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Glenn Beck reacted to the news of Stephen K. Bannon joining Donald Trump’s presidential campaign…
Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for rock band Green Day, became the latest celebrity to…
…X-Men: Apocalypse actress Sophie Turner states that if she had super powers…
A synagogue dating back to the end of the Second Temple Era was discovered on the Tel Recheš Peak in the Galilee last week in a rare and unique archaeological find. …a huge and impressive room nine meters high and eight meters wide with walls lined with benches made of limestone blocks. Diggers also discovered one of the two foundational pillars supporting the synagogue's roof. …reveals insights into customs of the ancient Jewish community and sheds light on watershed moments in Jewish history.…
U.S. actor and producer Robert De Niro said on Saturday…
This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931.…
Stuart McMillen’s webcomic does a marvelous job of adapting (and updating!) Neil Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984.
…Soviet Union researchers captured the harrowing footage of the flattened Japanese cities around a month after the US bombings took place.
The black-and-white video, which is around five minutes in length, was presented to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June this year by the chairman of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin. …
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Actor Will Smith…
A chance meeting at the Republican National Convention solved a 15-year-old mystery that began on the morning of September 11, 2001.…
…Sitting about half a mile from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed, I got a whirlwind course in Liberal History 101.…
Wednesday on MSNBC, actor and director Rob Reiner said…
More than 100 high-profile celebrities…
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright…
Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State.…
Monday on ABC’s “The View…” co-host Joy Behar said …
Experts have unearthed stunning mosaics depicting Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea during the excavation of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel.… dates back to the fifth century…
On July 11… Micheal Moore …
…A survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Nazi death camps, Wiesel dedicated much of his life to Holocaust education and promoting tolerance around the world.… Netanyahu said that “in the darkness of the Holocaust, in which our sisters and brothers were killed – six million – Elie Wiesel served as a ray of light and example of humanity who believed in the goodness in people.”…
It will take another five centuries to clear the Somme battlefields before the area is safe, bomb disposal experts warned on Thursday after collecting 25 tons of munitions this year alone.… ‘We find all kinds of devices. The biggest to date was an eight hundred kilo, 15in British bomb at Thiepval… All the towns around here have been built on ground teeming with bombs.…"
[Churchill:] …..it was at Somme, the hinge of popular opinion on the nature of war changed and forever altered our perceptions of war.…
…a group of researchers digging through amber mined in Burma uncovered a sample with a pair of tiny bird-like wings frozen inside… At around 99 million years old, these wings are some of the most pristine fossilized feathers ever found.… Astonishingly, the amber preserved every minute detail of the wings. If you look closely enough, you can see traces of hair, feathers, bones, and how they were all arranged. Even the feathers’ color has survived the eons and is still visible.…
“When the Americans who liberated Dachau found the women with their babies, they cried.”…
Their stories are amazing…
Even in the midst of unthinkable evil, there survived life and hope.…
Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose million-selling “Future Shock” and other books anticipated the disruptions and transformations brought about by the rise of digital technology, has died. He was 87.
He died late Monday in his sleep at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, said Yvonne Merkel, a spokeswoman for his Reston, Virginia-based consulting firm, Toffler Associates.…
Lost since the end of World War II in 1945, a tunnel dug by Jewish prisoners at Ponar (today Paneriai), near Vilnius, Lithuania, to escape from the Nazis was discovered recently using state-of-the-art mineral and oil exploration technology for underground predictive scanning.… For three months they clawed out a 35-meter-long burrow, using spoons and their bare hands. On the night of April 15, 1944 – the last night of Passover, 40 prisoners cut their leg shackles with a nail file, and crawled through the escape tunnel. Twenty-five of them were shot by the guards. Fifteen managed to cut the camp’s perimeter fence and escape into the Ponar forest. Eleven joined up with the partisan forces and survived the war.…
…While reporting on Brexit CNN’s Amanpour said…
George Will, television pundit and columnist at The Washington Post…
Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari…
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — One of the two remaining Doolittle Raiders died Wednesday morning in Missoula. David Thatcher was 94. …corporal during the 1942 mission and was an engineer/gunner in the back end of a B-25 bomber and a member of Flight Crew No. 7.… There is now just one surviving Doolittle Raider — Lt. Col. Richard Cole — of the 80…
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