Tag: Anniversaries & Celebrations
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
A year ago this Friday, Minnesota's I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed. Now a report released by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials says nearly a quarter of all bridges are in need of serious repair or should just be replaced altogether. With the need identified, who can pay for the repairs?
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Takeaway talks with Marvin Miller, a father of the modern era of baseball. Miller took unorganized and underpaid players and convinced them that they, not the owners, are "the game." Baseball greats Tom Seaver and Joe Morgan have called his exclusion from the owner-driven Hall of Fame a "disgrace."
Monday, July 28, 2008
By
Kent DePinto
Seventy-five years ago, on July 28, 1933, Sheila Barrett became the first woman to make a national broadcast on BBC Radio. The anniversary got us here at the Takeaway thinking, how have American women shaped the tone and distinction of the radio waves?
Friday, July 25, 2008
John Fox is the most wanted person at the FBI this week. Not because he's a criminal, but because July 26, 2008, is the 100th anniversary of the FBI and he's the Bureau's only historian. If it happened in the FBI, Fox knows about it.
Friday, July 25, 2008
This year marks the Los Angeles Dodgers' 50th anniversary in the City of Angels. The architect of the team's move from Brooklyn, Walter O’Malley, will be inducted, posthumously, into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend. New York writer Pete Hamill said O’Malley was the only man Brooklynites hated more than Hitler.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The 500th issue of The Uncanny X-Men goes on sale this week, 45 years after Stan Lee and Jack Kirby debuted the mutants Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Happy Birthday, Big Mac. The McDonald’s signature burger turns 40 this year and the company has asked MySpace users for their own take on the iconic song. The Takeaway talks about the different ways you can sing two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Also online, view
video of classic food jingles.
Friday, July 18, 2008
As South Africa gears up to toast its favorite citizen, Nelson Mandela, The Takeaway celebrates the former president and anti-apartheid icon on his 90th birthday.
Friday, July 18, 2008
By
David Wall Rice : Takeaway Contributor
The thing I remember most vividly about beginning my internship at TransAfrica Forum, the foreign policy lobbyist group founded in 1977 to pressure the U.S. Government to do right by Africa and the African Diaspora, was that I didn't want to be there.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Guest: Michael Hiskey, chemical engineer and co-owner of DMD Systems
Friday, July 04, 2008
Every Friday morning, people from many nations walk into a courthouse in downtown New York City and walk out some hours later as newly minted American citizens. The Takeaway spoke with four new Americans after their naturalization ceremonies at New York City's Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse about what it means to be a citizen.
Friday, July 04, 2008
While today’s Fourth of July will remind many of us of what it means to be an American, for a handful, the national holiday will pay tribute to only one of several citizenships. More and more Americans are electing to obtain dual citizenship derived from their European ancestry.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Americans have widely varying interpretations of the Fourth of July. For some, it’s a day off from work. For others, it’s a sacred day, commemorating the American colonies declaration of independence from England. In one of his famous moments of oratory, former slave Frederick Douglass offered another take: "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” The July 5, 1852, speech was called "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro."
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Sixty-one years ago today, a ranch foreman named Mack Brazel went for a walk near his sheep ranch in Roswell, N.M., and nothing was ever the same. The Takeaway celebrates World UFO Day using historical tape and film clips to look at how pop culture grabbed on to the UFO craze and never let go.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Friday marks the fifth anniversary of a law responsible for recovering some peace and quiet in your life: The National Do Not Call Registry. The Takeaway listens to what we've been missing.
