January 12, 2016 5:00 PM EST
Rey will be featured in a new wave of Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys after backlash from fans at her earlier absence in tie-in toys and merchandise, officials said Tuesday.
The scavenger hero, played by Daisy Ridley, will be represented in toys that will hit store shelves this month, Entertainment Weekly reports. It comes after she was left out of a few products, including Target’s collection of figures and The Force Awakens Monopoly game. Read More...
The man who captained the first mission to orbit the moon was not, truth be told, terribly impressed by what he experienced. Frank Borman, the commander of Apollo 8, which circled the moon 10 times on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1968, was candid when we chatted one day back in 2015. We met in his private airplane hangar in Billings, Montana, and I asked Borman, now 94, if, living out in big sky country, he doesn’t sometimes gaze up at the full moon at night and think, “I was there. Read More...
Many a Swede mourned last week the passing of Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe. To honor properly the total extinction of a great name three Swedish dignitaries in funeral frock coats and toppers climbed into a teetering rowboat and rowed out to the middle of a lake. For half a millennium the Kings of Sweden have been loyally served by the House of Brahe. Per Brahe, third of the Swedish Brahes, married a sister of King Gustaf Vasa, “father of modern Sweden,” in the early 16th century. Read More...
