The New Yorker turns 100: Here’s how it started with a poker game
To start The New Yorker, Ross’ poker partner Fleischmann was willing to stake him US$25,000—roughly $450,000 in today’s ...
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New DOE boss places spotlight on baseload generation
Braden Cammauf, V.P. of FPT North America, showcased the company's lineup of engines at POWERGEN International 2024 in New ...
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On St. Valentine’s Day, and the history of love letters
While the ease of sending a message over WhatsApp or an email is far less cumbersome, a letter with a hand-pasted postage stamp exudes nostalgia and is perhaps a meaningful way to profess love this Va ...
Eyal Zamir likely to lead IDF into a new era: 'Small and smart' is over
Zamir’s two civilian years in the Defense Ministry will also be useful in terms of his task’s most prickly dimension – ...
Radha pines for Krishna in statute: BJP MP wakes up to Constitution omissions, targets Congress
These illustrations included the Mohenjo-daro seal which was dropped by these people (the Congress). The return of Lord Ram ...
CPS security video shows Secret Service trying to enter Chicago’s Hamline School
Chicago Public Schools officials had a calm, seemingly friendly conversation with two U.S. Secret Service agents outside ...
The New Yorker turns 100 − how a poker game pipe dream became a publishing powerhouse
The magazine, founder Harold Ross famously declared, would not be ‘edited for the old lady in Dubuque.’ A century later, it ...
Marvel’s sleek 1960s makeover looks Fantastic. But is it enough?
The Fantastic 4 – aka, Marvel’s First Family – have been badly mistreated by Hollywood. Can they save the moribund studio ...
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Thunder in the Heavens: A Brief History of the Aircraft of the USAF Thunderbirds
Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...
Secret UK 'mini cabinet' tries to plan for unpredictable Trump
On security and on the economy, Westminster feels both worry and hope as Donald Trump heads back to the White House.
Inside Trump’s Oval Office with family snaps & return of famous ‘Diet Coke button’…& the secret messages hidden in decor
DONALD Trump’s famous Diet Coke button has returned to the White House for a second time along with a host of fascinating new additions. The Oval Office has undergone a huge revamp with ...
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Secret UK 'mini cabinet' tries to plan for unpredictable Trump
We said a state with nuclear weapons had used this on the soil ... The incoming president is perhaps both an emblem and a product of the changed and uncertain times we live in.