Mickey Wright (LPGA Golfer) - On This Day
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Full Name: Mary Kathryn Wright
Profession: LPGA Golfer
Biography: Wright turned professional in 1954 and became a member of the tour in 1955, winning thirteen major championships throughout her career with a total of 90 professional wins.
Wright currently holds the record for the most victories in the Women's PGA Championship with 4, and holds the second most LPGA Tour wins after Kathy Whitworth, with 82 wins.
Born: February 14, 1935
[Read More]Mike Flanagan-Directed Exorcist to Release March 2026 as Blumhouse Overhauls Franchise P
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
“The Exorcist” universe will continue to expand thanks to “Doctor Sleep” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” visionary Mike Flanagan. Flanagan has signed on to write, direct and produce what’s described as a “radical new take” on “The Exorcist” for Blumhouse and Morgan Creek.
[Read More]Montana Rapist Set for Release After Just 30 Days
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Billings Gazette, Paul Ruhter, File / APStacey Rambold standing in a courtroom after sentencing by Judge G. Todd Baugh in Billings, Mont.
A Montana teacher who admitted to raping his 14-year-old student and received only an outrage-provoking 30-day prison sentence is set to be released from prison.
Stacey Rambold will leave prison Thursday after serving out the short sentence, the Associated Press reports. The sentence, handed down by District Judge G.
[Read More]National Affairs: Peace Powwow | TIME
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
One day last week several thousand Floridians and visitors from the North repaired to a park on the shores of Lake Worth, between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. There they ranged themselves in specially-built boxes and bleachers around a huge central platform. On the platform bespectacled Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes squatted on his haunches in a circle of squatting Seminole Indians. Seminole squaws and papooses in bright beads and dresses were bunched around the platform.
[Read More]Newspaper Ads on the Spanish Flu Echo Coronavirus Messaging
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
As governments and societies across the world struggle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and scientists look to modelling to see how various approaches might impact the worldwide trajectory of the virus, some observers are drawing comparisons to another pandemic that happened over a century ago. The so-called Spanish flu of 1918, which is thought to have claimed the lives of 50 million people worldwide, has been used as a reference point, showing how COVID-19 compares to other pandemics through history.
[Read More]Nigerian singer Faze loses twin sister 2 days to their birthday
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
The music star took to his Instagram page on Monday, February 22, 2021, where he announced the news of his twin sister's death. "It’s a sad day. My Twin sister has left me just two days to our birthday. We the Oji family take strength in knowing that she’ll never have to deal with this world’s problems anymore. We know she’s in a better place now," he wrote.
[Read More]Nina Simone (Singer and Civil Rights Activist)
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Full Name: Eunice Kathleen Waymon
Profession: Singer and Civil Rights Activist
Biography: A prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement in America, Simone was also a noted jazz and soul singer. Her famous recording include versions of "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Baby Just Cares for Me" and her own civil rights anthem "Mississippi Goddam".
Angered by racism in America, she permanently left the country in 1973.
Born: February 21, 1933
[Read More]Noguchi Museum Hires New Director
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
The museum has expanded both physically and artistically over the years. Dixon led a renovation of the museum’s building and sculpture garden in 2004, and recent exhibits have focused on the work of other artists besides its founder, Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
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President Obama's Final United Nations Speech: Transcript
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Mr. President; Mr. Secretary General; fellow delegates; ladies and gentlemen: As I address this hall as President for the final time, let me recount the progress that we’ve made these last eight years.
From the depths of the greatest financial crisis of our time, we coordinated our response to avoid further catastrophe and return the global economy to growth. We’ve taken away terrorist safe havens, strengthened the nonproliferation regime, resolved the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomacy.
[Read More]Ray Rice Jersey Swap Lets NFL Fans Off Easy
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
And now comes the rending of garments. The Baltimore Ravens announced Tuesday that fans will soon be able to exchange their Ray Rice jerseys at team stores for the jerseys of players who have not yet been captured on TMZ-published surveillance video socking their domestic partners and dragging them, unconscious, from an elevator. In this program the Ravens follow the New England Patriots, who in July 2013 offered fans the opportunity to exchange their Aaron Hernandez jerseys for certain new ones.
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