All posts tagged "Columbus"

President Donald Trump boasted that he single-handedly revived a polarizing figure from American history while pitching himself to a key voting bloc.

Addressing several hundred Italian Americans in the White House East Room on Friday, Trump took credit for restoring the reputation of Christopher Columbus, The New York Times reported.

"The reason I get all of the Italian vote, I really believe. I didn't do it for this reason. I resurrected him," Trump said, adding that the explorer has "been rehabbed 100 percent."...

Scotty, the chief engineer on the fictional U.S.S. Enterprise who was always scrambling to heed the cry, “Beam me up, Scotty!” has been transported himself. The ashes of James Doohan, the actor who portrayed the original “Star Trek” character Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, have been interred for a dozen years on the International Space Station (ISS). And on Monday, the backstory of how they came to be there was revealed in full. Doohan died in July 2005 at age 85, though his character would not be born until the 23rd century. Portions of the actor’s ashes had previously been launched into space of......

Every neighborhood tells a story. In Greenwich Village, it’s one of artists, activists, and the avant-garde. On the Upper East Side, it’s about privilege, position, and power. Sometimes neighborhoods change and tell new tales. But the old stories, the lore, remain. Jim Mackin’s “Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side” collects nearly 600 of them. And they reveal an Upper West Side character that’s lasted for a century – intellectual, political, diverse. During Colonial days, the area was farmland. But by the late 1800s, New York was growing, and New Yorkers needed space. Smart real......

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump will return to Georgia for a runoff eve rally to campaign for the Republican U.S. Senate candidates even as he continues to fume at the state's GOP leaders for refusing to overturn the election results. The president said on Twitter late Saturday that he would stage a "big Rally" for U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on Jan. 4, a day before twin runoffs against Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for control of the U.S. Senate and the fate of President-elect Joe Biden's legislative agenda. It's not clear where the rally will be held, though Republ......