Mexico City is the 5th largest city in the world with population of around approximately 22 million, which classifies Mexico city as a mega city. It is situated in the The Central Mexican Plateau, at 2,240m in elevation. Mexico city is also slowly sinking at a rate of about 10 inches per year! The ...

As of July, 2013, same-sex marriage is legally recognized nationwide in Argentina, Belgium, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and Uruguay. In the United States, same-sex marriages are recognized on the federal level, though same-sex couples can only marry in thirteen of the fifty states...

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

Elvis Presley's love for Mexico took him to film several movies in different places in the country. In this movie clip from "Fun in Acapulco" where he plays Mie Windgren who works on a boat in Acapulco, Mexico in 1963. When Janie Harkins, the bratty daughter of the boat owner, gets him fired, Mike ...

Marcel Marceau, at age 76, performs in Plaza de la Liberacion - Guadalajara, Mexico. December 28, 1999. Beautiful and inspiring. Imprescindible.

#AmericaIsGreat, always has been. It is our continent, it is passion and struggle, diversity and riches. We are family and it's time we are pulled together #NoBorders.

Title sequence from documentary film on the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera's work in the U.S. He was commissioned to paint a mural at the Ford Motor Company Plant in Detroit Michigan. He was also hired to do a mural in Rockefeller Center in New York, but became very controversial as he included Leni...

Tempus Quartet is a Mexican group formed more than 15 years ago by Tamaulipas musicians. They perform pop, rock and Mexican music with a special influence for the Day of Dead, like this song called La Bruja. AY! QUE BONITO ES VOLAR A LAS 2 DE LA MAÑANA. Así es como empieza esta hermosísima canción l

From the time of Hernando Cortez's conquest until 1821, Mexico was a colony of Spain. Mexico fought for and gained its independence in the early 1800s. On Sept. 16, 1810, in the town of Dolores Hidalgo, the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church's bells and exorted the local Indians to "r...

The 9/11 museum aims to pay tribute to those who lost their lives that day. Local Projects founder Jake Barton gives us a personal tour of the space built to remember, to educate and, most importantly, to create community.