Shi Pei Pu was a male opera singer and spy who convinced his lover, French diplomat Bernard Boursicot, that he was a woman for nearly 20 years before they were both found guilty of espionage.Public DomainAs a young opera singer, Shi Pei Pu enjoyed modest fame in Beijing and often played female roles. In 1964, Bernard Boursicot, an employee of the French embassy in Beijing, met a beautiful opera singer named Shi Pei Pu at a Christmas party.

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Though the 40-foot statue of Zeus lorded over the Olympic Games for 800 years, it somehow vanished from history.As one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the statue of Zeus at Olympia once stunned any who laid eyes on it. The 40-foot statue of the Greek god of gods, Zeus, used to grace the temple inside the sanctuary of Olympia on the Greek Peloponnese Peninsula for over 800 years — until it was destroyed.

Throughout the '80s, actors like Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald starred alongside each other in a dozen coming-of-age films like The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire while earning themselves the nickname the "Brat Pack" for their seemingly entitled behavior.It wasn’t the most flattering of nicknames, but it stuck. The “Brat Pack,” a group of young, up-and-coming actors, took 1980s pop culture by storm. The fresh-faced talents starred in at least a dozen of the most popular coming-of-age films from the decade, including The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and St.

Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school. She was one of the nine African-American students whose integration into Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School was ordered by a federal court following legal action by the NAACP. September 6, 1957.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images Two terrified African-American girls flee police officers during a race riot in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, itself sparked by rioting over police brutality in nearby Harlem, on July 21, 1964.