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From visionary directors to chart-shaping musicians and beloved screen actors, people named Stanley have left a noticeable imprint on movies, TV, and music across decades and continents. Below is a ...

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King Charles III has led Britain’s annual ceremony of remembrance for war dead in London. Thousands of military personnel, ...

With help from the Kenyan Defence Forces, the CWGC recently unearthed a treasure trove of rare colonial military records in ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Back in 2018, Mike Newell directed Lily James in British World War 2 movie The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The romantic drama is based on the 2008 novel of the same and follows a ...

In 1992, Steven Patrick Morrissey, who had been the lead singer of the cutting-edge '80s Brit band The Smiths, wrote a song called "We'll Let You Know." More than 30 years later, its sentiment has the ...

The group, called Stoptime, had been performing anti-Kremlin songs for months and gaining in popularity before the authorities moved against the open dissent. By Ivan Nechepurenko Reporting from St.

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Hundreds of young people gathered in St Petersburg to sing an outlawed song calling for Vladimir Putin to be overthrown. In a rare moment of public dissent, the crowd joined street musicians in a ...