The US Stock Exchange’s yesterday set the day off to be held on Memorial Day. The S & P 500 closed the worst moth May since 1962, with a drop of 8.20%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones closed its worst May since 1940, with a cut of 7.92%. And all for the European crisis. Indeed, the [...]
The NCAA baseball tournament 2010 brackets have been revealed this morning. The national top eight seeds are Arizona St. (47-8), Texas (46-11), Florida (42-15), Coastal Carolina (51-7), Virginia (47-11), UCLA (43-13), Louisville (48-12) and Georgia Tech (45-13). Each of the 16 regionals features four teams, playing a double-elimination format. The regionals are scheduled to be [...]
Canadian fires: The cities of Montreal and Ottawa in Canada, and Boston in the United States, were on alert Monday for the arrival of smoke from the Quebec wildfires, as authorities announced in the two countries. The smell of burning was clearly visible on Monday morning in the streets of Montreal and Ottawa. Thousands of [...]
BP will make a third consecutive attempt to contain the oil spill that has turned into one of the biggest environmental disasters in history. The two previous attempts were unsuccessful and the method that BP plans to use this time around could actually make things a little bit worse before they get better. The plan [...]
The UN Security Council will have a meeting in which it will discuss an Israeli air raid that has had an aid boat as its target. The raid took place early on Monday, when Israeli commandos attacked vessels that were bringing various help items to the Gaza strip. These were taken by surprise and didn’t [...]
The best and most touching Memorial Day Poems. Fold him in his country’s stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly? - George Henry Boker The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives [...]
Memorial Day is that special day when we remember our veterans, the US soldiers who died for our freedom. And to honor their sacrifice many Americans will fly or display flags. The American Flag is a symbol of freedom, justice, liberty and equality. There are a set regulations, called The Flag Code, which must be [...]
Vice President Biden was the one who paid homage to the unknown American fallen war heroes on Monday at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President Obama planned to offer his respect to the ones who paid with their lives for the American way of life but he was trapped by torrential rain. Vice President [...]
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has released the first official video of ambushing of the Freedom Flotilla. It shows the activists hitting Israeli soldiers with metal objects and pushing them around. The IDF spokesperson has declared that soldiers have used only riot dispersal methods but later they had to use lethal force. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s [...]
Today, May 31, we celebrate the one who gave their life for our freedom. Today we celebrate Memorial Day 2010. Below you can read some of the most remembered and the best Memorial Day quotes to share the joy of this celebration and to pay the respect to those gone long time ago. You can [...]