It's hard to imagine that the entire wall of Petra was carved by hand on a wall of sandstone. It's an archaeological site that's matched by no other and remains one of Jordan's key attractions for travelers. The area was inhabited as early as 7,000 BC, and the l...
The Highlands Forum, Clippinger wrote, was founded by a retired US Navy captain named Dick O’Neill. Delegates include senior US military officials across numerous agencies and divisions — “captains, rear admirals, generals, colonels, majors and commanders” as well as “members of the Do...
I met his wife, Mary, too. She was lovely and outgoing, athletic and funny. She was the one who invited me in from the alley one Friday evening. I had just come home from work and she waved me over to check out their remodeled kitchen. We had a beer and laughed and joked, his ...
New York City was the epicenter of gang activity in America in the 19th century. Poor sections of the city, such as the Five Points, provided a fertile ground for gangs with strong ethnic identities, usually Irish. Gangs based on Polish, Italian or other ethnicities were also common. The ...
I once thought“it”was“just”a problem, that would work itself out. But in reality it is so serious, catastrophic, it is endangering the very foundation of our country. “Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” G. Orwell 1984 ...
Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson, who was integral in shaping the Harlem literary scene, used the debut party forThere Is Confusionto organize resources to createOpportunity, the National Urban League magazine he founded and edited, a success that bolstered writers likeLangston Hughes. ...
When we interviewed him in 1997, he said a number of things to us, which I think represent kind of an alternative vision of the Middle East that most Muslims have projected. And this vision you know during the course of this interview, which was difficul
After realising she was a siren at the age of 17, Ellen T. White has made it her mission to teach women how to unleash the power of this famous seducer. Ellen made a systematic study of the sirens among her family, friends, and the seductive women of history and unearthed the secrets...
Jonathan Greig / The Record: The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure as part of a September plea deal with Sergei Makinin, the hacker behind the operation — The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure this week following a Sept...
was off to Vietnam to kill or be killed despite the fact that they, much like Muhammed Ali, got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. This presented a moral crisis for David, which he solved one night by driving to Canada instead of back to base. As soon as the car chugged across t...