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Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly sunny skies and highs remaining in low 70s are expected for the coming week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1811 Birth of Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts. 1861 The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union. 1878 Birth of Carl Sandburg, U.S. journalist, poet and biographer. 1882 Birth of Sam Raybur...

Friends of Padre Steve’s World, We Americans like to think that we have come so far and have risen above the monstrous ideologies of race hatred and anti-semitism. Sadly we have not and the evil that most recently raised it’s head during the Presidency of Barack Obama went into overdrive with the election and approval of President Trump. Whether willingly or unwillingly Trump will leave office on January 20th the lingering of his open racism will remain with us in the shattered remains of t...

by Hilary Spurling This article was first published in the October 14, 2010 issue of The announcement by the Swedish Academy in November 1938 that Pearl Buck had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature was met with sarcasm and even derision by many writers and critics. They were not impressed that this was the third choice by the academy of an American writer in a mere eight years—the first being Sinclair Lewis in 1930, the second Eugene O’Neill in 1936. Pearl Buck had dedicated her w...

Dec 28, 2020 Nagoya – Nearly 60 years ago, a largely forgotten, cross-continental peace march brought together two of the greatest tragedies of World War II: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Holocaust. As detailed in Ran Zwigenberg’s “Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture,” in January 1962, a procession of young student activists, peace activists and Buddhist monks, set off from Hiroshima on a march all the way to Auschwitz, the site of one of the...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote,  “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Back in 2010 I had a creditable and very specific death threat from a Neo-Nazi in East Tennessee. The man had a formidable internet presence, many publications online, including articles on how best to assassinate people. So I did my research, figured out who he was and reported him to the FBI. A week later his internet presence disappeared. I don’t know what ha...

Forget 1939, Imperial Japan Almost Started World War II in 1937 The prospect of war with Japan and the possibility of abandoning China both gained some public traction following the attack and its resulting publicity. Heres What You Need to Remember: It was rogue Japanese officers who were behind the attack, not the Japanese government. The chaos spawned by the Japanese attack of Nanking may have provided what those elements considered an opportunity to further their own aims. They almost succ...

  Even as Donald Trump discussed pulling America out of NATO, tried withdrawing US troops from South Korea, moved to pull 12,000 troops out of Germany, withdrew America’s effective 1,000 man fighting force from Kurdish areas in Syria, and ordered a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq by January 20, 2021 as part of his policy of ending “senseless wars,” he manifested a militaristic foreign policy that almost led America into two major and potentially high casualty wars in Asia.  ...

If you’ve ever been denied the use of a gift voucher or a coupon because it is a day out of date or received a parking fine for the front edge of your tyre is touching the forbidden zone (a double yellow line where I’m from), you may have thought to yourself – ‘How cruel’. There is also no doubt that despots like Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao and Stalin, depraved killers like John Wayne Gacy, Andrei Chikatilo, The Zodiac Killer and a whole gang of villains from the 20th century leant a new mea...

© Feng Shao Text description provided by the architects. The Suzhou Bay Cultural Center is part of a series of emblematic projects initiated by the city through the Wujiang Lakefront Masterplan. On the shores of Lake Tai, Christian de Portzamparc discovered the deserted plain in 2013, while appreciating the plan of the future city. It was then built so quickly, we were he was amazed at each visit. It is already alive like a real Manhattan of towers ordered according to a grid of streets and av...

This happened ten years ago, in autumn. I was twenty-four at the time, and terrified about turning twenty-five. To my mind, being ‘young’ meant up to the age of twenty-four. I truly believed that after twenty-five, I could be a cool lady, but a cool old lady. This may have had a lot to do with my longing to be a celebrity – something that would never happen – and with the fact that I worked in a gyaru girls’ bar. All of the men who came to the bar – and I mean all of them – they ...