The iconic model known for her provocative poses was credited for helping to pave the way for the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
She was admitted to hospital last month suffering from pnuemonia, and last week suffered a heart attack and never regained consciousness.
Canadian media magnate Ted Rogers, founder and CEO of Rogers Communications, has died.
Rogers, 75, died at his Toronto home on December 2, surrounded by loved ones, said a statement from the company's board of directors. He had recently been admitted to hospital for an existing cardiac condition.
In 1960, Rogers laid the foundation for his company while studying law with the purchase of CHFI, a Toronto FM radio station. At the time, the FM format was considered obscure.
Rogers went on to dominate the cable television provider market, leading the way for cellular and wireless communications. He flirted with bankruptcy when he decided to invest in high-speed internet making Rogers one of the first cable companies in the world to do so.
Along with the Rogers media conglomerate, including over 50 magazines, a number of television and radio station, Rogers bought the the Toronto Blue Jays and the Skydome, renaming it Rogers Centre.
"The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a 'boast' by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll.
The fact remains that 38 years after breaking up, the songs of the Lennon-McCartney brand have shown an extraordinary resistance to the passage of time, becoming a source of inspiration for more than one generation of pop musicians."
The Vatican only took 42 years to forgive this "sin" - a relatively short time in the vindictive memory span of Catholics. Is this the church's idea of being modern? C'mon now, there are more important shit to deal with like A.I.D.S relief, allowing female priests, sanctioning gay marriage, do need to go on, or as usual, are times going a bit too quickly for the church's liking?
Within a week he has gathered more than 1,000 signatures through the internet.
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John Lydon, a.k.a. Sex Pistols punk rocker Johnny Rotten, has filmed a British TV commercial for Country Life Butter.
Human toothpaste contains foaming agents that could make a dog vomit.
King Henry VIII went from a 32-inch waist early in his rule to a 54-inch waist near the end. At his death, he weighed just under 420 pounds.
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This classic story, which is based on the 1979 short story Le chandail de hockey by
I just say this is a classic piece of Canadiana .
On Friday, October 3, thirteen years to the day after he was acquitted of the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown and her friend, Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery.
The former NFL player was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a
The 61 year old Simpson was convicted of all 12 counts late Friday after jurors deliberated for more than 13 hours. He released a heavy sigh as the charges were read and was immediately taken into custody.
Sentencing was set for Dec. 5. Kidnapping is punishable by five years to life in prison. Armed robbery carries a mandatory sentence of at least two years behind bars, and could bring as much as 30.
Now, I am not passing judgment on this case, but talk about karma coming back and biting you on the ass!
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The world's largest K-Mart is on the
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the hands of the watch frame the brand name on the watch face.
The "devil's horns" salute of heavy-metal fans – hand upraised with index and pinky fingers extended and the digits between them folded down – was popularized by Ronnie James Dio of Black Sabbath. He had learned the gesture from his Italian grandmother, who used it to ward off the evil eye.
The sweater vest – the sleeveless knit garment worn by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his "fireside" election ad – is stereotypical garb for the "emo" acolyte, a young pseud who favours lugubrious music.
At the turn of the 20th century, the rule of thumb was blue clothing for girls and pink for boys. Blue was considered more delicate and best suited to females, while pink was more assertive and therefore more male-friendly.
Yawning in front of a dog can cause it to yawn, too. Researchers believe this is the first hard evidence "that dogs have the capacity to empathize with humans."
The "cat nights" of summer begin today. The term denotes a time when cats yowl and witches prowl, and harks back to "the belief that a witch could turn herself into a cat eight times, but on the ninth time, Aug. 17, she couldn't regain her human form," hence the notion that a cat has nine lives. "
Octopuses don't have eight legs. Six of its tentacles function as "arms" and two as "legs."
Although technically a fruit, the tomato was deemed a vegetable in 1893 by the U.S. Supreme Court, which reasoned that because it's used more like a vegetable than a fruit, it should therefore have the former designation. The ruling was prompted by a legal challenge involving a tax on imported vegetables.
Botanically speaking, grains of wheat, corn and rice, as well as squash, peppers and eggplant, are all fruit – fleshy or dry ripened ovaries of plants, containing seeds. Vegetables, meanwhile, are the edible leaves, stalks, roots, tubers, bulbs and flowers of a plant.
Ketchup started out as a pickled fish sauce, ke-tsiap, in China, before being adopted by Malaysia (kechap) and Indonesia (ketjap). The British made it with pickled mushrooms, anchovies, walnuts and oysters, with tomatoes entering the brew in the 1700s.
Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:
Ebsen, best known as Jed Clampett in TV's The Beverly Hillbillies, had to drop the role of Tin Man (eventually played by Jack Haley) in The Wizard of Oz because of a severe allergic reaction to the aluminum powder makeup.
Terry, the cairn terrier that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz, made $125 a week – more than many of the actors earned.
The latest Guinness record to be adjudicated was the largest number of people dressed as Smurfs – there were 1,253 of them on July 18, in Castleblayney, Ireland.
British scientists who've been studying Blondie drummer Clem Burke and other rock and jazz percussionists for the past eight years say drummers have as much stamina as top-flight athletes.
The woman who played Judith Iscariot, the girlfriend of the messiah in Monty Python's Life of Brian, is the new mayor of Aberystwyth in Wales. Sue Jones-Davies promises to lift a three-decade local ban of the movie.
Male mosquitoes live on nectar and plant juices. Females drink blood.
Chicken, Alaska (population 17 to 37, depending on whom you ask), is so named because the original residents couldn't agree on the spelling of the town's first, fowl-inspired choice: Ptarmigan
There are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe, according to shoe-lacing.com
