Every once in a while, a performer becomes famous for their lack of talent. Florence Foster Jenkins was so convinced of her operatic talent that she rented Carnegie Hall, and people came to marvel at her terrible singing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/03/Robert-Coates-The-Incompetent-Yet-Famous-Shakespearean-Actor/The 16th-century song "Greensleeves" is a familiar tune, which you most likely know as the Christmas song "What Child is This?" The original song was written in the year 1580, and the oldest surviving lyrics were written...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/03/The-Dressing-of-Lady-Greensleeves/The San Antonio Express-News passes along this video of mysterious origin. A man plays--and plays well--pool in what appears to be a bar and on what is definitely a horse.Is he actually in Texas? We have no dire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/03/Playing-Pool-on-Horseback/Embed from Getty ImagesOn July 6, 1944, thousands of people were packed into the big top to watch the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus in Hartford, Connecticut. The temperature hovered around 90 degrees...
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