X-Men’s Professor X finally ended nuclear war in the Marvel universe

Professor X pronounces judgement on Mister Sinister before the quiet council, while his narration muses on how he has the power to control the minds of the entire world — every time humans act in hate, he muses “I know that I could have stopped it. I am complicit. I have a secret. There will never be a nuclear war,” in Immortal X-Men #10 (2023).

Patrick Stewart is an indisputably correct choice for the role of Professor X. But between audiences knowing him as the kindly paterfamilias of space opera and the X-Men movies going with a somewhat softer Xavier, […]

Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia review – living lute songs of love and war | Culture

The artwork for Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia

Before the banjo, the instrument at the heart of so much folk, country and bluegrass music, was the ekonting: a self-built, three-string gourd instrument with a muted but characterful tone, played by the Jola people […]

Elizabeth Taylor’s $305,000 Worth Diamond Once Belonged To A Nazi War Criminal’s Ex-Wife

Elizabeth Taylor's Diamond Was Owned By Ex-Wife Of A Nazi

Elizabeth Taylor’s Diamond Once Belonged To A Nazi’s Ex-Wife (Photo Credit – IANS) One of actress Elizabeth Taylor’s diamonds was owned by the ex-wife of former Nazi war criminal Alfred Krupp. Actor Richard Burton, who […]

You Don’t Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska review – Ukrainian child’s poignant diary | Autobiography and memoir

The author writing her diary on the train

“Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is.” This short, intense memoir of Yeva Skalietska is the record, told in diary form, of the transformation of the life of a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl […]