2 days ago by Jenny

Fidel Castro as a teen, the age of many of his cause's converts On February 8, 1957, Peter Kihss of the New York Times filed an article about the current state of affairs in Cuba. Three opposition leaders claimed that bombings and other hostilities were occurring on a continuing basis. Cuban governm ...

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4 days ago by Jenny

On February 6, 1957, devoted daily diarist Eleanor Roosevelt recorded her attendance at an American Hungarian Medical Association fundraising dinner to benefit Hungarian refugees. She observed: “This association helps in Europe as well as in this country, and I am glad it does, for the refugee burde ...

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5 days ago by mYw7iter

For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent — an action that many fear might trigger … Continue reading →

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7 days ago by Denette Wilford

Is she nuts? Roseanne Barr is running for President of the United States. If President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney aren’t doing it for you, how’s this for an interesting option: Roseanne Barr. The Emmy winner, who has already been campaigning via Twitter and Facebook, filed the official documents to ...

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10 days ago by Lena

GENEVA (AP) — A high-profile U.N. panel headed by the presidents of Finland and South Africa hopes to spark an "ever-green" energy revolution later this year in Brazil using a general roadmap it presented Monday on how world leaders could wean the world off fossil fuels. Its report links the world b ...

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13 days ago by Jenny

Hotel Nacional, on the Havana waterfront On January 28, 1957, Time magazine kept Americans posted on the developments in Cuba following President Fulgencio Batista’s recent suspension of civil rights and imposition of censorship on the press. Batista had acted in response to island-wide terrorist bo ...

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16 days ago by fruzun

Dünyanın en güçlü ve zengin işadamlarına özel bir sosyal paylaşım sitesi kuruldu. “Facebook for world leaders” (dünya liderleri için Facebook) adlı site, Twitter, e-posta ve Skype’ı birleştiriyor. Ancak yazılım şirketi Tibco tarafından kurulan siteye girmek için dünyanın en zengin 200 kişi listesind ...

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18 days ago by Jenny

On January 23, 1957, a 21-gun salute, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing, and “torrents” of free champagne marked the birth of Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi. The parents of Princess Caroline, tiny heiress presumptive to the crown of Monaco, were each royal in their own way. Her father w ...

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20 days ago by Jenny

1957 Inauguration, White House East Portico On January 21, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower began his second term as President of the United States by repeating the oath of office in a public ceremony on the east portico of the White House. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1938 ...

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23 days ago by Justine Valinotti

Last month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy promoted Eddy Mercx to a Commander the Legion d'Honneur. Can you imagine any American President giving Lance or Greg LeMond the Presidential Medal of Freedom? As far as I know, the only Armstrong to win the medal was Neil. And he got it from Nixon! That's ...

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