For many of us who knew about Pat Tillman, April 22 remains a day of deep sadness. On that day 20 years ago, he was killed by friendly fire at a rocky outcropping in a place called Spera, Afghanistan. Now it’s a day to remember him and to ponder a nation’s lost opportunity. Tillman wasn’t just a soldier serving his country. He was also a national symbol of patriotism. The lead-up to his death was the stuff of national headlines. The aftermath was the stuff of national disgrace. He was 27 when he...
Although a "stoner movie" suggests low brow fare – thanks to the chances that the plot is rudimentary and those that are watching are as high as their on-scree
Nineteen years ago, a young man named Jawed Karim uploaded the first ever video on YouTube. Titled ‘Me at the zoo’, the 19 second clip features Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Interestingly, the video, which was shot by Karim’s friends, was taken just a few months before YouTube’s public launch in May 2005. Despite its low quality, the video went on to revolutionise the digital scene. In 2006, tech giant Google acquired the platform for a whopping $1.65 billion, while...
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The first model for the original Star Trek (1966-1969) spaceship, the Enterprise, had been missing since 1979, but recently appeared on an eBay listing. Fans and experts immediately noticed, and once it was authenticated as genuine, was returned to the son of the Gene Roddenberry, the show's creator. — Read the rest
Wrestling Olympic Trials from Penn State University in State College, Pa., Begin This Friday at 10 a.m. ET on PeacockCommentators: Jason Knapp, Jim Scherr, and Zora StephensonWrestling Coverage Continues NBC Sports’ Record Coverage of U.S. Olympic Team
Max Holloway stunned the fighting world by brutally knocking out Justin Gaethje with just one second remaining in their UFC 300 title fight. As the entire MMA community watched in awe, fellow UFC fighter Alexander Volkanovski couldn’t believe what he was witnessing. Sat at home, he jumped out of his chair in pure shock when the knockout happened. After the fight, Max Holloway wasted no time calling out possible future opponents, eyeing both Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria. The BMF title was...
By ANITA SNOW (Associated Press) The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do. […]
Detectives with the Richmond Police Department have arrested the suspect in connection to the homicide that took place on Deforrest Street last week.
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the Benwood Mine Disaster. It was shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, April 28, 1924, when an explosion and fire tore through the Wheeling Steel Corporation mine in the northern panhandle community just south of Wheeling. Over 100 men had gone in the mine just a half-hour before to
A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worseIn recent decades New York City has changed dramatically, transforming from the lows of the crime and drug epidemics that ravaged the city in the 1970s and 80s to the resurgence and optimism that typified the 90s and the surge in gentrification that has been a source of debate more recently. Amid all of this transformation, one might make the assumption that these are new...
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