Comedian Seyi Law faces backlash for new comment on Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Martina Birk
On March 11, 2024, an X user called the comedian out over his comment that if his children grow up to be like GRV, then they have no right to rule over his people. The X user said, “Imagine Seyi Law, a stack ignorant illiterate whose qualification is a roadside recharge card seller, using such bigoted words to address an MIT-trained architect, a son of the soil of Lagos State; a vibrant, young technocrat from Lagos State who can trace his ancestry as far back.
[Read More]Conan Gray (Singer-Songwriter) - On This Day
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Full Name: Conan Lee Gray
Profession: Singer-Songwriter
Biography: Conan Gray is an American singer, songwriter, and YouTuber. He gained fame in 2017 after releasing his debut single "Idle Town". Gray is known for his unique blend of alternative and pop music, which has earned him millions of devoted fans around the world. Gray began writing and recording music at a young age. He attained internet fame in 2015 after posting his song "
[Read More]Exports: The Yankee Salesmen | TIME
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
TIME
April 24, 1964 12:00 AM GMT-5
While the economy is forging ahead at home, businessmen are again proving that the U.S. is a vigorous nation of Yankee traders. Exports are selling so well that Administration experts expect them to increase by $2 billion to a record $24 billion this year.
U.S. office accounting machines and computers are selling well in most of the world, particularly in Japan. A worldwide building boom is pushing up sales of earth-moving equipment; Caterpillar Tractor’s first-quarter exports are up 17%.
[Read More]Film and TV History on March 10
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
March 10 Calendar Movie Camera not Invented by Edison 1902 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera
1948 5th Golden Globes: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, & Rosalind Russell win
Purple Noon 1960 French-Italian crime film "Purple Noon" premieres starring Alain Delon, directed by René Clément, based on the novel "The Talented Mr Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith
[Read More]Film Review: Last Christmas
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are the appealing stars of a fairy-tale London romantic comedy that's too precious and contrived to take wing.
Jonathan Prime/Universal In recent years, the romantic comedy has taken a sabbatical, at least from the big screen (it seems to have adopted temporary legal-resident status on Netflix).
[Read More]Frankenfish Catch Sets World Record in Virginia
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Griffin Moores / The Free Lance-Star / AP Caleb Newton, who lives in Spotsylvania County, Va., poses June 3, 2013 with the 17 pound 6 ounce northern snakehead fish that he caught in Aquia Creek. He has filed paperwork with the International Game Fish Association to have the fish registered as a world-record holding catch.
Fish have the wildest names: fangtooth, blobfish, stargazer — even snakehead. The northern snakehead, an invasive and predatory species with some cool if creepy-sounding quirks, lives up to its name.
[Read More]From Abby Ajayi to Rosala: Meet Varietys Impactful International Women of 2023
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Martina Birk
In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, Variety once again highlights accomplishments by global women of show business. From starring in some of this past year’s most impressive films and television series to executing major deals and expanding content coverage, “impactful” doesn’t even begin to capture their contribution to international entertainment.
[Read More]Fruit Fly Infestation in U.S. Grows Worse With Climate Change
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
For two weeks in August, a crew of workers systematically confiscated every orange in Vince Bernard’s groves in Valley Center, Calif. They buried the oranges—at least $500,000 worth of fruit, Bernard says—in ditches on his neighbor’s property.
They did so by order of the U.S. government, which came accompanied by armed California Highway Patrol officers and which did not pay Bernard a penny for the crops. Bernard’s oranges were destroyed because the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) found five Mexican fruit flies on a neighbor’s property, which it considers “an imminent threat” to California’s economy.
[Read More]Grandma Moses Day: Why She Started Painting at Age 76
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Grandma Moses, the renowned 20th-century American folk artist known for paintings of country life, would have turned 156 on Wednesday.
The artist graced the cover of the Dec. 28, 1953, issue of TIME when she was 93, painting a butternut tree during a Christmas-season interview. She told the magazine that she first dabbled with painting as a little girl (when she was still known as Anna Mary Robertson), but her career as a professional artist didn’t begin until much later in her life.
[Read More]How East Germans Spent Free Money After the Berlin Wall Fell
Posted on August 30, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand.
“It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a boy growing up in East Germany, he was sometimes sent West German currency by his grandparents on the other side of the border, be it as a birthday gift or a reward for good school grades.
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