| Shameful tale of deceit unravelled
Two of her husband's former colleagues at Holme House prison were suspicious, recalling that Darwin was "a strange one" and agreeing they wouldn't be surprised if he had "done a runner". At one stage a neighbour reported a Darwin "lookalike" loitering by the Darwins' house and others were puzzled by the speed with which the coroner returned an open verdict and the insurance companies paid out. Amazing return On Saturday, Mrs Darwin decided to come clean. The truth, she says, was that in February 2003, 11 months after her husband had vanished, he turned up on the doorstep. "He was an absolute mess, he was so dishevelled," she says. "It was such a shock. He had a beard, he was dirty and thin and looked as though he had been living rough. When I asked him where he had been he said it didn't matter, he was home now.
Inside Heath Ledger's Sleepless Nights
New York's Washington Square Park is sometimes a haven for the stray homeless to get some shut-eye, curled up on a bench somewhere. For Heath Ledger, it was a place to roam while sleep evaded him. "He would walk early in the morning – around 6:30 a.m. or 7," says retired city-worker Tony Rivera, 52, who walks his dog in the park each day at that time, "because, he said, he always had trouble sleeping. That's why he'd come out so early in the morning." Heath Ledger Photo by: Jeff Vespa / WireImage .
Ramblin': A slogan in every presidential race ... almost
Abraham Lincoln ran with "Vote Yourself a Farm" in 1860; of course, the nation got its Civil War instead. In 1864, Lincoln's slogan was, "Don't Swap a Horse in the Middle of the Stream," referring to keeping the same leader for the ongoing Civil War. Grover Cleveland and James Blaine infamously made each other their slogans. Cleveland's slogan: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine." Blaine's slogan: "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa, Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha." Blaine's slogan referred to Cleveland fathering a child out of wedlock. William McKinley promised "A Full Dinner Pail." Woodrow Wilson's re-election bid boasted, "He Kept Us Out of War," then, upon winning, he got us into World War I. Warren G. Harding simply said, "Cox and Cocktails" — I haven't the slightest idea what that means, though he also promised a "Return to Normalcy." Calvin Coolidge: "Keep Cool With Coolidge." Herbert Hoover noted, "A Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in Every Garage," then the Great Depression hit.
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