December 12, 2019 at 9:14 pm
In Memory: 10 Things About Caroll Spinney, the Master Puppeteer Behind Big Bird
He voiced and operated Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch over 5 decades
He voiced and operated Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch over 5 decades
There’s no place like home
A powerful memorial in Clayton County, Georgia’s village of Rex tells a story of hope
“My Grandmother’s handmade quilts draped over the pews at her funeral. She made over 100 for every special occasion. Before she passed, she made four more, one for each of her unmarried grandchildren to be given to us on our wedding days.”
For 7 years he returned to the same spot every day where his owners’ car crashed
In Flanders fields the poppies blow; Between the crosses, row on row
Even before his unfortunate passing last week, Leonard Nimoy has been receiving tributes by Canadian Trekkies in the form of currency doodles. Years ago someone noticed that with a few strokes of the pen, Sir Wilfrid Laurier—7th Prime Minister of Canada and face of the $5 bill—looked remarkably similar to Spock. Ever since, people…
On Nov. 11 at 11:11 am, the sun’s rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States.
In this powerful photograph by Kevin Wolf, we see a lone figure knelt at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C.
To mark Peace Day on September 21 2013, Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss, two artists from Bradford, England, set out with hundreds of volunteers to commemorate the 9000 civilians, Allies and German forces lost on D-Day, June 6 1944. The Fallen project took place at Arromanches, a French tourist town that lies along the…
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