Presvytera Alyona Kruchko, whose husband is a cleric at the Cathedral of Saint Righteous Anna in the town of Stolbtsy, runs a blog for religious mothers, sings in the church choir and sews unique ...

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Bhilawara: A trial court in Tonk Wednesday sentenced three persons to life imprisonment for the murder of a 70-year-old man. The verdict not only brought justice to the victim's family but also ...

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The Carl Sandburg poem “Chicago” has been a beloved local anthem for more than a century.

Peter Williams makes highly elaborate gingerbread houses. He's depicted San Francisco's Painted Ladies and zoo, as well as a replica of the International Space Station. So we recently spoke with a ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address at 1963’s March on Washington is perhaps the most famous speech in American history. But fewer people remember the man behind King’s dream ...

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Much in the way The Best Man changed the careers of its ensemble cast, the 1999 romantic comedy also birthed the Hollywood journey of its director and writer Malcolm D. Lee. It also got him out of his ...

The alert U. S. citizen last week could pick from among his fellow citizens as Man of the Year at the close of 1935 whom? When accountants had added up box-office receipts, Miss Shirley Temple emerged ...