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This piece is part of an ongoing series on the unsung women of history. Read more here. When she was involved in a brawl outside the New York bar Bill’s Gay Nineties in the summer of 1937, TIME identified Adela Rogers St. Johns as a “Cinemauthor“—a portmanteau that demonstrated how difficult it was to squeeze her many lives into a single epithet. Born in Los Angeles in 1894, St. Johns was the daughter of high-profile criminal lawyer Earl Rogers, who raised her alone after he divorced her mother.

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In the early hours of December 24, 1989, I was standing perfectly still inside an examination chamber at a border post on the very edge of the Soviet Union. I barely noticed the broken plates strewn across the floor, or the four soldiers with AK-47s in the corners, or the rest of my family huddled around me. My entire existence had shrunk to the only thing that mattered: my father and the captain of the border guards, screaming at each other in the middle of the room.

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Before a car crash takes her husband from her, Antonia Vega tells him that she plans to write a book about the invisible workers who make the way people live possible. “Invisible to whom?” he asks. Surely not to those who love them—or seek to police them.

It had been 30 years since Thomas Jefferson likened the explosive issue of slavery expansion to “a fire bell in the night’” destined one day to sound “a death knell for the Union,” but the fulfillment of this grim prophecy seemed very much at hand in 1850. Northern abolitionists had seemed to find their voice in the 1830s, and although it remained a minority voice, it grew loud and disruptive enough to spark genuine alarm in the slave states while making further political concessions to slavery increasingly problematic in the free states.

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If you have heard about Hanukkah, you’ve probably heard about the story of the miracle of light.  There was only enough oil to light the Temple in Jerusalem for one night, but it lasted for eight.  That’s the Hanukkah miracle. I like this story and I like its message, particularly for children.  The message is about hope, possibility, community, and belief. It is aspirational, positive, and universal. But this year, Hanukkah feels different.

In an exclusive with the Los Angeles Times, the Nigerian filmmaker reveals details on what he has been up to since the debut of Mami Wata. Known for his diversity in the film industry, from being a screenwriter to directing and then editing, the world has been curious to know what's next with Obasi. Obasi divulged being back to writing two scripts at once, describing it as something very strange from his previous method.

“Every man who feels a desire to preach is a preacher,” says Kirby James Hensley. “And I never met anyone who wasn’t a preacher.” As president of the freewheeling Universal Life Church Inc., of Modesto, Calif., Hensley is a man of his word. Last week alone he appointed more than 1,000 new ministers in his church, and if a clergy head count is any index of growth, the Universal Life Church may well be the fastest-growing denomination in the U.