Blog

How Uncle Fester helped raise more than $1 million for Armenian Genocide Victims

Uncle Fester helped raise more than $1 million ($15 million in 2019) for Armenian Genocide victims. The actor Jackie Coogan was 10 years old at the time and 3 years earlier had starred in the Char...

Armenians For Freedom For All: The Story Behind a Photo From a 1965 Martin Luther King Rally

Bethel Bilezikian Charkoudian didn’t know this photo was being taken. She didn’t even know who took it

Vessel of Hope: David Vartanian, The Titanic Survivor

David Vartanian, a 22-year-old Armenian, fled the crumbling Ottoman Empire and secured a ticket on the Titanic's maiden voyage to America in 1912. Like many young Armenian men of the time; his plan...

The Armenians of Springfield

The Simpsons has been running for 26 years and throughout that time a small number of unexpected Armenian references have been made. Here is a rundown of some of the familiar and not so familiar ...

Forgotten Art: Soviet Era Armenian Movie Posters

'Chaos' (1974) By Karapet Eranyan   Though its glory days have faded into non-existence, Armenia cinema was once a robust, flourishing industry that began in the 1920s with the opening of Armenia...

Hye Superstars: Armenian pop records of yesteryear

Vintage Armenian Cigarette Package Designs

Masis Cigarettes, Circa 1970s Sasuntsi Davit, Circa 1970s Armenia Cigarettes, Circa 1970s Yerevan Cigarettes, 1979   Ararat Smoking Tobacco, Made in Detroit, Circa 1930s Aurora cigarettes...

The Letterhead Designs of Armenian Businesses in the Ottoman Empire

 A collection of graphics used by Armenian businesses in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s.                                                                   

Exclusive: Jose Mourinho joins Henrikh Mkhitaryan for Armenian Christmas dinner

  ARA THE RAT EXCLUSIVE On the evening of Saturday January 6th, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho joined Henrikh Mkhitaryan for an Armenian Christmas dinner at his Manchester residence. Ha...

The Armenian-American Dracula That Never Was: The Story of Arthur Edmund Carew

Audiences were intrigued by his “dark and mysterious look,” newspapers wrote about his brooding Armenian eyes that helped him play critically acclaimed roles no one else could. He was the first Arm...