Anton Rubinstein (Pianist, Composer and Conductor)

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  161 words  |  Patria Henriques

Profession: Pianist, Composer and Conductor Biography: Anton Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor who made significant contributions to the development of Russian music in the 19th century. He was one of the most sought-after concert pianists of his time, known for his virtuosic technique and passionate performances. Rubinstein composed numerous works, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and operas, and his compositions were highly regarded during his lifetime. [Read More]

Ariel Castro May Have Accidentally Choked to Death While Masturbating

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  247 words  |  Martina Birk

Cuyahoga County Sheriff's OfficeAriel Castro on May 7, 2013, one day after his arrest A new investigation into kidnapper Ariel Castro’s death suggests prison guards may have falsified information regarding his supervision before his death, and that the actual cause may have been something known as auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide. The investigation arose from allegations of prison guard misconduct surrounding the death of Castro, who pleaded guilty to keeping three women hostage in his Cleveland home for years, the Columbus Dispatch reports. [Read More]

Bag Holder of the Week

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  52 words  |  Patria Henriques

David Ellis

September 24, 1990 12:00 AM EDT

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Nebraska’s Governor served as an unpaid model in a recent Lands’ End mail- order catalog promoting the company’s attache bag. Now Democratic opponent Ben Nelson is complaining that the publicity from the ad constitutes an undeclared contribution to her re-election campaign.

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Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 8, 1958

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  278 words  |  Martina Birk

TIME December 8, 1958 12:00 AM GMT-5 EXODUS (626 pp.)—Leon Uris—Doubleday ($4.50). This sprawling novel sets out to give full-dress treatment to the founding of the state of Israel. Reaching from the first Zionist stirrings in 1881 to the Arab war of 1947, Author Uris packs his pages with arresting scenes. Leaky, spavined steamers, jammed to the scuppers with Jews, make the dangerous run to the Palestine beaches; murder gangs of Jews and Arabs hunt each other out in the sun-bleached hills; intrigue and chicanery fill the halls of the United Nations and the chancelleries of Europe; the innocent and the defenseless suffer and die more often than the clashing soldiery. [Read More]

Books: Unofficial Russian Novelist | TIME

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  562 words  |  Tandra Barner

ONE LIFE, ONE KOPECK — Walter Duranty—Simon & Schuster ($2.50). During his 17 years of assignments as Moscow correspondent of the New York Times small, blue-eyed, acute Walter Duranty (Write as I Please), an “effervescent little English expatriate with a faint air of skulldruggery about him,” has acquired an impressive reputation not only as No. 1 U. S. foreign correspondent but also as the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. [Read More]

CANADA: Dangerous Dream | TIME

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  365 words  |  Patria Henriques

For weeks, Canada’s top foreign policymakers had let the impression get around that they were thinking of recognizing Communist China—if not now, then in. the near future. Three times during his recent world torr, Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent casually referred to the Red Chinese regime as “the government the people want.” External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, in speeches in Washington and Chicago, called for “a new look at the situation. [Read More]

China: Store Sells Tojo Ice Cream To Mark WW2 Anniversary

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  178 words  |  Patria Henriques

September 2, 2015 5:44 AM EDT A Chinese ice cream company haslaunched a controversial creation to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and China’s war against Japan. The Shanghai chain store has released 3-D printed ice creams depicting the face of Japan’s wartime Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo, complete with glasses and mustache, reports the state-run China Daily. The ice creams cost 30 yuan ($4.70) each and the store has made 10,000 in the likeness of Tojo, who was convicted of war crimes and executed in 1948. [Read More]

Congress Looks for Answers on UFO Sightings

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  889 words  |  Kelle Repass

A former intelligence official claimed the U.S. government has been covering up a longstanding defense program that collects and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and has found "nonhuman biologics" at alleged UFO crash sites. The highly anticipated testimony from David Grusch, a former member of a U.S. Air Force panel on unidentified anomalous phenomena—also known as unidentified aerial phenomena—(UAP), was part of an effort by Congress to pressure intelligence agencies for more transparency into the existence of UFOs, a subject of heightened scrutiny following an increase in reported sightings by military personnel and pilots in recent years. [Read More]

E-Cigarettes: 70% of Teens Exposed to E-Cig Ads

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  311 words  |  Tandra Barner

Close to 7 in 10 middle and high schoolers are exposed to ads for e-cigarettes, according to a new federal report. The new study, published Tuesday, uses data from the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey and reports that close to 69% of American middle- and high-school students are exposed to e-cigarettes ads from at least one source, with around 55% seeing them in stores, 40% seeing them online, 37% seeing them in movies or on TV, and 30% seeing ads in newspapers or magazines. [Read More]

Erin Andrews: I text my dad about work constantly'

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  79 words  |  Martina Birk

When I was young, I told him I wanted to be a sports broadcaster, and he said, “Erin, everybody wants to do that; it’s hard and there’s a lot of work involved.” I was born in New England, the older of two girls. My dad was a huge sports fan-his teams were the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Green Bay Packers-but we never really played sports together, we only watched them. [Read More]