Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable “right stuff,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 97.
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Hatred for Jews on the far left goes back centuries.
Egyptians turned it into rubble, Europeans saved it – no backsies.
African and Caribbean countries were neck-deep in the slave trade – now they want ‘reparations’?
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Phillip released a statement announcing his father’s death at the age of 91. He told RNZ his dad had a dignified death.
The word for today is… bacchanalian (adjective, noun) - adjective : of, relating to, or suggesting the ancient Roman religious rites marked by orgiastic revelry and drunkenness that were held in honor of Bacchus, the god of wine noun : a bacchanalian reveler Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The Roman god of drama, wine,
