Author: Mariah Wheeler

A cab driver who locked his cab doors to prevent a suicide bomber from getting out on Remembrance Sunday and survived the subsequent blast has been hailed a hero. As the U.K. was about to hold a two-minute’s silence to remember those who lost their lives fighting for their country was driving a customer to the hospital. The 45-year-old cab driver, David Perry, became suspicious of the man in his cab and reportedly locked the cab doors to prevent him from getting out. Dramatic footage of the incident shows the moment Perry pulls up outside the hospital just before 11 a.m.…

Few figures in history have carried themselves with the same air of infallibility, the same sense of strength and grace as Queen Elizabeth II of England. The long-reigning monarch (longest-reigning, we should say) has experienced all that a queen could expect to experience during her time on the throne, and then some.Through it all, she’s proven to be beacon of redoubtable reliability, a titan in an arena that has no place for the weak or unsure. Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of her coronation; scarcely has there been a queen or king who has carried the unwavering support of…