Each year since 1971, December 1 has marked the kick off of Christmas in Newport, a month-long celebration complete with festive events and happenings to honor the season and give back to charities throughout the community. Experience events for nearly each day throughout December as part of t...
Born in 1818 on Nantucket, Maria Mitchell became America’s first woman astronomer (famous for discovering a comet in 1847, which was named “Miss Mitchell’s Comet”), the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1848) and of the American Association for the...
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic (fourth from right) addresses a ceremony in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, on March 19 in celebration of the first anniversary of the operation of the Belgrade-Novi Sad section of the Belgrade-Budapest Railway. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Editor’s note:Thi...
Come fly with Grand Adventure Balloon Tours & help celebrate the parks 100th Anniversary! The celebration has already begun! Viewing peaks from a balloon ride is offered year-round. Reply Pescoluse says April 2, 2014 at 1:23 pm Luxor is the best place here… i’ve been 5 years ago… ...
of the Underground Railroad in New York. Other abolitionists and religious institutions known to oppose slavery have also been documented as assisting and sometimes housing individuals seeking freedom from enslavement in the South. Plymouth Church in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, for example, ...
For me, thinking of our government negotiating over tariffs with China, it would be fine to learn from them about the celebration of life which is the family’s last gift to their loved one. In this case the matriarch. The eldest son tries to explain the Chinese culture to his daughter ...
In May 1989, Haring created the mural as part of “The Center Show”, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots inside the LGBT center. This artwork is anything but ordinary, as it was Haring’s last major mural before his untimely death from AIDS-related complications. ...
Wisconsin Celebration Gift Set, ranging $175 – $325 As another suggestion for sampling Wisconsin cheese, this gift set sold through Fromagination in Madison, Wisconsin is packed with locally-produced products,. This gift set includes four award-winning Wisconsin artisan cheeses: Pleasant Ridge Reserv...
the Christian Church defined the doctrine concerning the lawfulness of the veneration of icons. On the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of this council Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter in which he gives his support both for this council and the use of icons in liturgical worship...
The Roswell UFO festival celebrates the anniversary(纪念日) of the “Roswell Incident”, when a UFO was said to have crashed(坠毁) nearby. Every year in July, experts, authors, researches and lecturers come to discuss the incident. The celebration also includes an alien parade, an alien costu...