Bruce "The Boss" Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer and songwriter born on September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Springsteen was born to Douglas Frederick Springsteen, a bus driver of Irish and Dutch ancestry, and Adele Ann Serilli, a legal secretary of Italian descent....
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions across the globe. More than 1 billion adults are overweight with 300 million labeled clinically obese. An alarming 22 million children around the world under the age of five are estimated to be overweight. Of even greater concern is the fact that these...
Ford and General Motors sales are on the rise. February has consistently been one of the worst automobile sales months in history yet both companies saw huge gains in sales. Sales rose 32% for General Motors and 43% for Ford in comparison to February 2009 sales. Ford even saw "higher sales for...
Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, the price of Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil rose $4.59 to $100.01 dollars per barrel, with Nomura Securities predicting a "worst case scenario" rise in prices to $220 dollars per barrel. Today's rise of crude prices to over $100 per barrel exceeds...
Brad Pitt used harsh words for those responsible for the oil spill that devastated the Gulf Coast for more than four months, PopCrunch.com reports.The Oscar-nominated actor says he was against the death penalty before the crisis but he is now “willing to look at it again” after bearing witness to...
Robin Williams has been cast as Dr. Hugo Strange in the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. The fifty nine year old comedian's role in the next Batman film was confirmed via a Tweet made at Batman On Film. The Twitter post read: "RW as Strange? Hmmm..." Williams is set to portray a...
Marriage in the United States is fast becoming obsolete per results from a TIME magazine and Pew Research Center survey. Researchers conducted a nationwide poll on the issue of matrimony requiring respondents to identify their expectations regarding marriage, state why they enter committed...
Martin Luther King Speech - Beyond Vietnam Martin Luther King Speech Beyond VietnamNew York, N.Y.4 April 1967 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you expressing your concern about the issues...
Black History Month is the annual remembrance of the events and individuals in the history of African diaspora beyond their traditional homeland. The United States and Canada have celebrated Black History Month every February since its inception in 1976, with the United Kingdom recognizing Black...
