Glynn Simmons was convicted 48 years ago of a murder he said he did not commit and was initially sentenced to death. He was approaching 71 and a weary man struggling with serious health problems when the state of Oklahoma deemed he had not received a fair trial.
When Professor Dr Ruth Gottesman's 93-year-old husband passed away in 2022, he left behind something surprising: an inheritance worth $1 billion. Gottesman donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and directed that the money be used to pay for students' education.
Legendary actor, comedian, writer, and traveler Michael Palin, who was declared Sir by Queen Elizabeth in 2019, was a member of the much-loved Monty Python comedy troupe, which still attracts millions of people with both his television comedy shows and movies.
He was kidnapped when he was four years old and sexually abused for years! Now he fights for the weak... Antonio Salazar-Hobson did not see his family for 24 years after he was kidnapped. His desire and ideals to reunite with his mother helped him navigate a path through hell.
Saudi Arabian model Rumy Al-Qahtani competed on behalf of her country in the "Miss Mrs Global Asia" beauty contest held in Malaysia. Thus, Saudi Arabia participated in a beauty contest for the first time. The model will now compete to become Miss Universe.
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar's cult book "Gulyabani" was translated into English by Hande Eagle. So who is Gürpınar? Why is it important in Turkish literature?
The Author Who Made Russian Roulette a Habit: The author, known for his espionage novels and controversial political works, was among the authors of the 20th century with his political novels, each of which asked big moral questions. It's time to get to know the famous author, whose name is often mentioned with the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Karen Gerson Şarhon is an internationally renowned figure in the field of Sephardic culture. Şarhon, who has undertaken many important projects as the general coordinator of the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, is also the editor of the world's only monthly, entirely Ladino newspaper, El Amaneser.
Rebetiko is a type of music that reflects the love, jealousy, sadness, anger, drug and alcohol habits, in and out of prison, and forbidden love of the poorest, most neglected Greeks, and those who were at odds with social norms, from the late 19th century until about the 1950s.
When she was fifteen years old, she fell off a horse and damaged her spine, and she had enough pain that she needed morphine from time to time for the rest of her life. She devoted her time to reading and writing poetry. She was a well-known and loved poet in her thirties.
