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Jazz history is recent history. Wayne Shorter, who was born only thirteen years after Charlie Parker and seven years after Miles Davis and John Coltrane, turns eighty-five today. Shorter is the greatest living jazz composer and a key participant in…
“Detective Story” Photograph from Everett The streaming service Kanopy, which is free to many library-card holders and students, has just expanded its roster to include eighty-one classic movies from Paramount, including the first Oscar winner for Best Picture, “Wings,” from…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has restored a global network of mothballed Soviet observatories to monitor near-Earth objects, according to a report by a state research institute. The document, obtained by Sputnik from Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, said observatories had been brought out of…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Elon Musk, the chief executive of the Tesla auto maker, announced Friday he wanted Tesla to remain a public company after his surprise decision to go private. “I met with Tesla’s Board of Directors yesterday and let them know…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A year of community service by migrants and refugees in Germany may raise their acceptance by locals and help them integrate, the secretary-general of the ruling conservative party said. Christian Democratic Union’s Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a possible successor…
A video posed on YouTube shows a US priest being bitten by a deadly snake as he dances and preaches while holding the venomous reptile in his hand. “I believe in the God Almighty and if he says I can hear…
