When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. Julia Bacha columbiaeasternhistory Change image and share on social
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. Harriet Van Horne broadcastflickhistory Change image and share on social
If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world. Nick Hanauer achievementafricaamazon share on social
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. Neil deGrasse Tyson applyendhistory Change image and share on social
Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg. Tim Murphy beheadingbergbombing Change image and share on social
We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers. Noreena Hertz bestsellerbookbox share on social
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. Derek Walcott beautycaribbeandissolve Change image and share on social
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. Derek Walcott abandonantilleestate Change image and share on social
My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire. Christopher Buckley allowbackhistory share on social
I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history. Colman Domingo archivebagberkeley share on social