Elizabeth Francis has received the title of the Oldest Person in the U.S. as she is now 115 years old.
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On October 4, 1830, the Provisional Government issued a decree proclaiming Belgium's independence. Eager to ensure the new State was legitimate and to guarantee its political and territorial stability, the National Congres...
Kennedy visited Glenn at Cape Canaveral, with the astronaut then addressing Congress on Feb. 26 and being honored in a ticker-tape parade in New York City on March 1, 1962. John Glenn's political career Though Glenn would never walk on the moon, his success boosted the U.S. space ...
This combination of iron and steel has quite literally stood the test of time and remains a remnant of a past era that remains vital today. The Eads Bridge in Missouri, one of the oldest spans still standing not just in the Show Me State, but in America. ...
“What we’re trying to show is that we not only have the oldest evidence of intentional mummification, but it was done by pre-ceramic hunter-gatherer people in a pristine environment that remains today,” he says when we meet up at his office at Arica’s Universidad de Tarapaca. ...
But when it comes to mortal sin, we’re not talking about the mere weakness that all of us share simply as human beings; we’re talking instead about the free act of the intellect and will to choose evil. Not to ask a human person to take responsibility for that is in fact to do ...
“What we’re trying to show is that we not only have the oldest evidence of intentional mummification, but it was done by pre-ceramic hunter-gatherer people in a pristine environment that remains today,” he says when we meet up at his office at Arica’s Universidad de Tarapaca. ...