The U.S. Mint has revealed some of the designs for the quarters featuring Korean American disability rights activist Stacey Park Milbern as part of the bureau’s American Women Quarters program. Key details: Milbern is one of five women who will be honored by the U.S. Mint as part of its American Women Quarters Program for 2025, the bureau announced in a press release on Oct. 17. The four other women featured in the 2025 program are NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells, Girl Scouts organization in America founder Juliette Gordon Low, trailblazing multi-sport athlete Althea Gibson and trailblazing astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin.
Nico Santos and longtime partner Zeke Smith have officially tied the knot in a “Big Gay” wedding that coincided with Pride Weekend in Palm Springs, California. Tying the knot: Santos, 44, and Smith, 35, held their wedding ceremony at the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs on Saturday.
A symbolic farewell: Identified in reports as Wang, the 25-year-old woman from the southwestern province of Sichuan decided to conduct funeral rites on Oct. 28 at a florist shop in Chengdu to say goodbye to her past love, according to local platform Sohu. Constantly hounded by friends about her wedding plans, Wang found a creative way to put an end to the inquiries by inviting her friends to a unique gathering. This allowed Wang and her friends to release pent-up emotions and reflect on the significance of embracing the unknown.
Hollywood and Bollywood stars recently came together in separate glamorous gatherings in New York City and Mumbai to celebrate this year's Diwali, the Festival of Lights. The star-studded event centered on culture and style and saw Indian celebrities donning traditional ensembles. The gala exhibited a grand showcase of Bollywood fashion with local stars stunning the crowd in resplendent traditional ensembles.
A group of scientists from Minami Kyushu University in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, accidentally discovered a virus that only targets male insects, a discovery that could, one day, potentially help control the populations of disease vectors like mosquitoes. A caterpillar: The discovery of the virus, later named Spodoptera litura male-killing virus or SLMKV, all happened accidentally after Misato Terao, a research technician at the university, found a green caterpillar, identified as a tobacco cutworm, eating impatiens inside the campus greenhouse, according to The New York Times. Instead of properly disposing of the intruder, Misato decided to bring the caterpillar to the university’s insect physiologist, Yoshinori Shintani, who thought that it would be a good feeder for the other insects.