Movies that both stir and shake
William Bothwell
Pictures in cinema theatres (Greek 'kinéma' = 'motion') have been moving since the French brothers Lumiére made that possible in 1896. More...
A victim by definition - but not in fact
Claire Hoy
As a "black man living in America," Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Has done rather well for himself. So too has Barrack Hussein Obama. More...
Record summer cold kept temperatures in '84 below 60º Fahrenheit
125 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 31, 1884 • The recent cold wave is one of the most extensive that has been known in summer for many years. More...
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