(MANILA) — A 23-year-old dental student from France won the Miss Universe crown Monday in the annual pageant held this year in the Philippines. Iris Mittenaere from the small town of Lille in northern France said in reply to a final question from pageant host Steve Harvey that she would be honored if she just…
via Miss France Has Been Crowned Miss Universe in the Philippines — TIME
This quote from Martin Luther King, whom we celebrate on Monday, has been on my mind all week. In fact I used it the other day in a post. Today, as we head towards that particular celebration of a civil rights hero, a firestorm erupted on social media. Apparently Rep. John Lewis of Georgia had […]
President Barack Obama has issued his final weekly address. We suspect we won’t get another like the one nestled above for a long time. The message provided by the outgoing commander-in-chief was one of gratitude. (It would be a bit of a curveball if he followed up his farewell speech with a series of angry…
via President Barack Obama Offers His Thanks To You In His Final Weekly Address — Real Stories – UPROXX
Brynna SpencerYou like mixed signals and vague responses I like honesty and clear messages You like challenges and riddles I like peace and finding solutions You like to be unsure of where we stand You like to be somewhere in between You like it undefined So you can define it I like to be sure of…
edricI never thought I would ever do it. What’s the point of getting physical with someone when you know it isn’t going anywhere? Why waste time lusting over someone who frankly, doesn’t want a relationship? But of course, I fell down the rabbit hole and tried to do casual dating. I tried my hardest. I…
via The Ugly Truth About ‘Casual Relationships’ And Why I’ll Never Do It Again — Thought Catalog
For the first time in nearly six years, End of the Road faced several buckets of rain, but the Wiltshire, England, festival still brought sunny vibes with its performances. Aside from our traditional review, Nina Corcoran was able to catch up with some of the event’s performers for exclusive portraits backstage at Larmer Tree Gardens, including Broken…
via End of the Road Festival 2016: Exclusive Portraits — Consequence of Sound
Zimbabwe is set to employ a new strategy to ensuring that dozens of rhino in its national parks are protected from poachers: It is removing their sought-after horns. At least 100 rhino in state-run parks across the African country will be de-horned, a conservation group was quoted as saying by Reuters on Tuesday. “We want…
via Zimbabwe Is Removing the Horns of Its Rhino to Stop Them From Being Poached — TIME
About Your Mother’s Wedding Dress by Esther Rohm The apartment husk still holds the shape of our life gutted out, left now with only rubbish and my wedding dress. The dress hangs bereaved in the closet. I plan to forget it. (If you can lie by omission, can you steal by giving? By leaving something […]
An Irish wolfhound has given birth to what are believed to be the first identically genetic puppies in history. Veterinarian Kurt de Cramer was performing a Caesarean section on the dog in South Africa’s Rant en Dal Animal Hospital in Mogale City when he noticed that she had an unusual bulging by her uterus, the…
via First Identical Twin Puppies Have Been Born in South Africa — TIME
Adriana Velásquez1. Innate Love This is the love we are born into; it is the look in a mother’s eyes as she swaddles her child in blankets weaved of hopes for the future. This love is the most primitive in form; it is the father’s pride as his child takes his first steps. This love…
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