Stalingrad

Jimmy Cobb, legendary jazz drummer and member of Miles Davis’ First Great Sextet, died Sunday at his Manhattan home of lung cancer, NPR reported. He was 91. Cobb, who was with Davis’ group for almost three decades, was best known for his work on Davis’ landmark 1959 album “Kind of…

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YouTube/ Miss Universe New Zealand Former Miss Universe New Zealand finalist Amber-Lee Friis has died, her agent in Auckland shared on Facebook earlier this week. She was 23. “It is with immense sadness we acknowledge the sudden passing of a beautiful and talented Wahine Amber-lee Friis,” The Talent Tree wrote of…

Authored by Israel Shamir via The Unz Review, I like conspiracy theories; they attempt to inject meaning into otherwise meaningless sets of assorted facts. They bring Logos into our life, as our friend E. Michael Jones would say. An enemy of conspiracy theories would write in the New York Timesdenouncing Sir…

Jerry Sloan, the long-time head coach of the Utah Jazz and a former NBA player for the Chicago Bulls, has died. He was 78. The Utah Jazz said in a statement that Sloan died Friday morning from complications from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. “Jerry Sloan will always be…

Late in the evening of June 25, 1950 U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was at his Maryland farmhouse reading when a call arrived to inform him of a serious situation in the Far East. He telephoned President Harry S Truman at the latter’s Independence, Mo. home that same Saturday…

Warning: Spoilers follow for the first season finale of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.” ABC’s musical-dating competition series “Listen to Your Heart” has crowned its winning couple — congrats to Bri and Chris! The first season finale of the “Bachelor” spinoff, which finds single musicians coupling up for…

Key point: Shockingly enough this ace lived on after the war. Here is what happened to him. By May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler had been dead for more than a week. Germany was in the act of formally surrendering to the Soviets and the Western Allies, so occupying Red Army troops…

Tighten the seatbeltsThe year 2001 saw the release of a gripping war movie, Enemy at the Gates. Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War, it is a story of two skilful snipers who are grittily engaged in a…

Paul O’Connell reckons more seasoned players will reap the biggest benefits from this extended break. Players in their late 20s and 30s, who’ve been on the treadmill for years, will come back particularly refreshed and revived. But it could have its plus side for some of the relatively younger generation…