Former President Jimmy Carter is receiving hospice care at his home, the Carter Center announced 2/18/2023.. He made the decision after a series of short hospital stays, the center said in a statement. Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United Sta...

This animation shows extracts from a graphic biography of Anne Frank. The biography tells the story of Anne Frank's life, and ends with the return of Otto Frank -- who was the only one of the eight people in hiding in the secret annex to survive the Holocaust -- and the publication of Anne's diary a...

The Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act providing equal rights to same sex marriages in more than one thousand federal government programs including taxation and health care. The Court also ruled Against Proposition 8 on the basis that they can not take the challenge to Califor...

The BLU-109/B is a hardened penetration bomb used by United States military aircraft. (BLU is an acronym for Bomb Live Unit.) It is intended to smash through concrete shelters and other hardened structures before exploding. The BLU-109/B has a steel casing about 1 inch (25.4 mm) thick, filled with 5...

Gastohn Barrios is a photographer born in Buenos Aires. Due to his modeling career, he lived several years in the United States, Chile, Spain and finally ended up in Brazil, where his activities gradually moved from the front of the camera to be placed behind it. In 2009, after spending nearly half-...

WINNER OF THE EUROVISION SONG FESTIVAL 2017!
Salvador Sobral studied Psychology, but his overwhelming passion for music took over and he has proved to be one of the great promises in the Portuguese and Spanish music scene. While he lived in the United States and in Barcelona, where he studied at th...

Top 35 entries selected so far for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. May 7, 9 and 11, 2024

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought t...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker was first performed in 1892; since then, the show has become a holiday tradition. In The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s soundtrack remains, but there’s no ballet. It’s a contemporary spin on a classic, and the show tours around the world. We attended a New York City

Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School. To get elected Student Body Pres...