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The Seattle-based filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson managed to snag Tilda Swinton for a vital but important role in her 1997 feature, Conceiving Ada, about Victorian-era mathmatician, Ada Love

Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

Best known for his graphic portrayal of sexual relationships within a working-class setting, the name of DH Lawrence remains synonymous with the scandal surrounding his most controversial novel, Lady

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The commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission ...

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