Karen Skinazi, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of ...

ALEXANDRIA — Directed by Sharon Thalmann, “ Calendar Girls ” is based on the true story of a group of women from Yorkshire, England who are members of the Women’s Institute. This ...

IN celebration of providing a refreshment trolley on the Settle Carlisle Railway for 20 years, the ladies providing the service came up with a novel idea of raising money for charity. Inspired by ...

Inspired by the Rylstone 'Calendar Girls' who famously dis-robed in 1999 for a calendar, raising more than six million for blood cancer research, the railway team took off their uniforms and posed for ...

Police say this woman punched a 16-year-old girl in the face in an unprovoked attack. NYPD Though standing at only 5-feet-5-inches tall — the diminutive assailant struck the teenage girl so hard ...

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Blessing Aoci has been reunited with her family, police said. A 4-year-old girl who was in the back seat of a vehicle when it was stolen early Thursday morning has been found safe following an ...

During that time, I have been drinking wine more or less daily, usually two or three glasses with dinner, which skirts the longtime government guidance of two drinks or less per day for men ...

Julia Gunther’s project documents participants in the Miss Calendar Girl Beauty Pageant, which takes place in South Africa. The event was founded in 2015 by Chedino, a trans woman whom Gunther has ...

A young girl who claimed she sustained a gash on her forehead when she struck the glass side of a bus shelter at a shopping centre has settled her High Court action for €86,000. Victoria ...

The project, inspired by the Rylstone and District Women's Institute’s Calendar Girls, was the brainchild of Susie Payne, the Settle Carlisle Railway Development Company’s operational manager.