Full Article http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-20/joplin-tornado-anniversary/55085962/1 Joplin emerges from tornado’s devastation a year later JOPLIN, Mo. – A patch of wildflowers planted in the weeks before the May 22 tornado that killed 161 people and left schools, police and fire stations, parks and other landmarks in the rubble, has sprung Read More By Valerie Mosley/Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, Gannett  

Are you like so many folks with a box of old photographs pushed under the bed or shoved in the far back of a closet. Perhaps along side that box of fading pictures, are some old VHS tapes of family movies or a box of letters; yes, people did once upon a time write letters; back in the olden days before email and texting. And then there are the memories residing inside our minds and the minds of our relatives.”We keep meaning to tape record Uncle George telling about his time in WW ll” or “Someday we will sit down with grandmother and hear about her recollections of living through the…

Full Article Lawrence of Arabia dies. (2012). The History Channel website. Retrieved 1:45, May 19, 2012, from www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lawrence-of-arabia-dies. T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a Read More

73-year-old becomes oldest woman to climb Mount Everest – CNN.com By Manesh Shrestha, for CNN updated 10:38 AM EDT, Sat May 19, 2012 Full Article http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/19/world/asia/nepal-everest-cimb/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Tamae Watanabe, pictured in June 2004, joins the 4,000 people who have climbed Everest. Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest breaking her own 10-year-old record. Read More

 Robert Hof, Contributor |Full Article http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/05/17/its-official-facebook-raises-16-billion-in-historic-ipo/ 5/17/2012 @ 5:16PM |1,310 views It’s Official! Facebook Raises $16 Billion in Historic IPO It may be no surprise, but Facebook just announced it will indeed go public at $38 a share, raising $16 billion in an initial public offering that values the No. 1 social network at $104 billion. That’s the highest ever for a U.S. company, at least  Read More

Full article www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-eisenhowermemoriall1e8gfmkx-20120515,0,727919.story chicagotribune.com Architect Gehry proposes changes to Eisenhower memorial Reuters 6:13 PM CDT, May 15, 2012 By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – Architect Frank Gehry submitted changes on Tuesday to a memorial planned for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a project that has Read More

May 15, 1937: Full Article On this day in 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary of state, is born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). The daughter of Czech diplomat Josef Korbel, Albright fled to England with her family after the  Read More

Full Article Established in 1922, the foundation housing the collection of Dr. Albert Barnes has in recent years undergone financial troubles and, after a controversial, years-long legal fight over control of the foundation’s artwork, moved into  Read More