Hugh Hefner had a predecessor!
Jaques Biederer was the first photographer in history to specialize in erotic photos. This photo was taken in Paris in 1928.
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🇺🇸 Ann-Margret is an AMERICAN HERO!
March 1966. A petition arrived at Ann-Margret’s door. Not from studios fighting over her time. From 3,000 American soldiers in Vietnam asking her to come perform for them.
She was twenty-five, at the peak of her career, fresh off *Viva Las Vegas* with Elvis. Every major studio wanted her. She said yes immediately.
Ann-Margret Olsson was born in Sweden. Her family came to America with almost nothing. At eight she became a U.S. citizen. When the soldiers asked, she remembered what the country had given her family.
Most celebrities who performed in Vietnam stayed at safe bases. She brought just three musicians and went into the war zone. They performed in Saigon, on the USS Yorktown, and deep in the Iron Triangle. Gunfire cracked near the stage. On one helicopter flight to Phu Bai, ground fire erupted around them. Soldiers used their bodies as shields.
She visited combat hospitals. Sat beside wounded soldiers. Saw boys her age, broken but still breathing. Many would come home to a country that didn’t want them. She never forgot them.
She kept visiting military hospitals and VA facilities for decades. Veterans still approach her with old photographs from those shows. She calls them “my gentlemen.”
In 2003 the USO gave her the Spirit of Hope Award. In 2019 she received the first Bob Hope Legacy Award. She’s eighty-five now and still says those tours were one of the most important things in her life.
Most celebrities who went to Vietnam performed once and moved on. Ann-Margret spent nearly six decades saying thank you.
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Jose Alba stood trapped inside a two-foot space behind a grocery counter in Manhattan while an ex-con on parole grabbed him by the collar.
Alba was sixty-one years old and worked late shifts at a corner bodega on Broadway to support his family. He had zero criminal record in his entire life.
On the night of July 1, 2022, a customer's card was declined for a bag of chips. Seconds later, her thirty-five-year-old boyfriend, Austin Simon, stormed behind the private employee counter.
Simon was on parole for assaulting a police officer and had eight prior arrests. He shoved the sixty-one-year-old clerk into a chair, towered over him in the dead-end aisle, and tried to drag him out.
With no back door and nowhere to run, Alba reached for a store box cutter to save his own life. During the struggle, Simon's girlfriend pulled a knife from her own purse and stabbed Alba in the arm.
Here is what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg did next.
Bragg's office did not charge the girlfriend who stabbed the clerk. Instead, prosecutors charged sixty-one-year-old Jose Alba with second-degree murder, asked for $500,000 bail, and locked him inside Rikers Island with an untreated stab wound.
Hardworking Americans rallied across the country and forced the District Attorney to drop every charge eighteen days later, though Alba was forced to leave his job in fear for his life.
A civilization begins to rot the moment its prosecutors protect violent predators and put handcuffs on working men who refuse to die quietly.
YES! Unlike the current woke Pope, Cardinal Sarah remembers what The Crusades were all about!
