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Hace 3 horas · Watching the small parade of elderly men and women—many in wheelchairs, some wearing military insignia—receive the gratitude of the President of the United States and the leaders of the Western world on the 80th anniversary of D-Day was profoundly moving. So, too, were the vistas of row upon row of white marble grave markers of those who gave their lives on June 6, 1944 and in the days and ...
Hace 22 horas · 1 / 23 Local veterans, the Grey and Simcoe Foresters, the Canadian Forces Base Borden and the Royal Canadian Legion honoured the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a parade and ceremony in downtown Barrie on Thursday, June 6, 2024.Nikki Cole/BarrieToday. It’s been 80 years since Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, marking the ...
Hace 22 horas · Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (sometimes called "Herb Alpert and the TJB") in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, five of which became No. 1 albums; he has scored 14 platinum albums and 15 gold albums.
Hace 22 horas · Taxonomy and systematics. The common starling was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 under its current binomial name. Sturnus and vulgaris are derived from the Latin for "starling" and "common" respectively. The Old English staer, later stare, and the Latin sturnus are both derived from an unknown Indo-European root dating back to the second millennium BC.
Hace 22 horas · Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race ...
Hace 22 horas · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California Supreme Court ruling will allow student housing at University of California to be built at Berkeley’s historic People’s Park.
Hace 22 horas · Many countries in the global south are on board with China, chaffing at the dominance of the US led international system and ready to countenance a shake-up. Russia is in lock step with China ...
