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A Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his nonviolent message of racial justice until he was killed in 1968. His quotes carry on his legacy.

Producer Suzanne Mackie said it would have been ‘intrusive’ to recreate too much of Diana’s funeral for the drama

Producer Suzanne Mackie said it would have been ‘intrusive’ to recreate too much of Diana’s funeral for the drama

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ensured the passage of the Civil Rights Act. But its success was not assured at the beginning.

Jun. 6—On June 2, 1925, Lou Gehrig cracked the starting lineup for the New York Yankees. Sixteen June 2s later, Gehrig died. In between, he played in 2,130 consecutive games, a Herculean task that stood for 56 years and earned him the indomitable nickname, "The Iron Horse." A streak that stopped only because he was diagnosed with a mysterious disease that became best known for him, after it ...

The villages home to the european bio informatics institute. nick goldman is working on ways to store digital information so itll last for a very long time. current storage systems disks and tapes are prone to fail and degrade goldman has harnessed d.n.a. for a test of his new system he chose for documents. a photo of the institute. a classic text about genetics. an excerpt from martin luther kings famous speech. and the text of the one hundred and fifty four shakespeares sonnets. the idea was b...

Between good and evil. you brought up winston churchill, 77th anniversary of the battle of dun kirk. the british were slaughtered, and the speech that churchill gave he said we shall fight in the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, and he ended with that famous line, we shall never surrender. famous speech. i doubt theresa mays speech today will go down in history as having that kind of impact. >> look, leland...

The crowd will be loved that, gave him a huge round of applause. talked about michele obama and his daughters, they didnt come to the speech because theyre enjoying the beauty of your country. the crowd loved that. the bulk of his speech was made up, he was talking about the nuclear arsenal. and im talking about the nuclear arsenal all over the world and how he wants to cut deployed nuclear weapons by up to one third and also said the united states wants to host a 2016 summit on securing atomic ...

At the bradenburg gate, to give a speech with such a sweep that -- of his overall goals, as president of the united states in a perfect world. i mean he spent a lot of his time reminding us where we have been in this world and how far we still need to go. this is a president who he adopted the rubric of overall he spoke frequently in the speech about something he called peace with justice and over and over again, whit was the nuclear weapons reduction, energy policy, climate trade, human rights,...

Separating the city and that wall has now come down. remarkable this speech because of the difference between the obama of five years ago who spoke not far from that location and the president obama speaking today. when he came to berlin five years ago, the president talked about the values he hoped to bring back -- the american values he hoped to bring back if he were elected president and returning the gleam of america in europes eye. so much had happened after president bush came into office ...