This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. I have to admit my negligence. We’ve posted some great coverage this week of the juicy story of Lea Michele replacing Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. I was editing one of them. I had to pause because my alarm went off reminding me to buy a ticket to see Michele’s first performance.

Ancient Greece, like many civilizations throughout antiquity, was a male-centric society in which women had fewer rights than men. However, courtesans like Phryne had more freedom in ancient Greece than many other women. As a result, more opportunities were available to them, including the opportunity to obtain more education, according to the BBC. Phryne in particular was known for her wit. She was able to make a quick play on words, such as when she called a cheap lover “Eros of Pheidias.

After two years of success selling at fairs, Morrison and Nay caught the attention of the Wham-O company. And on January 23, 1957, they came to an agreement with Wham-O to give the corporation full manufacturing and sales control in exchange for royalties, according to The History of the Frisbee. That May, one of the owners of Wham-O, Rich Knerr, read an article in Sport Illustrated about flying discs, which noted, “Nobody at Princeton seems to know who named the Frisbee, or why.

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