[Calvin Locke]

... Amin, ...was a playful dad, a jokester. Some of his, ahem, 60 children remember him fondly.

Ah yes, including, I'd bet, Faisal Wangita, 25, was one of up to 40 African youths who set upon 18-year-old Mahir Osman at a bus stop in Camden, north London, in a murderous attack...

[afraidfortherepublic]

And how will Obama’s daughters turn out?

[Fiji Hill]

[Edda] remained a loyal daughter despite everything, including what you might suppose would be an irreparable rift: that Mussolini ordered the execution of her husband.

Not so, according to the New York Times, which reported that after the execution of her husband, foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano for "treason" by the "Italian Social Republic," the Nazi puppet regime headed by her father Benito Mussolini, she wrote to him, "You are no longer my father for me. I renounce the name Mussolini." However the article noted that she later reconciled with her mother Rachele. You can read the article here.

[Fiji Hill]

For a while, Edda had a city named after her. After the Italians invaded and occupied Albania in 1939, they renamed the southern port city of Sarandë Porto Edda.