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15 de jul. de 2024 · Vote up the most unexpected friendships between two people. Everyone knows that opposites attract. It's (at least initially) true for romantic relationships , and it's also sometimes true for friendships. There's a whole trove of odd couples from history that continue to spark people's imaginations.
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16 de mar. de 2021 · Bill & Giovanni. I met my best friend, Bill Cervenka, at work. I was 23, and he was 85, but it seemed I had more in common with him than with any friends my age. We were both really stubborn. He...
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8 de dic. de 2017 · Based on the flood of positive reaction on Twitter, it seems people appreciated hearing about an unlikely friendship that formed despite countless boundaries that would often keep people apart.
- 10Arthur Conan Doyle & Harry Houdini
- 9Marilyn Monroe & Ella Fitzgerald
- 8Helen Keller & Mark Twain
- S. Eliot & Groucho Marx
- 6Richard Burton & Giacometti Prodgers
- 5Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- 4Ulysses S. Grant & James Longstreet
- 3TOM Jones & Lady Rothes
- 2Larry Flynt & Jerry Falwell
- 1Samuel Beckett & Andre The Giant
After establishing himself as a renowned escapologist, Harry Houdini spent the latter half of his career debunking the supernatural and exposing fake psychics. Conan Doyle, on the other hand, was a complete believerin anything remotely connected with the paranormal. Particularly, he was a massive fan of mediums after one pretended to talk to his so...
In 1955, Ella Fitzgerald’s career really took off after an impressive showing at the Mocambo nightclub in Hollywood, one of the most happening spots in town. However, her performance might not have ever happened without the help of an unlikely supporter—Marilyn Monroe. The owner of the nightclub didn’t want to book Fitzgerald. It has often incorrec...
Helen Keller, an author and political activist, became a national hero and an inspiration for the way she overcame being deaf and blind. The early stages of her education, when she first learned how to communicate, formed the basis for the well-known play The Miracle Worker. And throughout her career, Helen had a surprising admirer—Mark Twain. A fr...
T.S. Eliot was a pioneer of the Modernist movement. He wrote plays, poems, and essays critiquing social and literary issues. He was educated at Harvard and Sorbonne and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He was also a giant fan of the slapstick antics of the Marx Brothers, which is why he wrote to Groucho Marx in 1961, asking for a signed p...
Richard Francis Burton was a 19th-century British explorer, primarily known for discovering the source of the Nile alongside fellow explorer John Speke, even though the two didn’t get along. In fact, Burton didn’t really get along with anyone. He wasn’t particularly friendly or welcoming even to his own family, but he did have one relationship that...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson is not a name that immediately rings a bell nowadays. He was an author, a literary critic, and a minister, known primarily for his abolitionist efforts as part of the Secret Six. What’s often forgotten is that he also served as mentor and editor for one of the most influential poets in American history, Emily Dickinson. I...
It shouldn’t be that surprising to find out that two American generals were friends. These two attended West Point together. After graduation, they were both assigned to the 4th US Infantry. They fought in the Mexican War together. Grant and Longstreet went through a lot together, but they also overcame something that would put a damper on most fri...
We’re are not talking about Tom Jones of “What’s New Pussycat?” fame but rather Thomas William Jones, working-class able seaman from Wales. And Lady Rothes was Lucy Noel Martha, Countess of Rothes, wife to the 19th Earl of Rothes and prominent London socialite. Normally, these two would have nothing in common, but their paths crossed on April 15, 1...
Out of all the unusual pairings on the list, this one may be the most unlikely. At first glance, the two men seem like complete polar opposites: Larry Flynt is a businessman who made a fortune out of a porn empire, and Jerry Falwell is a conservative reverend who preaches moral values. Not only do they have totally different interests, but the two ...
An Irish novelist and a French wrestler walk into a bar. It sounds like the setup to a joke, but it was reality. In 1953, Samuel Beckett—playwright, poet, and Nobel Prize winner—moved to France after buying some land near Paris. He even built a house there with the help of a few locals. One of those locals, a Bulgarian immigrant named Boris Roussim...
Unlikely Friendships tells one story after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways and thrive on the warmth, closeness, and trust that come with being true friends.
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7 de mar. de 2022 · But what these stories tell us is that friendships can come to us in unlikely and unusual ways, and yet fulfil the most natural of human needs: to connect.
124 books based on 47 votes: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Ab...
