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Painting Dante’s Epic Poem ‘The Divine Comedy’

Where are we heading—heaven or hell? Poet Dante Alighieri explores just that in his epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” which he completed around 1321, the year that he died. Dante wrote 100 cantos (sections), averaging 142 lines, for his poem that charts the journey of the pilgrim Dante through Hell to Purgatory and Paradise. The…


VIDEO: Opera Singer Surprises Customers at a Restaurant With His Impromptu Performance

A German-born opera singer is spreading his love for classical music with the masses by bursting into song from his table to the surprise of all guests while dining in different restaurants with his manager. Ricardo Marinello, 34, was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany, by a Sicilian father and a German mother. He was…


10 Tips for Looking After Your Husband at Home From a 1950s Book—#6 Could Be Controversial

Wives were taught to be water. To bring harmony to the mountain of the home, their husband, and to be the river that nurtures and forever quenches the thirst for reprieve from the darkness of the outside world. While strong husbands have always held the wolves at bay, women have, since time immemorial, held the…


Mom’s Instinct Saves Her Unborn Baby When She Doesn’t Feel Him Move for 2 Days: ‘A Huge Blessing’

A pregnant mother decided to give birth to her son three months prematurely after not feeling him move for two days. Her quick decision saved the baby’s life. After Jordyn Smith, 30, couldn’t feel her baby son, Jay, move inside her over a weekend, she rushed to the Pomona Valley Hospital, California, to get checked out….


How to Build a Great Credit Score

If you are a legal adult U.S. resident, somewhere there is a three-digit number between 300 and 850 with your name on it. Your credit score measures your creditworthiness, which is the likelihood that you will pay your bills. Establishing good credit has never been as important to your life as it is today. You…


Closing Prices for Crude Oil, Gold, and Other Commodities (June 7)

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for July delivery rose 79 cents to $72.53 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for August delivery rose 66 cents to $76.95 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for July delivery rose 8 cents $2.64 a gallon. July heating oil rose 3 cents to $2.40 a gallon. July natural gas rose 7 cents to…


How Major US Stock Indexes Fared June 7

U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close as drops for Microsoft and other big-name tech stocks overshadowed gains for much of the rest of Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4 percent Wednesday even though the majority of stocks within the index rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 91 points, or 0.3 percent, while…


Film Review: ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’

PG-13 | 1h 57m | Action, Fantasy | June 9, 2023 What I think about it is … Hold on a second. Let us pause briefly for a moment of perspective. The voiceless Bumblebee in Camaro form, with Cheetor (voiced by Tongayi Chirisa), a Maximal scout who transforms into a cheetah, in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.” (Paramount…


It’s Not a Joint Venture, It’s a Marriage

Dear Dave, When my wife and I got married, she had about $70,000 in savings and I had a lot of debt. We bought some property from her parents to build a home on, and she made a 20 percent down payment on the land from her savings. We’ve paid off some debt, and she…


The Peterson Farm Bros Welcome Viewers to Their Family Farm With Humor and Heart—and a Lot of Dancing

For Greg Peterson and his brothers, farming is just part of the family tradition. Greg and his two brothers, Nathan and Kendal, live and work on a farm in Assaria, Kansas, continuing a family tradition of five generations. They grow wheat, corn, soybeans, and a variety of forages for the cattle, of which they have…