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15/12/2021

Just days after his heartbreaking and controversial loss on the last lap of the last race of the 2021 F1 Season, Sir Lewis is knighted at Windsor Castle by the Prince of Wales.

A challenging book on gender equality and minority relationships has won an award from the UKs leading bookseller. Full...
03/12/2021

A challenging book on gender equality and minority relationships has won an award from the UKs leading bookseller. Full disclosure Natasha is my daughter.

Like President James Marshall in Harrison Ford's Air Force One PM of Barbados Mia Mottley went off-script at the United ...
26/09/2021

Like President James Marshall in Harrison Ford's Air Force One PM of Barbados Mia Mottley went off-script at the United Nations with a powerful speech. https://youtu.be/ZDLGuHpWVu4

09/04/2021

2021 April 9 Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces

22/02/2021

Super Centenarian Williams celebrates his 111th Birthday Today💯🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
Join us in wishing happy birthday greetings to our oldest living citizen, Super Centenarian Melville Williams.
Born in 1910, SC Melville who currently lives at Lonesome Hill in St. Peter, was considered a very accomplished 'Master Saddler' back in day.
SC Williams has nine children who are all alive. He is no longer mobile and requires more assistance, but has a memory that puts them to astonishment. In 2019, Barbados Government Information Service honoured SC Williams with the prestigious Centenarian of Barbados Commemorative Award and in 2016, the Barbados Postal Service recognised him with a commemorative stamp
Happy birthday SC Melville Williams from all of us at Beautiful Barbados
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09/02/2021

Motown mourns one of its greatest sweethearts: Mary Wilson of The Supremes dies suddenly aged 76 at home in Vegas
The star passed away at her home in Las Vegas on February 8, her publicist has confirmed, with a cause of death yet to be announced
Wilson's funeral service will be held privately in accordance with current health and safety guidelines
Along with band-mate Diana Ross, Wilson was at the forefront of the Motown sound after signing with the label in 1961
'Mary Wilson was extremely special to me. She was a trailblazer, a diva and will be deeply missed,' Motown founder Berry Gordy said
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01/02/2021

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28/01/2021

She was 94. She died of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California. In this 2009 video, she was being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera, still sharp at 83.

08/12/2020

A 90-year-old grandmother from Coventry has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

LIVE Historic American return to space for the 1st time in 11 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsvr55cTZ0
30/05/2020

LIVE Historic American return to space for the 1st time in 11 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsvr55cTZ0

Watch history unfold on Saturday, May 30, as NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This mis...

01/04/2020

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30/03/2020

Mercedes F1 CPAP device which can treat Coronavirus cheaply

17/02/2020

She never got to finish her journey that day. She was marching peacefully along with some 600 protesters for voting rights when policemen arrived with tear gas and billy clubs. The protesters would be beaten, and she would be left bloody and unconscious on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.

Her name was Amelia Boynton, the date was March 7, 1965, and the incident on the bridge in Selma would draw national attention, eventually being called, "Bloody Sunday."

This is part of a series on Black History Month shared by the Peace Page.

Boynton, a former teacher, had invited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Selma. Dr. King and members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would meet and set up headquarters at Boynton's Selma home, where they would plan the Selma to Montgomery March.

When they got on the bridge, she remembers the troopers brutally attacking them. "I felt a blow on my arm that could have injured me permanently had it been on my head," she would say. "Another blow by a trooper as I was gasping for breath knocked me to the ground and there I lay unconscious. Others told me that my attacker had called to another that he had the "damn leader." One of them shot tear gas all over me."

A newspaper photo of Boynton, lying on the ground, left for dead, shocked the entire nation. Boynton also suffered throat burns from the effects of the tear gas. Bloody Sunday would prompt President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, with Boynton attending as the landmark event's guest of honor.

Boynton, who later would be referred to as Amelia Boynton Robinson, would continue being a voice for civil rights, touring the United States "to defend the rights of all humanity to progress — material, moral and intellectual."

She would remind younger people of the importance of history, saying, "It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country."

She added, "You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been."

Her son, Bruce Boynton, who he himself had been arrested for trying to eat at a white lunch counter at a bus station, would say of his mother, “She’s done so many outstanding things that a lot of people don’t know." [Bruce Boynton’s case would inspire the freedom rides, and he would be represented by Thurgood Marshall in the Supreme Court case.]

Boynton was known by many as the “Matriarch of the Voting Rights Movement."

She was the first African-American woman to run on the Democratic ticket for a seat in Congress from Alabama. Although she didn’t win the election, she did garner 10 percent of the votes at a time when only 1 percent of the voting population was made up of African Americans.

She was a member of the brave Courageous Eight and one of the first African Americans registered to vote in Alabama.

She would be awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Medal of Freedom.

On August 26, 2015, Boynton Robinson would die at the age of 110.

But before her death, she was able to finish her journey across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the Selma Voting Rights Movement 50th Anniversary Jubilee. In her wheelchair, she was accompanied by the first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, holding her hand.

Close friends and family would say, she died, harboring no animosity for anyone, not even those who might have hated her for the color of her skin.

She had said, "I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone."

"Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever," she said. "People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race."

23/01/2017
Inside Bruce Makowsky's $250m Bel Air mansion

The World's most expensive home! 250 Million US Dollars.

Inside Bruce Makowsky's $250m Bel Air mansion Inside the $250m Bel Air mansion built by Bruce Makowsky. What billionaires' dreams are made of: The most expen...

06/01/2017
The Queen 'nearly shot' by her own guard as she took a 3am stroll

The Queen 'nearly shot' by her own guard as she took a 3am stroll

It is one of the perks of being a member of the archaic hereditary UK monarchy that you have armed guards watching over you at all hours. But that apparently almost backfired for the Queen when she decided to take a late-night walk around the palace grounds and came close to being shot.

06/01/2017
China has launched a train service travelling all the way to London

China has launched a train service travelling all the way to London

China has launched its first ever train service to travel all the way to Britain. The locomotive will cover 7,456 miles and pass through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France before reaching Barking, east London.

01/11/2016
The Rachel Maddow Show

Perils of eroded civic knowledge forewarned by fmr Justice Souter.

Here is that amazing clip of former Supreme Court Justice David Souter being frighteningly prescient about the decline of civic knowledge in America and the effect of that decline on the state of our democracy.

Watch the full segment that contained the clip: http://on.msnbc.com/2dEJrrz

29/10/2016
Plane 'carrying EU officials' crashes

Plane 'carrying EU officials' crashes

At least five people have died after a plane reportedly carrying officials from the EU border agency crashed in Malta. The light aircraft went down in shortly after take-off from Malta International Airport at around 7.20am local time (6.20am BST) on Monday morning.

10/09/2016
Jobless couple with eight children say they are being 'neglected'

Jobless couple with eight children say they are being 'neglected'

Arnold Mballe Sube and his wife Jeanne, 33, currently share their three-bedroom, end-of-terrace home in Luton, Bedfordshire, with their eight young children but describe it as 'terrible'.

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Christopher Hitchens dies age 62.
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This is quote from his magazine Vanity Fair... Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor. “Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades. “My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,” he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly.

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