At high water in the afternoon of Sunday 3 June 2012, up to a thousand boats muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. It will be one of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river. Rowed boats and working boats and pleasure...

Andrea Bocelli sings Canto Della Terra at the Royal Albert Hall in 2000 for Elizabeth Taylor. Unbelieveably beautiful, I hope you all like it.

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi

Graeme O'Neil takes a look at Cher singing "The Golden Girls" theme song for "Celebrating Betty White", and Betty's appearance on the "Sonny And Cher Show".

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi

It may not have been the showbiz extravaganza featuring Meryl Streep crying in 5 accents that she asked for, but Joan Rivers funeral on Sunday, September 7, 2014 at NYC's Temple Eanu-El was still quite the A-list affair. Hollywood Life reports that Hugh Jackman, Howard Stern, Donald Trump, Whoopi G...

The University of Tel Aviv: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded and analyzed sounds distinctly emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, similar to the popping of popcorn, are emitted at a volume similar to human speech, but at high frequencies, beyond the h

Col. Ed Shames (June 13, 1922 – December 3, 2021) was a veteran of the famed Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. The division, best known for its portrayal in the miniseries "Band of Brothers," saw action from the D-Day invasion to victory i

Sam Smith Performs At White House To Celebrate Respect For Marriage Act on December 13, 2022 when President Joe Biden signed it into law. Sam Smith was part of an important date for LGBTQ+ Americans this afternoon. On Tuesday, December 13th President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act wh...

The lights of the Eiffel Tower were turned off in tribute to the victims of two mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand that left at least 49 people dead. "Our gun laws will change," Ardern promised in a news conference on Saturday morning, local time. She said the shooter had five guns, two s...