Paulette Roby learned the meaning of civil disobedience when she was 13 years old. As a budding teenager in Birmingham, Alabama, Roby wanted to take part in civil rights demonstrations organized in her hometown by Dr.
For five years Nancy Friday has carried in her wallet a tiny slip of paper that reads: “In jealousy there is more self-love than love.” Like so many other examples of pithy wrongheadedness, that fragment of portentousness was discovered inside a Chinese fortune cookie. Friday, the author of My Mother/ My Self and two books on sexual fantasies, kept the message because jealousy was beginning to obsess her. “As much as I needed love and men,” she says, “as soon as I fell in love with one, I would be afraid of losing him, and I didn’t understand why the anxiety didn’t go to sleep.
The iconic couple took pictures on the backdrop of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting, titled, “Equals Pi”. For the photoshoot, Beyonce channels Audrey Hepburn and wears a similar black gown and hairdo as Audrey in the movie 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' ADVERTISEMENT
The 128.54ct yellow diamond was gotten from the Kimberley mine in South Africa in 1877. It was bought by Charles Tiffany and since its purchase, it has been worn by only four women in history.
Amu said God showed him Dangote will surprisingly rise to that position, just like Donald Trump shockingly won the United States Presidential election. The cleric was quoted to have disclosed this in Lagos over the weekend. He said he had on August 21, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, told newsmen that Trump would win America’s election. ADVERTISEMENT
Amu said his prediction of Trump's victory was not published by any newspaper.
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Iran has handed down heavy jail sentences to a former head of its largest state-owned bank who fled to Canada over a record-breaking $2.6 billion embezzlement scandal, the judiciary said on Saturday. Mahmoud Reza Khavari, the former head of Bank Melli who took refuge in Canada in 2011, "has been sentenced on four charges to long prison terms, a cash fine and compensation,"Gholamhossein Esmaeili, a top official in Tehran's judiciary, told the Mizan news agency, without giving further details.
7. 1. 2020 | News The new EU space agency will be based in the Czech capital city since January 2021. The opening of the new agency will expand the GNSS Agency (GSA) which has been managing the EU’s Galileo satellite system in Prague for the past seven years. The agency staff will increase from the current 100 to around 700 people after the opening.
In additional to the expansion and development of Galileo operations, the Czech Republic will manage the use of the Copernicus Earth observation satellite system, prepare the Governmental Satellite Communications program and concentrate EU capacities to monitor the Earth’s close surroundings.
Judit Polgar, one of the world’s top chess players, has hit back against a claim by another of the game’s stars thatmen are naturally better chess players.
“We are capable of the same fight as any other man, and I think during the decades that I actively played chess I proved it as well,” Polgar told TIME in an interview Monday. The native Hungarian became a chess prodigy along with her two sisters and broke Bobby Fischer’s record to become the youngest grandmaster at age 15 in 1991.
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A trio of tourists from France were arrested for taking nude photos of each other at a world-famous Cambodian temple, and will be deported.
The three men in their early twenties were found Thursday inside Banteay Kdei temple at Angkor Archaeological Park, AFP reports, which houses Angkor Wat — a 12th-century temple and UNESCO World Heritage site.
The trio were arrested by Cambodian authorities and given a suspended prison sentence of six months, plus deportation from Cambodia and a four-year ban on coming back to the country.
Today in Canadian History Events in Halifax History 1749-06-21 Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British - sparks Father Le Loutre's War 1840-07-04 The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end 1920-11-01 American fishing schooner 'Esperanto' defeats Canadian yacht 'Delawana' in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races off Halifax, Nova Scotia Famous People from Halifax 1787-11-21 Samuel Cunard, Canadian-British shipping magnate and founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d.