#Northern Ireland

Author: Graeme McMillan / Source: WIRED Congrats, you survived another week! And this last one was a helluva week to witness. As measles made an unwelcome comeback, Ann Coulter suggested she’d vote for Bernie Sanders, a journalist got killed during a riot in Northern Ireland, and scientists got

Source: Good News Network 50 years ago today, Glen Campbell’s album ‘Wichita Lineman’ hit #1 on the US album chart. The inspiration for that title song’s lyrics came to Jimmy Webb while he was driving through Washita County, Oklahoma. He was observing “an endless litany of telephone poles, each

Author: Hidreley / Source: Bored Panda There is something wonderful about visiting castles. As you walk through the ruins, your imagination begins to fill in the blanks about the people who lived there, the history of the place and the architectural details that have been lost. But what if you

Author: Lynn Neary / Source: NPR.org For the first time, a writer from Northern Ireland has won the prestigious Man Booker Award. The prize, given to works of fiction written in English and published in the U.K., was announced at a ceremony Tuesday evening in London. The winner, Anna Burns, drew

Source: Good News Network 175 years ago today, Henry Jones and 11 others founded B’nai B’rith in New York City—the oldest Jewish service organization in the world. The new group’s constitution called for: “Visiting and attending the sick” and “protecting and assisting the widow and the orphan.”