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The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.

The FBI is investigating a spate of racist text messages targeting Black Americans in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory last week. The texts were reported in states including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, addressing recipients as young as 13 by name and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and other messages referencing slavery. For more, we speak with Robert Greene II, a history professor at Claflin University, South Carolina’s first and oldest historically Black university in Orangeburg, ... continua

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As the Trump administration launches what it touts as the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history, we look at how immigrant communities and advocates are fighting back. The administration already faces some setbacks, including in its attempt to end birthright citizenship, which a federal judge halted Thursday from going into effect because it was “blatantly unconstitutional.” Thursday’s ruling is the first in what’s expected to be a long legal battle against Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. “We’re in a moment where there’s a ton of fear in the ... continua

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Lecture "Renaissance: revival or innovation", given by Peter Burke (emeritus history professor, University of Cambridge) on the 30th of November 2021. It is part of the series of conferences Francisco Calvo Serraller "Spring of Art. The Renaissance in 15th Century Europe", organized by Fundación de Amigos del Museo del Prado.
"Spring of Art. The Renaissance in 15th Century Europe"
The explosion of creativity in all areas of culture that the Renaissance produced made the 15th century one of the most fascinating moments in the history of European civilization. In ... continua

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Can we tell true memories from false ones? For decades, Elisabeth Loftus has studied how memories of events that never happened are formed, and she has invented techniques to create them from scratch. But false memories have real consequences, and can change how we think and behave. What do these false memories tell us about the nature of memory itself? Speaker: Elizabeth Loftus, University of California, Irvine Moderates: Nicola Quadri, BergamoScienza Association Special thanks to Vita-Salute San Raffaele Università of Milano

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Una semplice segretaria lavora per un avvocato divorzista donnaiolo che frequenta solo donne sposate. Per evitare di dover affrontare i problemi matrimoniali di una delle sue potenziali amanti, le offre un sostegno finanziario se lei lo sposa solo di nome.

Since October 2023, Israel has killed over 3,700 people in Lebanon, with most of the deaths occurring over the past 10 weeks. The attacks have forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes in Lebanon, where Israel has also repeatedly targeted journalists. In a new report, Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing an apparent war crime by killing three journalists and injuring four others last month, when it bombed the Hasbaya Village Resort in southern Lebanon, where more than a dozen journalists had been staying. The attack killed Ghassan Najjar and ... continua

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Lecture "Familiarity and distance: the artistic relationship of Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini", given by Caroline Campbell (Director of Collections and Research and Curator of Italian Painting before 1500, The National Gallery, London) on 15 February 2022. Form part of the Francisco Calvo Serraller Lecture Series "The Spring of Art. The Renaissance in 15th Century Europe", organized by the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation.
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As the war on Gaza spans a second year, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. “It was revelatory,” says Coates. “I don’t think the average American has a real sense of what we’re doing over there — and I emphasize 'what we're doing’ because it’s not possible without American support.”

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J. Effingham Bellweather gioca a golf nonostante le numerose battute d'arresto.