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Blake Jenner is all smiles as he steps out for the premiere of his new movie Billy Boy on Tuesday night (June 12) at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 25-year-old actor looked so handsome in a charcoal suit as he stepped out for the premiere of his new movie. PHOTOS: Check [...]

The annual Stirling Albion Am-Am Golf Day will be held at Stirling Golf Club on Wednesday 15 August 2018. If anyone wishes to make a booking or has an enquiry, please contact Colin Griffin on 07931 151343 or via e-mail colingriffin99@gmail.com

For the past four months I've been dealing with back issues. Stenosis, herniated disc and arthritis. I've been trying to work through it and avoid surgery. Physical Therapy, yoga, massage, chiropractor and inversion table have not given me much relief. I'm currently seeing a Physiatrist and have...

The world waits with bated breath as a “mad king” descends on Singapore, his finger itching to press the launch button and totally destroy his adversaries. Few disagree that a “radical and absolutist” dictator who can “use the power of the state to suppress the opposition while shielding itself from all potential sanction or limitation” […]

For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High Schoolin Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel. His mission was not just to chronicle the dispossession and repossession of a people, as Walter Laqueur did in A History of Zionism, but to go beyond. Rabbi Eliach completes the circle and ties in the religious component— spiritual Judaism itself. The result is a massive and incisive tome... Читать дальше...

Over the course of his presidency, Jewish Americans overwhelmingly supported Franklin Roosevelt, voting for him with wide majorities of over 80% in each of his four elections. They turned to him, as did most Americans, to pull the country out of the Great Depression, to keep America safe, and after December 1941, to fight the war against Germany and Japan. They also supported Roosevelt, in part, because he was the only major Presidential candidate who was friendly with prominent American Jews... Читать дальше...

What girl in America today has not had her parents try to get her to boot her boyfriend, who she loves and they hate, and marry the guy they adore, who is so perfect in every way?

Stephen Aron, PhD. Is Professor and the Robert N. Burr Department Chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served for twelve years as the founding executive director and then chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. He is the immediate past president of the Western History Association and the author of numerous articles and books, which include The American West: A Very Short Introduction(Oxford University Press); American Confluence... Читать дальше...

His biographer, Lone Frank, thinks so, as she explains in this revealing interview.

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Photo by By Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0

Medicine is missing something fundamental today, doctors and patients agree. While we know more about the human body than ever before, treatment and research are increasingly driven by cost and efficiency and less by the time-honored tradition of medical art. The most popular way of addressing such issues has been to teach courses in the medical humanities—almost every elite medical school has them. One of the field’s most enduring and central claims... Читать дальше...

For more than fifty years the National Rifle Association (NRA) has dominated gun control debates. Outside of the Brady Act (which ultimately expired), it has successfully stymied most gun control efforts. 

The summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un comes near the anniversary of one of President John F. Kennedy's most famous speeches.  JFK, in a 1963 commencement address at American University, proposed to the Soviet Union ending nuclear weapons testing. 

More than a few people thought Patrick J. Mogan was crazy when, during the 1960s, he proposed the creation of a national park in Lowell, Massachusetts—then one of the most depressed cities in America. A national park in Lowell? Please. Nothing there resembled Independence Hall or the Statue of Liberty, and there were no battles or presidents to commemorate in such a seemingly undistinguished factory town.

Theodore Dalrymple, the author of The Knife Went In (Gibson Square, 2017) was a psychiatrist for decades working in the UK prison system.

Sociologist James W. Loewen is the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

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History is a key source of public information and debate. With public figures making regular historical claims and engaging in debates over the meaning of historical sites, more historians are beginning to enter the public fray. Читать дальше...

An angler fishing in the weekly Lake Jacomo Bass Tournament got quite a surprise recently. Headed to his first spot that morning, Stephen Delgado left the main marina and headed … Click to Continue »

Rascally Antonio Horta Osorio, 54, should be advised the honours committee bods are a priggish bunch with memories as long as elephants.

Following a landmark court ruling in the US, analysts said Comcast had effectively been given the all-clear run to mount a takeover.It set the stage for an epic battle between the company and Disney.

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Romancing Kim in Singapore won't denuclearize North Korea or improve its human rights record.

Jose Luis Garcia, a legal United States resident who has spent the past five decades living in this country, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on his front porch this week, while his shocked family stood in their home and watched.

Ricky Burns laces them up for the 50th time on Saturday night at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England – and the Scottish boxing hero says that there are plenty more great nights left in the tank.