Veeck had the White Sox' publicity director call periodically, and Hemond would pretend he was answering calls from other teams. "People would look around laughing, saying, Jesus, this looks like it's working 'cause they're getting phone calls," Hemond recalled decades later. "I don't think...
Tanzania. Throughout the journey, the bus starts to fill with a whimsical mixture of people and cargo, from “one old man and his bike with no seat,” to “five mamas with fish in their arms,” to
When I Was Young" had "opened a lot of people's eyes not only to what I could do but to the whole fertile and still largely untapped field of country music, from the Glen Campbells and the Kenny Rogerses, right on through to the Garth Brookses ...
We have stated this earlier, hardly will you get to any industries today in the world ranging from celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes, and many others without spotting an Alumni of the Great Ife. This list is based on the current relevance of individuals who find themselves on...
Intelligence is being infused into the way the world literally works — into the systems, processes and infrastructure that allow services to be delivered, that facilitate the movement of everything from money and oil to water and electrons, and that can help billions of people work and ...
Osumare went to Africa in search of her dance ancestry. While roughing it in a Ghanaian village, she saw, up close, how “the secular and the sacred are interwoven” in their lives. Although she was called a white woman in Ghana, when she danced with people there, she felt a sure con...
The playing fields of Ghana Freddy Adu is so gifted and seems so mature that people question whether he could actually be as young as he is. According to his birth certificate, however, he was born on June 2, 1989, in the seaport town of Tema, Ghana, in West Africa. Tema is known...
Since 1960 Ghana has been a republic within the British Commonwealth, a group of nations dependent on Great Britain. Named for an African empire along the Niger River, Ghana was ruled by Great Britain for 113 years as the Gold Coast. Annan is descended from tribal chiefs on both sides of ...
The Washington Post reports that when a rural school district in Florida blocked her from even saying the word "AIDS," she called them out for censorship: "I can adhere to any school board's needs," she said. "But I will not be an accomplice to the spread of this disease. People are...
" the future Country Music Hall of Famer wrote that "Yesterday, When I Was Young" had "opened a lot of people's eyes not only to what I could do but to the whole fertile and still largely untapped field of country music, from the Glen Campbells and the Kenny Rogerses, right on ...