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An "angel" in darkness after Venezuela"s deadly quakes
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (710+ words) LA GUAIRA, Venezuela " Just when Pedro Cordido thought all was lost, he heard Erick Roa's voice. Cordido's eyes can't help but radiate with gratitude when he speaks about the volunteer rescuers who pulled him from the ruins of Venezuela's double…...
Submerged Town Reemerges in S'o Paulo as Reservoir Levels Drop, Revealing Ruins and Memories of Displaced Families
8+ hour, 8+ min ago (550+ words) With the low level of the Jaguari Dam, in Igarat, in the interior of S'o Paulo, the old submerged city has reappeared. A 12-meter-high wooden cross weighing hundreds of kilos began to emerge at the site where the old municipal…...
Venezuela: How Survivors Stayed Alive in the Rubble
14+ hour, 2+ min ago (54+ words) BBC Venezuela: How Survivors Stayed Alive in the Rubble Amongst the terrible loss of human life and destruction there have also been rare stories of people pulled from the rubble alive, days after the quake struck. Venezuela: How Survivors Stayed…...
25 Jamaicans Who Helped Shape America's Cultural Story
16+ hour, 26+ min ago (1373+ words) As the United States marks its 250th Independence Day, these Jamaican-born and Jamaican-descended figures reflect the island's outsized influence on American music, politics, sports, business and culture. Here are 25 Jamaican-born and Jamaican-descended figures whose contributions continue to reverberate across the United…...
The Pentagon Paid Moldova $40 Million for 21 Mi G-29s So Iran Couldn't Have Them. The Minister Who Signed the Deal Went to Prison for It
15+ hour, 43+ min ago (433+ words) In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet Mi G-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real, and the intelligence harvest shaped American weapons for a decade. But the full ledger runs stranger than the…...
22 Artifacts in Foreign Museums That Countries Are Demanding Back
22+ hour, 39+ min ago (1565+ words) By Adam Garcia | Published 19 seconds ago There's a version of history where all of this is simple: objects were taken during colonial rule, wars, or outright looting, and the descendants of the people they were taken from want them back....
Presidential History: America's first independence jubilee
17+ hour, 52+ min ago (444+ words) Annually for the past 250 years, Americans have marked Independence Day with speeches, parades and fireworks. But as David Mc Kean and M. Todd Bennett observe in their book "The Flag Was Still There," the nation's five semicentennial anniversaries " including the one…...
How a Tiny Caribbean Island Made American Independence Possible
19+ hour, 17+ min ago (1146+ words) (THE CONVERSATION) The American Revolution is often told as a heroic story of 13 colonies rising up against a mighty empire and, with some help from France, winning their independence. But the real story is more complicated. As the United States…...
Bernardo de G'lvez: Hispanic hero back to the forefront of history on America's 250th anniversary
15+ hour, 13+ min ago (396+ words) Born in M'laga, Spain, in 1746, Bernardo de G'lvez was appointed governor of Louisiana in 1776. From the moment he arrived in New Orleans, he worked tirelessly to support the American insurgents against Great Britain, sending weapons, ammunition, medicine and supplies up…...
What was Texas like during the American Revolution?
16+ hour, 15+ min ago (1462+ words) During the American Revolution, almost exactly 250 years ago, Texans did not think much about the independence of the American colonies. "In Spanish Texas, July 4, 1776 was just another day," says Mike Cox, veteran Texas historian and former Statesman journalist. "For one…...