Robert Harrison (publisher): Facts

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Robert Harrison, publisher of the gossip magazine Confidential (cover pictured), was once arrested for allegedly taking pornographic photos at a golf course?

Dominican baseball player Tetelo Vargas led the Dominican Republic's winter baseball league in 1952, hitting for an average of .350 at the age of 46?
Dominican baseball prospect Miguel Angel Sano received the highest international signing bonus in Minnesota Twins history, more than the Twins spent on 70 international prospects from 2006 to 2008 combined?
Rafael Trujillo's daughter presided as Queen Angelita I over the Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World in the Dominican Republic?
tight end Dennis Pitta put his college football career on hold for two years to serve in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints mission in the Dominican Republic?
Carlos Morales Troncoso, the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering?

Leonie Pray House hosted recitals by Liberace and Risë Stevens and served as the home of Patrick Swayze's character in Donnie Darko?

Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Frankie Avalon, Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis all stayed at the Hotel Valley Ho (pictured) in Scottsdale, Arizona?
Joe Hyams' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart, came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel?
the Caribbean Club in Key Largo, Florida was built by former millionaire promoter Carl Graham Fisher as "a poor man's retreat" and became famous as a filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall?

13 rioters convicted by a jury of their peers were later pardoned for their actions in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842?
change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant?
Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon, that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre?
a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when jurors make death penalty decisions?
in 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence?
the judicial reform of Alexander II (pictured) involved the introduction of the jury to Imperial Russia?
the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 made broad and sweeping changes to women's rights in the United Kingdom, allowing women to enter the professions or serve on juries?