The Prankster’s Fortune: How a Dead Lawyer’s Joke Sparked a Decade-Long Baby Race
— August 20, 2026On Halloween night in 1926, a wealthy, eccentric Toronto lawyer named Charles Vance Millar…
As you may have already suspected, this is a course about soap operas that explores the “familial relationships of characters” that are featured on these long-running daytime television programs. Come to think of it, this could be a legitimate area of study considering how difficult it can be to figure out who’s actually related to whom on those programs. The University of Wisconsin has offered this course.
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