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U.S. Olympic Committee selects Boston as Applicant City for 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games BY UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE DENVER – Boston will represent the United States in its bid for the opportunity to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the United States Olympic Committee announced today. The decision followed a spirited discussion and […]

A journey from New York City to San Francisco by bike- view his journey On May 17, 2014, Dwayne Burgess, photographer and cyclist, set out a trip across the United States by bicycle. He rode a total of 3000 miles completed in 75 days. Along the way he documented the contours of the country using […]

Cuba: Afro-Cubans could gain from new trade relations with the U.S.  A brief history of Black Cubans President Obama moves to undo the 54-year-old United States trade embargo against Cuba, using broad executive power to lift restrictions on travel, commerce and financial activities. The U.S. Census Bureau reports there are 2,013,155 Cuban-Americans (2013). The majority of Cubans who […]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover finds clues to how water helped shape Martian landscape NASA News Release December 8, 2014 Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained […]

The season of blackface, in parts of Europe, returns- Zwarte Piet Black Pete Racist? ‘Zwarte Piet’ Controversy Leads To 90 Arrests In Netherlands By Howard Koplowitz International Business Times Protesters disrupted a pre-Christmas celebration Saturday in the Netherlands that uses “Black Petes” to accompany St. Nicholas, leading to 90 arrests in the Dutch town of […]

Comet landing: Philae detects organic molecules on the surface of comet By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed. Carbon-containing “organics” are the basis of life on Earth and may give clues to chemical ingredients delivered to our planet early in […]

European Space Agency lands Rosetta’s Philae probe on comet European Space Agency ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful […]

Brazil: IOC Coordination Commission leaves Rio de Janeiro satisfied with progress October 10, 2014 Source: IOC | International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission brought to a close its seventh visit (29 September to 1 October) to the South American host city today: it follows a successful winter here for Brazil and […]

Paris: Eiffel Tower gets glass floor for 125th anniversary AFP A much-anticipated facelift of the Eiffel Tower will be unveiled Monday with a new glass floor to dizzy the millions of tourists who flock to Paris’s best-known landmark every year. Its owners hope the formerly dowdy and draughty first floor will become as big an […]

NASA’s newest Mars mission spacecraft enters orbit around red planet NASA news release NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere as never done before. MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to […]