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Welcome to Wiki propaganda on topics of Islam, Jihad and the Arab war on Israel. Thu Jan 14, 2021 Wikipedia now has 55 million separate articles. It would be churlish to complain about them all. Some of them are very good, in fact; for example, the entry on the Russian playwright Alexander Griboyedov, whose  Woe From Wit I studied, line by line, in Moscow, with a teacher at Patrice Lumumba University (I believe I am the only American to have studied with a faculty member at Lumumba U.). So is the one on Minkowski Space, which I have neither the time nor the space to discuss here...

The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in London in 2013. Image credit: Oli Scarff Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. What a year it was for Anglo-American literature and the arts! 1925 was the year of heralded novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, seminal works by Sinclair Lewis, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Agatha Christie, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley … and a banner year for music...

The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in London in 2013. Oli Scarff / Getty Images What a year it was for Anglo-American literature and the arts! 1925 was the year of heralded novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, seminal works by Sinclair Lewis, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Agatha Christie, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley ... and a banner year for musicians, too. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, the Gershwins, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller, among hundreds of others, made important recordings. And 1925 marked the release of canonical movie...

History Spotlight: Today in 1943, American jazz musician, singer and composer, Fats Waller died of pneumonia on a train trip near Kansas City, Missouri. He wrote many songs including "Ain't Misbehavin'", "Your Feet's Too Big" and "The Reefer Song". His closest collaborator, Andy Razaf, once described his partner as "the soul of melody... a man who made the piano sing... both big in body and in mind... known for his generosity... a bubbling bundle of joy". Also, Today In: 1956 - Elvis Presley gave his final performance on Louisiana Hayride, a live radio program (and later TV program) that was ...

Monday, December 14 Night Train marks the centennial birthday of featured artist Clark Terry in a special edition of the show. We’ll hear music from Terry in hour one, ranging from his early work with Ellington, to his debut album, and onto guest appearances he made with Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Dianne Reeves, Dinah Washington and more. Then a special in hour two surveys the life and career of the master trumpeter, mentor and pioneering jazz educator. Tuesday, Decmeber 15 Night Train marks birthdays of trombonist Curtis Fuller (with John Coltrane), pianist Barry Harris, and Latin jazz pia...