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Ethan Miller/Getty Images Roger Mayweather, a former professional boxer and trainer to his nephew Floyd Mayweather Jr., has died at the age of 58. Representatives for Floyd Mayweather confirmed the news to TheWrap on Tuesday. No cause of death was immediately made public, but according to TMZ, the elder Mayweather…

Key point: Italy may never have restored the might of Ancient Rome, but it did get better technologically as the war went on. Italy would eventually switch sides, bringing its not-so-bad tanks over to the Allied cause. On the morning of November 19, 1941, General John Scott Cockburn decided to launch…

Lorenzo Brino, who was a child star in the family drama “7th Heaven,” died in a car accident, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a press release Sunday. “On Monday, March 9, 2020, at 3:05 AM, Lorenzo Antonio Brino, a 21-year-old resident of Yucaipa was driving a 2016 Toyota…

Around 80 percent of the more than five million German military deaths in World War II occurred on the Eastern Front. This terrible conflict with the Red Army consumed great quantities of men and material until the Soviets decisively ended the war by capturing Berlin in May 1945. During that…

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the pioneering and boundary-pushing British rock musician and performance artist, died Saturday at age 70 after a battle with leukemia, according to an announcement by he/r daughter’s manager on Ryan Martin’s Facebook page. P-Orridge, who first rose to fame as frontperson for the influential British rock bands…

Few weapons in any army’s arsenal are as terrifying as flamethrowers. Just the thought of being burned to death or hideously scarred for life is enough to send even the bravest, most battle-hardened troops fleeing in panic. Modern flamethrowers, or Flammenwerfern, were invented in Germany in the early 20th century and effectively…

Key point: The cost for both sides is in dispute. The small town of Odžak is nestled between the Bosna and Sava rivers, in the north of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. To the north and east, a handful of villages spread over the plains, while to the south and west a…

“ was meant to be dead, but clearly he wasn’t dead — he was on set every day with us,” CW star says Jennifer Maas | March 10, 2020 @ 7:48 AM Last Updated: March 10, 2020 @ 7:56 AM After months and months and months of teasing, “Riverdale” finally…

Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns Led Zeppelin won a major copyright battle settling a dispute over whether the band’s iconic “Stairway to Heaven” song stole from Spirit’s 1968 song “Taurus.” The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury’s previous decision which found Led Zeppelin to be in the right in…

Mart Crowley, the Tony Award-winning playwright whose pioneering 1968 play “The Boys in the Band” became a groundbreaking landmark in representing gay life, has died at age 84. Veteran journalist Michael Musto announced Crowley’s death via Facebook on Sunday. Crowley had worked in the 1960s as an assistant to actress…