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13 hours ago · "The Sound of Silence" (originally "The Sounds of Silence") is a song by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon. The duo's studio audition of the song led to a record deal with Columbia Records, and the original acoustic version was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia's 7th Avenue Recording Studios in New York City for their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M ...
5 hours ago · In Mexico's historic presidential election season it’s down to 2 women. Voters in Mexico are likely to elect their first female president this weekend. Could that change anything for women in Mexico, which has the second highest rate of femicide in Latin America? Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.
13 hours ago · 1970 – Coup in Syria, led by Hafez al-Assad. 1971 – Military coup in Uganda led by Idi Amin. 1973 – Coup d'état in Chile on September 11th, Salvador Allende was overthrown and killed in a military attack on the presidential palace. Augusto Pinochet takes power backed by the military junta.
13 hours ago · Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. The apocalypse is also depicted in visual art, for example in Albert Goodwin 's painting Apocalypse (1903). Joseph Pennell 's 1918 prophetic Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of a bombed New York City, totally engulfed in a firestorm. At the time, the armaments available to the world's ...
8 hours ago · Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka embrace at the net after their second round match at the French Open. AP. Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka had different emotions after their second round classic at the French Open on a rain-hit Wednesday. Swiatek, the two-time defending champion, fended off a match point and came from 2-5 down in the deciding set to ...
13 hours ago · French ( français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], or by some speakers, French: [lɑ̃ŋ fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul ...
