Hulu begins streaming all three seasons of “The Chosen,” a religious series with an interesting history. The first multi-season series to depict the life of Jesus, “The Chosen” did not emerge from the usual channels. Filmmaker Dallas Jenkins, who had worked mainly in religious broadcasting, began making the series in Texas and used crowdfunding to finance production. Continue reading at The Republic News.
In the summer of 1968, I was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency’s task force on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The task force met around the clock in the CIA operations center, which was outfitted with myriad television screens. Most of these screens were showing the Soviet invasion. But several screens were devoted to the violence and mayhem on the streets of Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley’s police force was pummeling young people holding a protest rally against the...
Sometimes it takes decades for history to offer a clear picture of events and point out some occurrences as the “birth” of something larger. Continue reading at The Republic News.
An online petition has garnered over 20,000 signatures to save Station Street from demolition
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Students, expressing disgust with the status quo, may well be forced to pack up their tents and go home – but they have made themselves heard.
On this Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, it is not enough to say we have learned from our past or that history will not be repeated because we have already allowed it to do so, Canadian Senator Leo Housakos said in a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. “We have stood by over …
By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor
Whether you’re a history buff or you just like a good craft beer, you can find both at Hanover County’s second annual History & Hops event on Friday.
By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
Clubs Poker compiled various sources to trace the evolution of poker by documenting the major events and figures throughout the game's history.