The Nine Variables

Sugar Ray Leonard Vs Thomas Hearns - Boxing's Greats Duke It Out - The funniest videos clips are here

One Sunday, several months ago, early risers gazing at Czech Television’s CT2 channel saw picturesque panoramas of the Czech countryside, b...

Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger. He is known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in 1943 in the western Ethiopian city of...

Bobby Fischer, the Chicago-born, Brooklyn-bred genius who became one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died Thursday in...

Martin Luther's (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) last speech in Memphis before being assasinated on the balcony of the Hotel Lorraine ...

In 1950, as the gospel singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe was preparing for a guest performance on Perry Como’s television show, “T...

Keeping with our theme of dodgy airports, my friend Dr Newman recently sent me a consolidated list of the world's worst airports. Some b...

In a very clever and disciplined campaign, Kevin Rudd effectively articulated a vision for Australia. After 11 years of divisive and calcula...

Bar the odd dent - such as the depiction in the film The Magdalene Sisters of cruelty in their now-defunct Irish orphanages and laundries - ...

Artist: Schulim Krimper Birth/Death: 1893–1971 European refugees and immigrants with design and crafts skills found a small but dedicated cl...

When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little room do I find for pride. I am aware ...

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[click on image to listen to radio jazz prolife] The jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery, deemed "the biggest, warmest, fattest sound on re...

[click on image to view trailer] "In Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else," explains M. Emmet W...

New York City 1982......rockin the city with your name on a train.

Pulitzer Prize-Winner Norman Mailer Dies at 84 By Bart Barnes The Washington Post Saturday, November 10, 2007 Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer Pr...

Albania, Europe’s Rough Corner, Loosens Up New York Times by Matt Gross December 10, 2006 NOT long ago, to suggest Albania as a destination ...

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Maybe the moment recurs daily at six, when commuters, freed from the staring computers, elbow and bump in unsought intimacy on a station pla...