tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41561801973961791652024-03-12T22:30:54.299-07:00History<center><img src="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:hf0Hei6YdmjbdM:http://helios.library.ca.gov/sho/transportation/csl_006.jpg"></center>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-12547546188456983422011-04-25T15:27:00.001-07:002011-04-25T15:27:59.379-07:00<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-size: 85%;">*ARTICLE UPDATES ARE ON A TEMPORARY HOLD DUE TO LACK OF STAFF.<br />ENJOY THE AVAILABLE ARTICLES IN THE MEANTIME!*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-size: 85%;">-HHZ Commentator <span class="messageBody">♥</span></span>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-1510463930859549292010-04-02T14:05:00.000-07:002010-04-02T14:13:49.222-07:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100331/sc_livescience/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >When Did April Fool's Day Begin?</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100331/sc_livescience/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 103px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MsZb8mYFoCs/SdOafwU4gqI/AAAAAAAAFtA/lPLWwDnJa6Q/s288/article-1166077-0433679D000005DC-249_468x286.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_0">April Fool's Day</span>, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began. <p> A giddy spurt of practical joking seems to have coincided with the coming of spring since the time of the <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin/35661209/SIG=11ig7s6ns/*http://www.livescience.com/php/trivia/?aid=19215"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_1">Ancient Romans and Celts</span></a>, who celebrated a festival of mischief-making. The first mentions of an All Fool's Day (as it was formerly called) came in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_2">Europe</span> in the <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin/35661209/SIG=121nvkh3d/*http://www.livescience.com/history/060803_medieval_torture.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_3">Middle Ages</span></a>. </p> <p> Some trace April Fool's Day back to Roman <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin/35661209/SIG=11pvr48l0/*http://www.livescience.com/animals/top10_dragons-1.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_4">mythology</span></a>, particularly the story of Ceres, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_5">Goddess of the harvest</span>, and her daughter, <span style="cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_6">Proserpina</span>. </p> <p> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_7">Pluto</span>, God of the Dead, abducted Proserpina and took her to live with him in the underworld. The girl called out to her mother, but Ceres could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice and searched for her in vain. </p> <p> Such "fool's errands," or wild goose chases, became a popular <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270113239_8">practical joke</span> in Europe in later centuries.<br /></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100331/sc_livescience/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-34520383334083630562010-03-23T18:32:00.000-07:002010-03-23T18:34:36.150-07:00<a href="http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-did-not-gradually-die-out.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Dinosaurs Did Not Gradually Die Out</span></a><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-did-not-gradually-die-out.html"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 62px;" src="http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef01310fb7bbac970c-500pi" alt="" border="0" /></a>Non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, and now researchers have proven that this die-off didn't happen over a long period of time. </p> <p>A detailed look at dinosaur bones, tracks and eggs located at 29 archaeological sites located in the Catalan Pyrenees reveals that there was a large diversity of dinosaur species living there just before the fatal K-T extinction event, which many scientists believe was caused by several large meteors hitting Earth.</p> Dinosaurs thrived outside of this part of Spain as well before 65 million years ago, such as in North America, but this particular research, published in the journal <em>Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology</em>, focused on the Catalan region, a former dinosaur hotbed.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-did-not-gradually-die-out.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-30119729779318472162010-03-20T18:19:00.000-07:002010-03-20T19:07:17.998-07:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7441937/Nazis-planned-to-infiltrate-Vatican-with-spies-dressed-as-monks.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Nazis had planned to infiltrate Vatican with spies dressed as monks </span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Germany hatched a plan during World War Two to infiltrate the Vatican with spies disguised as monks, according to secret MI5 intelligence reports.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7441937/Nazis-planned-to-infiltrate-Vatican-with-spies-dressed-as-monks.html"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 104px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01501/rome-vatican_1501500c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A Nazi sympathiser living in Rome came up with the idea and it was quickly seized upon by officials in Berlin who saw it as the ideal opportunity to keep up with Allied activity in the city. <p> The plan is revealed in MI5 reports held at the National Archives in Kew and which have now been declassified - and it comes just days after other files revealed how Germany had also tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. </p><!-- BEFORE ACI --> <p> Operation Georgian Convent as it was called involved the purchase of a building in Rome by Michael Kedia, a Russian anti communist Nazi sympathiser from Georgia (Russian Republic of) who was also known to British intelligence. </p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7441937/Nazis-planned-to-infiltrate-Vatican-with-spies-dressed-as-monks.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-6670119158545346122010-03-20T18:13:00.000-07:002010-03-20T18:16:26.923-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/australia-aborigines-tribe.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ancient Tribal Meeting Ground Found in Australia</span></a><br /><br /></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/australia-aborigines-tribe.html"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 133px;" src="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/2010/03/10/aborigine-278x225.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday.</p> <p>The site appears to have been the last place of refuge for Aboriginal tribes from the cannon fire of Australia's first white settlers, said Michael Mansell of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.</p><p>"When the archaeological report came out it showed that (life there) had gone back longer than any other recorded place anywhere else in Tasmania, dating back to 40,000 years," Mansell told AFP.</p> <p>Up to three million artifacts, including stone tools, shellfish fragments and food scraps, were believed to be buried in the area, which appeared to have been a meeting ground for three local tribes.</p> <p>They died out after white settlers arrived in the late 18th century.</p><p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/australia-aborigines-tribe.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-23786199091642678472010-03-13T22:28:00.000-08:002010-03-13T22:31:30.394-08:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030900183.html?hpid=moreheadlines"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Japan confirms Cold War-era 'secret' pacts with US</span></a><br /><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030900183.html?hpid=moreheadlines"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 112px;" src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/03/09/PH2010030900461.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>TOKYO -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/japan.html?nav=el" target="">Japan</a> confirmed Tuesday secret Cold War-era pacts with Washington that tacitly allowed nuclear warships in Japanese ports in violation of a hallowed postwar principle, effectively acknowledging that previous governments had lied about them for decades. </p> <p> While the move was welcomed as a step toward greater government transparency, atomic bomb survivors expressed disgust that officials kept such agreements hidden for dozens of years. </p> <p> The revelations came after an investigation by a panel of experts appointed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government, which swept to power last fall on promises to bring more openness to government. His left-leaning party defeated the long-ruling conservatives who repeatedly denied the existence of such agreements.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030900183.html?hpid=moreheadlines"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-40102642065806340592010-02-10T19:46:00.000-08:002010-02-10T19:51:18.880-08:00<a href="http://news.discovery.com/animals/earliest-bull-beef-fossil.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years</span></a><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.discovery.com/animals/earliest-bull-beef-fossil.html"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 133px;" src="http://news.discovery.com/animals/2010/02/09/bull-head-278x225.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The discovery of a new "missing link" species of bull dating to a million years ago in Eritrea pushes back the <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/08/cloned-bull-japan.html">beef steak</a> dinner to the very dawn of humans and cattle. </p> <p>Although there is no evidence that early humans were actually herding early <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/20/low-emission-cow.html">cattle</a> 2.5 million years ago, the early humans and early cattle certainly shared the same landscape and beef was definitely on the menu all along, say researchers.</p> The telltale fossil is a skull with enormous horns that belongs to the cattle genus <em>Bos</em>. It has been reassembled from over a hundred shards found at a dig that also contains early human remains.<br /><a href="http://news.discovery.com/animals/earliest-bull-beef-fossil.html"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-44999940528985240602010-02-03T18:33:00.000-08:002010-02-03T18:40:28.137-08:00<a href="http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/medieval-bridges-preserved-with-sugar.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Medieval Bridges preserved with Sugar</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/medieval-bridges-preserved-with-sugar.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 107px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:4IhECmXkWtiarM:http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/61755/pont_medieval_de_olargues.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Scientists have used 70 tons of liquid sugar to preserve the remains of three Medieval bridges found near Leicester. Experts from the University of Leicester immersed the 11th century bridges – whose ruins were so heavy they had to be carried in sections by eight-man teams – in tanks of sugar solution.<br /><br />Leicestershire County Council persuaded British Sugar to provide the sticky haul in three huge delivery batches after a retired local GP found the fragile 11th century timbers in Hemington Quarry near Castle Donington in 1993.<br /><br />"Securing the viability of the bridge is testament to the natural preservative qualities of sugar," said Dr Julian Cooper, head of food science at British Sugar.<br /><br /><a href="http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/medieval-bridges-preserved-with-sugar.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-024.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yes, I </span>know<span style="font-style: italic;"> we're out of sugar for the coffee, but we only have an hour of traveling left - NO! YOU CAN'T EAT THE BRIDGES!!"<br /><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credit: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><cite style="font-style: italic;">trekearth.com)</cite></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><br /></span></span>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-52088347264004258132010-01-26T09:14:00.000-08:002010-01-26T09:17:33.988-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100121/sc_nm/us_australia_creatures">Australian giants lived alongside man for a time<br /></a><br /></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100121/sc_nm/us_australia_creatures"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 117px;" src="http://www.downunderupdate.com/img/thunderbird.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>HONG KONG (Reuters) – Giant marsupials, reptiles and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264100847_0">flightless birds</span> that once roamed <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264100847_1">Australia</span> became extinct about 40,000 years ago, later than had been thought and some 5,000 years after humans arrived, a new study suggests.</p> <p> Controversy has long surrounded when such creatures became extinct in Australia. New equipment that can date teeth and bones has solved the puzzle, Australian researchers said in the latest issue of the journal Science.</p> <p> "For a long time, we couldn't measure bone and teeth, or how old they (animals) were when they died, that is, when they went extinct," paleontologist Barry Brook at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264100847_2">University of Adelaide</span> in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264100847_3">southern Australia</span> told Reuters by telephone.</p> <p> One of the new techniques used in the latest research was uranium thorium dating, which can gauge when uranium was taken up into the animal's teeth when it was still alive.</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100121/sc_nm/us_australia_creatures"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credit: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">downunderupdate.com)</cite></span></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-23648124321691421052010-01-24T15:02:00.000-08:002010-01-24T15:06:05.572-08:00<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-hawaii-historian18-2010jan18,0,6656076.story?track=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The battle over Hawaii's history</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Amateur historian Rick Rogers just knows Europeans visited the islands two centuries before Captain Cook landed in 1778. Trying to prove it and convince professionals, that's another story.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-hawaii-historian18-2010jan18,0,6656076.story?track=rss"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 154px;" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-01/51694599.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Finding evidence of a shipwreck beneath the ocean would finally prove a theory that Rogers, an amateur historian, has been promoting for decades. He thinks a handful of Spanish and Dutch ships visited Hawaii in the centuries before Captain Cook landed there in 1778. Some Europeans came ashore after shipwrecks, like the characters in "The Swiss Family Robinson," he claims, and eventually integrated into the local society. That early European influence in the 16th and 17th centuries forever changed Hawaiian culture, Rogers says.<br /><br />"It's cool -- you read 'Swiss Family Robinson' and pirate stories, and here it really did happen," said Rogers, a retired commercial airline pilot. "But nobody else is really paying attention to it."<br /><br />Rogers is following in the footsteps of others with no formal training who have tried to convince scholars that they've stumbled across great historical discoveries, correct or not. They include German businessman Heinrich Schliemann, who boasted he'd found archaeological proof that Troy actually existed, and adventurer Gene Savoy, who said he'd found dozens of Inca settlements in Peru while on the hunt for El Dorado, the fabled city of gold.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-hawaii-historian18-2010jan18,0,6656076.story?track=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-78310031588077993452010-01-18T09:29:00.000-08:002010-01-18T09:34:58.433-08:00<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100118/tv_nm/us_amc"><span style="font-size:130%;">AMC developing White House scandal miniseries</span></a><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:NxA1mjW0dapDlM%3Ahttp://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/72151242/whitehouse_bigger.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 90px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:NxA1mjW0dapDlM%3Ahttp://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/72151242/whitehouse_bigger.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - <a itxtdid="16783246" target="_blank" href="http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=958120#" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_0_0">AMC </nobr></a>is developing a miniseries set during the 1920s presidency of Warren Harding.</p> <p>"Black Gold<span class="iAs" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;font-size:100% ! important;color:#da0000;" ><nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_1_0"></nobr></span>: The Teapot Dome Scandal," adapted from a nonfiction <a itxtdid="16831180" target="_blank" href="http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=958120#" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_1_1">book</nobr></a> by Laton McCartney, depicts the orchestration of Harding's election to the White House by big oil companies.</p> <p>"'Teapot Dome' is quite possibly the most outrageous political scandal in American history," said Joel Stillerman, AMC's senior vp of original programing. "It is bawdy and substantive at the same time, and reminds us that nefarious connection between the oil industry and our government is not a new phenomenon."</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reference Article: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100118/tv_nm/us_amc">Yahoo! News</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credit: twitter.com)</span></span><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-11121585497563733102010-01-18T09:23:00.000-08:002010-01-18T09:28:02.585-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" rel="internal" href="http://educationfrontblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/conservatives-in-ted-kennedy-o.html">Conservatives in, Ted Kennedy out of U.S. history standards</a></span><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://educationfrontblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/conservatives-in-ted-kennedy-o.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 104px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:n-L9PFsqIFMYpM%3Ahttp://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/winter/images/iwo-jima.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>State Board of Education members Friday narrowly approved a change in proposed U.S. history standards that calls on students to be taught about leading conservative groups from the 1980s and 1990s - with no similar requirement for liberal groups. Pushed by board member Don McLeroy, R-College Station, the provision says students should learn about "key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s" including <a target="_blank" class="DL-topic-highlighted" href="http://topics.dallasnews.com/topic/Eagle_Forum">Eagle Forum</a><span> </span>founder <a target="_blank" class="DL-topic-highlighted" href="http://topics.dallasnews.com/topic/Phyllis_Schlafly">Phyllis Schlafly</a>.</p> <p>The amendment was approved on a 7-6 vote, with the social conservative bloc on the board providing all but one of the affirmative voters. McLeroy explained that the history standards already were "rife with leftist political periods and events - the populists, the progressives, the New Deal and the Great Society. Including material about the conservative resurgence...provides some political balance to the document." Among the conservative groups that will be covered in history are the <a target="_blank" class="DL-topic-highlighted" href="http://topics.dallasnews.com/topic/National_Rifle_Association">National Rifle Association</a><span></span>, Moral Majority, <a target="_blank" class="DL-topic-highlighted" href="http://topics.dallasnews.com/topic/Heritage_Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a><span> </span>and Contract with America.</p><p><a href="http://educationfrontblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/conservatives-in-ted-kennedy-o.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">(Image credit: <cite style="font-style: italic;">archives.gov)</cite></span></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-74228653028530138722010-01-18T09:18:00.000-08:002010-01-18T09:20:42.186-08:00<a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100115/NEWS/1150343/King+s+FBI+files="><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >King's FBI files may be opened to public</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100115/NEWS/1150343/King+s+FBI+files="><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 150px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:MouCy8QM_Y2I0M%3Ahttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/7e1a9374682caf44_large" alt="" border="0" /></a>U.S. Sen. John Kerry plans to introduce legislation next week that would pave the way for the release of thousands of FBI documents on the life and death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.<p><span class="pp"></span>Kerry said the bill, which failed in 2006, can pass this year in honor of King. "I want the world to know what he stood for," Kerry said. "And I want his personal history preserved and examined by releasing all of his records."<span class="aa"></span></p>The bill calls for creating a Martin Luther King Records Collection at the National Archives that would include all government records related to King. The bill also would create a five-member independent review board that would identify and make public all documents from agencies including the FBI - just as a review board in 1992 made public documents related to the 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100115/NEWS/1150343/King+s+FBI+files="><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-63339754860857871212010-01-15T14:06:00.000-08:002010-01-15T14:07:40.770-08:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100115/sc_livescience/biblepossiblywrittencenturiesearliertextsuggests"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier</span></a><br /><br /><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100115/sc_livescience/biblepossiblywrittencenturiesearliertextsuggests"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 137px;" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100107/capt.photo_1262891503682-1-0.jpg?x=213&y=160&xc=1&yc=1&wc=409&hc=307&q=85&sig=hikDtRBHKtBDxz5wVhf4mQ--" alt="" border="0" /></a>Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing - an inscription dating from the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1263593154_0">10th century</span> B.C., during the period of King David's reign. </p> <p> The breakthrough could mean that portions of the Bible were written centuries earlier than previously thought. (The Bible's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1263593154_1">Old Testament</span> is thought to have been first written down in an ancient form of Hebrew.) </p> <p> Until now, many scholars have held that the Hebrew <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/biblepossiblywrittencenturiesearliertextsuggests/34742032/SIG=122ejt34i/*http://www.livescience.com/history/071211-fundamental-birth.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1263593154_2">Bible originated</span></a> in the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1263593154_3">6th century</span> B.C., because Hebrew writing was thought to stretch back no further. But the newly deciphered Hebrew text is about four centuries older, scientists announced this month.<br /></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100115/sc_livescience/biblepossiblywrittencenturiesearliertextsuggests"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-61099190814798600962010-01-14T20:18:00.000-08:002010-01-14T20:26:28.558-08:00<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Miracle-of-the-Mens-Room/20434/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rembrandt Etching Found in D.C. Men's Room</span></span></a><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Miracle-of-the-Mens-Room/20434/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 158px;" src="http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/RembrandtEtching%5B1%5D.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Very Rev. David M. O'Connell went into the bathroom looking for paper towels. He came out with something a little better: an authentic Rembrandt etching.</p><p>Father O'Connell, president of the Catholic University of America, <a href="http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/Releases/2010//10RembrandtRelease.cfm">noticed a picture frame</a> jutting out from underneath a pile of junk in one of his office building's bathrooms last January, the university says. He pulled out an etching and thought it looked familiar.</p> <p>An appraiser confirmed that the 4.5-inch-by-5-inch piece is an original by the 17th-century Dutch painter. The etching isn't well known, but owning a Rembrandt is worth more than just its appraisal value, says Paul Westley Bush, a graduate student.</p><p>No one at Catholic University is sure how a Rembrandt piece ended up in the bathroom.</p><p><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Miracle-of-the-Mens-Room/20434/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-023.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 70px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-023.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yes, I'm positive it's not in my bag! I've checked everywhere! </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What's that? No, no, I </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">told<span style="font-style: italic;"> you, I picked it up, drove over to the university, stopped in for a minute, and then I just had to use the bathroom before I - oh - oh, no - wait a minute - </span>Oh dear....<span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></span><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-6094560902565335672010-01-05T09:54:00.000-08:002010-01-05T10:01:55.150-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100101/sc_livescience/100yearsagotheamazingtechnologyof1910">100 Years Ago: The Amazing Technology of 1910</a><br /><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100101/sc_livescience/100yearsagotheamazingtechnologyof1910"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:59R4RNFLx0aInM:http://www.avolli.com/photos/18.books.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The dawn of 2010 promises more amazing developments in the world of technology. Already, tourists can visit space, for a price, nearly everything and everyone is going digital, and medical science continues to test the boundaries of what makes us truly human. </p> <p> One full century ago, the new technologies that had people talking were considered just as groundbreaking. Electricity led the charge of developments that were changing the way people lived every day, with transportation and <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100101/sc_livescience/100yearsagotheamazingtechnologyof1910"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:UHYnod64yvpilM:http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ebooks_250x2511.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>chemistry not far behind. </p> <p> As the clocks of 1909 ticked towards 1910, more exciting <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/100yearsagotheamazingtechnologyof1910/34591365/SIG=11egm6f9f/*http://www.livescience.com/topic/innovation/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262361992_0">inventions</span></a> were just around the corner.<br /></p><p>The early years of the century saw the general public finally able to enjoy the fruits of what was achieved in electrical engineering during the previous century. By 1910, many suburban homes had been wired up with power and new electric gadgets were being patented with fervor. Vacuum cleaners and washing machines had just become commercially available, though were still too expensive for many middle-class families.<br /></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100101/sc_livescience/100yearsagotheamazingtechnologyof1910"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credits: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">avolli.com, </cite><cite style="font-style: italic;">searchenginepeople.com)</cite></span></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-24452550944164658432010-01-05T09:50:00.000-08:002010-01-05T09:52:05.234-08:00<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fdr_kept_deadly_disease_hidden_for_5EQDNU3uhriRo1HQRdmTrN"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >FDR kept deadly disease hidden for years</span></a><br /><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fdr_kept_deadly_disease_hidden_for_5EQDNU3uhriRo1HQRdmTrN"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 178px;" src="http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/01/03/news/photos_stories/GNEU2380124739--300x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Some 65 years ago, as <span class="topiclink">World War II</span> raged in Europe and the Pacific, the American people faced an unprecedented constitutional crisis of which they were completely unaware -- and which has remained a secret ever since.</p><p>It has long been known that President <span class="topiclink">Franklin D. Roosevelt</span>, during the last year of his life, was gravely ill with serious cardiac problems: He'd been diagnosed with acute heart failure in March 1944 and suffered from astronomically <span class="topiclink">high blood pressure</span> and arteriosclerosis.</p><p>But what the public did not know was that four years earlier, while still in the second of his four terms as president, FDR had been diagnosed with a deadly skin cancer, melanoma, in a lesion over his left eyebrow.</p><p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fdr_kept_deadly_disease_hidden_for_5EQDNU3uhriRo1HQRdmTrN"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-2432763330553624792009-12-25T22:46:00.000-08:002009-12-25T22:51:30.547-08:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6864627/Shakespeare-was-a-secret-Catholic-new-exhibition-shows.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Shakespeare was 'secret Catholic'</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Linked! </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >article with <a href="http://hhz-english.blogspot.com/">HHZ-English</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The leading English seminary in Rome has unveiled documents that suggest William Shakespeare was a Roman Catholic.<br /></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6864627/Shakespeare-was-a-secret-Catholic-new-exhibition-shows.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 193px;" src="http://home.mchsi.com/%7Epbllimited/drw-Shakespear.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Venerable English College has claimed that England's leading playwright was a secret Catholic who spent "lost years" in Rome. </p><p>Father Andrew Headon, the vice-rector of the college, said that college records correspond with a previously undocumented period in Shakespeare's life after he left Stratford in 1585 and before he emerged as a playwright in London in 1592. "There are several years which are unaccounted for in Shakespeare's life," said Father Headon.</p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6864627/Shakespeare-was-a-secret-Catholic-new-exhibition-shows.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-29617792913329432412009-12-20T20:43:00.000-08:002009-12-20T20:46:37.415-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/wl_canada_afp/sciencearcheologyfoodcanadamozambique_20091217194033">Cereal is much older than we thought - </a><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/wl_canada_afp/sciencearcheologyfoodcanadamozambique_20091217194033">100,000 years, to be exact</a><br /><br /></span></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/wl_canada_afp/sciencearcheologyfoodcanadamozambique_20091217194033"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 108px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Fme7GEfysNtbVM:http://www.freefoto.com/images/09/04/09_04_2---Breakfast-Cereal_web.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>OTTAWA (AFP) – Starting the day right by eating a bowl of cereal in the morning dates back more than 100,000 years, according to Canadian researchers in a study to be released Friday.</p> <p> "The consumption of wild cereals among <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261079018_0">prehistoric hunters and gatherers</span> appears to be far more ancient than previously thought," said study author Julio Mercader.</p> <p> Indeed, scientific evidence until now showed the practice started only 12,000 years ago at the closing stages of the last Ice Age.</p><p> The <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261079018_3">University of Calgary archeologist</span> recovered dozens of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261079018_4">stone tools</span>, animal bones and plant remains dating back more than 100,000 years ago.</p> <p> Thousands of starch grains on excavated plant grinders and scrapers showed that wild sorghum -- the ancestor of the chief cereal consumed today in <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261079018_5">sub-Saharan Africa</span> for flours, breads, porridges and alcoholic beverages -- was brought to the cave and processed systematically, said the study.</p> <p> "This happened during the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261079018_6">Middle Stone Age</span>, a time when the collecting of wild grains has conventionally been perceived as an irrelevant activity and not as important as that of roots, fruits and nuts," Mercader said.</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/wl_canada_afp/sciencearcheologyfoodcanadamozambique_20091217194033"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-48204644010264777952009-12-20T20:32:00.000-08:002009-12-20T20:37:15.880-08:00<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121553687"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Monument In Cleopatra's Underwater City</span></a><br /><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121553687"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 169px;" src="http://media.npr.org/images/ap//AP_News_Wire:_Latest_Headlines/5_Mideast_Egypt_Sunken_Treasures.sff_300.jpg?t=1261112630" alt="" border="0" /></a>Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of Alexandria.</p><p>The pylon, which once stood at the entrance to a temple of Isis, is to be the centerpiece of an ambitious underwater museum planned by Egypt to showcase the sunken city, believed to have been toppled into the sea by earthquakes in the 4th century.</p><p>The pylon was part of a sprawling palace from which the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and where 1st Century B.C. Queen Cleopatra wooed the Roman general Marc Antony before they both committed suicide after their defeat by Augustus Caesar.</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121553687"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-68643090569933505942009-12-13T11:28:00.000-08:002009-12-13T11:30:51.040-08:00<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091209-ancient-tablets-decoded.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Ancient Tablets Decoded; Shed Light on Assyrian Empire</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091209-ancient-tablets-decoded.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 113px;" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/091209-ancient-tablets-decoded_170.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform, an ancient script once common in the Middle East, were unearthed in summer 2009 in an ancient palace in present-day southeastern <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_turkey.html">Turkey.</a><br /><br />Palace scribes jotted down seemingly mundane state affairs on the tablets during the Late Iron Age—which lasted from roughly the end of the ninth century B.C. until the mid-seventh century B.C.<br /><br />But these everyday details, now in the early stages of decoding, may open up some of the inner workings of the Assyrian government—and the people who toiled in the empire, experts say.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091209-ancient-tablets-decoded.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-21147066891384210352009-12-06T16:44:00.000-08:002009-12-06T16:46:56.163-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/04/jefferson.letter/index.html">Student Finds Thomas Jefferson Personal Letter</a><br /><br /></span></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/04/jefferson.letter/index.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 131px;" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/12/04/jefferson.letter/story.jefferson.portrait.gi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><b>(CNN)</b> -- In a nondescript conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian's equivalent to a needle in a haystack.</p> <p>Amanda Daddona said she discovered a personal letter from Thomas Jefferson amid one of 200 boxes of legal documents, minutes from meetings and day-to-day correspondence of a prominent Delaware family.</p> <p>"The first thing I recognized was his signature," said Daddona, 22, who is getting her master's degree in history. "It was really, really exciting. I just sat with it for a few minutes and looked it over and savored the moment."</p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/04/jefferson.letter/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-40623095110686384112009-12-06T16:39:00.000-08:002009-12-06T16:42:46.022-08:00<a href="http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-wwiiplane-nov09,0,5061111.story"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >WWII plane recovered from Lake Michigan</span></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-wwiiplane-nov09,0,5061111.story"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 134px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ZDWwpiQ78_0CVM:http://craiconthegrand.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/lake_michigan_ice_january_19_2008_6__soul-amp1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>WAUKEGAN, Ill. - <!-- P2P_LIVE_EDIT "content_item_dateline_preview" END --> A World War II Fighter Plane has been recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan.<br /><br />A crane pulled the plane out Monday at Waukegan Harbor, but the process has been going on for months.<br /><br />It was back in 1945, when the F6F-3 Hellcat sank, during a training flight. The pilot, Walter B. Elcock, now 89, barely survived the crash. While he couldn't make it to the recovery, his grandson, Hunter Brawley did.<br /><br />Brawley recalls his grandfather telling him all about the plane crash as a kid and was excited to be at the recovery.<br /><br />"I'm shocked, flabbergasted, this is history and it's amazing," said Brawley.<br /><br />Brawley says he carefully recorded Monday's event to share with his Grandfather.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-wwiiplane-nov09,0,5061111.story"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-24778215177238451452009-11-12T18:18:00.000-08:002009-11-12T18:23:18.226-08:00<a href="http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=101007"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert </span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago.<br /></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=101007"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 97px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:6q2gDHndGV4rIM:http://s258.photobucket.com/albums/hh272/aquila_deus/eastern/aor_persia_heavy_cavalry_shoot-1024.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.</p> <p>Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.</p><p><a href="http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=101007"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-39715140746362568232009-11-10T14:38:00.000-08:002009-11-10T14:43:03.309-08:00<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8352591.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Play for king sold for </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >£84,000</span></a><p class="first"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8352591.stm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 113px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46609000/jpg/_46609734_jacobeanplay2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">BBC News - </span>A Jacobean manuscript of a play which was to have been performed for James I and was later found in a trunk at a castle has sold at auction for £84,000.</p><p>The heavily crossed out draft for The Amazon was discovered in an attic at Powis Castle in Welshpool, Powys. </p><p>The hitherto unknown play by Lord Edward Herbert of Chirbury had been valued at £90,000 by Bonhams in London. </p><p>It is believed the play was to have been performed before the king and his court in 1618, but it was cancelled.<br /></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8352591.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p>Laurel, Christine, Caeli, Sunny Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883181287059561676noreply@blogger.com0