The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole… — Pihla Viitala Copy Share Image
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of… — John Edwards Copy Share Image
Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the… — Yukiya Amano Copy Share Image
Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to… — Robert McFarlane Copy Share Image
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it.… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I haven't lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in… — Kelsey Chow Copy Share Image
Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief… — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To… — James Spithill Copy Share Image
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal,… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery;… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community -… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when… — Ryne Sandberg Copy Share Image
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
