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Cyclists Get Fortified Bike Lane in Downtown DC
For a cyclist, getting "doored" by a parked car is a usually painful and sometimes expensive collision, occuring when someone in a...
DC Mural Project Covers up Graffiti
A city-funded project to cover graffiti launched this weekend in DC as six teenagers began creating images of "a trumpet player, a girl playing...
Good News in History, April 29
125 years ago today, the musician and composer Duke Ellington, one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, was born in Washington,...
Good News in History, April 24
Happy 90th Birthday to Shirley MacLaine, the esteemed dancer, actress, writer, and spiritual seeker. A 6-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine received a nomination for...
Good News in History, April 23
110 years ago today, the first-ever baseball game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Then known as Weeghman Park, its original occupants were...
Good News in History, April 16
106 years ago today, Xuan Hua, also known by the dharma name An Tzu, was born. Xuan Hua founded The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association,...
Good News in History, April 9
15 years ago, Parks and Recreation, a television mockumentary debuted on NBC, and leaped right into the hearts of millions of Americans. Without being...
Good News in History, April 2
40 years ago today, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian ever launched into space when he rode aboard the Interkosmos Soyuz T-11 to the...
Good News in History, March 27
76 years ago today, a mere 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday played in front of a sold-out crowd...
Good News in History, March 24
25 years ago today, The Matrix premiered in the U.S. It was a massive success at the box office, grossing over $460 million on a...
Indian IT Worker Designs New Eco-Friendly Sewage Treatment Method with the Sacred Cow as His Inspiration
An Indian entrepreneur has developed a zero-energy, zero-chemical system of wastewater treatment, and true to the traditions of the sub-continent, he used nature as...
Good News in History, February 18
Happy 70th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish. His accolades...
Good News in History, February 11
2,684 years ago today is the traditional date for the foundation of the earliest centralized state on the islands of Japan. Descendant of the...
Good News in History, January 20
2 years ago today, Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly around the world alone. Landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium, she...
Good News in History, January 15
50 years ago today, the TV sitcom Happy Days premiered on ABC, starring Ron Howard—as a clean-cut teenager in the late 50s who frequents...
Good News in History, January 2
18 years ago today, Stardust, the NASA spacecraft flew past the comet 81P/Wild and collected samples of rock and comet dust which were returned...
Good News in History, December 23
102 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize-winning humanist...
Good News in History, November 20
65 years Jim and Jane Henson established Muppets Inc. The company has produced many successful television series, including The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and...
Good News in History, November 10
100 years ago today, one of the most famous dogs in the world, Hachikō the Akita, was born in Ōdate. He is beloved, revered,...
Good News in History, November 8
732 years ago today, the Republic of Venice passed a law confining the city's growing glassmaking industry to the island of Murano, giving birth...