18-Year-Old Gukesh Becomes Youngest-Ever Undisputed Chess World Champion

18-year-old Indian prodigy GM Gukesh Dommaraju has become the 18th undisputed world champion after Chinese GM Ding Liren (32) collapsed in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship.

earendil

December 8, 2024 10:12am

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#CeciliaPayne

Discover: Cecilia Payne

earendil

November 12, 2024 11:35pm

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(https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harriet-tubman-finally-given-the-rank-of-general-for-leading-union-troops/ar-AA1tX0JI)

el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz aka Malcolm X

(https://www.thedailybeast.com/rita-moreno-says-she-likely-would-have-ended-her-45-year-marriage-if-not-for-her-daughter?ref=home)

(https://face2faceafrica.com/article/lanny-smoot-becomes-2nd-disney-employee-inducted-into-national-inventors-hall-of-fame-after-walt-disney)

Lanny Smoot becomes 2nd Disney employee inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame after Walt Disney - Face2Face Africa

Lanny Smoot, a Disney Research Fellow and a seasoned member of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development,

earendil

February 18, 2024 12:59pm

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#Peanuts

(https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/welcome-home-franklin-special-fixes-50-years-of-peanuts-controversy?ref=home?ref=home)

earendil

February 17, 2024 10:42pm

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(https://dnyuz.com/2024/02/16/joe-louis-dudley-pioneering-hair-care-entrepreneur-dies-at-86/)

Joe Louis Dudley, Pioneering Hair Care Entrepreneur, Dies at 86

Joe Louis Dudley, who expanded a kitchen-table business that he started with his wife at the time into one of

earendil

February 13, 2024 12:49am

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(https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/2/12/did-ivory-coasts-2023-afcon-defeat-of-nigeria-cap-greatest-africa-event)

Cancer survivor Sebastian Haller downs Nigeria as Ivory Coast win AFCON

We examine why Ivory Coast’s defeat of Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations may have just marked the greatest AFCON yet.

earendil

February 4, 2024 1:03pm

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(https://www.thedailybeast.com/kylian-mbappe-to-join-powerhouse-soccer-club-real-madrid-report?ref=home)

earendil

February 1, 2024 1:32am

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(https://time.com/6590179/chita-rivera-dies-91/)

Chita Rivera Dies at 91

Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who became a Broadway icon, died Tuesday

earendil

January 4, 2024 10:18am

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Buck Colbert Franklin (father of the famous black historian, John Hope Franklin)

Tye Leung Schulze

Tye Leung Schulze resisted domestic servitude and an arranged child marriage to provide translation services and solace to Asian immigrant victims of human trafficking in San Francisco. She became the first Chinese American woman to work for the federal government and the first Chinese American woman to vote in a U.S. election.

(https://youtu.be/viCq9LfKVwU)

earendil

April 25, 2023 7:06pm

(https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-barrier-smashing-entertainer-and-a/)

Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96

Harry Belafonte, the singer whose dynamic a cappella shout of "Day-O!" from "The Banana Boat Song" and other music from world folk traditions propelled him to international stardom, and who used his entertainment fortune to help bankroll the civil...

earendil

September 12, 2022 10:51am

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#GwendolynMidloHall

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(https://ustoday.news/gwendolyn-midlo-hall-93-dies-created-a-database-of-enslaved-people/)

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 93, dies; Created a database of enslaved people - US Today News

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, who, after years of trawling through obscure libraries in Louisiana, Spain and France, managed to save the identities of more than

(https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2022/6/13/tribute-to-mithali-raj-indias-batting-genius)