By 1989, Madonna, the scrappy performer born Madonna Louise Ciccone, was already a superstar: she’d whirled onto the landscape, in a torn-up T-shirt and two wrists’ worth of rubber bracelets, just as America was awakening to the AIDS crisis, and for young people became a symbol of determination and self-invention. She had defied our expectations so many times. How many surprises could she have left up her lace sleeves?
The bombshell answer came in the form of a hymn of joyous carnality, “Like a Prayer,” the lead single and title track of her fourth studio album.
Origin story She was born on July 2, 1990. Her journey to the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) started in high school where she was named a WBCA All-American. Describing how it all started, she told Sporttechie: “My journey started a little late. I started playing basketball when I was about 11. It was definitely a learning curve for me initially, but my parents were always adamant about us being well rounded so I ended up playing basketball.
A California megachurch pastor who frequently spoke out on the issues of mental health and his own struggles with depression died on Monday by suicide at the age of 30.
Jarrid Wilson joined the Harvest Christian Fellowship church in Riverside, Calif. 18 months ago as an associate pastor, according to a statement from the church. The church has a congregation of 15,000.
“He was vibrant, positive, and was always serving and helping others,” the statement said.
The EP is a follow-up to his previous release 'Drillionaire', which showed his versatility. 'Rich And Wacko' kicks off with 'Change My Gear' featuring Vector, setting the pace for what is to come. With tracks like 'Scared Love (Farawe)' featuring ODUMODUBLVCK and Dammy Krane, 'Orchid Road', 'Devil Agent (2 Fighting)' featuring Erigga and ODUMODUBLVCK, and the final track 'Angels' featuring Akuchi. ADVERTISEMENT
Since kicked off his career, he has announced himself as a rapper with the penmanship and delivery of Hip Hop greats.
Zulfi Bukhari was transiting at Dubai International Airport when he got a call from Imran Khan telling him not to come back to Pakistan. It was May 9 and Khan had just been arrested at Islamabad’s High Court on corruption charges. Although he was quickly released, the cricketer-turned-populist prime minister felt the dragnet closing.
“He told me, ‘The minute you land they're going to arrest you at the airport,’” recalls Bukhari, a former Minister of State under Khan.
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“It is something of a sentimental journey.”
— AN UNNAMED SOURCE speaking on the newly married Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine, adding a stop at Prince Edward Island during their Canadian trip in June and July because it was the setting of Anne of Green Gables. (via Vancouver Sun)
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By Sorrel Moseley-Williams
July 24, 2024 3:23 PM EDT
Where on Earth can you try your hand at beekeeping in the morning, lunch on fresh uni, then gather algae with a female-led harvesting collective as the sun sets over a legendary point break? Neglected agricultural communities throughout O’Higgins, among the most biodiverse regions in Chile, have been transformed into rural food-tourism hubs thanks to a months-old public initiative by Chile’s Foundation for Agricultural Innovation.
It was 400 years ago, “about the latter end of August,” that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula. There, Governor George Yeardley and his head of trade, Cape Merchant Abraham Piersey, bought the “20. and odd Negroes” aboard in exchange for “victuals” — meaning, they traded food for slaves.
Such a trade, as described five months after the fact in a letter to the Virginia Company of London, had never before occurred in English North America, making this an ignominious milestone — and one that 400 years later is still surrounded by misconceptions and debate.
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Thousands of people journeyed to Stonehenge on Dec. 22 to celebrate the winter solstice, an important day in the Druid belief system.
Senior Druid King Arthur Pendragon told the BBC the solstice, the shortest day of the year, represents the coming of a new sun.”This is the dawn we’ve been waiting for, this is the dawn the ancients cared about so much,” he said.
It’s a twist even more surprising than the end ofFrozen: Disney princesses may not be so bad for children after all. For years books like Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter and studies on the short-term impact of watching, playing with and dressing up as Disney princesses suggested that those fairy tales starring waifish women could have a negative impact on girls’ body image, and the more retrograde princesses—the damsels like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White who do little but wait around to be saved by princes—might reinforce antiquated ideas about women’s helplessness for girls and toxic masculinity for boys.