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Gayatri Devi: A maharani and a beauty
Gayatri Devi, once described as one of the most beautiful women in the world, has died at the age of 90.The fashion icon broke with tradition by winning election to parliament in 1962. She was re-elected twice.She... 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
November 9 and 10 mark the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass, when 92 Jews were murdered by the Nazis and about 30,000 were arrested and then deported to concentration camps. Many say...Why infants still die from SIDS
" When Melissa and Rudy Haberzettl's son Jacob was born in November 2006, he was perfect in every way -- full-term, healthy weight, and a champion eater. Like many new moms, Melissa was determined to follow doctor's orders: She breastfed Jake exclusively, put him to sleep on... Kilkenny on Palin - The e-mail heard round the world (Is it Real?)
I wanted to take a minute (before the article) to post that this comes from a website that debunks alot of the information out there from BOTH parties -and gets to the heart of who's telling the tuth, who is stretching it a little (grey area), and who is flat out wrong.Since... Muslim Headscarves Test the Limits of German Tolerance
"For years, Germany's legal experts have been arguing about whether Muslim public officials have the right to wear headscarves. The issue raises difficult questions about religious tolerance and constitutional...The Ukrainian 'genocide by starvation'
" Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine. A neighbour driven mad by hunger killed her six-year-old daughter and began to...Japan shies away from shrine film
A Chinese made film about the the Yahukuni shrine in Tokyo is being shunned in Japan and is accused of being anti-Japanese."From a scabbard he pulls a long ceremonial sword. Calmly and with precision, he carves an...Public Funeral For Teenager Who Died After Refusing To Wear Hajib Cancelled
The family decided to have their funeral in private and cancelled the public funeral. While I can understand not wanting to turn it into a spectacle, perhaps a better solution would have been to have a private...Using Black Friday to Mark Domestic Abuse: Act Now!
"It's called "Black Friday"--the day after Thanksgiving, when retailers hope that the holiday shopping season will put their revenue in the black. I think it's time for another Black Friday--one that remembers the women and children who are the victims of domestic abuse....What does the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico mean today?
MexicoReporter interviewed Salvador Martinez dela Roca, a student leader at the time of the Tlateloloco Massacre, about his thoughts on what the tradegy means today and why people march. Watch the film below,...
created by MexicoReporter | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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You Can Dress Them Up, But You Can't Take Them Out
Jeans and t-shirt or suit and tie, people like to get smashed and run amuck in public or semi-public places. According to the article below, bad booze-fuelled behavior is by no means the domain of students and...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Hepburn Centennial Remembers Kate
Katharine Hepburn was always punctual. Sometimes a bit too punctual -- which Joanna Miles learned as a young actress on location in London with Hepburn for the 1973 ABC movie version of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." Save for Hepburn, the cast was living in a...
created by westsider29 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Is Thorium The Answer To Our Energy Crisis?
"It could power the planet for thousands of years, the reactors would never blow up and the waste is relatively clean. So is thorium the nuclear fuel of the future? Helen Brown reports It's a word that's been generating a steady, background hum in the scientific community...Punk venue CBGB's closing after 33 years
"NEW YORK - Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched in the even dingier Bowery neighborhood. The band onstage, four guys in leather jackets and torn...NowPublic on Facebook
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