The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating 100 years of Irish independence with a three-week festival featuring more than 50 performances and the participation of more
If you want to see what gentrification looks like in Washington in 2016, take a ride over to the intersection of Florida Avenue and 5th Street in Northeast. There, on
Languages Danish French Korean Dutch Hindi Mandarin English Italian Spanish Farsi Japanese Danish Men & Chicken Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark/Germany, 2016, 100 min.) A pair of socially challenged
In May 1916, European powers ratified the Asia Minor Agreement, better known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, to partition the collapsing Ottoman Empire between British, French and Russian spheres of influence.
Amid increasingly chaotic scenes of Syrian refugees fleeing violence at home and Balkan nations hastily throwing up fences to keep out the never-ending influx, the Washington-based ambassadors of four European
Imagine receiving a diamond-and-emerald jewelry set or a gem-encrusted sword and not being able to keep them. That’s just part of the job for the president of the United States.
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