We remember famed big wave surfer Márcio Freire who died surfing in the Portuguese town of Nazaré last week.
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'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes that Civil War deaths — both their number and their manner — transformed America. Her new book is This Republic of Suffering:Death and the American Civil War.
The Civil War death rate was six times that of World War II, when adjusted against the size of the American population, Faust points out. "For those Americans who lived in and through the Civil War, the texture of the experience .
Behind the Scenes, David Archuletas Evolution, New Music, and Changing Relationships
For singer-songwriter David Archuleta, Pasadena holds great significance. At The Langham in Pasadena, 14 years ago, Archuleta performed John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change” and won his golden ticket to “American Idol.”
He is now making his way back to the City of Roses to participate in the Honda-sponsored 2024 Rose Parade Opening Spectacular alongside Rush Davis, Michelle Williams, Destiny’s Child, and Cassadee Pope, aka “The Voice.”
They will alternate performances on a platform close to Honda’s “Keep Dreaming” float.
Best Oscars Dresses of All Time
Let's take a look back at the most unforgettable Oscar fashions to ever hit the red carpet!
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Instagram Launches Threads App, in Challenge to Elon Musk's Twitter
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has unleashed its frontal attack on Twitter, the social network controlled by Elon Musk.
On Wednesday (July 5), Meta’s Instagram launched Threads, described as a “text-based conversation app” in about 100 countries. The app is available in Apple’s App Store for iOS devices and in Google Play for Android. Previously it was in a closed beta test.
“Let’s do this. Welcome to Threads. 🔥,” Zuckerberg wrote in his inaugural post on the app, shared two days ago.
Join The Race For Life 2019
The Race for Life is anything but a race. It’s your time to get together with friends and family and show cancer it won’t win. It’s not about being the fittest or the fastest, it’s about crossing the finish line any way you want. Let’s rally, raise money and beat cancer.
Beating cancer doesn’t take gold medal-winning Olympic athletes. It takes someone much more important; you. Whether you take part because cancer has affected you or someone close to you, you’re motivated to beat it – and that’s all you need.
Monarch butterflies' white spots may help them fly farther, scientists say
Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete their long-distance migration by altering the air flow around their wings.
Or, at least, that's the provocative new claim from a team of researchers that has analyzed hundreds of monarch wings collected along its migration route. "If you have larger white spots, you're simply more successful at reaching Mexico,"
Prenatal yoga can make pregnancy more comfortable and even reduce labor pain here are 5 common
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Understanding Eddie Van Halen's Teen-Idol Appeal
Few early MTV videos captured the personality of a band better than Van Halen's "Jump." In the effervescent 1984 clip, David Lee Roth primps his hair and shoots smoldering looks directly at the camera as he lip-syncs, in between roundhouse kicks and various other gravity-defying acrobatics. The rhythm section, bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Alex Van Halen, backs up Roth's enthusiasm with their own: Behind a massive kit, a sweaty Alex Van Halen bashes away with no-nonsense precision, while Anthony goofs around with his bandmates and extends the lighthearted vibe.
A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon
A panel of critics tells us what belongs on a list of the 100 most important books of the 2000s … so far. Illustration: Tim McDonagh Illustration: Tim McDonagh Why Now? Okay, assessing a century’s literary legacy after only 18 and a half years is kind of a bizarre thing to do.
Actually, constructing a canon of any kind is a little weird at the moment, when so much of how we measure cultural value is in flux.