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 In April of this year, the year of our lord, two thousand and twenty-four, a YouTube content creator named Kat Blaque was presented with an opportunity by her management firm to appear on reality TV star Travis Kelce's podcast.  As part of the preparation for the upcoming appearance, Kat Blaque participated in a technology preparation call to ensure that she could be interviewed for Taylor Swift's boyfriend Travis Kelce's podcast without technical problems or poor audio quality.  During this call, Kat Blaque was asked to add a permission to her Facebook business page that would allow the podcast livestream to take place via Facebook.  After concluding the technical preparation call, Kat Blaque went back to work on her content creation and awaited a scheduling call to finalize the details for her appearance on barbecue sauce entrepreneur Travis Kelce's podcast.   Several days later, however, she noticed that her Facebook account was no longer under her cont...

  In 1570, Queen Elizabeth I was facing massive pressure from her advisors, foreign monarchs, the Vatican, and most of Europe to choose a husband.     I will spare you a deeper discussion of the geo-political intrigue of the era to say that Elizabeth was subjected to relentless harassment because she was a female monarch and that carried the social expectation forcing women to respond to “May I speak to the man of the house, please,” and not even royalty was exempt.     One of the leading contenders (at least on paper) for Elizabeth’s hand in marriage was Henry, Duke of Anjou.    Though he would later become Henry III, king of France, he was the fourth son of Henry II and therefore not seriously considered in line for the throne in 1570 when he began courting Elizabeth.    Royals further away from succession have historically enjoyed more freedom from court and many earned reputations as hedonistic and lascivious, to say nothing of the drunke...

 By 1958, Marilyn Monroe was no longer a functioning drug addict.  She had taken two years off from acting as her drug addiction intensified during her marriage to Arthur Miller, but executives at 20th Century Fox enticed Marilyn to return to work regardless to take the role of Sugar in Some Like It Hot by offering her 10% of the film's profits in addition to her salary.  She ultimately agreed when her husband pushed her to take the studio's offer.  The production of Some Like It Hot was difficult for everyone involved due to Marilyn's state of addiction.  She was consistently late to set or missed filming days altogether.  She frequently argued with the director, Billy Wilder, and her co-star Tony Curtis.  She struggled so badly to remember or deliver her lines that she reportedly took 60 takes to get the line "Where's that bourbon?" even with the help of cue cards.  She was clearly unwell and needed help, but she was surrounded by enablers and p...