Tag: Rachel Melikian
OPINION By Rachel Melikian Remembering the Past Why should we remember the past, the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 1915? Several elected officials, lawyers, and hostesses…
Melikian, K. S., photographer. (1922) Mount Ararat, Armenia,/ copied by K.S. Melikian Photographer, Melikian Portrait Studio, 421 Main St., Worcester, MA 01608. Turkey Mount Ararat, 1922. [, Printed Later] [Photograph] (Retrieved from the Library of Congress)
OPINION by Rachel Melikian President Calvin Coolidge and the World’s Biggest Hand-Woven Carpet We leave history behind as time passes. Motion pictures move us while…
The Ghazir Orphan Rug woven by Armenian orphans as a gift for President Coolidge in 1925 (public domain)
By Rachel Melikian We would like to know what the reason for committing genocide is, whether it’s about the oil or the gold, or it’s…
By Rachel Melikian Science cannot stop wars to bring peace. It cannot extinguish a deadly wildfire when it’s out of control. Moreover, it cannot stop…
By Rachel Melikian The night before the Armenian Genocide commemoration on April 24 there is a candlelight vigil, but this year, 2020, the commemoration of…
By Rachel Melikian A Canadian woman, Wendy Elliott, became a graphic designer because she liked building things, and solving puzzles and mysteries in her childhood.…
By Rachel Melikian The Journey to “Gate to Heaven” Movies, politics, culture, and religion each have a different role in highlighting the marvel of nature,…
"Gate to Heaven" director Jivan Avetisyan (Photo by Safi-iren [CC BY-SA])
By Rachel Melikian An orphaned unknown teenage girl, the greatest, bravest woman in history, miraculously arrived alone in the United States 101 years ago, after…
Poster for the 1919 film "Auction of Souls" starring Aurora Mardiganian. (Author Unknown)
By Rachel Melikian What do Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Franz Werfel, Clark Gable, Sarky Mouradian, and Sylvester Stallone have in common? They were fascinated by the Armenian…
A still from the 1980 film "Forty Days of Musa Dagh." YouTube