The former secretary of State will be forever connected with President Richard M. Nixon, particularly for their efforts in three areas: getting America out of the Vietnam War, opening diplomatic relations with China and reducing tensions with the Soviet Union. For decades thereafter, Kissinger’s work with Nixon and President Gerald Ford earned him the role of the Republican Party’s elder statesman when it came to foreign policy.
“The Middle American professional politician and the German-born Harvard professor,” wrote George C.
If you’re stuck on where to travel next year, you’re in luck – The Points Guy (TPG) has revealed the best places to visit in 2024.
Carefully crafting their list, contributors to the influential travel site ‘thought long and hard’ about new airline routes, hotel openings and significant events next year to decide upon the must-see destinations.
Scroll down and prepare to tweak your bucket list…
FRANCE
TPG has named France a must-see destination for 2024, partly because Paris will
Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic “Walden, or A Life in the Woods” was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854.
“Walden” is about the virtues of simple living and self-sufficiency in a modern world.
It was inspired by the two years and two months Thoreau spent living in a small cabin in Concord, Massachusetts, at the edge of Walden Pond in the 1840s, as the History of Massachusetts website indicates.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, AUGUST
Julia Scully, who after 20 years as the editor of Modern Photography magazine wrote an acclaimed memoir about her Depression-era childhood, when her mother put her and her sister in an orphanage before moving the family into a roadhouse in a remote part of Alaska, died on July 18 at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.
Her death was confirmed by Jana Martin, a daughter of Ms. Scully’s companion, Harold Martin, a photographer.
Ms. Scully began working at photography
The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in the cross hairs of lawmakers, activists and regulators for years. Many have called for the algorithms to be abolished to stem the spread of viral misinformation and to prevent the inflammation of political divisions.
But four new studies published on Thursday — including one that examined the data of 208 million Americans who used Facebook in the 2020 presidential election
Dozens of scientists have today demanded the retraction of an influential paper credited with dismissing the idea that Covid emerged from a lab.
Authors of ‘Proximal Origin’, published days before Britain was thrust into its first lockdown, wrote: ‘We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.’
But a coalition of experts have now demanded it is removed, calling it ‘misleading’ and ‘damaging’.
The plea comes after secret messages between the authors — which casted doubt on
Prominente wie Adam Waheed, Coodie Simmons und Josh Richards kamen diese Woche während der Cannes Lions am Influential Beach vorbei.
Simmons, der bei der Emmy-nominierten Kanye-West-Doku „Jeen-Yuhs“ Regie führte, erklärte, warum es wichtig ist, jetzt die Geschichte von Ernie Barnes zu erzählen, dem ersten amerikanischen Profisportler, der ein bekannter Maler wurde.
„Ich denke, Herr Barnes hat so viele Menschen inspiriert, definitiv in unserer Kultur“, sagte er zu Page Six. „Wissen Sie einfach, dass Sie auch etwas anderes als Sport machen
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LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne has been named the most influential female college athlete thanks to her impressive social media following and lucrative sponsorship deals.
The New Jersey native turned 20 last Saturday, but she has even more to celebrate now that she has topped On3’s NIL Valuation list ranking college athletes by performance, influence, and exposure.
Dunne has a valuation of $2.3 million, according to the sports website, which uses a proprietary algorithm to calculate the monetary value of an
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Zeit Das Magazin veröffentlichte am Montag seine jährliche Liste der 100 einflussreichsten Personen dieses Jahres, und eine Reihe von Athleten verdienten sich einen Platz in der begehrten Ausgabe.
Unter den Namen der neuesten Ausgabe von Time100 sind die Tennisspieler Peng Shuai und
