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"St. John of God saving the sick from fire at the Royal Hospital," Manuel Gómez-Moreno González, 1880. (Wikimedia Commons) St. John of God was born in Portugal in 1495. He was kidnapped by a stranger ...

Jon Bon Jovi has his sights set on touring again as he recovers ... "My focus moving forward is on the re-release of Forever, and God willing, getting back out on the road and running that project ...

He obviously believed that it was his God-given job to stop any player headed to the goal. Of course, you know what happened. He got his five allowable fouls in about, um, the first 15 minutes of play ...

Loving father of Nathan, Emily and the late Emma Fullarton. Dear son of Elizabeth “Libby” (née Budgell) (Steve Lassner) of Cornwall and Robert Fullarton (Fran Green) of Kanata. Cherished brother of ...

It’s been an action-packed few days for Jon Stewart, who kicked off the week with a monologue torching Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and ended with the Daily Show host ...

The billionaire's offer to appear on the Comedy Central program comes days after Stewart mocked the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor In ...

Andy Harries, the founder and CEO of Sony-owned Left Bank Pictures and an exec producer on its hit show “The Crown,” is to transition to an executive chairman role after 18 years at the helm ...

There's a magical place near Deptford, New Jersey that started in 1965 with five members of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God. The brothers came over from Ireland and set out to build a ...

“It was a margarita blender with me and [John] Oliver,” he said in a new video, referring to a segment in 2011 in which the blender broke, cutting open his wrist. “And Oliver couldn’t have been ...