BERLIN 1936. In the heat of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where the world watched through a lens of tension and nationalism, a remarkable story of friendship and sportsmanship unfolded between two athletes who should have been rivals. Carl “Luz” Long, a German...
GUYANA . 1. Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, making it unique in the region. 2. It is known for its diverse ethnic makeup, with a blend of Indo-Guyanese, Afro-Guyanese, and Indigenous populations. 3. Guyana is home to the...
Kamora Freeland, an aviator. Staten Island’s Kamora Freeland, 17, now one of the youngest licensed Black pilots, recently earned her private pilot’s license. “I have a passion for it, and I love it,” she said. Freeland, a senior at Kingsborough Early...
FRANK SINATRA. “One of the best things about my husband was: if something went wrong in your life, boom, he was there. And if you had him on your side, it was like having an army at your disposal. Furthermore, he was on your side if you were right or...
Teaching my daughter to cook does not make me a bad feminist. Jessica Valenti Despite the baggage attached to domesticity, being able to make a great meal makes you independent in unexpected ways. There is nothing old-fashioned about a girl being the...
Farm Owner Warns of Shortages ; Builds Shelter Baltimore, MD. Most Americans aren’t aware of just how closely connected our lives are with our economic system. Almost all of our daily necessities and comforts – from our ability to buy fresh food to simply...
A watershed event in modern European history, the French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period, French citizens razed and redesigned their country’s political landscape, uprooting...
The other day, I canceled my subscription to the New York Times. The paper’s circulation department says I’ve been getting it delivered to my home for 10 years, but I think it has been much longer. I told the customer service representative that I was...
Would You Ever Consider Abortion? There's a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she's pregnant with her 15th. They're living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world...
The icebreaker ship Polaris is unique in many ways. It is the first icebreaker in the world capable of running on both liquefied natural gas (LNG) and ultra-low-sulphur diesel. Its total output of about 22 MW also makes it the most powerful icebreaker...
11 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth: 3 Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves...
Have you ever put your foot in it and said something you regretted to someone you love? We all speak before we think sometimes, but it can be really hurtful to say the wrong thing to our #partner, friends or family. Some things just shouldn't be said...
300,000 in Finland quit Facebook this year, expert tells paper . A social media expert told Helsingin Sanomat he noticed there were about 300,000 fewer users from Finland on the social network than there were last year. File photo. Image: Dinendra Haria...
Words of Wisdom: The Best Advice from 60 Years of Marriage. She was only seventeen. Young. Strong. Determined. And he was not much older at nineteen. But he was convinced that she was the woman for him. All he was waiting for was a soft moonlight night...
This is not really a surprise, that Russian President Vladimir Putin is as strong as a Budweiser Clydesdale, but it seems that Putin has a mysterious past. To believe the theories that lead The Net recently, Vladimir Putin is immortal. In March 2015,...
BILL GATES. We would like to recall the CV of the 'philanthropist' Bill Gates. We are well aware that the real power lies with various anonymous gentlemen above him, but Bill Gates is world famous and therefore a very important symbol of the arrogant...
She Is Just 9 Yrs Old, But Her Rendition Of THIS Opera Classic Broke Many People Down! Amira Willighagen was born in the Netherlands in 2004. She is just 11 years old, but this little lady has been gifted with a voice that puts even polished singers to...
Sleeping under the Northern Lights: that's what you can do at this hotel in Finland. Ever dreamt of sleeping under the night sky? Well, you can sleep under the Aurora Borealis when you are at this hotel in Finland. Picture courtesy: Facebook/Kakslauttanen...
They handle the light-saber and believe in the Force. These are Jedi. But they exceeded the fiction of Star Wars Knights working for peace and conceived by George Lucas. They are more than 500,000 worldwide, mostly in Anglo-Saxon countries. For them,...
After a historic referendum on whether to remain in the European Union, Britain voted 51.9 to 48.1 percent to leave the power bloc. For the UK, this is just the latest example that the nation is different from the rest of the continent. For the EU, the...
Helsinki 2050: diverse and tolerant or isolated and segregated? City leaders like deputy mayor Pekka Sauri are thinking big when they picture Helsinki in the year 2050. They see an outward-looking, liberal and diverse city that is more open than ever...
Transform Your Body In Just 4 Weeks With These 5 Simple Exercises. Being fit is no easy task. It takes determination, motivation, willpower and resilience. One of the hardest parts of living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is taking that first step...
Riveting post by black police officer confronts BLM with raw honesty and EVERY American needs to see it An African-American police officer from Florida has laid bare his heart in a powerful way. Brutal reality hits officer Jay Stalien in the face every...
According to the writers of Matthew and Luke, Jesus reports the following, “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and...
"How is Satan god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4)?" Answer: The phrase “god of this world” (or “god of this age”) indicates that Satan is the major influence on the ideals, opinions, goals, hopes and views of the majority of people. His influence also...
