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Holocaust Remembrance Memorial Day   Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israel dedicated its annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust to mark 70 years to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a symbol of Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II that resonates deeply in Israel to this day. At the […]

Hubble space telescope breaks record in search for farthest supernova National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago. SN Wilson belongs […]

Nigeria: Lagos Carnival 2013 Associated Press LAGOS— In Nigeria’s biggest city, a Monday morning typically sees bumper-to-bumper traffic as people struggle through heat and exhaust fumes to get to work. This Monday, however, the roads were not filled with cars, but with people celebrating the Lagos Carnival. Dancers in colorful costumes resembling those of Brazil’s […]

Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI together at Castel Gandolfo By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia Associated Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy— The two men in white embraced and showed one another the deference owed a pope in ways that surely turned Vatican protocol upside down: A reigning pope telling a retired one, “We are […]

Italian-Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first ever pope from the Americas in the history of the Catholic Christian Church, taking the papal name of Francis I IANS VATICAN CITY- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was Wednesday night elected the Catholic Church’s the 266th Pope. […]

See update: March 13, 2013 Italian-Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I- Is this really a break from the Catholic tradition of Popes? https://dilemma-x.net/2013/03/13/italian-argentinian-jorge-mario-bergoglio-becomes-pope-francis-i-is-this-really-a-break-from-the-catholic-tradition-of-popes/ _____________ The other Christian Pope: Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch -The 2 Christian worlds The Orthodox Catholic Church is the second largest Christian Church in the world As […]

U.S. honors civil rights activist Rosa Parks with statue inside the U.S. Capitol By Jeff Mason Reuters WASHINGTON – American leaders unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks on Wednesday, briefly setting aside political differences to honor the civil rights heroine, who became the first black woman to have a monument inside the U.S. Capitol. Parks’ […]

London Underground’s metro rail system has 150th anniversary   BBC News The heir to the British throne has taken a Tube with his wife the Duchess of Cornwall for the first time to celebrate London Underground’s 150th anniversary. Prince Charles and Camilla travelled one stop from Farringdon to King’s Cross on a Metropolitan line train. […]

Mardi Gras Parades 2013 Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama,  New Orleans and other  U.S. Gulf Coast cities. New Orleans Mardi Gras Parades 2013 Mardi Gras 2013 is Tuesday, February 12 Some Orleans Parish parades that would have normally been scheduled for the weekend of of February 1 and earlier have been moved back […]

Reparations: Martin Luther King Jr. , Barack Obama and America’s apology Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Poor People’s Campaign” The unfinished  dream in the 21st Century Dilemma X On January 21, 2013, at 11:55 AM Eastern Time, President Obama delivered his Second Inaugural Address from the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Monday, January 21, 2013 […]