South Carolinafootball fans can be forgiven for not remembering Steve Sisk. He arrived on campus four decades ago with a sparkle in his eyes and a vision to be the next star for the Gamecocks. His name comes up during every spring football game when a plaque in his...
“YOU have to understand the feelings of the people you’re interviewing,” the veteran journalist Ruth Gruber said recently. Which sounds simple enough, unless the person you’re interviewing is Ruth Gruber. Reel Inheritance Films Ruth Gruber in...
September 4, 2010 Archaeologists trying to unravel the history behind the 18th centuryship excavated from Ground Zero have found some important maritime clues: birdshot pellets, musket balls and small cannon shot the size of golf balls embedded in the ship's wooden...
With over ten-thousand defeats no other team in professional sportshistory has lost more games than the Philadelphia Phillies. The once laughing stock of baseball, this franchise is on the road to the post-season for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year. When...
AFC Wimbledon, owned entirely by fans, have risen from adversity to be in touching distance of the FootballLeague AFC Wimbledon fans with a banner showing their feelings about the MK Dons, a club they supported before it left London. Photograph: Steven Paston/Action...
During the late 1800s, traffic was already a problem in the streets of Boston. Despite the fact that Boston is largely a walking city, streetcars were clogging up main streets and the problem was only...
Whatever else two days of high-octane schmoozing in Washington may have achieved, it has failed, at least as far as the outside world is concerned, to answer one of the great diplomatic riddles of the times. Which is, what did Benjamin Netanyahu tell Barack Obama in...
Lovers of history in the Poconos have finally said “Enough!” After a decade silently watching one history landmark after another disappear from the landscape, they’ve rallied by the thousands around the burned hulk of the Dansbury Depot. It’s a train station built in...
New Delhi: As Sonia Gandhi is unanimously elected on Friday for a fourth term as the Congress president, she has set several records in the history of the 125-year-old party, among them being the longest-serving incumbent. Italian-born Sonia Gandhi (nee Maino), who has...
What would Europe be without ARTE TV? This independent TV station is the last one that would bring documentaries, not one single Media in the USA or elsewhere would dare to present to the public. This again was the case with the recent double-documentary on the HISTORY...