Particular reverence was reserved for Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch (1642), the altarpiece around which, as the director put it, the entire museum had been built. A flash mob recreated ...

BERLIN — Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin sports minister Iris Spranger on ...

Spranger envisaged beach volleyball at the Brandenburg Gate, and water sports in Grünau, a riverside locality which also staged water sports in 1936. Otherwise, Spranger gave few details during ...

Born March 5, 1936, in Youngstown, Tom was the son of the late David M. and Anna Cathrine Hone Williams. Raised in Youngstown, Tom was a graduate of South High School, Class of 1954. A loyal ...

Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympics again, possibly 100 years after the city hosted the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner is to present bid plans, with help from four ...

The Night Watch painted by Rembrandt van Rijn is a monumental canvas displayed today in the “Gallery of Honour” of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland’s largest and most prominent museum. The grande ...