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6 hours ago · The Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol framed the festival tents on a breezy, blue-sky July day. Members of a female skating collective from Bolivia offered lessons at the Smithsonian's ...
6 hours ago · Bolivian women skateboarders — wearing traditional garb — demonstrate their skills on the half pipe. It’s a rather unusual skateboard lesson. Little girls are lined up to learn to balance on ...
6 hours ago · The scene was on the final day of this year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The theme: "Indigenous Voices of the Americas." There was skateboarding and more: kite-making, marimba-playing, textile-weaving, singing and dancing. The Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol framed the festival tents on a breezy, blue-sky July day.
18 hours ago · t. e. John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist who has served since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. [3] He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy, though he is primarily an institutionalist.
18 hours ago · The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coastal rainbow trout (O. m. irideus) or Columbia River redband trout (O. m. gairdneri) that usually returns to freshwater to spawn after living two to three years ...
18 hours ago · The author Jim Webb suggests that the true number of people with some Scotch-Irish heritage in the United States is in the region of 27 million. The states with the most Scotch-Irish populations as of 2020: Texas – 287,393 (1.1%) North Carolina – 274,149 (2.9%) California – 247,530 (0.7%) Florida – 170,880 (0.9%) Pennsylvania ...
18 hours ago · John C. Calhoun. John Caldwell Calhoun ( / kælˈhuːn /; [1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
