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Starliner has finally come home, more than three months after it launched on a planned 10-day mission.. Starliner's long space odyssey is over. The Boeing capsule, named Calypso, returned to Earth early this morning (Sept. 7), touching down in the New Mexico desert at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 11:01 p.m. local time on Sept. 6). "Great landing of Calyspo!" NASA astronaut Suni Williams said on the agency's webcast. "I don't think that could have gone better." The landing was long-delayed, coming more than three months into an orbital mission originally expected to last about 10 days. And, while Starliner...

Harry Belafonte, the effortlessly graceful singer credited with popularizing calypso in the U.S. in the 1950s who then marched at the forefront of the country’s civil rights struggle for half a century, died Tuesday, according to his spokesperson. He was 96. Belafonte died of congestive heart failure at his home in New York City, longtime spokesperson Ken Sunshine confirmed to NBC News.

Explanation: Seen from ice moon Tethys, rings and shadows would display fantastic views of the Saturnian system. Haven't dropped in on Tethys lately? Then this gorgeous ringscape from the Cassini spacecraft will have to do for now. Caught in sunlight just below and left of picture center in 2005, Tethys itself is about 1,000 kilometers in diameter and orbits not quite five saturn-radii from the center of the gas giant planet. At that distance (around 300,000 kilometers) it is well outside Saturn's main bright rings, but Tethys is still one of five major moons that find themselves within the boundaries...

<p>Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a message and communicate to the masses. Old-time reggae lyrics described life events in the Caribbean culture to which most people could relate.</p>

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered a three-and-a-half-hour keynote speech at the Saviors' Day conference in Detroit, Michigan on February 23, 2020. In his speech, Farrakhan spoke about the killing of IRGC Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani by U.S. forces. Farrakhan said that he thinks he had met him during his visit to Iran. Farrakhan said that President Donald Trump killed his "brother Soleimani," whom he called a "bad man" for killing Americans. Farrakhan questioned the U.S. presence in the Middle East, suggesting this was in order to protect its "little flunky nations" against Iran. He added that Soleimani...

Explanation: Seen from ice moon Tethys, rings and shadows would display fantastic views of the Saturnian system. Haven't dropped in on Tethys lately? Then this gorgeous ringscape from the Cassini spacecraft will have to do for now. Caught in sunlight just below and left of picture center in 2005, Tethys itself is about 1,000 kilometers in diameter and orbits not quite five saturn-radii from the center of the gas giant planet. At that distance (around 300,000 kilometers) it is well outside Saturn's main bright rings, but Tethys is still one of five major moons that find themselves within the boundaries...

Goals include promoting calypso and improving calypsonians' lives Reigning Calypso Monarch Kurt Allen wants to use his title to help preserve the legacy, integrity and historical value of calypso music through the establishment of the Office of the Calypso Monarch. The initiative was launched yesterday at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port of Spain, with the unveiling of a crest. "When I became Calypso Monarch, I made a pledge that I will let my reign be reflective and symbolic of new development because I believe that emphasis must be placed on youth in calypso," Allen said. The office...

Several Muslims in the public eye have stated that the "Madie" (sorry if it's misspelled) is to return this year. The Madie is the Muslim Messiah. So IMHO this is the One, the Madie.

Obama inspired songs popping up across the Caribbean With John McCain in Mexico Thursday and Barack Obama polling off the charts in Canada, the Caribbean is also weighing in on the U.S. presidential election, as a slew of Obama-inspired calypso songs are popping up across the islands. Dubbed the “poor man’s newspaper” by practicioners of the genre, calypsos are often nuanced pieces of social commentary, meant to take the pulse of the population. Of all the Obama-themed songs, the most popular is a song entitled “Barack the Magnificent” by Trinidadian Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow, a pioneer of the genre who...

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Just last week, Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria started a bloody ruckus that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen people. Their actions were the latest examples of a hysteric strain in the Islamic community that has put the world’s head in a spin. For lack of a better term, what we mean by “the civilized world” has been stupefied by the violent reactions to a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad in an unflattering way. This hysteria has spread from continent to continent, showing itself to maintain absolute disdain for freedom of speech or separation of church...

Watery grave awaits famous vessel in dispute over its future For 40 years it was the mythical flagship of that most emblematic - and heavily-accented - of Frenchmen, the undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau. Under his command it sailed the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Antarctic, the Nile, the Amazon, and the Yangtze, revealing their murky secrets to captivated television viewers around the world. Now the Calypso, its superstructure riddled with rust and its timbers rotten, languishes unrecognised and all but unrecognisable in the dock of La Rochelle's maritime museum, as a legal wrangle threatens to send it to the place...