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It may be the start of a new year, but many of the same issues and concerns will dominate the news cycle in 2025. Religion Unplugged recently highlighted our most popular stories of 2024 and the stories several religion journalists felt were their best of last year. With 2024 close to being in the […]
Brigadier General Stand Watie. “Their clergy [Catholic]blessed the flags of Confederate regiments, and their opposition to the federal regime in New Orleans was more uncompromising than that of any other group…A Richmond editor wrote, “Catholic Hierarchy of the South… were warm supporters of the Southern cause, and zealous advocates of the justice upon which this […]
The location of the new downtown stadium was once The Bottom — a Black neighborhood that was effectively erased by Urban Renewal policies. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Covenant Health Park is working with a Knoxville nonprofit to preserve parts of the community’s Black history, ensuring people understand the people and neighborhoods that preceded the baseball stadium. […]
December 30, 1999: Microsoft hits the height of its 1990s dominance and begins its early-2000s decline, clearing a gap at the top for Apple. After hitting an all-time high of $53.60, Microsoft stock starts to fall. Less than a year later, MSFT shares will fall more than 60% in value to $20. A decade of […]
The origins of the Fairy King in old Celtic lore. Stories of fairies are prominent in Irish folklore, and the belief in a fairy hierarchy, or fairy royalty, has been a popular notion for centuries. But while much has been written about the Fairy Queen (often named Titania or Queen Mab), the Fairy King is […]
The hulking robot driving into Three Mile Island is legend among Pittsburgh economic boosters. This, they say, is the origin story of how Western Pennsylvania began its robotics specialty. In the aftermath of the 1979 nuclear accident, Carnegie Mellon University’s newly founded Robotics Institute spearheaded the development of machines capable of navigating the radioactive remnants […]
Dreams on a Pillow explores a Palestinian folk story of a woman’s guilt & trauma over losing her child during the 1948 Nakba ethnic cleansing. Set during the events that displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, this game follows Omm, a young woman who also had to flee the invading Zionists. Her husband murdered, she […]
Tension with the SBC Though he identified himself as a Southern Baptist, Carter repeatedly distanced himself from the Southern Baptist Convention in later years — particularly in 2000 when he mailed a letter to 75,000 Baptists nationwide expressing opposition to the revised Baptist Faith and Message doctrinal statement. “I have seen an increasing inclination on […]
The Battle of Essling, May 1809. By Fernand Cormon. Taking place on the northern bank of the Danube River near Vienna, this confrontation was part of the War of the Fifth Coalition, wherein Austria, under the leadership of Archduke Charles, sought to challenge Napoleon’s dominance in Europe. The battle demonstrated the growing capacity of the […]
Butty Sugrue is best remembered as the man behind Muhammad Ali’s bout against Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in Dublin in 1972, but his original claim to fame was as “Ireland’s Strongest Man.” Sugrue, who was born on July 27, 1924, in the townland of Gortnascarry, four miles from Killorglin, was one of six children. His father, […]