Новости за 26.06.2018

Peru were already out before this game but they still had a huge travelling support, clad in the country's distinctive white and red colours

The R&B icon will release her first album since 2007 later this year.

Retailers may be forced into a tricky choice between speed or higher costs

A donor’s heart was successfully transported from Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3 to Fortis Escort hospital in Sukhdev Vihar area.

Rob Lowe lists his Montecito, California mansion for $47 million.

Good riddance, Jordan.

A veteran of the U.S. military set himself on fire at the Georgia Statehouse on Tuesday, reports Fox 5 News of Atlanta. The man, who has not yet been named, was reportedly protesting his treatment by the Veterans Administration. Authorities said he used used fireworks and gasoline to start the fire ...

John Daly announced Monday he is withdrawing from the US Senior Open — as a result of a deteriorating right knee and what he believes to be a bad ruling. The USGA denied the 52-year-old’s request for a golf cart during the tournament, which begins Thursday, after he filed a request that said it was...

Don’t worry about being nice to your partner when times get tough. Just don’t be a total a-hole, scientists say. New research from Baylor University finds that refraining from being a complete jerk toward your significant other is more important than actually being nice to them during stressful times. In a bar-lowering survey of 325...

Finds organized crime, not border agents separating children

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The University of Massachusetts-Amherst is ending a campus speech policy that a libertarian group alleged was unconstitutionally restrictive. A school spokeswoman said Tuesday the nearly 30-year-old rule has been rescinded because it was rarely enforced and could be misinterpreted as a limitation on free speech. The rule said protests and rallies using electronic amplification could occur only from noon to 1 p.m. on one side of the school's student union. A federal lawsuit filed... Читать дальше...

I’ve been working with data. Data set for most of my working life. Nothing is more difficult in this field than dealing with similar data coming from different sources managed over time by many different people. In information systems, this challenge is dealt with by establishing golden sources or authoritative sources of data. For instance, [...]

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In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's "shameful" decision on Tuesday morning upholding President Donald Trump's travel ban from several majority-Muslim countries, civil liberties and religious freedom groups called on those outraged by the ruling to attenda rapid-response rally in their local community. "It is ultimately the people of this country who will determine its character and future. The court failed today, and so the public is needed more than ever."

An upcoming total lunar eclipse has reportedly stirred up those who believe in such events acting as harbingers of cataclysms and misfortunes.

Alexi Lalas, Clarence Seedorf, Kelly Smith, and Rob Stone discuss France and Denmark's 0-0 draw and France's performance throughout the group stage. With this draw France top Group C and await the runner up of Group D, while Denmark also advance and will face the winner of Group D.

The Crew 2 will let players experience the thrill of the American motorsports spirit inside a fully redesigned USA. The game’s playground pushes physical boundaries to let driving and open world fans test their skills in nonstop competition and exploration. From coast to coast, drivers will explore America and compete to becom...

The Red Sox are the only team with two players in line to start the All-Star Game at the moment

● Juneteenth celebrations unite community with parade, gatherings 

Every June 19 in Texas, communities celebrate with prayer, family gatherings and a strong dose of history. That was the day in 1865 that a union general arrived in Galveston with an order informing Texas that all slaves were freed.

● This Juneteenth Let’s Remember Stories Like This One

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It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.

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Toward the end of the Second Great Awakening, a series of revivals that marked the first half of the American 19th Century, one Baptist preacher named William Miller confidently predicted that “Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844." Based on his complex calculations derived from the Bible, the minister was certain that the millennium would arrive no later than that spring day... Читать дальше...

On March 21, 1865, the recently emancipated black residents of Charleston South Carolina, staged a parade to celebrate their new freedom. The city had been taken a month earlier by Union Army troops led by a thousand soldiers from the 21st United States Colored troops. When the parade got underway, it was led by the black soldiers, marching in formation, followed by more than five thousand people. 

On the eve of the 155th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, does anyone remember why it took place there? Or why it began on July 1st? Most recent scholarship would answer that Robert E. Lee designed an offensive operation into Pennsylvania to offset recent Rebel setbacks and to gain greater access to the rich harvests of the Shenandoah Valley. But that doesn’t really answer the questions of why there and why then.        

Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while providing instructions to a federal grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia. He defined treason as “wholesale murder” that “embraces in its sweep all the crimes of the Decalogue.” This horrific act, Underwood declared, had murdered tens of thousands of young Americans during the recent war, “by the slaughter on the battlefields, and by starvation in the most loathsome dungeons.” He was... Читать дальше...

The collapse of any society brings forth monsters, to adapt Goya.

In this sense, there was nothing uniquely German about the Nazis. Hitler and the National Socialist party he created could have happened anywhere.

It is fair to say that had America, Britain, France or any nation for that matter, been left in the brutalized state of Germany in 1918-19, they may have found their own Führer, preying on their humiliation and social chaos, and blaming it all on a defenseless minority.

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“Does The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Have a Hidden Meaning?” That’s the title of a TED-Ed video from last year. Since I had written, years ago, a couple essays on Oz and American culture, the TED folks asked me to write a script for the video. I started with Henry Littlefield, a high school history teacher who, in 1963, used L. Frank Baum’s story to teach some of the difficult (and, for many students, boring) issues of the Gilded Age. Littlefield suggested that the Tin Woodman (no heart) represented... Читать дальше...