Oscars Makes History  You know the saying “Truth is stranger than fiction.”  You can’t come up with something as crazy as what happened at the Academy Awards this year – you just can’t.  I mean to announce the wrong winner for Best Picture and give the Oscar to La La Land, then only after all the cast and crew are on stage thanking people do you say “Oops we are sorry, actually the movie Midnight won, not you.”  OMG this is insane! But this isn’t the only reason Oscars made history this year. The Director of La La Land Damien Chazelle was the youngest person to win a best director trophy at the age of 32, and Mahershala Ali was the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. I didn’t even know Oscars kept track of what religious denomination all the actors are. You learn something new every day folks.  Oscars Makes History

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Sometimes it feels that all you hear of these days is negative stories, people angry, people in pain, and people bitter with the world. There were a lot of controversial political stories this past month and many stories that just upset us and made us feel maybe  – where is humanity going?  Are we really at this point in 2017? Have we not learnt much from history? But all is not doom and gloom. If there is anything we can learn from history is this – good always wins over evil and love triumphs over hate. The world does come together to eradicate hatred, and we will do that again – of that I have faith, faith in people, faith in humanity. So in that vain of positive thinking, let me share with you a few cool articles and stories I came across this past month in January of 2017.  I found these to be inspirational, educational, fun and hopeful. I hope you enjoy these articles from around the world. Continue reading Cool Stories of the Month – January 2017 →