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District of Columbia: Washington mayor wants citizens to vote on statehood Mayor Muriel Bowser called for a city-wide vote in November to make the District of Columbia the 51st state in the union Associated Press WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to give residents a chance to vote on whether the nation’s […]

Google to train 1 million Africans to boost jobs By Loni Prinsloo and Jeremy Kahn Bloomberg Google Inc. is scaling up its digital skills training programs to accommodate a million Africans in the next year, aiming to deal with high unemployment numbers on the continent. In partnership with Livity Africa, Google plans to train 300,000 […]

Dubai plans world’s tallest skyscraper, beating the Burj Khalifa The new tower will be “a notch” taller than the world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, developer says. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse Dubai is reaching for the sky once again, with the developer of the world’s tallest building vowing to build an even taller tower bedecked […]

IOC workshop gives Candidate Cities 2024 valuable insight into IBC/MPC, Olympic Village 2024 Bid Cities: Los Angeles (United States), Rome (Italy), Budapest (Hungary) and Paris (France) International Olympic Committee April 8, 2016 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday concluded a successful two-day workshop with the Candidate Cities 2024, dedicated to the Olympic Village, the International […]

Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro – Games of the XXXI Olympiad RIO DE JANEIRO 2016 OLYMPICS 5th August – 21st August Source: Rio 2016 Sustainability was the theme as the Olympic Aquatics Stadium for the Rio 2016 Games was officially unveiled on 8 April 2016. The arena for swimming and water […]

2015 World’s Busiest Airports- Release Date: April 04, 2016 ACI releases preliminary world airport traffic rankings Airports Council International (ACI) Release Date: April 04, 2016 MONTREAL – Based on reports from 1,144 airports worldwide, ACI’s preliminary passenger traffic results for the most-travelled airports in 2015 reveal that the top spot continues to belong to Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson […]

Maryland board approves $5.6-billion Purple Line light rail contract in Washington DC suburbs Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved a $5.6 billion contract Wednesday for a team of companies to build and operate a light-rail Purple Line in the Washington suburbs. Governor Larry Hogan (Republican) earlier issued his support of the rail plan. State officials […]

See updated state populations: U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population estimates July 1, 2016 –Release Date: March 23, 2017 U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population estimates July 1, 2016 –Release Date: March 23, 2017 ____ U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population July 1, 2015 estimates –Release Date: March 24, 2016 Source: U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Census Bureau population […]

China: Shanghai Disneyland is set to open on June 16, 2016 Xinhua SHANGHAI- Tickets for Shanghai Disneyland, Disney’s first theme park on the Chinese mainland, went on sale on March 28, about two and a half months ahead of the resort’s opening on June 16. Shanghai Disneyland Park, located in Chuansha New Town of Pudong […]

Historical Flashback: The power of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) Dilemma X would like to share these historical newspaper articles on the famous Tuskegee University. Tuskegee University was founded in 1881 and is located in Tuskegee, Alabama. Click images below to enlarge for better viewing. Click your return arrow to return to this Dilemma X […]