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Joyce Brothers was propelled to fame in 1955 as the winter of The $64,000 Question game show. Her specialist subject was boxing. Joyce had originally approached the makers of the show as a hopeful expert in home economics and psychology, which were the subjects of her degree from Cornell University. The producer, however, decided that choosing boxing as the specialist subject would make for better TV.
Joyce had decided to enter the quiz show because she and her husband, Milton Brothers, were struggling to make ends meet. Milton was still in medical school and Joyce had recently given up her teaching position at Hunter College and Columbia University to be at home with their new-born baby.
The premise of The $64,000 Question game show quizzed contestants in their chosen area of expertise. While Joyce had put forward her chosen area of expertise, the producers decided against it. This didn’t deter Joyce, however, like they had expected. They anticipated that Joyce would stumble on television and make a fool out of herself. Joyce, however, memorized 20 volumes of a boxing encyclopaedia and became the only woman to ever win the show’s top prize.
It would later come out that the producers of The $64,000 Question game show had been rigged and a number of contestants had been given the answers in advance. Joyce denied any involvement and the producer admitted that Joyce was not among the ones involved in cheating. In fact, they had given Joyce exceptionally tough questions in the hopes that she would fail and would make good television.
Joyce’s appearance on the show opened up doors and in 1956, she became the co-host of “Sports Showcast” before working with NBC. For almost four decades, she was a columnist for Good Housekeeping and wrote a daily syndicated advice column that appeared in over 350 newspapers. She later branched into film and appeared in “Analyze That,” “Beethoven’s 4th,” “Lover’s Knot” and “Dear God.”
Additionally, Joyce was a massive advocate for women and women’s rights. In the 1970s, she called for changing textbooks to remove sexist bias and noted that non-sexist cultures tend to be “less warlike.”
Joyce Brothers passed away in May of 2013.
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A marble carving from an orphanage in Amsterdam. In 1664, more than 10% of the population of Amsterdam died of a plague epidemic. This orphanage was the home to many children who lost their parents from the “black death.”
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The Salt Men of Iran - By 2010, the remains of six men were discovered in the Chehrabad salt mines, located in Hamzehlu Village. Most of the men had been accidentally killed while working in the mines. The first man was discovered in 1993 and was accompanied by some artifacts which included three iron knives, a silver needle, some pottery and some other things. Over the forthcoming years, five more bodies were found, all in outstanding preservation. The oldest is estimated to date back to 9550 B.C.
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On this day, 25 March 1939, the Nazis brought in a tougher new law forcibly conscripting all 10 to 18-year-olds into the Hitler Youth. But despite years spent trying to mould “national socialist” youths, thousands of working class young people formed gangs known as the “Edelweiss Pirates” to socialise and organise their own fun activities. They began to get into fights with Hitler Youth patrols and when the war started they conducted sabotage, slacked at work and began to help Jews, deserters and POWs. Some became partisans and launched armed attacks on Nazi officials. Many of them were executed, but many survived the war, where young workers slacking off continued to be a problem for the Allied occupiers. We tell their story in our podcast: https://ift.tt/2Jf1GkZ https://ift.tt/2TTBm98