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A lot happened in 1932. Gandhi was arrested and interned by the British in India; Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the United States Senate; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was published; women's suffrage was granted in Brazil; James Chadwick discovered the neutron; Goofy made his first ever appearance in a Disney short; the Summer Olympic Games took place in Los Angeles; the first Mars bar was produced; Babe Ruth performed his famous called shot; the BBC World Service began broadcasting; and the iconic Radio City Music Hall opened in Manhattan. It was also in 1932 that Carole Lombard and Clark Gable met for the first time, not knowing each would change the other's life forever. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, a love story for the ages.   CHAPTER I. Carole with an «e»   Jane Alice Peters was born to a wealthy Indiana family on October 6, 1908. When she was seven years old, her parents separated and her mother, Bessie, took her and her two older brother...

I have always wanted to do a «monthly favourites» kind of post in this blog, but I kept putting it off for one reason or the other. Last year, though, I finally decided to do it. I will be doing one of these every month (or every two months) and I will included literally everything that I loved or that made me happy during that time, be it a film, a TV show, a song, a book, an item of clothing or anything else. These are my October, November and December favourites. (I completely forgot to do this earlier, but, as they say, better late than never.)   1. wtFOCK (2018-) The first item on this list is a TV show called wtFOCK , which is the Belgian/Flemish remake of Skam (2015-2017), one of my absolute favorite series of all time. For those of you who have never heard of it, Skam is a teen drama about the daily life of a group of high school students in Oslo, Norway. Each season follows a new main character and it focuses on topics ranging from relationship difficulties, id...