By Carlo M. Cipolla.

The proportion of nursing home residents with advanced dementia who receive a feeding tube has dropped more than 50 percent, a new national study has found.

A well-known Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in his Kiev apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. The body of Alexander Shchetinin, founder the Novy Region (New Region) press agency, was found at his flat after friends tried to visit him on his birthday. A police spokesperson said Kiev forces were alerted of Ms Schetinin’s death at around midnight on Saturday. He is believed to have died a few hours earlier, between 8 and 9.30pm.

As people around the world stepped into their backyards or onto rooftops to peer up at the annual spectacle of the Perseid meteor shower early on Friday morning, few of them had a view like Wilson Jarvis and Steve Linderer.

Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) is one of the most revered painters of Poland, and is associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions. He is regarded as father of Polish Symbolism. In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with the historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, the Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of natural environment (from Wikipedia).

Volkswagen owners in the United States will receive about $20,000 per car as compensation for the company’s diesel deception. Volkswagen owners in Europe at most get a software update and a short length of plastic tubing.

Soon, saying that Nazi death camps were Polish could earn you three years in prison

I was so used to driving and flying, my understanding of North America had become distorted. Then I took a slow boat through four Great Lakes. I saw every mile.

Like clockwork, Sara and James Cook paid $452 a month for life insurance. That is, until a letter arrived last year telling the elderly Georgia couple the premiums on the policy they’d had for 25 years were rising sharply.

Used extensively in the Soviet era, political murders are again playing a prominent role in the Kremlin’s foreign policy, the most brutal instrument in an expanding repertoire of intimidation tactics intended to silence or otherwise intimidate critics at home and abroad.

"It's a physical manifestation of white supremacy, white privilege and racism being protected by this country," a local black woman said of the protest.

University in Tennessee will pay United Daughters of the Confederacy $1.2 million for the right to strike the word from a campus building.

"I photograph people their lives, work, everyday life are most often elderly people tired of life and its hardships often lonely." His work is very haunting and focuses on people who live in the poor, rural regions of Eastern Poland.

Everyone knows the movie “The Great Escape.” As noted at the beginning, the movie was based on an actual event that took place on the evening of March 24 – 25, 1944. The prison camp was located just outside the German town of Sagen. After the war, the town became Polish, and the name was changed to Żagań. A museum was established on the site of the camp in 1971 2014 was the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape. In honor of the event, museum officials, along with city officials and members of the Polish Air Force and Royal Air Force held a week–long ceremony. These photographs are a “sample” of the photographs that I took while I was there.

Everyone knows the movie “The Great Escape.” As noted at the beginning, the movie was based on an actual event that took place on the evening of March 24 – 25, 1944. The prison camp was located just outside the German town of Sagen. After the war, the town became Polish, and the name was changed to Żagań. A museum was established on the site of the camp in 1971 2014 was the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape. In honor of the event, museum officials, along with city officials and members of the Polish Air Force and Royal Air Force held a week–long ceremony. These photographs are a “sample” of the photographs that I took while I was there.

The waves were very high that beautiful day.