Holy hell it's been a year since this:
theonion.com
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...
![Wiki entry:
The match had many bizarre incidents
Karpov's team included noted Soviet
psychologist and hypnotherapist Vladimir
Petrovich Zukhar [rul, while Korchnoi enlisted
the help of two American Ananda Marga yoga
specialists who had recently been convicted
of attempted murder and released on bail.(1]/2]
There was more controversy off the board,
with histrionics ranging from X-raying of
chairs, protests about the flags used on the
board and Korchnoi's complaints that Zukhar,
sitting in the front row, attempted to hypnotise
him.[3l When Karpov's team sent him a
blueberry yogurt during a game without any
request for one by Karpov, the Korchnoi team
protested, claiming it could be some kind of
code. They later said this was intended as a
parody of earlier protests, but it was taken
seriously at the time.!4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzgxnxi42gyskrxw247ofmee/bafkreicuhxs5qb7k72l6tnggttrb4qgoyzu2ejm57xanahlv67joibapje)