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The colorful West Indian Day Parade wound through the streets of Brooklyn Monday. Monday’s procession was part of the West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival, which is in its 47th year. Emmanuel Pierre (right) and others in Monday’s parade. The celebration typically draws about 1 million people. Last year, organizers said it was the “largest cultural festival ...
Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya is one of the women featured on Jason Porath's blog Rejected Princesses. Oktyabrskaya was the first female tanker to ever win the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Many of us have come to know the tales of Disney's princesses by heart. But put Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel aside for a ...
Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande are among the high-profile celebrities who apparently fell victim to a massive alleged iCloud hack late Sunday night, when someone exposed collections of nude photos that they had purportedly saved on their Apple devices. What iPhone owners might not realize is that they may have already told Apple to back up all of your photos on its iCloud servers. It's easy enough to enable the "My Photo Stream" ...
Researchers asked 4-year-olds to draw a child. Here's a sample of their artwork. Twins Early Development Study/King's College in London hide caption At age 4, many young children are just beginning to explore their artistic style. The kid I used to babysit in high school preferred self-portraits, undoubtedly inspired by the later ...
A robot, controlled from afar, moves in for a closer look. Alexey Moskvin/Tate Britain There are four robots roaming around the Tate Britain museum in London. Since Wednesday night, they've been roving the halls after hours, streaming video to the world as part of the After Dark project. As the robots move ...