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Courtesy Circle L 5 In the early 1950s, Circle L 5’s founding fathers fought for the right to ride in the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo—a tradition they continue today. For the past 70 years, the Circle L 5 Riding Club in Fort Worth has been honoring the legacy of its forefathers.  share this article Imagine. You’re standing on the century-old, red-bricked Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas. It’s January and chilly, but not excessively so. Cold enough for onlookers ar...

Chris Bergeron Daily News Correspondent Entering the American Heritage Museum, the first thing visitors see is the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, “When in the Course of human events ...” on the Orientation Theatre wall. Like soldiers rushing into combat, they will continue into an immersive "World War I Trench Experience" in which one of the few surviving M1917 6-ton tanks built in the U.S. leads an American-led force into battle. Welcome to a history lesson about cour...

February 23, 1945, Marines Raise the Flag on Mount Suribachi Share This: Photos: USMC On  February 23, 1945, World War II was continuing to rage across the globe. In Europe, brutal winter fighting continued as Germany was being squeezed from two sides: in the west by the Americans and British, who had recovered from the German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge, and in the east by the Russians.  In the Pacific, the Japanese were putting up fanatical resistance in the Philippines and els...

(RNS) — Phil Vischer was driving home from his studio and listening to NPR when he had another of his big ideas. Vischer, the creator of “VeggieTales,” the animated series in which produce-aisle items act out Bible stories, says he often talks back to NPR’s stories — with his characteristic wisecracks, of course, but also with probing questions when he feels the reporter missed something. “I was having some really interesting conversations with myself in my car,” said Vischer, the...

The Cuomo administration’s March 25 directive barred nursing homes from refusing people just because they had COVID-19. It was intended to free up space in hospitals swamped in the early days of the pandemic.

My Journey to Discover the Lost Flag-Raiser of Iwo Jima The flag raisers in AP photographer Joe Rosenthals famous photograph of Iwo Jima are now identified as (from left): Ira Hayes, Harold Schultz, Michael Strank, Franklin Sousley, Harold Keller and Harlon Block. (Wikipedia) 23 Feb 2021 Military.com | By Bill Ivory Bill Ivory is a Vietnam War veteran who served with the 1st Marine Division in 1967-1968 in Da Nang. He volunt...

Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American? Russell Cobb | This Land Press | August 2014 | 16 minutes (3,976 words) This Land PressFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share a brand new essay from Oklahoma’s This Land Press, just published in their August 2014 issue. This Land has been featured on Longreads often in the past—you can support them here. * * * Let’s take a voyage to a not-so-distant land and visit a strange tribe. Or maybe not so strange. In...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered Sophia Loren Breaks Down 8 Famous Looks: From ‘Cleopatra’ to Her Blonde Phase TheWrap magazine: As her new film “The Life Ahead” plays on Netflix, the iconic actress reflects on her decades-long career By Steve Pond | February 22, 2021 @ 12:09 PM A version of this story about Sophia Loren and “The Life Ahead” first appeared in the Actors/Directors/Screenwriters issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Sophia Loren may have spent most of the last de...

Swooner and Target are the friendly neighbourhood exterminators! Last Monday, Target did not come home for breakfast. At first, I thought he might be out for a longer walk than usual. But when the sun was up and there was still no senior cat, I panicked. I went straight out, calling for him. Nothing. No meows. After half an hour, Tom came out and we scoured the back lanes and the neighbouring roads. We were terrified, envisioning disaster. Thankfully, we came home to find our furry sitting on t...

I’m 60 and want to retire on between $800 and $1,200 a month, ideally near the ocean in Mexico — where should I go? MarketWatch 3/27/2021 Dear MarketWatch, I live in Loveland, Colo., just turned 60 and would love to be retired within the next year. I’m looking for a more affordable place to retire and am thinking about Mexico — somewhere I can live for between $800 and $1,200 a month. Ideally, I would like a pretty big expat community, but a place that still retains the feel of Mexic...