Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis March 4, 1952 Their relationship was the subject of 1950’s gossip columns, but then-actors Nancy Davis and Ronald Reagan chose a quiet ceremony at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley when it came time to wed. Nancy’s ensemble is now on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential […]
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White House: State Dinner Crashers Meet Obama
WASHINGTON – A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a “deeply concerned and embarrassed” Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list. The White House released a photo […]
Things You Might Be Saying Wrong
24 Things You Might Be Saying Wrong The Reader’s Digest Version of all those confusing words and seemingly random rules you missed in English class. You never mean: Could care less You always mean: Couldn’t care less Why: You want to say you care so little already that you couldn’t possibly care any less. When […]
Search for the Guggenheim Treasure
Loot valued at $20 million lies off the coast of Staten Island, and Ken Hayes is on the hunt for the sunken silver bullion Among the old-timers casting for stripers along the Arthur Kill between Staten Island and New Jersey talk tends to return to a few well-thumbed topics. The most intriguing of these is […]
10 Things Your Cruise Line Won’t Tell You
1. “Our Engines Break Down All the Time.” In December 2009, engine problems caused the Regent’s Seven Seas Voyager to skip a scheduled port stop in Antigua, and instead head straight to San Juan for the engine to be repaired. And a propulsion issue on Carnival’s 2,124-passenger Legend ship last week affected its sailing speed, […]
Things Kate Can’t Do
Just one generation ago someone like Kate Middleton would have been zapped for getting too close to the British Royal family. So when Clarence House relaxed their stun guns and let their future king propose to a ‘commoner’, Britain awoke in a postmodern-like daze where realities became relative and class boundaries blurred. The only problem […]
Flash drive behind major cyber-attack
Military Computer Attack Confirmed A top Pentagon official has confirmed a previously classified incident that he describes as “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever,†a 2008 episode in which a foreign intelligence agent used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in […]
Can foreigners buy U.S. citizenship?
American / U.S. Citizenship For Sale ? Every day investors around the world choose to put their hard-earned cash into the U.S. Billions of dollars flow in the form of foreign direct investment, as when a group of Brazilians bought Burger King, and foreigners purchase hundreds of billions of U.S. stocks and bonds, as measured […]