Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave. Personal Birth date: January 30, 1937 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Vanessa Redgrave Father: Sir Michael Redgrave, actor Mother: Rachel Kempson,

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, auction houses and art galleries. She was also a Black woman who passed as white.

A Great Dane named Juliana received a medal during World War II for defusing a bomb by urinating on it. A Great Dane named Juliana is credited with being awarded a medal during World War II after she defused a bomb by urinating on it.

Netflix's 'Six Triple Eight' tells the heroic true story of the only all-Black, all-female battalion in WWII, led by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington.

The Martha Wood Cottage, built after Shurtleff College's 1877 Jubilee, later became part of the SIU School of Dental Medicine.

Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British intelligence documents.

King Charles and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended various events to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Tremble stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Amazon’s Wilderness) and Jeremy Neumark Jones (Netflix’s Kleo) as Solomon Weiner and Michael Podchlebnik, two Jewish prisoners who escaped the Chelmno extermination camp and provided the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis.

James Bond, probably the most famous spy in the world, was created by the English writer Ian Fleming, but he owes his debonair personality to two Irishmen. The first was the film producer Kevin McClory,

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died.

Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith. Joan Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was conferred the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

A piece of local history is getting national attention after receiving an Oscar nomination for best original song. At the end of 2024, Netflix released “The Six