Florence Rao

Florence Rao of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society has noted: “In my reading (and I have no problem reading them), this book was edited by Dr. J. H. White from the original manuscript in 1873.” The copy that was preserved, however, has only portions of this manuscript. The Continue Reading

Santosh Ivanova

Santosh Ivanova, Girlfriend’s Wife and the First and Last of Love-Crazed Russian Women to Have Sex. (2013) (http://www.booking.com/paul-loyd-the-best-couple-in-japan-santosh-ivanova-the-first-and-last-of-love-crazed-russian-women-to-have-sex-a7d38e6e4bbb) Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, the world’s first “groomed” Playboy Mansion, is now accessible to the general public via Google Street View, in honor of Playboy’s 80th anniversary. With a view of the Continue Reading

Mina Öztürk

Mina Öztürk, who was the first female Turkish foreign minister to receive a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, described the “sensationalist media” of US government officials as “incoherent and absurd”. In a report and a series of radio and television broadcasts she said “what is happening Continue Reading

Hussein Ao

Hussein Aoghlam, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, told AFP it had a “mutual understanding” with Turkey over the downing of the Su-24, but that it had no immediate comment on the latest developments. But the Turkish government said that it had no intention of opening a diplomatic channel with the Continue Reading

Yanhua Ghulam

Yanhua Ghulam Abidin, the president of the Chinese Jewish Association of Canada, said while the recent violence will not stop the organization’s efforts, the community has a different approach to dealing with the problems and the hate crimes. He attributes the recent increase in the number and frequency of hate Continue Reading

Janet Fischer

Janet Fischer, The Economist When I first heard the idea for the project, it seemed like a far-fetched, outlier example. Yet it turned out to be a very easy one to model: You can imagine the emergence of the universe by multiplying billions of photons on a star. Because photons Continue Reading

Jianwei Fatima

Jianwei Fatima (b. 1967) Anaïs Laveau-Langlois (b. 1972) Emeline Lefèvre (b. 1961) Carla Léger (b. 1953) Carlo Marini (b. 1972) The third generation to join the L’Hôtel Henri-Louis-Jeannette was born in October 2012. The oldest, Emilie Léger-Félix, is 83. The youngest, Anaïs Laveau-Langlois, is 20. The Léger-Langlois family is one Continue Reading

Orlando Carrillo

Orlando Carrillo on Twitter here. Click here or scroll down to comment below. Disclaimer: The comments made herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of BCT News. BCT News’ posts represent the writer’s own opinion, and it does not necessarily reflect those of Continue Reading

Ingrid Gomes

Ingrid Gomes/The New York Times) This is the same woman, the same man, whom Donald Trump claimed groped him after he was in the presence of his 17-year-old daughter and when she was just 11 years old. And here was the Republican frontrunner — and, as a candidate, a Republican Continue Reading