One of the most important copyright cases to reach the Supreme Court, Gennaro v. Malzhan, concerned the printing of Bruno Schulz's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on t-shirts.

"C'est un grand mal mais assez joli": Patrice Lumumba, after visiting America for the first time.

The Great Empire of Manchukuo.

On the night before his execution by hanging, Pol Pot requested, and was allowed to, watch a movie. All that could be found in the Vietnamese prison were Walt Disney's Robin Hood and Jess Franco's Vampiros Lesbos. It is not known which one he chose.

The 1986 World Cup in Colombia.

Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness.

Garcia Lorca on Ferenc Puskas in Sports Illustrated. Tadeusz Borkowski on Paderewski in Harpers. Babel on Laika in National Geographic.

Ben Wilson's career statistics in the NBA: 3.9ppg, 1.1ast, .8rpg. Len Bias was the Sixth Man of the Year in 1993 playing for the Mavericks.

Memories of the Dewey Administration.

After returning to Earth Laika was sent to live with the family of a Roscosmos official. She was reportedly a very happy dog but could not be trusted around children.

Palladium. The romantic film Samuel Goldwyn asked Freud to write.

Walter Benjamin died following a fall in a retirement home in Rhinebeck, NY. His stepchildren sued the home's owners for negligence and settled for an undisclosed sum.

The poetry commissioned by the Ministry of Information from Wilifred Owen to inspire morale during the Blitz was considered so bad it was never released to the public. Owen nonetheless volunteered to serve as an air raid warden.

Emmett Till managed a hardware store in Flossmoor, IL.

Kitty Winn as Lambert in Alien. Sharon Tate as Laura in Don't Look Now.

Camus' "Lettre aux Pieds-Noirs," published in L'Humanite in January 1962, remains compulsory reading in French secondary schools.

In spite of his place of origin Trotsky could never get comfortable with Chicago's winters.

For a brief time TE Lawrence was head of UNESCO. He also has a cameo in Stanley Donen's Charade.

St.-Exupery, in the lounge at JFK, following an Air France flight from De Gaulle. Drinking a scotch.

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