Villager 10-4-2016

If you find $916,000,000, please contact Donald J. Trump.   He has looked everywhere for the nearly one billion dollars, and can’t find it.  Question for Donald:  Where was the last place you saw it?  His friends Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie say that this shows that he is genius. – – Alex

Is the Cold War starting up again?

Monday morning United States officials announced that the cease fire in Syria has ended and bilateral talks between the United States and Russia have been suspended. Talks between the two countries came to a close after the United States lost patience with Russia’s constant failure to comply with the agreements they had promised. Secretary of State, John Kerry told the media that the deciding factor was Russian and Syrian force’s intensified attacks on civilian areas in Aleppo. – – Matt

A teenager doing a one-week internship at Keele University in England discovered a new planet on his second day on the job.  Fifteen year old, Tom Wagg, found the planet which orbits around a star in the constellation Hydra. He named it WASP-142b, after the program he is in, Wide Angle Search for Planets. It was passing between the star and earth, causing the brightness of the star to dim, making it possible for him to spot. – – Karalyn

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About alexanderboulton

Alex Boulton is a historian (PhD College of William and Mary, 1991) specializing in early American cultural history. His Dissertation was titled "The Architecture of Slavery." He has written books on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Peloponnesian War and is currently working on two books: One on Thomas Jefferson's Family and the other on the evolution of the word and idea of race. He taught history at Stevenson University for twenty-five years until he retired in 2020. In addition to his PhD in history, he has an MA in American Studies from W&M and a BFA in fine arts from the Maryland Institute of Art. Before he entered grad school at W&M, he worked as a professional photographer. He lives in Baltimore Maryland.
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