Decades after his death, Phar Lap remains Australia's most famous racehorse: an ungainly chestnut gelding whose great stamina helped him win 37 of his 51 races between 1929 and 1932. Phar Lap was…
Name at birth: James Gandolfini, Jr.James Gandolfini will always be remembered as Tony Soprano, the brutal yet strangely sensitive mob boss at the heart of the mobster soap opera The Sopranos. James…
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