I used to love reading the Weekly World News and its occasional strange reportage about the ancient world (and no, I didn’t believe a word of it) … what follows is a long-time-coming list of pages from the WWN (via Google Books) of items pertaining to Cleopatra:
- Cleopatra’s Beauty Secrets Discovered (these reappeared in various versions throughout the years; oddly, many of these still appear in one legitimate newspaper or another every day)
- Will the Real Cleopatra Please Stand up? (a couple of competing reincarnation claimants; there are a few of these over the years)
- Cleopatra Was Ugly as a Pan of Warts (self explanatory … the story also reappeared a number of times over the years; never figured out how that lined up with the ‘beauty secrets’ stuff)
- The Oedipus Complex (an ancient psychiatric institute which catered to Tony and Cleo at some point)
- WWN Rome (headlines from an ancient tabloid; Cleo mentioned in one of them)
- Alien Camera Found (clearing up the business about the asp)
… and one which doesn’t deal with that Cleopatra, but the exploits of some actress in ancient Roman times named Cleopatra Jolix (I couldn’t resist):
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