Anne Bancroft presents Sidney Poitier the Oscar for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field at the 36th Academy Awards. Hosted by Jack Lemmon.

The third season of MTV's popular reality TV series "The Real World" was filmed on location at the 900 block of Lombard street in San Francisco. It aired on MTV from February to June 1994. It is considered to be the best season of the series because it tackled socially relevant issues such as AIDS a...

Issachar Ber Ryback (2 February 1897, in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (today Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) – December 22, 1935, in Paris) was a Jewish-Ukrainian-French painter. Rybak was a contemporary of Jewish-Russian artists Natan Issajewitsch Altman, Boris Aronson and Marc Chagall, who transmitted th

22.07.2011 Oslo is under attack by terrorists. Community of Lights joins in the candlelight vigil in Oslo and a minute of silence to pay tribute and offer support to the families and victims of the recent terrorist attack in Norway. This tragic event must not be allowed to change the goal of having ...

Before the One World Trade Center spire dominated the New York City skyline there were the Twin Towers. Every part of the city was a showcase for the towers. Osama bin Laden knew the importance of the towers and how they stood as a symbol of American success and prosperity. September 11, 2001 they b...

We're revisiting the Brief But Spectacular take by choreographer and dancer Stuart Hodes who died last week at the age of 98. Hodes took his first dance lesson at the Martha Graham School after a stint as an aviator in World War II. He was still dancing two years ago when we featured his memoir "Ons...

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, yet the names of close to 2 million remain anonymous. Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has worked tirelessly to collect and commemorate the names of men, women and children who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

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Amazing grace is a song that touches everybody's soul. A song that brings peace, serenity, calmness, humility and joy all at once. This is my Bagpipe version of this wonderful song that sounds hauntingly beautiful on an instrument like Bagpipes infact Amazing grace is most popularly played on Bagpip...

"We Can't Tolerate This Anymore." That's what President Barack Obama told those attending a memorial service Sunday in Newtown, Connecticut, two days after a man shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 26 people -- 20 of them children no older than 7, who would never go on a date, ...

The American fairytale is far from enchanted, argues Matthew Stewart in his June 2018 cover story for The Atlantic. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other. It’s how