Most of us know him as an overnight celebrity who landed on stardom by winning a televised talent show in Britain. His name is Paul Potts, born in 1971 to a father who is a bus driver, and a mother who is a supermarket cashier. His early life was full of
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Last week, North Korea’s current dictator Kim Jong-il selected his son Kim Jong-un as his successor. Kim Jong-un is the youngest among the 67-year-old leader’s three sons. The North’s next leader is 26 years old and was born from Kim Jong-il’s third m
On May 23, U.S. President Barack Obama named the first African-American to head NASA, the nation’s space agency. General Charles Bolden is to be Administrator of NASA. Bolden holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis a
Last Saturday, a Canadian pianist named Gonzales started playing the piano at the Cine Theatre in Paris at midnight and finished his solo concert at about 3 a.m. last Monday (May 18). The 37-year-old musician broke the world record for the longest solo co
An exhibit featuring John Lennon, one of the founding members of the legendary boy band the Beatles, has opened in New York. His wife, Yoko Ono, decided to display Lennon’s guitars, piano, handwritten lyrics, letters, T-shirts, posthumous 1981 Grammy Awa
Karl Marx once said, “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” According to Noam Chomsky in his 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, it’s no longer religion, but the media that is the modern opiate of the masses. With the adoption of neo-liberal policies in
A plain-looking middle aged Scottish woman recently created a sensation not only in England but also all over the world. Her name is Susan Boyle. The 47-year-old spinster with tangled hair and bushy eyebrows has captivated millions of people’s hearts wit
Last Monday, African-American playwright Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for her play Ruined. It is a co-production between New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club and Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. The story is about the harrowing life of black women during
This week, let’s look into the life and works of Daniel Defoe, the father of English literature. Perhaps the name Defoe rings a few bells. Yes, this is the man responsible for the amazing story of “Robinson Crusoe.” Let’s find out why this satirist an
Born in England, Winston Churchill was an admired politician of his time. It would be fair to argue that he is undoubtedly one of the most influential people of the century. Although his policies and views didn’t appeal to the masses, he was the leader w
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