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May 17

May 17 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Trent Reznor (1965), Enya (1961) and Craig Ferguson (1962). Several movies were released around May 17 over the years, such as Alien in 1979 directed by Ridley Scott and Once Upon a Time in America in 1984 directed by Sergio Leone.
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Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released around May 17 over the years?

Alien

Release year: 1979

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Country: United States of America

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Once Upon a Time in America

Release year: 1984

Directed by: Sergio Leone

Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams

Country: United States of America

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Release year: 1989

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott

Country: United States of America

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Saaransh

Release year: 1984

Directed by: Mahesh Bhatt

Starring: Rohini Hattangadi, Anupam Kher, Soni Razdan, Madan Jain

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The Thin Man

Release year: 1934

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton

Country: United States of America

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of May 17?

Holidays

Norwegian Constitution Day or Syttende Mai.
Dfa das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day") ? holiday in Galicia, honouring the Galician language.
Bah�'f Faith ? Feast of 'Azaamat (Grandeur) ? First day of the fourth month of the Bah�'f Calendar.
Saint Paschal Baylon or Pascal Baylon
Saint Montanus
Saint Dietmar
Saint Pamphamer
International Day Against Homophobia aka IDAHO
Saint Pamphalon
Saint Solochon
Saint Adrian of Alexandria
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Events

2019 Canada–United States relations, Mexico–United States relations: The United States lifts tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico. (NPR)
2018 International military intervention against ISIL: Denmark announces the partial withdrawal of its special forces from Iraq following the collapse of ISIL in the country. (Channel News Asia)
2017 Bundu dia Kongo followers free their leader and 50 other inmates with an attack on the Makala jail of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) (Pulse Nigeria)
2016 Iraqi civil war (2014–present): 17 May 2016 Baghdad bombings: At least 69 people are killed and 230 injured in a series of bomb attacks targeting Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, Iraq. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claims responsibility for some of the attacks. (NY Times) (Reuters) (Press TV)
2015 A suicide attack by the Taliban kills three and injures at least eighteen outside Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. (BBC News)
2014 Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Benin, and Chad join together to combat Boko Haram. (The Guardian)(The New York Times)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: A string of bombings, most of them in Sunni areas of Iraq, kill at least 90 people and injured more than 200 others. (Times of India)
2012 2012 East DR Congo conflict: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s military has been shelling positions it believes are held by rebels who have been fighting the army for weeks in the country's east. (AJE)
2011 Queen Elizabeth II's historic first visit to the Republic of Ireland. The first visit of a British monarch to Ireland since the visit of George V and Queen Mary in 1911.
2010 The design for the New Bus for London is revealed. (BBC)
2009 Al-Shabaab captures Jowhar, Somalia, from the Transitional Federal Government. (BBC)
2008 In Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes is held. The undefeated 3-year-old Big Brown wins by 5 1/4 lengths, ridden by Kent Desormeaux.
2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
2005 Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote.
2004 Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage in compliance with a ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court (Goodridge v. Department of Public Health).
2003 Pen Hadow becomes the first person to walk alone, without any outside help, from Canada to the North Pole.
2002 In Ireland, The Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition is re-elected. It is the first government to be re-elected since 1969.
2000 A bomb in Glorietta Mall in Makati City, Philippines injures 13.
1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe.
1995 Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego, California.
1994 Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
1992 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King.
1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of MTxico, crowned 40th Miss Universe.
1990 Dow Jones Average hits a record 2,831.71
1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa
1987 Stardust closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
1986 Chicken Song by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
1985 Les Anderson catches record 97-pound 4-ounce Chinook Salmon, off Alaska.
1984 Cincinnati Reds' Mario Soto throws four strikeouts in one inning.
1983 Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty
1981 Inacent Black closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
1980 Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
1978 Lee Lacy hits record third consecutive pinch-hit homerun.
1977 Menahem Begin's Likoed-party wins election in Israel.
1976 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson and M Learned
1975 Funky Gibbon by The Goodies hits #79
1974 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
1973 Nash at Nine opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins first UEFA Cup in London, England.
1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination.
1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament.
1969 My Wife, My Dog, My Cat, by Maskman and The Agents hits #92
1968 European Space Research Organization launches first satellite.
1967 Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational.
1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site.
1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.
1960 First atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park, California, USA.
1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122.
1958 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2.
1957 School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education
1955 Dutch Government of Drees resigns.
1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 separate but equal Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open.
1952 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4.
1950 Celal Bayar becomes the third president of Turkey.
1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland.
1948 Soviet Union recognizes Israel.
1947 Street Scene closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
1946 US President Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike.
1945 Two US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu, Japan.
1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in the Netherlands New-Guinea
1943 The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France
1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1938 Radio quiz show Information Please! debuts on NBC Blue Network.
1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling -- the national-socialist party of Norway.
1932 US Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico".
1930 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6.
1928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
1926 German Government of Wilhelm Marx takes power.
1925 Cleveland Indians' Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit.
1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2.
1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show.
1919 The British War Department orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), first introduced.
1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls.
1914 The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
1911 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51.
1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1- through 50-cent coins.
1909 White firemen on Georgia railroad strike to protest hiring blacks.
1905 Waseda University of Tokyo defeats Los Angeles High School 5-3 in baseball.
1903 Cleveland Indians beat the New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1900 Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
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Famous Birthday

Trent Reznor: American musician, lead singer for "Nine...
Enya : Irish singer and songwriter.
Craig Ferguson: Scottish-American comedian and...
Tony Parker: Belgian-born basketball player, his...
Jean Gabin: French actor, distinguished and...
Adel Imam
Karrueche Tran: Model.
Nikki Reed: American actress.
Jean-Marie Bigard: French comedian and actor with...
Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
Dennis Hopper: American actor and director who first...
Josh Homme: American musician and songwriter (Queens...
Ilona Hallyday: French noted family, the daughter of...
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
Montreal (Quebec)
Sasha Alexander: American television actress.
Kandi Burruss: R&B Singer.
Idi Amin: Statesman.
Jordan Knight: American musician and member of the "New...
Andrea Corr: Irish singer-songwriter pianist and...
Géraldine Giraud: French actress, Roland Giraud's...
Derek Hough: American dancer and singer.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Bob Saget: American actor.
Bill Paxton: American actor and film director.
Marshall Applewhite: American cult leader who led 39 members...
Taj Mahal (musician)
Ayda Field
Misha Aznavour
Rochelle Aytes: Actress.
Magda Schneider: German actress and singer in operatic...
Tahj Mowry: American actor.
Gabriel Bacquier: French baritone opera singer who debuted...
Tabatha Coffey: Australian hairstylist and television...
Michio Kushi: Japanese-American entrepreneur who along...
Maureen O'Sullivan: Irish-American actress and singer (d....
Raymond Gérôme
Hill Harper: American actor.
Sérgio Cabral
Max Boublil
André Valardy
Sendhil Ramamurthy: American actor.
Hélène Diolot
James Sacré
Christian Blanc: French politician, who served as a...
Birgit Nilsson: Swedish soprano opera singer who...
Jean Rédélé: French automotive pioneer, racing driver...
Janez Drnovšek: Slovenian economist and politician 2nd...
Gérard Krawczyk
Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
Paige Turco: American actress, best known for her...
Leven Rambin: American actress.
Jean Vautrin: French writer, filmmaker, and...
Cameron Bancroft: Actor (Beverly Hills 90210).
Fay Presto
LuAnn de Lesseps: Reality Star.
Michel de Certeau
Gilles Quénéhervé: French sprinter who specialized in the...
Stéphane Robert
Françoise Grossetête
Shiri Maimon: Israeli singer and actress.
Alan Johnston
Gary Christen: American Uranian astrologer and...
Carlos Peña: Dominican-American baseball player.
Corrado Guzzanti: Italian stage director, dedicated to the...
Paolo Bortoluzzi: Italian ballet dancer who made his debut...
Grace Zabriskie: American actress.
Jean Cazeneuve: French philosopher and anthropologist.
Giovanna Trillini: Italian fencing champion who won a Gold...
Micheline Apers-Borghs: Belgian athlete; a fencer.
Alan Kay: American entrepreneur, one of the...
Dick Gaughan: Scottish singer, songwriter and renowned...
Jeremy Vine: British journalist and presenter.
Alizee Guinochet
Jean-Pierre Bocquel
Guy Camberabero: French rugby player, selected 14 times...
Mark Smith: American fencer, the U.S.
Robinson Savary
Mark Schorer: American novelist and critic.
Belle Stewart: Singer, dies at 91.
Sonny Knight: American singer, moderately known in the...
Tereza Fajksová
Paul Whitehouse: Welsh-English actor producer and...
Olivier Rolin
Galliano Rossini: Italian Gold Medal winner for skeet and...
Bill Blair: American football player for UMI.
Frederic Prokosch: American writer, known for his novels,...
Clémence Calvin
Danny Manning: American basketball player and coach.
Bill Glenn
Jacques Clancy: French theatre and film actor, who was a...
Clarence Goodson
Patricia Soltysik
Claudia Koll
Jean-Michel Dubernard: French medical doctor specializing in...
Jean-Denis Bredin: French writer, attorney and founding...
Marc Honegger
Claude Moss (psychiatrist)
Melany Denyse
Mohamed Nasheed: Maldivian lawyer and politician 4th...
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Famous Deaths

Lawrence Welk: American bandleader and accordion player...
Frank Gorshin: American actor, an accomplished...
Edward Hardwicke: English actor (Born 1932).
Eric Forth: British Member of Parliament (Born...
Randy Turpin: British black boxer who became the first...
Frank G Slaughter: American novelist and physician (Born...
Harmon Killebrew: American baseball player and...
Eric De Lamarter: Composer, dies at 73.
Francesco Balilla Pratella: Composer, dies at 75.
Shalva Azmayparashvili: Composer, dies at 54.
French of Cauwelaert: Flemish Minister / Mayor of Antwerp,...
Henri Gagnon: Composer, dies at 74.
Nigel Martin Balchin: Novelist.
Nigel M Balchin: English Author (My Executioner), dies at...
Charles Braswell: Actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49.
Hugo Freidhofer: Composer, dies at 80.
Bobby Ewing: (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas.
Hugh Burden: Actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at...
Warren Neal Boxer: Dies of AIDS at 34.
Donald Keith Falkner: Singer, dies at 94.
Willian Noel Moffat: Architect, dies at 82.
Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle: Singer, dies at 72.
Boris Borisovich Galitzine: Russian physicist (Born 1862).
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke: ruler of Sarawak (Born 1829).
George William Forbes: 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (Born...
Cy Feuer: American playwright (Born 1911).
Bruce Fairbairn: Canadian record producer and musician...
Ladislao Kubala: Hungarian-Spanish footballer (Born...
Peter Leyten bishop of Breda (1885-1914): dies at age 79.
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre composer: dies at age 68.
Bohumil Pazdirek composer: dies at age 80.
Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an: founder of first Zen Institute of...
Otto V Kuusinen: President of Karelo-Finnish Soviet...
Joseph Beran: Czechoslovakian archbishop of...
Alexander J Kropholler: Dutch architect/writer, dies at age 91.
John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd: speaker of house of commons, dies.
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard: first US woman free balloon pilot, dies.
Leonardo del Ferro [Keyser]: US epic tenor, dies.
George Hurrell: Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer...
Andrew Brown: film producer, dies at age 55.
Willi Daume: Olympic organiser, dies at age 82.
Scott Evans Brayton: American racing car driver, dies at age...
Willis Conover: broadcaster, dies at age 75.
Frederick August Otto Schwarz: American entrepreneur (Born 1836).
Panagis Tsaldaris: twice Greek prime minister (Born 1868).
Zhang Lingfu: a general of the National Revolutionary...
John Wilce: American physician and former head...
Hector ''Toe'' Blake: Canadian ice hockey player and NHL coach...
J?rgen Nash: Danish artist (Born 1920).
Frank ''Pop'' Ivy: American and Canadian football coach...
TK Doraiswamy (also known as Nakulan): Indian poet and author (Born 1921).
Jung Seung-hye: South Korean film producer (Born 1965).
Paul Dukas: French composer whose reputation as a...
Lucien Herr: French leader (Correspondance entre...
Scott Brayton: American race car driver (Born 1959).
Sharon Sheeley: American singer-songwriter (d. 2002).
Nandor Fodor: Hungarian-American psychologist...
Dave Berg: American soldier and cartoonist (d....
Ernest Nash: German-Italian photographer and scholar...
Mario Benedetti: Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet...
Jakob Ehrlich: Austrian politician and zionist (Born...
Guido von List: Austrian-German journalist and poet (d....
Harold Geiger: American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1927).
Herbert David Croly: US founder (New Republic), dies at age...
Walasse Ting: Chinese-American painter and poet (d....
Robert Webber: Actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74.
Donald Coggan: 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (Born...
Johan [Eliza J] de Master: Art critic / writer.
Timothy Cole: Wood engraver.
Montagu Love: Actor (Wind), dies at 65.
Jan van Geenen: Resistance fighter.
Eduardo Fabini: Composer, dies at 67.
Karl Heinrich David: Composer, dies at 66.
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Music charts

Which were the top hits in that special week of May 17 over the years?

Top #1 songs in the USA

2017 I'm The One - DJ Khaled Featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne
2016 One Dance - Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla
2015 See You Again - Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth
2014 John Legend - All Of Me
2013 Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
2010 Eminem - Not Afraid
2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2007 Makes Me Wonder - Maroon5
2006 Rihanna - SOS
2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
2004 Usher - Yeah!
2003 Sean Paul - Get Busy
2002 Ashanti - Foolish
2001 Janet - All For You
2000 Maria, Maria - Santana
1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
1998 Next - Too Close
1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
1996 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
1994 All-4-One - I Swear
1993 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
1992 Kris Kross - Jump
1991 Hi-Five - I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)
1990 Madonna - Vogue
1989 Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl
1988 Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
1987 U2 - With Or Without You
1986 Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
1985 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
1984 Lionel Richie - Hello
1983 David Bowie - Let's Dance
1982 Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
1980 Blondie - Call Me
1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
1978 Wings - With A Little Luck
1977 Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
1976 The Sylvers - Boogie Fever
1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
1974 Ray Stevens - The Streak
1973 Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
1970 The Guess Who - American Woman
1969 Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) - The 5th Dimension
1968 Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
1967 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
1965 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
1964 Mary Wells - My Guy
1963 Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
1959 Dave Baby Cortez - The Happy Organ
1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

2017 Believer - Imagine Dragons
2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
2015 Shut Up And Dance - WALK THE MOON
2014 Bastille - Pompeii
2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
2012 Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye Featuring Kimbra
2011 Rope - Foo Fighters
2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines

Books

Which were the most popular books released around May 17 over the years?

Malice

Year: 1996

By: Danielle Steel

In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice.At

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Year: 1961

By: Harper Lee

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960.

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The Long Road Home

Year: 1998

By: Danielle Steel

Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.From

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The Right Words At The Right Time

Year: 2002

By: Marlo Thomas

For those of us in need of hope, a hero, or a healthy dose of inspiration, here is a heartwarming collection of personal revelations from some of today's greatest luminaries whose

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The Audacity Of Hope

Year: 2007

By: Barack Obama

The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans.

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Vintage Magazines

Movies

Alien

Once Upon a Time in America

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Saaransh

The Thin Man

Historical Events

Music charts

Books

Malice

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Long Road Home

The Right Words At The Right Time

The Audacity Of Hope