Rope, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Letter from an Unknown Woman are all among the greatest movies from 1948 we now consider classics.

Some people are put on earth to do more than one big thing. Winston S. Churchill was such a man. If he had just been the new prime minister inspiring his people’s courage — the incarnation of Britain ...

Further emphasizing the force politics exerted over art are two pieces by Franz Radziwill, who joined the Nazi party as part ...

Death notices for Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and the Yakima Valley.

One of the first female war correspondents, she covered a dozen major conflicts during a career that spanned more than six ...

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was born Aug. 30, 1912, in Wellington, New Zealand, the youngest of six children. Her father, a journalist, left the family shortly after moving them to Sydney, Australia.

Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder ...

Alfred and Doris were an unlikely pair with little in common, thrown together by circumstance and shared history. She was a lover of art and music; she was also belligerent and spiky. When her ...

An omnivore par excellence, as a young man Benjamin announced his intent to be the “foremost critic of German literature,” but ended up spending much time translating works from French to German, ...

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With her blonde hair, green eyes and model looks, it's no wonder MI6 dismissed warnings Gisela Klein was an enemy operative ...

Sybil Rosen was born in Chicago on Feb. 7, 1940. She passed away peacefully on Jan. 29 at home. Sybil will be remembered by her loving family and numerous friends […] ...