Naomi Sims (1948) Often considered the first black supermodel, Sims was teased as an adolescent for her unusual height. While attending college, she attempted to earn money by securing modeling work but was frustrated by the racism of established agencies. […]

Washington, D.C.– The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend its regulations to allow the importation of fresh pummelo fruit from Thailand into the continental United States. After analyzing the potential plant […]

Leave Storm-Related Tree Work to Professionals “What’s this? Another tree/branch/large shrub in my yard that wasn’t there before the storm? I better gas up my brother’s old chain saw and go cut it up. Stop! Just don’t. Yet another storm […]

Sam Walton (1918) Born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri during the Great Depression, Walton opened his first five-and-dime franchise in Arkansas in 1945. Seventeen years later, he opened his first Wal-Mart and began developing the Wal-Mart company into a […]

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Chairman Crowley Leads Effort to  Include $325 Million for Working Families in Government Funding Bill (Queens, NY) – Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Joe Crowley (D-NY) announced today his request for more than $325 million in federal funding for […]

Stoicism Definition: (noun) An indifference to pleasure or pain. Synonyms: Stolidness Usage: With the stoicism of the brutes who had raised him he endured his suffering quietly.

Henry Schoolcraft (1793) Schoolcraft was a geologist, geographer, and ethnologist noted for his studies of Native American cultures as well as for his discovery of the source of the Mississippi River in 1832. His extensive relations with Native Americans—including his […]

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss … What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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NCGS and Girls Prep Announce Billie Jean King to Appear at the Global Forum on Girls’ Education® II Billie Jean King to be Interviewed in Front of Global Audience About Importance of Girls’ Education NEW YORK, NY — On Wednesday, June 20, […]