Amazing Photos of Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett in “What’s Love Got to Do With It” (1993)

What’s Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson, based on the life of American-born singer Tina Turner. The film stars Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner.

The screenplay was adapted by Kate Lanier from the book I, Tina co-written by Turner with Kurt Loder. Both Ike and Tina assigned rights to Lanier for their lives to be dramatized in the film. The film's soundtrack featured the hit song “I Don't Wanna Fight”, which went to number one in seven countries.

In the United States, the film grossed almost $40 million and around $20 million in rentals. In the United Kingdom, it grossed nearly £10 million.

Angela Bassett won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture. Laurence Fishburne was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Bassett was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film won an American Choreography Award for one of its dance sequences.

Here below is a set of amazing photos that shows portraits of Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett in What’s Love Got to Do With It in 1993.

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July 23, 1904: The First Ice Cream Cone Created During the St. Louis World’s Fair, Reputedly by Charles E. Menches

On July 23, 1904, according to some accounts, Charles E. Menches conceived the idea of filling a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream and thereby invented the ice cream cone. He is one of several claimants to that honor: Ernest Hamwi, Abe Doumar, Albert and Nick Kabbaz, Arnold Fornachou, and David Avayou all have been touted as the inventor(s) of the first edible cone. Interestingly, these individuals have in common the fact that they all made or sold confections at the St. Louis World’s Fair.

Children and their mother enjoy ice cream cones at the St. Louis World’s Fair. The fair certainly helped make ice cream cones popular, but they probably were invented by a New Yorker who obtained a patent in 1903. (Image courtesy Missouri History Museum)

It is believed that Italo Marchiony, who migrated from Italy in the late 19th century, produced the first ice cream cone in 1896 in New York City. They give credit to Menches for introducing and popularizing ice cream cones rather than for creating it. The patent for cone-making was awarded to Italo Marchiony in 1903. Marchiony was a street vendor on Wall Street where he sold lemon ices from a pushcart to Wall Street brokers and runners. He had been working on a cone-making device since 1896 and filed for a patent in 1902.

Opening-day crowds at the St. Louis World’s Fair gather outside the Palace of Varied Industries, one of a dozen massive exhibition halls featuring the industrial, agricultural and cultural output of America. The palace was just north of the Grand Basin, on land now part of the Forest Park golf course. (Image courtesy Missouri History Museum)

Some of the people who attended the more than two hours of speeches on April 30, 1904, opening day of the St. Louis World’s Fair. In the left background is Festival Hall, built upon what now is called Art Hill. (Image courtesy Missouri History Museum)

The 264-foot-tall Ferris Wheel, a major attraction at the fair, which was installed in Forest Park near Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. It first was used at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, then brought down to St. Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Each of its 36 cars could hold 40 people. After the fair, the wheel was scrapped. Its axle supposedly was buried in the park. Just where it might be is one of the enduring mysteries of the fair. (Image courtesy Missouri History Museum)

Visitors enjoy a water-chute ride at the St. Louis World’s Fair. (Image courtesy Missouri History Museum)

A view down the Ten Million Dollar Pike, a midway of amusements and concessions. It ran along the north side of Lindell Boulevard west of DeBaliviere Avenue. It was one of the fair’s most popular features. (Image courtesy Missouri History Museum)

Vintage Photos of Queen Elizabeth II Meeting Classic Celebrities

23 fascinating photographs capture the Queen meeting classic actors, actresses and singers from the 1950s to 1980s:

Kirk Douglas, 1952. (Hulton Archive)

Ava Gardner, 1955. (ullstein bild)

Marilyn Monroe, 1956. (Daily Herald)

John Gregson, Peter Finch, Anita Ekberg, and Joan Crawford, 1956. (Paul Popper)

Jayne Mansfield, 1957. (Bettmann)

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"Sultan" of the Turkish Cinema: Beautiful Photos of Türkan Şoray in the 1960s and ’70s

Born 1945 in Eyüp, Istanbul, Turkish actress, writer and film director Türkan Şoray started her career in 1960, and won her first award as the most successful actress at the 1st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for the movie Acı Hayat.

Having appeared in more than 222 films, Şoray has starred in the most feature films for a female actress worldwide. On 12 March 2010, Şoray was chosen as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in Turkey, about which she said: “I think there is nothing that cannot be done with love. If we combine power with love, we can overcome many problems”.

Şoray is known as “Sultan” of the Cinema of Turkey. Together with Hülya Koçyiğit, Filiz Akın and Fatma Girik, she is an icon for a golden age in Turkish cinematography and is regarded as one of the four most important actresses in Turkish cinema.

Out of these actresses, Şoray is the only one who also pursued a career in film directing, and directed the movies Dönüş (1972), Azap (1973), Bodrum Hâkimi (1976), Yılanı Öldürseler (1981), and Uzaklarda Arama (2015).

Take a look at these vintage photos to see the beauty of young Türkan Şoray in the 1960s and 1970s.

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35 Beautiful Photos Show Popular Women’s Hairstyles During the 1950s

Following on from the hardship of World War II and rationing, the fifties was a time of relative prosperity. Disposable income combined with an increase in mass media encouraged the consumption of fashion.

Women still flocked to the beauty salons for weekly styling, but now the very popular short ’50s hairstyles were quicker to cut and style, giving many women the option of a home beauty routine. Shorter hairstyles needed more frequent trimming, so in the end, women spent just as much time at the salon as they did in the 1940s.

Women’s 1950s hair came in short, medium, and long styles, matching the personality of the wearer. Short for the typical housewife, medium for the young, long for Hollywood pin ups. Each cut was as unique as the woman, shaping her face and giving her a style that only belonged to her.

Take a look at these beautiful photos to see what women’s hairstyles looked like in the 1950s.

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Putting Your Hand Over Your Heart

In the United States, there is a long association between putting your hand over your heart and affirming something sincerely. Most notably, when people in the United States say the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the national anthem, they are encouraged to salute the flag either by putting their right hand over their heart.

It appears that placing one’s hand over one’s heart as part of a ritualized oath of allegiance goes back in the United States at least to 1870; and that placing one’s hand over one’s heart to affirm that what one says is true goes back in the United States to at least 1821.

Something as simple as placing our hand over our heart, can trigger us to behave more morally. But at the same time, skilled liars could use this simple cue to manipulate others into believing that what they say is the hand-over-their-heart truth.

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18 Rare and Amazing Vintage Photographs of the Construction of the Metropolitan Railway in London, circa 1861

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital’s financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs. Its first line connected the main-line railway termini at Paddington, Euston, and King’s Cross to the City. It opened to the public on January 10, 1863 with gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, the world’s first passenger-carrying designated underground railway.

Despite concerns about undermining and vibrations causing subsidence of nearby buildings and compensating the thousands of people whose homes were destroyed during the digging of the tunnel construction began in March 1860. The line was mostly built using the “cut-and-cover” method from Paddington to King’s Cross; east of there it continued in a 728 yards (666 m) tunnel under Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell then followed the culverted River Fleet beside Farringdon Road in an open cutting to near the new meat market at Smithfield.

The trench was 33 feet 6 inches (10.2 m) wide, with brick retaining walls supporting an elliptical brick arch or iron girders spanning 28 feet 6 inches (8.7 m). The tunnels were wider at stations to accommodate the platforms. Most of the excavation work was carried out manually by navvies; a primitive earth-moving conveyor was used to remove excavated spoil from the trench.

Within the tunnel, two lines were laid with a 6-foot (1.8 m) gap between. To accommodate both the standard gauge trains of the GNR and the broad gauge trains of the GWR, the track was three-rail mixed gauge, the rail nearest the platforms being shared by both gauges. Signalling was on the absolute block method, using electric Spagnoletti block instruments and fixed signals.

Construction was not without incident. In May 1860, a GNR train overshot the platform at King’s Cross and fell into the workings. Later in 1860, a boiler explosion on an engine pulling contractor's wagons killed the driver and his assistant. In May 1861, the excavation collapsed at Euston causing considerable damage to the neighboring buildings. The final accident occurred in June 1862 when the Fleet sewer burst following a heavy rainstorm and flooded the excavations. The Met and the Metropolitan Board of Works managed to stem and divert the water and the construction was delayed by only a few months.

Trial runs were carried out from November 1861 while construction was still under way. The first trip over the whole line was in May 1862 with William Gladstone among the guests. By the end of 1862 work was complete at a cost of £1.3 million.

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