PG | 1h 56min | Drama, Comedy | 1997 This year marks the 25th anniversary of Roberto Benigni’s classic, “Life is Beautiful,” (1997) which won three Oscars (Best Actor, Foreign Language Film, and Score). This tragi-comedy is about an early 20th-century Italian-Jewish waiter, a Chaplinesque Guido (Roberto Benigni who writes, acts in, and directs the…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Life is Beautiful’: A Fable of Love and Truth
July 20, 2022
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Wilderness Photographer Creates Rather Than Captures a Sense of Place
Writer Henry David Thoreau said, “We can never have enough of nature,” and landscape photographer Erin Babnik delivers on that sentiment through her painstakingly captured images. Babnik hails from California, but she and her camera equipment travel all over the United States and the world with the goal of recording every jot and tittle of…
Italy Thwarts Illegal Auction Abroad of Gentileschi Painting
ROME—Italy’s art squad police said Tuesday they have thwarted the potential illegal sale by a Vienna auction house of a 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, a celebrated Baroque artist. Carabinieri police said that art merchants had allegedly described the work as being painted by a follower of Gentileschi, and not the artist herself, to fraudulently…
Mencius: The Ancient Chinese Philosopher Who Made a Powerful Case for Limited Government
A very long time ago, a Chinese scholar wrote, “The people are the most important element in a nation; the land and grain come next; the sovereign counts for the least.” That sovereign, moreover, should rule by the consent of those he governs, and if he’s a tyrant, the governed have every right to get…
Page-Turners Transport Young Readers to Distant Lands
Whether or not your summer plans include vacations and traveling, escaping into a book is another way to enjoy the adventures of a journey. These exciting stories transport readers to distant lands, making them perfect to bring along on a road trip or to read instead of embarking on one yourself! “The Horse and His…
O’ Henry’s ‘A Newspaper Story’: The Power of the Press
July 19, 2022
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The press connects us to a community we don’t often acknowledge. It enables us to look beyond our own individual lives to notice the lives and actions of those around us. O’ Henry’s short story, “A Newspaper Story,” shows how a newspaper on a certain day has a power beyond its printed pages to do…
The Las Lajas Sanctuary: Gothic Revival Meets Local Legend
Inside the canyon of the Guáitara River in Colombia, South America, rests a breathtaking example of Gothic revival architecture: the Las Lajas Sanctuary. This popular spiritual destination celebrates the reputed appearance of the Virgin Mary at the site. In 1754, a woman named Maria Muneses de Quiñones and her mute-deaf daughter Rosa were caught in…
American Singer-Songwriter Warns of the Evils of Communism: ‘Our Civil Liberties Are God-Given’
July 19, 2022
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Singer-songwriter and human-rights activist James H. White, living in Mount Hope, New York, has been working tirelessly for the past 15-plus years to expose “the evils of communism.” White, who believes communism is “a hard fist, brutal tyranny,” has co-written, hosted, and narrated the award-winning documentary Canaries in a Cold War, which reveals how communist…
How Robert E. Lee and Booker T. Washington Became Educators Dedicated to Rebuilding a War-Torn America
If we slip back in time to the late 1860s, we find an America torn apart by war and suffering. In the spring of 1865, the North had defeated the Southern Confederacy. Less than a week after Confederate forces surrendered at Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln, whose policies might have changed the course of American history following…
A Ride to Rival Paul Revere: Meet the Father and Daughter Duo Who Aided America’s Victory in the Revolutionary War
In the early years of the American Revolution, after the British evacuated Boston and took control of New York, the area encompassing historical Westchester and Dutchess counties in lower New York Colony became a uniquely dangerous zone, particularly for residents. The little region wedged between Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and farther to…
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