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The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.“I didn’t know much about her. I knew about the horse rumour — which is sad,” Fanning, 22, confesses on a Zoom call from Los Angeles.

Elle Fanning wasn’t deeply familiar with the story of Catherine the Great, the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. But quickly after she agreed to lead Hulu’s The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.

Elle Fanning wasn’t deeply familiar with the story of Catherine the Great, the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. But quickly after she agreed to lead Hulu’s The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.

The BBC analyzed info from AcousticBrainz, which has data on 50 million songs, with ratings for danceability, energy and positivity.Music expert Charlie Harding said: “An upbeat shift happened in the Great Depression and the Second World War.“We need sounds that help us forge a path to the world we want to live in, not the one we are inhabiting.”

“Hamilton” fans have learned a lot about America’s first Treasury Secretary from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s popular musical, which dropped Friday on Disney+, that they might not have known before.Alexander Hamilton was a scrappy immigrant from Saint Kitts and Nevis.

One Direction have given the biggest hint to date that they’re set to reunite with Zayn Malik.

It wasn’t quite the day the music died, but for Beatles fans the world over, it must have felt pretty close.

By Toby Halligan

39-year-old trans man Chris Mosier has made history by becoming the first out transgender athlete to compete in the men’s Olympic trials, according to Outsports.

“Finding Your Roots” has become a phenomenon, attracting celebrity guests from Samuel L. Jackson to Anderson Cooper to Gloria Steinem — and it all began with host Henry Louis Gates Jr. receiving a piece of angry fan mail.

NBA legend and activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is teaming up with History on a documentary on the African American experience during the Revolutionary War.