The real celebrations for New Year always happen on the night before——on New Year’s Eve. There are a lot of interesting customs in the West, and there are a lot of differences from country to country. New Year’s Day is a family get-together and it is also a time to get ...
A sky slowly transitioning from bright blue to a dreamy swathe of pinks and purples, streaks of bright yellow and holiday fireworks illuminating the skyline across the Hudson River. Beautiful church steeples soaring toward the sky, as a family of ducks swims by without hurry....
The killing of four unarmed student war protesters by the National Guard at Ohio's Kent State University in 1970 sparked nationwide protests that shut down many of the country's colleges. The distrust of government sparked by opposition to the war in Vietnam grew greater as political scandals ...
The truth is this: there is an organized, activist, right-wing political movement in this country that has a hand at every lever of power— government, law enforcement, business, and churches— driven by the sole goal of preserving white, Christian dominance of the public sphere. The foundati...
Their “restoration” of America’s most famous house became a history lesson for the country and awakened an interest in preservation and interior design that is still felt today. Admission to Winterthur is $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and students and $8 for children. ...
In the end, hard-core military traditionalists, and well…most men… will tell you simply that a woman doesn’t harbor the necessary aggression, stamina and mental fortitude to fight in battle for the love of country. It’s not “in us”. Or to put it succinctly, “Dude…you’re a...
“I had worked on forward passing, and at the time the pass was introduced I was the only finished passer in the country.” President Theodore Roosevelt called an audible from theWhite Housethat launched a new era in the history of the sport — and in America’s cultural heritage. ...
France, the country that gave us the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, the rights of man and citizens (which didn’t apply in the colonies), is in a state of emergency where many of these rights stand suspended, and the question of citizenship is open to question. Earl...
and traveling the country to keep his father’s memory alive. Even emulating what he knew of the man whose hand he never held, a man with whom he was never able to toss around a football, a man who missed being able to beam with pride at the many successes of a boy he would never...
The stylized American flag logo that has come to represent Bank of America first appeared in 1998 when NationsBank and BankAmerica merged to become the biggest bank in the country. The bank refreshed the typography of the logo in 2018, but it has otherwise remained the same. ...