• ... that although some hooch maids (pictured) were known to service servicemen during the Vietnam War, they were also described as being "good Catholics who ... would never date an American soldier"?
• ... that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?
• ... that Fanny Murray (pictured), a mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, once reputedly ate a £20 note between two slices of bread?

January - March 2013