Today is Thursday, April 18, the 109th day of 2024.... Rock musician Les Pattinson( Echo and the Bunnymen) is 66.... Rock musician Greg Eklund( The Oolahs) is 54....

What to Read Summer Reads Fiction Picks Nonfiction Picks 2023’s Best Books August Releases Anna May Wong in 1926.... His next book, a biography of the great Chinese American actress Anna May Wong, out on Aug.... He has also written about the fictional detective Charlie Chan and about Eng and Chang Bunker, who traveled the United States in the 19th century as the original “ Siamese twins.” For each book, Huang chose a subject with a complicated, controversial legacy....

25 at a rehabilitation facility in North Bethesda, Md.... Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, who opposed civil rights measures.... “ He epitomizes the kind of citizen that makes this country great.” Advertisement In a statement after Mr....

The real chicken mystery has nothing to do with whether the egg came first.... Previous estimates of chickens reaching Europe 7, 000 years ago did not hold up.... Instead, the researchers estimate that chickens first reached Southern Europe 2, 800 years ago....

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Joan Didion, the author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely turbulent time, has died.... She was 87. Didion’s publisher Penguin Random House announced the author’s death on Wednesday.... She died from complications from Parkinson’s disease, the company said.“ Didion was one of the country’s most trenchant writers and astute observers....

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Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new stained-glass windows with themes of racial justice that will replace a set with Confederate imagery that were removed in 2017. The landmark sanctuary said in a statement that the four windows will tell “ a new and more complete ” story of the nation's racial history.... Poet Elizabeth Alexander will write a p

NEW YORK — Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal car accident, died Tuesday.... She was 91. Rivera’s death was announced by her daughter, Lisa Mordente, who said she died in New York after a brief illness. Advertisement Rivera first gained wide notice in 1957 as Anita in the original production of “ West Side Story ” and was still dancing

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