Blog about wars history
CLEVELAND – Fu Baoshi grew up as an artist against a backdrop of war and revolution, to become one of the most important Chinese artists of the last century. From his beginnings as an apprentice in a Jiangxi Province painting shop and through his education at the Tokyo School of the Arts in the early [...]
Uduma Kalu 16 September 2011 Following the exploits of Nigeria’s beauty, Agbani Darego who won the Miss world, another African beauty queen, Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes from Angola, has emerged winner of the 2011 Miss Universe pageant. She beat six beauty queens from Sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa and Botswana), [...]
Click thumbnails to enlarge Photo by JOHN HAEGER (Twitter.com/OneidaPhoto) A 1889 Madison County War Bond on display during Archives Day in Wampsville on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 By CAITLIN TRAYNORDispatch Staff WriterTwitter.com/DispatchCaitlin Click to enlarge Photo by JOHN HAEGER (Twitter.com/OneidaPhoto) Joe DiGiorgio watches Sara Chevako explain some of the Civil War history of Cazenovia during [...]
By Lindsay Pykosz IM Staff Writer (Oct. 13 , 2011) With this year marking the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, the Nantucket Historical Association is gearing up to commemorate the four-year battle that eventually outlawed slavery throughout the nation. Kicking off a month-long series of programs related to the history of the war [...]
newsmakers Angola has its first Miss Universe S £O PAULO Newly crowned Miss Universe Leila Lopes wants to help her native Angola further escape a history of war and impoverishment and said she plans to focus on combating HIV around the globe. Speaking in a timid voice early Tuesday shortly after taking the crown in [...]