Sisi died after a brief illness at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso. Marufudeen Lawal, Chairman Odun chapter of the Theater Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria ( TAMPAN), said the deceased would be missed by his colleagues in the entertainment industry because of his endowed talents. Lawal said the actor’s body was brought from Ogbomoso on Friday before his internment and prayers were offered at an open field close to his house. Read More...
David Lineman, 52, stood nursing a beer at the Redneck Country Club in Stafford, Texas. On a normal weeknight, he could be found here enjoying the country band that warmed up the crowd, dedicating “Your Cheating Heart” to Donald Trump. But on Tuesday night Lineman was here for Ted Cruz, the Senator he’d worked to elect in 2012. Televisions broadcasting Fox News all over the wooden, Western-style bar had just announced that Cruz had won Texas and Lineman was jubilant, but annoyed because those same televisions were now blaring New York billionaire Donald Trump’s press conference. Read More...
Although it was a little magazine in 1872, it got a big reception. In pulpit and press, the newborn Popular Science Monthly was denounced as the devilish work of atheists and evolutionists. But blind Editor Edward Livingston Youmans, no atheist but a devout missionary from the world of science to the world of laymen, took the abuse in stride. “The work of creating science,” he wrote in Vol. I, No. 1, “has been organized for centuries. Read More...
