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University of Bristol lecturer Dr Edson Burton has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Tinniswood Award which recognises ...
One of the world’s most amazing destinations is right on our doorstep. Take a good look beyond Bali at Indonesia’s incredible ...
Pierce Brosnan will be best known to many viewers for playing iconic British superspy James Bond. The Irish actor first took ...
Dan O'Herlihy Robinson Crusoe Jaime Fernández Friday Felipe de Alba Captain Oberzo Chel López Bosun José Chávez Pirate Emilio Garibay Leaders of the Mutiny Luis Buñuel Director Oscar ...
On January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Twenty-eight years later, on April 15, 1947, he broke the baseball color line and became the first African American to play ...
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
If you're not a fan of how competitive things can get around the table, cooperative board games will be a breath of fresh air. Besides emphasizing teamwork and good communication, they also have a ...
The ship then headed south back around Cape Horn to the maze of channels and bays in southern Chile. Until March 1915 the ship evaded Royal Navy searches while paralyzing British trade routes in ...
It is the kind of painstaking work that only someone who knows every inch of the ship could perform—a tiny part of an enormous Where’s Waldo? sleuthing project that could keep Bill Sauder busy ...
The movie, directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, celebrates animals while planting a seed of interest in rescue operations. By Alissa Wilkinson Davis raises the bar on sheer brawniness in this action ...
Jackie Robinson’s accomplishments transcend statistics, so much so that the numbers he did accumulate -- which happen to be quite impressive-- are dwarfed by his significance as a man. Excelling as a ...