Arts & Culture
The Holy Community of the Holy Mountain at the side of Abbot Efraim
Monday, 26 December 2011 Aimilios Polygenis A few minutes ago, the members of the Holy Community of the Holy Mountain expressed their overwhelming support for Abbot...
How 4-year-old Hitler was saved from drowning in the icy River Inn by a future priest
A 4-year-old boy – who historians believe could have been Adolf Hitler – was saved from drowning in the icy waters of the River...
100 years in 10 minutes. A century of world history from 1911 to 2011.
A YouTube video presents 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage. The video clip, uploaded by...
How Madonna declined JFK Jr.’s offer to pose as Jackie Kennedy for George magazine cover
George magazine, founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., famously featured on its covers Cindy Crawford as George Washington and Drew Barrymore as Marilyn Monroe. Now...
Richard Nixon had a gay affair with a Mafia member? A new biography by Don Fulsom
It’s well known that the former US president, Richard Nixon, carpet-bombed Cambodia, spewed out anti-Semitic slurs and crude misogynistic jokes in the White House...
Jimmy Hoffa was buried in the foundations of the towering General Motors’ HQ, a new book claims
How Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished in 1975 remains one of America's most enduring mysteries. After 36 years since Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, his driver...
Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival features an entire ice and snow city
The 28th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in China, featuring work by some of the best ice sculptors and attracting thousands of visitors...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented by Montgomery Ward’s ad writer Robert L. May
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in a 1939 book written by Robert L. May, one of the Montgomery Ward's advertising copywriters and was...
“Whatever” voted as the most annoying word for the third year in a row
A recent poll of Marist University in New York asserts that the word “whatever” was voted as the most annoying word for the third...
Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, dies at 75
Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a...
The Barefoot Diva, Cesaria Evora, dies at 70 in her home town
Barefoot singer Cesaria Evora died Saturday in a hospital in Cape Verde, said Minister of Culture of Cape Verde, Mario Lucio Sousa. Cesaria Evora, the...
Writer Christopher Hitchens dies at 62, after a long battle with cancer
Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night, after...
The 30th annual Christmas in Washington concert: Justin Bieber and other stars singing carols
US President Barack Obama’s family got in the festive spirit by singing with musical stars Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green, Jennifer Hudson, Victoria Justice...
Ron Piccirillo cracked the mystery of Mona Lisa after he discovered animals hidden in the painting
Artist Ron Piccirillo claims to have cracked a 500-year-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa - by spotting a series of zoo animals hidden in...
Sienna Miller to play Tippi Hedren, the victim of Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession
Sienna Miller will be the star of a new drama about film director Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with Tippi Hedren – star of his classic...
Disney’s Hungry Hobos, featuring Mickey Mouse prototype, dicovered in a British archive
Hungry Hobos, a long-lost Disney cartoon that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (a character who was the prototype for Mickey Mouse), has been discovered...
11-11-11: the palindromic date will be next Friday on Veterans Day, when a new film will be released.
At 11.11.11 on 11.11.11, the time and date will be a perfect same-numbered palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards, an event which can...
Shady Side Oyster Festival 2011
The annual West River Heritage Day Oyster Festival will be host by Captain Salem Avery Museum on Sunday, October 16, in Shady Side, Maryland. Oyster...
Unsound Festival 2011, Poland: Future Shock
Unsound Festival 2011, an original week-long avant-garde music event, starts on October 9 in Kraków, Poland. Unsound Festival started in 2003 as an underground event...
Columbus Day Parade 2011.
The world’s largest celebration of Italian-American culture - New York’s 67th Columbus Day Parade – is on Fifth Avenue. The spirit of exploration, the struggles...
Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed wedding
Gene Simmons, KISS bassist, married his girlfriend, Shannon Tweed, on October 1 in an evening ceremony held on the Crystal Lawn at the historic...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011, San Francisco
The 11th edition of the Golden Child of free music festivals, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011, has the theme Hazel Dickens: in loving memory. Hazel Dickens,...
Andy Rooney retires from “60 Minutes” after 33 years
A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney ends its weekly appearances on CBS' 60 Minutes. On Sunday, October 2, the veteran radio and television writer, Andy Rooney,...
Sly Stone, the funk legend is homeless and living in a van.
Sly Stone, the veteran funk singer is currently homeless, and living in a van in Los Angeles’ rough-and-tumble Crenshaw district, according to a report...
David Garrett at George Enescu Festival 2011
Romanian Youth Orchestra with Christian Mandeal and violin soloist David Garrett performed on September 23, during the last week of one of the biggest...
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