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Hauntingly Beautiful Flashmob Tribute to Nelson Mandela

Flashmobs always involve the element of surprise. The best ones also inspire. This one in South Africa Saturday melted the hearts of a nation...
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Photos You Didn’t See From Mandela Memorial – Dems and R’s Coming Together

If the contrived controversies of a handshake with the Cuban leader and a presidential selfie blanketed your news coverage of the heartfelt memorial service...
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World Honors Mandela (1918-2013) as Champion of Freedom and Reconciliation

Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hailed on Thursday as a champion of reconciliation who 'achieved more than could be expected of any...
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Good Deeds To Celebrate Mandela’s 94th Birthday

Children in South Africa began their school day Wednesday by singing Happy Birthday to the country's most famous statesman while across the world people...
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Mandela Legacy Brings Shelter to NW Poor

Destitute villagers of Seolong outside Rustenburg in the North West will soon have roofs over their heads, thanks to the legacy of Nelson Mandela. The...
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Remarkable Meeting for Michelle Obama With Nelson Mandela

The First Lady began her tour of South Africa meeting a parade of leaders from government, industry, non-profit and education, but it was her...
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Humble South African Golfer Comes Out of Nowhere to Win British Open on Mandela’s Bday

South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who had missed the cut in all his three previous Opens and was a 250-1 outsider before the tournament started,...
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Adidas Auctions FIFA Paintings for Mandela Charity

Some of the biggest names in football have come together to sign portraits of themselves painted by local African artists to raise money for...
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Make An Imprint on Mandela Day Saturday (Celebrity Video)

South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, spent 67 years making the world a better place, starting with nothing more than a prison uniform and...

Mandela and The Elders Head to Darfur

South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will lead a group of elder statesmen later this month to visit Darfur. This is to be the...

Good News in History, November 7

Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell who turns 80 today. The Canadian singer-songwriter and painter is one of the most influential female musicians of the...

Good News in History, October 15

27 years ago today, NASA and ESA's Cassini Mission, meant to gather data on Saturn and its moons, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The...

Good News in History, October 7

On this day, 139 years ago, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born. In his long and distinguished career, he made foundational contributions to...

Good News in History, September 6

29 years ago today, Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s baseball record when he played in his 2,131st consecutive game. Once considered a near-impossible...

Good News in History, July 27

1,250 years ago today, the first Patriarch of the Shingon Sect—one of the most important in Japanese Buddhism was born. Born Saeki no Mao,...

Good News in History, July 25

149 years ago today, the British hunter, naturalist, and author, Jim Corbett was born. He was often hired by various Indian legislatures to hunt...

Good News in History, July 18

103 years ago today, John Glenn, the American aviator, politician, and astronaut who became the third American in space, was born. The Ohio-born pilot...

Good News in History, July 9

Happy 49th Birthday to the "coolest, weirdest, and savviest rock stars of our time," Jack White. Born in Detroit, his run of work with...

Good News in History, June 24

25 years ago today and 5 years after that, Eric Clapton and his friends auctioned off over a hundred of their guitars through Christie's...

Good News in History, May 28

92 years ago today, one of Europe's greatest landscape engineering projects, the Afsuiltdijk, was completed in the Netherlands, proving that newly-mechanized Man could tame...