Binti is most well known for an incident which occurred on August 16, 1996, when a three-year-old boy climbed the wall around her zoo enclosure and fell 20 feet, rendering him unconscious. Binti immediately rushed to the boy’s side and shielded him from other curious gorillas before carrying him to the access point of her enclosure so that zoo personnel could attend to him. Her own 17-month-old baby, Koola, clutched her back throughout the incident. The boy spent four days in the hospital and recovered fully.

It’s not often that the essence of a man, especially a complicated man, can be summed up in one sentence. But then again, there haven’t been many people like Jackie Robinson.
“A life is not important,” he said, “except in the impact it has on other lives.”
Jackie Robinson led the way for generations of black athletes.
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If Mrs. Parks did not have her strong faith, knowing she would firmly stand by her belief, there might not have been a bus boycott, a Congressman John Lewis, who helps to put morals in our laws, or an Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, the first black mayor of a major Southern city, being a political [...]

Could Vancouver Canucks defenceman Rory Fitzpatrick, who has only played 16 games this year become an all-star?
Steve Schmid, a Buffalo Sabres fan has started the votefor rory.com website that is the genesis of the campaign thinks it will happen.
Q: Why Rory?
A: Good question. Everyone has their reasons for voting, but the general consensus is that [...]

The paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of it’s connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943. Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. As she grew up, [...]