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FIVE years ago, a brave, intelligent, eccentric woman with multi-coloured hair, big clothing and an enigmatic personality decided to do something unheard of in apartheid South Africa.

"We developed the Battle of Atlanta mobile application in order to provide a 21st century version of the historical markers that mark sites of the Battle of Atlanta and other Civil War landmarks around the city," said Dr. Daniel Pollock, a physician, Civil War scholar and co-developer of the program.

Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons will star in the biopic about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a founding father of the digital age.

My family stayed for only a couple days, but it was enough time to explore a few historical sites.

"I was sitting right there," says Mick Jagger, pointing at a row of seats in the famous first balcony at New York's Apollo Theater.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , Uma Thurman will join Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and more in the Weinstein Company's upcoming film ADAM JONES.

As the world gears up for the 1960s period drama's swan song , the laid-back actress is quickly moving beyond her famed Mad Men persona.

One of the legacies of Barack Obama 's presidency is a certain indifference to the messy, time-sucking work of courting Congress.

Stylist discovers why Scandal's Kerry Washington is shaking up America. Words: Colin Crummy There are certain indicators in life that suggest you have made it.

Joey Lopresti, 19, skates with Mini Abe on Wednesday during Skate Street DeKalb.

Ron Carly's used his impeccable likeness to one of the United States' fondest presidents to create quite a stir when he's out in public.

That voice is Arkansas actress Natalie Canerday 's trademark, which she attributes to cigarettes and years of yelling on the high school drill team.

The alley next to Ben's Chili Bowl in Northwest D.C. is awash in yellow, green and red paint.

It's tempting to frame Anya Ulinich's "Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel" in terms of its antecedents: Bernard Malamud and Anton Chekhov, on the one hand, both of whom are referenced in the narrative, and on the other, graphic novelists such as Marjane Satrapi and Harvey Pekar, whose work is rich, allusive and alive with words.

The Founding Fathers had good reasons for explicitly barring government from inserting itself into matters of religion.

The Mt. Pulaski Courthouse register signature book showed ninety-nine visitors that stopped by today to wish Wally Kautz a "Happy Birthday" and to thank him for all his years of service as Mt.

Denzel Washington will be honoured with the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain this September.

When Philip Seymour Hoffman died from a drug overdose last February at the age of 46, we lost not only an immensely talented and diverse actor, but also the cinema's preeminent portrayer of sweaty men in dirty white T-shirts.

July 22, 2014: Silverstone Auctions is offering the opportunity to own a unique and very special car, with connections to one of the most famous women of the 20th Century, in its sale at Salon Prive on 4thSeptember.

English screen and stage actor Gary Oldman is the latest celebrity to perform a cover of Iggy Azalea's hit song "Fancy."