A brief look at the uncommon, fascinating tradition of women marrying women in Nigeria

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  476 words  |  Patria Henriques

Nigeria is a multiethnic country with over 500 different languages and various unique traditions. One formerly popular tradition is that of women marrying women. According to Nwando Achebe, a Nigerian-American academic, feminist scholar, and multi-award-winning historian, this is not to be confused with same-sex unions. “Woman-to-woman marriage in Africa has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality,” she states. She is supported by another researcher, Kenneth Chukwuemeka, who labels woman-to-woman marriage as “an improvisation to sustain patriarchy,” adding that it is “simply an instrument for the preservation and extension of patriarchy and its traditions. [Read More]

All-TIME 100 Novels

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  163 words  |  Kelle Repass

Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are students at Hailsham, a very exclusive, very strange English private school. They are treated well in every respect, but as they grow older they come to realize that there is a secret that haunts their lives: Their teachers regard them with fear and pity, and they don’t know why. Once they learn the secret it is already far, far too late for them to save themselves. [Read More]

An Interview with RUSH LIMBAUGH

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1000 words  |  Tandra Barner

Q. You’re unabashedly for Bush and against Clinton. Given 13 million devoted listeners, why is your guy 15 points behind? A. I don’t say that I have influence. I was totally opposed to the 1990 budget deal, and it still happened. I’m not an activist. I do not give out congressional phone numbers. I do not urge behavior. No tea bags. This is entertainment. And in strict marketing terms, does it hurt me to be the only guy not making Dan Quayle jokes? [Read More]

Best History Podcasts to Listen to Right Now

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2546 words  |  Patria Henriques

Those who don’t study the past, as the saying goes, are doomed to repeat it. That sentiment feels particularly true in this particular political moment, but it can also be applied to less obvious moments from the history of sports, culture and crime. Thankfully, wise podcast listeners looking for a soundtrack to their next long road trip or Sunday chores have plenty of worthy options for learning those historical lessons. [Read More]

Biggest Takeaways from the Fetterman and Oz Debate

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  928 words  |  Patria Henriques

After weeks of attacks from the right about auditory processing issues resulting from a stroke he suffered in May, John Fetterman took the stage Tuesday night for his only debate with Republican opponent Mehmet Oz. The debate was the first major televised test for the Democrat, who relied on closed captioning technology as he faced a polished celebrity doctor with years of TV experience. Two weeks from now, Pennsylvania voters will decide who made the better case in one of the most important Senate races in the country. [Read More]

Blast from the Past | TIME

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  804 words  |  Billy Koelling

The Khmer avenger wore flip-flops and a Britney Spears T shirt. He strode through the shattered glass doors of Thailand’s embassy in Phnom Penh and made his way to a well-appointed interior office. There he joined a group of boys who had thrown a painting of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej to the floor. The boys didn’t hesitate. The picture was torn and stomped on. “Thailand is no good,” they shouted. In the citywide anti-Thai riots that ripped through Cambodia’s capital last week, far more destructive and dangerous acts were committed yet none were as freighted with symbolism. [Read More]

Coca-Cola CEO Mukhtar Kent on Feminism

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  605 words  |  Tandra Barner

Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent likes new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A lot. The chief of the beverage giant brought up the newly elected prime minister during a panel on women in corporate leadership at the Women’s Forum of New York’s Breakfast of Corporate Champions on Nov. 19. Later, Kent brought Trudeau up again in an interview, lauding the PM’s insistence on a Cabinet that is 50% female. “I’m a big, big fan,” Kent said. [Read More]

GERMANY-LITHUANIA: Eyes East | TIME

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  658 words  |  Tandra Barner

Eastern Europe’s eyes last week were on onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II’s former hunting lodge Rominten and upon Memel. Master of Rominten today is Germany’s No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, great friend of beefy Field Marshal Julius Combos, Premier of Hungary. One morning last week the Premier, who characteristically has Hungarian soldiers punished by flogging, climbed into an airplane sent by General Goring to fetch him. Soaring from Hungary to East Prussia, Premier Combos alighted to find Hunt Host Goring surrounded by German and Polish officials including the rabidly anti-Soviet chairman of the Polish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Prince Radziwill. [Read More]

Ghosts Producers on How One Characters Newly Revealed Power Might Impact the Shows

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  996 words  |  Tandra Barner

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 3, Episode 2 of “Ghosts,” titled “Man of Your Dreams,” which aired Feb. 22 on CBS. “Ghosts” just revealed a game changer of a storyline that could help give Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) more interaction with the show’s spirits. [Read More]

How 'Here Comes the Bride' Became a Wedding Music Tradition

 Posted on August 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  300 words  |  Martina Birk

There are many superstitious wedding traditions, but some have pretty clear origins. One of those is the music most commonly associated with Western weddings. The “Wedding March” and the song perhaps best known as “Here Comes the Bride” are both believed to have been first performed at a wedding that took place 160 years ago this Thursday, when Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, Queen Victoria‘s oldest child, married Frederick William IV of Prussia on Jan. [Read More]