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The story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 New York City who create an anti-fascist comic book hero, the Escapist, comes as a ...

In her heyday, Lina Cavalieri was heralded as the most beautiful woman in the world - a superstar of the Belle Epoque whose legacy is kept alive by a Milan-based, family-run design firm that fell in ...