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- [Emily] Ethereal and fleeting, mesmerizing and elusive, these floating blue flames have been a mainstay in European folklore since at least the 14th century. You may have heard of the name will-o'-the-wisp, but do you know what it is? Stories of sentient blue flames floating, and bouncing across marshes and bogs, permeate cultures from Northern Europe to Australia. While some stories have faded into ephemera, just as the floating blue flames that inspired them, these elusive creatures remain mainstays of myth, and legend in pockets across the globe.

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song is a moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, that traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power.

COPENHAGEN, N.Y. — On a good day, a fair wind blows off Lake Ontario, the long-distance transmission lines of New York state are not clogged up and yet another heat wave hasn’t pushed the urban utilities to their limits. On such a day, power from the two big wind turbines in Vaughn Moser’s hayfield in this little village join the great flow of electricity from upstate as it courses through the bottleneck west of Albany and then heads south, where some portion of it feeds what is currently the country’s largest electric vehicle charging station, on the edge of Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

Hear round-the-clock presentations today and tomorrow  about President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination where it happened.  Ford’s Theatre is hosting a one-act play, ranger lectures and first-person accounts of what it was like to be there the night Lincoln was shot. On Wednesday, Ford’s will lay a wreath at precisely 7:22 a.m., marking the moment the president died. Bells will toll across the city, as they did in 1865. The last words Lincoln heard were from the stage during the play “Our American Cousin.

Unexpected alum Tyra Boisseau is selling access to her new baby boy. The now mother of two is making sure that she does all that she can to monetize off of her personal life. This includes her newborn baby boy. So, what exactly is she doing and why does it have followers up in arms? Read on for more details. Unexpected Tyra Boisseau Sells Access To Her New BabyBack in March, fans were curious as to where Tyra Boisseau had been.

Crunchy Black joined Da Mafia 6ix in 2013, a Three 6 Mafia revival group that also included DJ Paul, Lord Infamous, Koopsta Knicca, and Gangsta Boo. Crunchy made significant contributions to the Gold albums Da Unbreakables and Chapter 2: World Domination with Three 6 Mafia as well as the Platinum albums When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1, and Most Known Unknown. Crunchy is well-known for his g-walking, which he claims he first did in Memphis clubs but acknowledges wasn’t his idea.

Explore More Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, may have been born in a humble shack in Memphis, Tennessee — but her legacy extended far beyond that. Before her death in August 2018, she became the owner of several magnificent homes, one of which has recently found new occupants. Located at 18261 Hamilton Road in Detroit, this historic mansion had remained empty for years, though the property remained privately owned.

NEW YORK — Growing up in Hawaii, Bette Midler had no idea what she looked like. “None,” she says. It’s a stunning admission from someone so magnetically present, who has devoted so much talent and energy over the years to pushing outsize versions of herself to center stage. This is the Divine Miss M talking, after all! The erstwhile darling of the Continental Baths, the bawdy headliner of “The Clams on the Half Shell Revue,” the woman behind Dolores De Lago, the toast of Chicago!

Burnley manager Vincent Kompany says the Clarets have had a 2023 "filled with the type of experiences you want to have in your life" despite their difficult first half of the Premier League season. Kompany guided the club to the Championship title in May, finishing with 101 points in his first season managing in English football. "Sometimes I forget to reflect," he said in his news conference before Saturday's visit to Aston Villa.