus, the family kept growing; there were eight children in all, which meant many mouths to [...]

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Why Dickens Wrote A Christmas Carol

The Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan owns the entire handwritten manuscript of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The 66-page manuscript written in 1843 bears all of Dickens’ edits in his own hand. “He worked on it with loving care, doing much more rewriting than usual.” (1) The original story is written in light [...]

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Dickens: Marley’s Ghost

“‘Mercy! [Scrooge] said. ‘Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?’ “Man of the worldly mind!’ replied the Ghost, ‘do you believe in me or not?’ ‘I do,’ said Scrooge; ‘I must. But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?’ ‘It is required of every man,’ the Ghost returned, ‘that [...]

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Sinatra: Pants on Fire!

It was New Year’s Eve, 1958, and Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford were celebrating at a private party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills, a popular spot with Hollywood stars. The Lawfords sat at the most prestigious table in the room with Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, and Robert Wagner. Pat was dazzled by Sinatra’s charm and basked [...]

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