tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41561801973961791652011-11-27T15:18:49.689-08:00History<center><img src="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:hf0Hei6YdmjbdM:http://helios.library.ca.gov/sho/transportation/csl_006.jpg"></center>Christinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag: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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1254754618845698342?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-151046393085954929?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3452038333408363056?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3011972977931847216?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-667011915854534612?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2378619909164267847?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4010264206580634059?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4499994052898524060?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5208834726400425813?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2364812432169142105?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7831003158807799345?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1112158549756373310?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7422865302853013872?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6333975486085787121?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6109919081479860096?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-609456090256533567?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2445255094416465843?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-243276333055362479?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2961779291332943241?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4820464401026477795?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6864309056993350594?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2114706689138421035?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4062309511068638411?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2477821517723845145?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@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><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3971514074636256823?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-60539559751168787572009-11-08T14:05:00.000-08:002009-11-08T14:10:35.254-08:00<a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091105/remembrance-day-approaches-one-six-children-think-auschwitz-istheme-park-and-one-ten-think-hitler-wa.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >1/6 UK children think Auschwitz is a theme park,</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091105/remembrance-day-approaches-one-six-children-think-auschwitz-istheme-park-and-one-ten-think-hitler-wa.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >1/10 think Hitler was a football manager</span></a><br /><br /><br /><div id="bodytext1" class="fontresize10"><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091105/remembrance-day-approaches-one-six-children-think-auschwitz-istheme-park-and-one-ten-think-hitler-wa.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 183px;" src="http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/hitler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A survey conducted by a veterans charity has found startling evidence that school children are increasingly ignorant of the history of the Second World War, with one in twenty believing Adolf Hitler to be a former national football team coach of Germany and one in six thinking that Auschwitz is a theme park.</p></div> <p>The survey, conducted by Erskine, which takes care of around 1,350 war veterans, asked 2,000 children aged nine to 15 a number of questions about the Second World War and got some astonishing results.</p><p>One in six of respondents said they thought that Auschwitz is a theme park based on the Second World War. One in 20 said that the Holocaust was the celebration of the end of the war, whilst one in ten said they believed that the SS were Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven.</p><p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091105/remembrance-day-approaches-one-six-children-think-auschwitz-istheme-park-and-one-ten-think-hitler-wa.htm"><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: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">cinemaretro.com)</span></cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6053955975116878757?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-55257586281115763232009-10-26T08:35:00.000-07:002009-10-26T08:44:26.181-07:00<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569580,00.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Possible Expedition to Titanic Shipwreck Planned for 2010</span></a><span id="intelliTXT"><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569580,00.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 119px;" src="http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Sciences/titanic-jason.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><strong>NORFOLK, Va. — The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck in 2010.</strong></p> <p>The first expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site since 2004 is revealed in a filing by RMS Titanic Inc. in U.S. District Court, where four days of hearings are scheduled to begin Monday on the company's claim for a salvage award.</p> <p>Lawyers for RMS Titanic Inc. confirmed the expedition plans but declined to discuss them in detail.</p><p><span id="intelliTXT">The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in international waters on April 15, 1912, and has been subject to competing legal claims since an international team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard found it in 1985. Since then, RMS Titanic has retrieved artifacts during six dives.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569580,00.html"><span id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" id="intelliTXT" >(Image credit: </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><cite style="font-style: italic;">astrosurf.com)</cite></span><span id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br /></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5525758628111576323?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-91267757914496069052009-10-23T11:01:00.000-07:002009-10-23T11:09:04.946-07:00<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/painting-picasso/story?id=8895829"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Painting Sold At Garage Sale For $2 Might Be a Picasso </span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Woman May Have Sold an Original Picasso Painting at a Garage Sale<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/painting-picasso/story?id=8895829"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 199px;" src="http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/10497.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>This week the Shreveport, La., resident learned that she might have had an original Picasso <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Technology/leonardo-da-vinci-painting-found/story?id=8822326" target="external">painting</a> in her possession, potentially worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars but sold it at a <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7873109&page=1" target="external">garage sale</a> for $2. <p> "I was floored. I had no idea in my wildest dreams that I could possibly have had millions in my driveway and sold it for $2," said Parker, who lives in a Shreveport trailer park.<br /></p><p> Parker held the sale to help out the relatives of an an 84-year-old neighbor -- a frequent <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/million-reward-stolen-andy-warhol-portraits-athletes/story?id=8555766" target="external">art collector</a> -- who had recently died. </p> The neighbor's relatives lived out of town and had tried to sell his belongings at an estate sale the week before, but didn't want to transport the unsold items back home with them, and gave them to Parker.<br /><br />Among those items was a painting that had "Picasso" written on it, but when she asked her neighbors' relatives about it, they said it was a fake and told not to worry about it, she said. <p> "I kept looking at this picture and said, Well it don't look like much, and it was in this cheap little frame," Parker said.<br /></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/painting-picasso/story?id=8895829"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-9126775791449606905?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-21689487451514212882009-10-22T10:14:00.000-07:002009-10-22T10:17:51.780-07:00<a href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=123876&catid=3"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >WW II veteran's color war films discovered</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=123876&catid=3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 129px;" src="http://www.wkyc.com/genthumb.ashx?e=3&h=240&w=320&i=/assetpool/images/091020091602_WORLD%20WAR%20II%20PHOTO%202%20400x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>MEDINA -- A World War II veteran is making another contribution to U.S. history, more than 60 years after the Bronze Star recipient served his country. <p>Herman Graebner, 89, remembers virtually every detail of his four years in the U.S. Army. What he didn't reveal until recently though, was that he had shot two reels of color movie film of the action he saw in the <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=123876&catid=3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 126px;" src="http://www.wkyc.com/genthumb.ashx?e=3&h=240&w=320&i=/assetpool/images/091020091649_WORLD%20WAR%20II%20PHOTO%205%20400x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>war.</p><p>Three daughters and more than 60 years later, Captain Graebner's re-discovered treasures will become part of a History Channel documentary series.</p> <p>"The value of what Herm has captured on 8 millimeter film is not only a documentary, but a record that will soon be gone," says Dr. James Banks, Graebner's neighbor, and an historian with the Crile Archives at Tri-C West.</p><p>"I say that they'll be gone because 15 years from now there might not be any World War II vets left to give us their first-hand accounts of what they did and what they saw," Banks tells WKYC.</p><p><a href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=123876&catid=3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2168948745151421288?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-66181764189705352782009-10-18T13:14:00.000-07:002009-10-18T13:17:25.395-07:00<a href="http://www.physorg.com/news174634964.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Researchers claim a third of dinosaurs might never have existed</span></a><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span></strong><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.physorg.com/news174634964.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 103px;" src="http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/trex.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(PhysOrg.com) --</span> A new ten-year study by US paleontologists suggests that up to a third of dinosaur fossils may have been incorrectly identified as new species, when they are actually juveniles of species in which there was a dramatic change as they developed.</span><br /><br /></strong>Jack Horner, of Montana State University, said in a new documentary to be aired on the National Geographic channel, that one example was the Nanotyrannus, which was identified as a separate species but which may in fact be a juvenile <a href="http://www.physorg.com/tags/tyrannosaurus+rex/" rel="tag" class="textTag">Tyrannosaurus Rex</a>, whose <a href="http://www.physorg.com/tags/skull/" rel="tag" class="textTag">skull</a> changed dramatically as it matured, becoming much less elongated. This was suggested after a dinosaur mid-way between the size of a Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus Rex was discovered.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news174634964.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6618176418970535278?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-72351037046406177152009-10-18T12:46:00.000-07:002009-10-18T12:50:40.984-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=62006&CultureCode=en"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New discoveries at world's oldest submerged town</span></a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=62006&CultureCode=en"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 132px;" src="http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pavlopetri.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago — at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought.<br /><br />The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project aims to establish exactly when the site was occupied, what it was used for and through a systematic study of the geomorphology of the area, how the town became submerged. <p>This summer the team carried out a detailed digital underwater survey and study of the structural remains, which until this year were thought to belong to the Mycenaean period — around 1600 to 1000 BC. The survey surpassed all their expectations. Their investigations revealed another 150 square metres of new buildings as well as ceramics that suggest the site was occupied throughout the Bronze Age — from at least 2800 BC to 1100 BC.</p><p><a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=62006&CultureCode=en"><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;">ablogabouthistory.com)</cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7235103704640617715?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-49156407766417739152009-10-15T18:43:00.000-07:002009-10-15T18:47:02.335-07:00<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015112140.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Ancient Aramaic Records Meet Technology</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;" class="date"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015112140.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 146px;" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/10/091015112140.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;" class="date">ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2009)</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> —</span> New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and written languages. <p>Members of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California are helping the University’s Oriental Institute make very high-quality electronic images of nearly 700 Aramaic administrative documents. The Aramaic texts were incised in the surfaces of clay tablets with styluses or inked on the tablets with brushes or pens. Some tablets have both incised and inked texts.</p><p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015112140.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4915640776641773915?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-58715582119992507872009-10-13T08:20:00.000-07:002009-10-13T08:23:29.704-07:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6309942/Leonardo-da-Vinci-picture-worth-millions-revealed-by-a-fingerprint.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >New Leonardo da Vinci picture discovered by a fingerprint</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />A previously unknown portrait by Leonardo da Vinci potentially worth tens of millions of pounds is thought to have been discovered thanks to a fingerprint.<br /><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6309942/Leonardo-da-Vinci-picture-worth-millions-revealed-by-a-fingerprint.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 204px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01500/da-vinci_1500533f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The painting, titled Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress, recently sold for a mere £12,000 ($19,000). It was billed at a Christie's sale in 1998 as "German, early 19th century". </p> <p> Peter Silverman, the Canadian-born owner, thought there was more to it and decided to get the drawing checked out after buying it in 2007.<br /></p><p> His hunch appears to have paid off. </p> <p> A Paris laboratory discovered that a fingerprint from the tip of an index or middle-finger, found on the top left of the picture, was "highly comparable" to one found on da Vinci's work St Jerome, which he painted early in his career when he did not have assistants, according to the Antiques Trade Gazette.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6309942/Leonardo-da-Vinci-picture-worth-millions-revealed-by-a-fingerprint.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5871558211999250787?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-9155695999197339142009-10-11T08:46:00.000-07:002009-10-11T08:52:25.551-07:00<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=8801083&page=2"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=8801083&page=2"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 128px;" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/53dffcae-f993-4c09-8f1a-4a7fd57426c0_mn.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>December 21, 2012 isn't the end of the world. Or is it? <p> Definitely not, a Mayan Indian elder, Chile Pixtun, insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."</p><p> ...Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.</p> <p> A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.</p> But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials.<br /><br />..."If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea," said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. "That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain."<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=8801083&page=2"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-915569599919733914?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-8804507595644260762009-10-09T09:43:00.000-07:002009-10-09T09:50:59.271-07:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Bible Wrongly Translated For Years; </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">God Did NOT Create The Earth</span>, </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >According to Respected Old Testament </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Scholar</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The notion of God as the Creator is wrong, claims a top academic, who says the Bible has been wrongly translated for thousands of years. </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 96px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:TcXuoJEQiB27aM:http://www.itiswrittenoceania.tv/images/bibleInfo003.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>By <a title="Richard Alleyne" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/richard-alleyne/">Richard Alleyne</a>, Science Correspondent <div class="slideshow ssPortrait"> </div> <p> Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew. </p> <p> She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 96px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:jVG9PrWSTuPKHM:http://impact.nbseminary.com/wp-content/uploads/writing_20bible_20scroll_201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.<br /></p><p>...She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb "bara", which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean "to create" but to "spatially separate". </p> <p> The first sentence should now read "in the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth"<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >(Image credits: </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><cite style="font-style: italic;">impact.nbseminary.com, </cite><cite style="font-style: italic;">itiswrittenoceania.tv)</cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-880450759564426076?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-15327515083772447422009-10-07T16:05:00.000-07:002009-10-07T16:07:15.732-07:00<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006104627.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >18th Century Ships' Logs Predict Future Weather Forecast</span></a><span class="date"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006104627.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 146px;" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/10/091006104627.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="date">S</span><span class="date">cienceDaily (Oct. 6, 2009)</span> — One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin's <em>Origin of the Species</em> revolutionised how we view the natural world. Now his voyages on HMS Beagle are influencing modern research on the evolution of our climate.<br /><p>The UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks (CORRAL) project has digitised nearly 300 ships’ logbooks dating back to the 1760s. The accurate weather information they contain is being used to reconstruct past climate change – hitherto untapped scientific data.</p> <p>Research team leader Dr Dennis Wheeler of the University of Sunderland comments: “The observations from the logbooks on wind force and weather are astonishingly good and often better than modern logbooks. Of course the sailors had to be conscientious – the thought that you could hit a reef was a great incentive to get your observations absolutely right!</p><p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006104627.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1532751508377244742?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-31259030936387010912009-10-04T19:36:00.000-07:002009-10-04T19:41:05.105-07:00<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6859446.ece"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >French general planned 18th-century invasion of Britain using American force</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6859446.ece"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 125px;" src="http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/184899/1/The-French-Army-Pulling-Down-The-Rosbach-Column,-18th-October-1806,-1810.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>From Julius Caesar to Adolf Hitler, the invasion of Britain has been a constant theme in the history of these islands, even if the successful attempts have been heavily outnumbered by the unsuccessful ones. <p> Until now, however, one plan has remained unknown: an 18th-century plot to invade with an American army during that country’s War of Independence. </p> <p> Drawn up by a French general, the scheme was to bring over an American force of 10,000 that would find a Britain so distracted by the war on the other side of the Atlantic, that victory would seem certain. Just to make sure, however, the general suggested that the force include a corps of Native Americans, or “<i>sauvages</i>”, as he termed them, who would strike such fear in British troops that any resistance would collapse immediately. </p><p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6859446.ece"><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;">1st-art-gallery.com)</cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3125903093638701091?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-88394077786293947462009-10-02T22:27:00.000-07:002009-10-02T22:32:52.932-07:00<span><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/41.html#117798"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remains of World's Oldest Brain Found in Armenia</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hnn.us/roundup/41.html#117798"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:rQYMFZmCji63vM:http://www.mcgill.ca/files/_nea/107432_brainXSmall.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span><span style="font-style: italic;">Washington, October 1 - </span>ANI: An Armenian-American-Irish archeological expedition claims to have found the remains of the worlds oldest <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(92, 138, 186); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;font-family:Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:85%;" class="IL_LINK_STYLE" >human brain</span>, estimated to be over 5,000 years old.</span><br /><br /><span> <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(92, 138, 186); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;font-family:Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:85%;" class="IL_LINK_STYLE" >The discovery</span> was made recently in a cave in southeastern Armenia.</span><br /><br /><span> An analysis performed by the Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(92, 138, 186); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;font-family:Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:85%;" class="IL_LINK_STYLE" >University of California</span><span>, Irvine confirmed that one of three human skulls found at the site contains particles of a <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">human brain</span> dating to around the first quarter of the 4th millennium BC. </span></span><br /><br />The preliminary results of the laboratory analysis prove this is the oldest of the human brains so far discovered in the world, said Dr. Boris Gasparian, one of the excavations leaders and an archeologist from the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Yerevan.<br /><br /><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/41.html#117798"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8839407778629394746?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-12108181246140727332009-10-01T11:55:00.000-07:002009-10-01T11:58:19.592-07:00<a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/etc/091001-human-ancestor-not-chimp-not-human.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Our Ancestor: Not Chimp, Not Human</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.livescience.com/history/etc/091001-human-ancestor-not-chimp-not-human.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 120px;" src="http://i.livescience.com/images/091001-ardipithecus-01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A petite female early human climbed along tree branches on all fours but spent time upright on the ground some 4.4 million years ago in her woodland home in what is now Ethiopia. <br /><br />This ancestral image comes from a partial skeleton of a hominid nicknamed "<a href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=history&c=news&l=on&pic=091001-ardipithecus-02.jpg&cap=Analyses+of+a+partial+skeleton+of+a+female+Ardipithecus+ramidus+nicknamed+Ardi%2C+suggest+the+early+human+would+have+stood+at+just+under+4+feet+%281.2+meters%29+tall+with+both+primitive+traits%2C+such+as+a+small+brains+size+similar+to+living+chimpanzees+and+those+shared+with+later+hominids%2C+such+as+bipedal+posture.+Credit%3A+%A9+2009%2C+J.H.+Matternes.&title=">Ardi</a>," who weighed in at 110 pounds (50 kg) with a height of just under 4 feet (120 cm).<br /><br />...The species brings scientists closer than ever to the last common ancestor we shared with chimpanzees and gorillas, which lived about 6 million or more years ago just before early humans split off from the chimpanzees and bonobos. (Anatomically modern humans, <em>Homo sapiens</em>, didn't appear on the scene until about 200,000 years ago.)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/etc/091001-human-ancestor-not-chimp-not-human.html">Read more....</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1210818124614072733?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-20477719157738448082009-09-30T19:34:00.000-07:002009-09-30T19:39:02.649-07:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6243803/Russia-casts-doubt-on-Hitler-skull-theory.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Russia casts doubt on Hitler skull theory </span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />Russia has questioned the credibility of new research claiming Adolf Hitler may have escaped at the end of the Second World War.</span><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6243803/Russia-casts-doubt-on-Hitler-skull-theory.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 140px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:REtOVBe_mPmEWM:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_a3CLgAuAq8k/ScLoHv7mkSI/AAAAAAAAJ7c/Tf7iiGrq5z4/s400/Hitler_w_youngmen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Officials in Moscow say they have no record of a US researcher who claims to have examined a skull fragment said to belong to the late Nazi dictator. </p> <p> Russia responded after a History Channel documentary claimed to have subjected the bone, which is kept in Moscow, to DNA testing and discovered it belonged to a woman and not Hitler. </p> <p> The program suggested its findings bolstered the theory that Hitler did not commit suicide in 1945 as is widely thought. </p> <p> But Vladimir Kozlov, deputy director of Russia's state archive where the fragment is stored, has cast doubt on the programme. He says he has no record that an American scientist called Nick Bellantoni who is shown in the program taking samples from the skull had ever been granted access. </p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6243803/Russia-casts-doubt-on-Hitler-skull-theory.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2047771915773844808?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-24065121542600710862009-09-29T18:22:00.000-07:002009-09-29T18:30:07.556-07:00<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_nero_s_dining_room"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Emperor's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_nero_s_dining_room"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 210px;" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090929/capt.fa2fffd16cc440f7b181efd9be6d028b.italy_nero_s_dining_room_rom102.jpg?x=213&y=336&xc=1&yc=1&wc=260&hc=410&q=85&sig=.yIRIj46pW6qVp8FjVRGcQ--" alt="" border="0" /></a>ROME – Not only was Nero a Roman emperor, it turns out he may also have been the father of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254269097_0">revolving restaurant</span>. Archaeologists unveiled Tuesday what they think are the remains of Nero's extravagant <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_1254269097_1">banquet hall</span>, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests. <p>The room, part of <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_1254269097_2">Nero's Golden Palace</span>, a sprawling residence built in the first century A.D., is thought to have been built to entertain government officials and VIPs, said lead archaeologist Francoise Villedieu.</p> <p>The emperor, known for his lavish and depraved lifestyle, was born in 37 A.D. and ruled from 54 A.D. to 68 A.D.</p> <p>The dig so far has turned up the foundations of the room, the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254269097_3">rotating mechanism</span> underneath and part of an attached space believed to be the kitchens, she said.</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_nero_s_dining_room"><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-024.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-024.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yes, it's quite lovely, isn't it? And the sun sets every evening on the right - er, no, I mean - the left side of the room..."</span></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2406512154260071086?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-60784670144918708322009-09-29T18:01:00.000-07:002009-09-29T18:04:28.460-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1216455/Hitlers-skull-really-womans-Fresh-doubts-death-tests-bullet-hole.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Uncertainty over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman </span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead, new DNA evidence shows.</span><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1216455/Hitlers-skull-really-womans-Fresh-doubts-death-tests-bullet-hole.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 158px;" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/27/article-0-00288EAE00000258-934_468x388.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader’s has turned out to be that of a woman under 40 after DNA analysis. </p><p>Scientists and historians had long thought it to be conclusive proof that Hitler shot himself in the head after taking a cyanide pill on 30 April 1945 rather than face the ignominy of capture.<br /></p><p>The piece of skull - complete with bullet hole - had been taken from outside the Fuhrer’s bunker by the Russian Army and preserved by Soviet intelligence.<br /></p> <p>Now the story of Hitler’s death will have to rewritten as a mystery - and conspiracy theorists are likely to latch on to the possibility that he may not have died in the bunker at all.</p><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1216455/Hitlers-skull-really-womans-Fresh-doubts-death-tests-bullet-hole.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6078467014491870832?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-51760730573062865532009-09-29T17:57:00.000-07:002009-09-29T17:59:18.646-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/09/laboratory-americas-most-prolific-inventor-opens-public-october-104637">Thomas Edison's Personal Laboratory Opens to the Public</a><br /><br /></span></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/09/laboratory-americas-most-prolific-inventor-opens-public-october-104637"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 183px;" src="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/files/storyphotos/taehandtoear022605007_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Thomas Edison's inventions changed the world, and starting on October 10th you'll be able to tour his laboratory complex at <a href="http://www.nps.gov/edis" class="bb-url">Thomas Edison National Historical Park</a> in New Jersey. Key areas, including Edison’s private laboratory, original music recording studio and a photography studio will open to the public for the first time in the history of the site. </p> <p>It would be hard for most Americans alive today to imagine life without <span class="bb-url">recorded music</span>, <span class="bb-url">movies</span> or <span class="bb-url">electric lighting</span>, and those are only a few of Edison's contributions to technology. The inventor earned 1,093 United States patents, a record number for one person that still stands. Beginning October 10th you can visit the impressive laboratory complex in West Orange, New Jersey, where Edison worked from 1887 until his death in 1931.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/09/laboratory-americas-most-prolific-inventor-opens-public-october-104637"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5176073057306286553?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-6169319387555266902009-09-28T19:24:00.000-07:002009-09-28T19:26:53.784-07:00<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/hg-wells-pictures/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >H.G. WELLS: 9 Predictions That Have, And Haven't, Come True</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/hg-wells-pictures/index.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 191px;" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/hg-wells-pictures/images/primary/090921-01-time-machine-hg-wells-birthday-predictions_big.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">September 21, 2009--</span>Actor Rod Taylor "tests" a <b>time machine</b> in a still from the 1960 film <i>The Time Machine,</i> inspired by a 1895 novella by British writer H.G. Wells. One of the founders of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells would have celebrated his 143rd birthday today.<br /><br />The time machine was one of many future technologies that H.G. Wells popularized in his 20 novels and dozens of short stories. Although such a device isn't one of Wells's fancies that has since come to fruition, a time machine is within the realm of possibility, said Richard Muller, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.<br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/hg-wells-pictures/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-616931938755526690?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-46668648950948105422009-09-26T20:03:00.000-07:002009-09-26T20:05:22.380-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8275648.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Koreans prepare for rare reunion </span></a></span><span class="byd"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8275648.stm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 195px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46444000/jpg/_46444489_yu-jung_226b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="byd"><span style="font-style: italic;">BBC News, Seoul - </span></span>Sitting on the floor, with her suitcase in front of her, 100-year-old Kim Yu-jung is preparing for a remarkable journey.<p>Surrounded by four of her children, the youngest of them now in his late 50s, she is packing some winter clothes for the colder weather in the North. </p><p>The family is one of a small number given a rare chance to meet their long-lost relatives from the other side of the border that cuts this peninsula, and the lives of its people, in half.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8275648.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4666864895094810542?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-54269735631147250542009-09-26T19:59:00.000-07:002009-09-26T20:02:53.652-07:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6234244/History-textbook-tells-pupils-USA-first-landed-on-moon-in-1979.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >History textbook says USA first landed on moon in 1979, JFK president in 1960</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" ><br /><br />An official history textbook used by thousands of GCSE pupils contains embarrassing errors, including the assertion that the United States won the race to the moon in 1979.<br /><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6234244/History-textbook-tells-pupils-USA-first-landed-on-moon-in-1979.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 124px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01444/buzzApollo11_1444949c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The new book, written by examiners, also tells pupils that John F Kennedy was president of America in 1960. </p> <p> Entitled <i>History: The Making of the Modern World</i>, the textbook for a new Edexcel GCSE history exam, the inaccuracies have been slammed by historians and teachers. </p> <p> "You have got to get these things right," said Sean Lang, a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridgeshire, and honorary secretary of the Historical Association. "The whole issue of exam boards putting out official exam text books that students then buy is highly suspect as it is, but if they are going to do it, you expect it to be right.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6234244/History-textbook-tells-pupils-USA-first-landed-on-moon-in-1979.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5426973563114725054?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-56871753914016684952009-09-25T09:17:00.000-07:002009-09-25T09:19:23.735-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_anglo_saxon_gold"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure uncovered in UK</span></a><br /><br /></span><div class="byline"> <cite class="vcard"> <span style="font-size:78%;">By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer <span class="fn org">Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press Writer</span></span> </cite> – <span style="font-size:78%;"><abbr title="2009-09-24T16:12:10-0700" class="timedate">Thu Sep 24, 7:12 pm ET</abbr></span></div><!-- end .byline --> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_anglo_saxon_gold"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 110px;" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/reuters/20090925/videolthumb.9704c338b2fe9f835836c326c9871ac1.jpg?x=213&y=160&xc=1&yc=1&wc=320&hc=240&q=85&sig=RDjbxl31kwrzq7P..wdSpQ--" alt="" border="0" /></a>LONDON – It's an unprecedented find that could revolutionize ideas about medieval England's Germanic rulers: An amateur treasure-hunter searching a farmer's field with a metal detector unearthed a huge collection of <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1253877311_0">Anglo-Saxon</span> gold and silver artifacts.</p> <p>The discovery sent a thrill through Britain's archaeological community, which said Thursday that it offers new insight into the world of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1253877311_1">Anglo-Saxons</span>, who ruled England from the fifth century until the 1066 Norman invasion and whose cultural influence is still felt throughout the English-speaking world.</p><p>"This is just a fantastic find completely out of the blue," Roger Bland, who managed the cache's excavation, told The Associated Press. "It will make us rethink the Dark Ages."</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_anglo_saxon_gold"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5687175391401668495?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-53726680565476710552009-09-24T12:40:00.000-07:002009-09-24T12:45:32.857-07:00<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8272473.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >A short history of long speeches</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >This is a <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Linked!</span> article - relevant content for both HHZ-History and <a href="http://hhz-english.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HHZ-English</span></a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8272473.stm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 110px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46435000/jpg/_46435861_000138531-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>For 96 long minutes, Colonel Gaddafi spoke to UN delegates about Somali pirates, the death of JFK, jet lag and his conspiracy theories about swine flu. Call that a long speech? It's but a tiddler.<br /><br />After an hour and a half of Mr Gaddafi speaking in person, it is not known how many of those listening logged on for more.<br /><br />Four hours and 29 minutes is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest speech in front of the General Assembly, given in September 1960 by Fidel Castro. The former Cuban leader is known for his interminable speeches - his longest on record in Cuba clocking up seven hours and 10 minutes at the 1986 Communist Party Congress.<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8272473.stm"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5372668056547671055?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-52899976452052229282009-09-22T11:02:00.000-07:002009-09-22T11:05:19.520-07:00<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915101147.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Rare Discovery: Engraved Gemstone Carrying A Portrait Of Alexander The Great</span></a><span class="date"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915101147.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 184px;" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/09/090915101147.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="date">ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2009)</span> — A rare and surprising archaeological discovery at Tel Dor: A gemstone engraved with the portrait of Alexander the Great was uncovered during excavations by an archaeological team directed by Dr. Ayelet Gilboa of the University of Haifa and Dr. Ilan Sharon of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<br /><br />"Despite its miniature dimensions – the stone is less than a centimeter high and its width is less than half a centimeter – the engraver was able to depict the bust of Alexander on the gem without omitting any of the ruler's characteristics," notes Dr. Gilboa, Chair of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa. "The emperor is portrayed as young and forceful, with a strong chin, straight nose and long curly hair held in place by a diadem."<br /><em><br />(Image Credit: No'a Raban-Gerstel, University of Haifa)</em><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915101147.htm"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5289997645205222928?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-27192227082792007812009-09-21T17:00:00.000-07:002009-09-21T17:04:03.023-07:00<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117153.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">Rice existed 4,000 years ago in Yangtze basin</span></a></h2><span class="source">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22580/"><i>Epoch Times</i></a> (9-17-09)New findings indicate that farming in the Yangtze Basin existed as early as 4,000 years ago. Excavation in the Xiezi Area of Hubei Province yielded a total of 402 cultural relics, including carbonized rice.<br /><br />Stone tools, pottery, bronze, jade and porcelain were unearthed, as well as a number of spinning wheels, drop spindles made of clay and other textile tools. There were also stone mounds and smelting relics such as slag. A variety of grains and seeds were found, and experts believe there may be carbonized wheat among the plant findings at the site.<br /><br /><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117153.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span><br /></a><br /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-024.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"A couple drops of water + pan + stove = yum!"</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2719222708279200781?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-82830726530228218122009-09-20T09:10:00.000-07:002009-09-20T09:24:40.726-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news172480666.html">Theory: Stone Age People had Sophisticated Navigation Networks</a></span><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Linked!</span> article - relevant content for HHZ-History and </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://hhz-math.blogspot.com/">HHZ-Math</a></span><br /><br /></strong><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.physorg.com/news172480666.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 91px;" src="http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/theorystonea.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><strong style="font-weight: normal;">(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory based on studies of locations of large landmarks in Britain, such as stone structures, hill forts and earthworks, suggests they were part of a grid used for navigation around 5,000 years ago, which implies people at the time were not as primitive as previously thought.<br /></strong><br />The theory, put forward by Tom Brooks, a retired marketing executive turned amateur historian, claims landmarks such as Silbury Hill and Stonehenge were part of a <span class="textTag">navigation </span>network that allowed people to travel long distances without maps. <p>Analyzing 1,500 sites in southern England and Wales, Brooks found that all the known sites could be connected to at least two others to make isosceles triangles, which have two equal sides. Some of the triangles have sides greater than 100 miles long, and the equal sides are accurate to +/- 110 yards, which Brooks says could not have happened by chance.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news172480666.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8283072653022821812?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-60116186591401779522009-09-19T15:16:00.000-07:002009-09-19T15:22:54.203-07:00<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/monopolys-hidden-escape-maps-free-pows/story?id=8605905&partner=yahoo"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Monopoly's Hidden Map<span style="font-style: italic;">s </span>for WWII Prisoners</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />It's a story that will forever change the way you think of the phrase, "Get Out of Jail Free."</span> </span><br /><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AZe7yNJYD79muM:http://www.worldofmonopoly.com/images/board300x300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 116px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AZe7yNJYD79muM:http://www.worldofmonopoly.com/images/board300x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>During <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131624&page=1" target="external">World War II</a>, as the number of British airmen held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the country's secret service enlisted an unlikely partner in the ongoing war effort: The board game <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/monopoly-city-streets-launches-google/story?id=8525472" target="external">Monopoly</a>. </p><p> It was the perfect accomplice. </p><p> Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it was the ideal size for a top-secret escape kit that could help spring British POWs from German war camps.<br /></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/monopolys-hidden-escape-maps-free-pows/story?id=8605905&partner=yahoo"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6011618659140177952?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-14215145885187407952009-09-17T16:15:00.000-07:002009-09-17T16:22:07.250-07:00<h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/09/us-returns-stolen-fossils-to-china.html">U.S. returns stolen fossils to China</a></h3><br /><p><br>Federal investigators Monday returned dinosaurs eggs, saber-toothed cat and other fossils <a href="http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0909/090914washington.htm">stolen from China</a>. Customs official had seized the fossils, taken without permission from China, and asked researchers at Chicago's Field Museum and the Virginia Museum of Natural History to evaluate them.</p><br /><br />"These pre-historic fossils are an invaluable part of the history of the People’s Republic of China and they will undoubtedly contribute to the scientific exploration of that nation’s past,” said the Department of Homeland Security's John Morton, in a statement.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/09/us-returns-stolen-fossils-to-china.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1421514588518740795?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-2884532493113512422009-09-16T05:59:00.001-07:002009-09-16T06:03:14.160-07:00<h1 id="yn-story-title"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090916/lf_nm_life/us_britain_scots_mary"><span style="font-size:100%;">Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scott Appears, Briefly</span></a></span></h1> <cite class="vcard"></cite><abbr title="2009-09-16T04:17:01-0700" class="recenttimedate"></abbr><!-- end .byline --> <p>EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) – At 2 a.m. on a frigid February morning in 1587, <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1253099953_0">Mary Queen of Scots</span> sat at her table and penned a last letter before her execution in the great hall of <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1253099953_1">Fotheringhay</span> Castle in the English midlands.</p> <p> "Tonight, after dinner, I have been advised of my sentence: I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning," she wrote to her brother-in-law, the king of France.</p> <p> Fragile with age but in remarkably good condition, the letter by one of the great tragic figures of Scottish history is making a rare appearance until Sept 21 at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1253099953_2">National Library of Scotland</span>.</p> <p> Library spokesman Bruce Blacklaw said the library wanted to promote a new visitors' center and bring to public view treasures tucked away in the library's vaults.</p> <p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090916/lf_nm_life/us_britain_scots_mary"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-288453249311351242?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-90164833932903908152009-09-16T05:51:00.000-07:002009-09-16T05:54:25.293-07:00<h2 class="title"><a href="http://hnn.us/articles/51808.html">The Real ‘Obama before Obama’</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Daniel Sauerwein </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Mr. Sauerwein is a Breaking News Editor at HNN</span>.<br /><br /><span class="bodytext">Recently, HNN ran a breaking news story published by the <em> Washington Post</em> entitled “The ‘Obama before Obama’ ” by Kevin Merida. The article begins with the story of the purportedly first African American elected to public office, John Mercer Langston, who was from Virginia and was elected township clerk in Brownhelm, Ohio in 1855. Merida also discusses Langston’s other achievements, including being founder of the future Howard University Law School.<br /><br /></span><span class="bodytext">".....Unfortunately, there is a major error regarding the historical record with this article. Based upon two encyclopedias dealing with African American history, HNN has learned that John Langston was not the first African American elected to public office. Indeed, there were two men before him."<br /><br /><a href="http://hnn.us/articles/51808.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-9016483393290390815?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-67069373846648225762009-09-15T18:30:00.000-07:002009-09-15T18:32:55.281-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213256/History-danger-30-pupils-subject-GCSE.html">History in danger as only 30% of pupils take subject at GCSE</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A survey showed that one in three primary school pupils thought Winston Churchill was the first man on the moon</span></span><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/13/article-0-0575915F0000044D-130_233x423.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 162px;" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/13/article-0-0575915F0000044D-130_233x423.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>History in schools is under threat as thousands of children drop the subject at the age of 13. </p><p>Three out of ten schools no longer teach history as a stand-alone subject for Key Stage 3, despite it being a compulsory part of the curriculum. </p><p>One school admitted that it taught the whole of the three-year course in just 38 hours - about one hour a week for one school year. </p><p>The 'national scandal' was highlighted yesterday by a survey that found just 30 per cent of pupils studied history for GCSE. </p><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213256/History-danger-30-pupils-subject-GCSE.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></div><br /></div><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6706937384664822576?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-80744838408581323292009-09-14T19:11:00.000-07:002009-09-14T19:13:30.166-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html">Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br />A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.<br /><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01479/creation_1479638c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 112px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01479/creation_1479638c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><i>Creation</i>, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote <i>On The Origin of Species</i>. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie. </p> <p> The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.<br /></p><p>However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html">Read more....<br /></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8074483840858132329?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-88363702705565027052009-09-14T19:09:00.000-07:002009-09-14T19:10:16.207-07:00<h1 class="head"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549701,00.html">FBI Probing 'Stolen' Jackie Kennedy Note</a></span></h1><span name="intelliTxt" id="intelliTXT"><p><strong>DALLAS — A Dallas newspaper reports that the FBI is investigating a "stolen" handwritten condolence note by Jacqueline Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy that was penned shortly after Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination.</strong></p> <p>The <a itxtdid="12437805" target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549701,00.html#" 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">Dallas Morning <nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_0_0">News<img style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: inline ! important; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; float: none;" name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif" /></nobr></a> reported Sunday that investigators and Kennedy family members suspect the note was taken from Robert and Ethel Kennedy's Virginia home.</p> <p>The note has changed hands several times and has sold for as much as $25,000.</p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549701,00.html">Read more....</a><br /></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8836370270556502705?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-65808554825385525902009-09-13T14:12:00.000-07:002009-09-13T14:13:57.089-07:00<a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/11/extinct-eagle.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Extinct Eagle May Have Hunted Humans</span></a><strong><br /><br /></strong><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/11/gallery/eagle-324x205.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 123px;" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/11/gallery/eagle-324x205.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><strong>Sept. 11, 2009</strong> -- Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday. <p>The researchers say they have determined that the eagle -- which lived in the mountains of New Zealand and weighed about 40 pounds (18 kilograms) -- was a predator and not a mere scavenger as many thought.</p> <p>Much larger than modern eagles, Haast's eagle would have swooped to prey on flightless birds -- and possibly even the rare unlucky <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/subjects/human/human.html" target="_blank">human</a>.</p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/11/extinct-eagle.html">Read more....</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6580855482538552590?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-73575107275106764462009-09-11T09:27:00.000-07:002009-09-11T09:33:46.541-07:00<h2 style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1964688">Search hopes to find 510-year-old Nfld. church</a></h2><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <p class="author"> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service </strong><span> Published: Sunday, September 06, 2009</span></span></p><p class="author"><span style="font-size:85%;">Newfoundland; Site may be oldest Christian site in New World</span></p><p>Newfoundland and Labrador's top archeologist has revealed plans to search for the remains of a 510-year-old church on the western shore of Conception Bay -- a project aimed at adding to a string of recent discoveries about explorer John Cabot's history-making voyages to Canada in the late 15th century.</p> <p>If the purported church is found near the town of Carbonear -- the site targeted by Memorial University's Peter Pope in what he calls a "longshot" dig proposed for next summer -- the discovery of North America's earliest Christian settlement would join the 1,000-year-old Viking site at Newfoundland's L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Jacques Cartier's recently unearthed 1541 fort near Quebec City and Virginia's Jamestown ruins among the continent's most important archeological sites.</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1964688">Read more....</a></p><p><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"OK, SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY GETTING OUT OF HAND HERE. Does anyone recall a certain pair of articles I posted last week? Here they are, just to refresh your memory:</span></span></p><h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/index.html">'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem</a></span></h1>and<br /><br /><h1 class="newsTitle" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090902-mexico-convent-video-ap.html">16th-Century Convent "Reappears" After 40 Years</a></span></h1><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Can someone please explain?? Did we discover the Lost City of Atlantis, only it broke apart and floated beneath the Earth's surface?</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span></span><br /><p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7357510727510676446?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-26830456933269088442009-09-09T15:41:00.000-07:002009-09-09T15:44:33.700-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6156992/Walt-Disney-originals-found-in-Blackpool-attic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Walt Disney originals found in Blackpool attic</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Original Walt Disney drawings have been found in an attic office in Blackpool.</span><br /><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6156992/Walt-Disney-originals-found-in-Blackpool-attic.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 100px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/disney_1477231c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The 15 mint condition black and white and colour drawings, which could be worth up to $20,000 (£12,000) each, were in the middle of hundreds of files gathered in over a century of Blackpool Illuminations. </p> <p> ....The material is now being catalogued and will be archived for future public viewing for the first time. </p> <p> The Disney drawings were sent from Hollywood to Blackpool by Walt Disney himself.<br /></p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6156992/Walt-Disney-originals-found-in-Blackpool-attic.html">Read more....</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2683045693326908844?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-25034960427052034882009-09-08T19:23:00.000-07:002009-09-08T19:28:02.176-07:00<a href="http://www.imninalu.net/Huns.htm"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hun-y History (The Huns)!</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Bangle;font-size:130%;" >The Huns appear officially in history only when their hordes coming from the east reach the Roman Empire and in a very short time they conquer most of Europe. </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Bangle;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Before that time, they have been numbered among the nomadic tribes of the Asian steppes and their origin was almost unknown. Now we have many research elements that have brought more light about this people, or complex of peoples, and have discovered that they were present in the most ancient times in Mesopotamia, and that have even been linked in some way, though not ethnically, with the Israelites in different times along history.<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.imninalu.net/Huns.htm"><br />Read more....</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-018.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-018.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2503496042705203488?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-85570623490702059912009-09-07T21:34:00.000-07:002009-09-07T21:35:52.412-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8183412.stm">Taiwan's plan to take back mainland </a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="byl"><br /><br />By Cindy Sui </span><br /></span> <div class="mvb"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="byd"> Taoyuan County, Taiwan</span></span></div><!-- E IIMA --> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46168000/jpg/_46168547_documents216.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46168000/jpg/_46168547_documents216.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Most people in China and Taiwan might think they know what happened after the long and bloody civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party ended in 1949.</p><p>But recently declassified government archives have revealed a previously unknown secretive plan by Taiwan's late President Chiang Kai-shek to take back mainland China. </p><p>Chiang and his troops had fled to Taiwan after losing the war to the Communists, but despite great obstacles he was obsessed with the idea of taking back the land he had lost.<br /></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8183412.stm">Read more....</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8557062349070205991?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-19104286170947154722009-09-07T21:25:00.000-07:002009-09-07T21:32:31.259-07:00<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truthout.org/090509B?n">Could Texas's Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National?</a><br /><p class="article_date"><span style="font-size:78%;">Friday 04 September 2009</span></p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.truthout.org/files/images/090509B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 135px;" src="http://www.truthout.org/files/images/090509B.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>While Republicans are busy gnashing their teeth over President Obama's imminent indoctrination of the nation's schoolchildren, there's an education story bubbling up in Texas that could have considerably more far-reaching consequences.<br /><br />......Approved textbooks, the standards say, must teach the Texan student to "identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority." <span style="font-weight: bold;">No analogous liberal figures or groups are required</span>, prompting protests from some legislators and committee members. (Read an excerpt <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/09/excerpt-of-proposed-texas-us-history-textbook-standards.php?page=1" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.truthout.org/090509B?n">Read more....</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1910428617094715472?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-68623352292986993362009-09-05T15:17:00.001-07:002009-09-05T15:21:50.021-07:00<div class="cnnSnapShotHeader"><div class="cnnStoryTools"> <ul><!-- start feedback link --><style type="text/css"> <!-- .cnnOpinMosaicFeedback a.realmLink {font-weight:bold;font-size:11px;color:#004276;} .cnnOpinMosaicFeedback a.realmLink: hover {color:#CA0002;} --> </style><!-- /feedback link --><!-- start feedback link --><!--<li class="cnnOpinMosaic"> <script language="JavaScript"> //if (typeof(cnnSectionName) != "undefined") { //if(cnnSectionName == "Health"){ //O_GoT('<img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.3/misc/opinionBlue.gif" border="0" title="Feedback" style="margin-right:5px;" />Feedback');}} //</script></li>--><!-- /feedback link --></ul> </div> </div><!--startclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_start --><h1> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/index.html">'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem</a></span></h1><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/art.wall1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 111px;" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/art.wall1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><b>JERUSALEM (CNN)</b> -- An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.<br /><br /><p> Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists.</p><p> "To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. "I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it."</p><p> Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, "You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons."</p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/index.html">Read more....</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-050.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Is it just me, or are there an unusual amount of "discovered" buildings, walls, etc.? See previous post."</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6862335229298699336?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-10450749320840377942009-09-03T22:20:00.000-07:002009-09-03T23:49:35.941-07:00<h1 class="newsTitle" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090902-mexico-convent-video-ap.html">16th-Century Convent "Reappears" After 40 Years</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><i>© 2009 National Geographic (AP)</i><br />Unedited Transcript</span><br /><b><br />September 2, 2009—</b>Low water levels at a southern Mexico reservoir have revealed the remains of a 16th-century convent submerged when the lake was created 40 years ago.<br /><p> A 16th Century convent in Mexico has re-emerged as water levels in a dam reservoir have fallen to low levels. </p><p> Low water levels at the Malpaso hydroelectric dam in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have uncovered part of the convent, which was submerged along with the community of Quechula 40 years ago when the dam was built.<br /></p><p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090902-mexico-convent-video-ap.html">Read more....</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1045074932084037794?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-70884903543155748522009-09-02T09:17:00.000-07:002009-09-02T09:18:36.337-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/who-needs-presidential-libraries-when-youve-got-web" title="Who Needs Presidential Libraries When You've Got the Web?">Who Needs Presidential Libraries When You've Got the Web?</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/2333622130_4983a6fc0e_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 150px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/2333622130_4983a6fc0e_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Kennedy family, you might have heard, quickly erected a Twitter account (at <span class="aptureLink" id="apture_prvw1"><span style="background-position: right -1148px;" class="aptureLinkIcon"> </span><a class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://twitter.com/kennedynews">@kennedynews</a></span>) to push out information on and observations from Senator <strong>Ted Kennedy's </strong>"memorial and funeral activities," said the feed. But that's the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the digital memorialization of the senator's life that has begun to take place. And consider this. Ted Kennedy is today lying in repose in the <strong style="font-weight: bold;">John F. Kennedy</strong> Presidential Library. That Boston edifice, dedicated to his brother's life and career, cost of more than $20 million and took more than 15 years to build after JFK's sudden death in 1963. For heck's sake, <em>President <strong>Jimmy Carter</strong></em> did the dedication.<br /><br />Read more....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7088490354315574852?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-88820967883424885252009-08-31T06:16:00.000-07:002009-08-31T06:17:18.442-07:00<h2 style="font-family: times new roman;" class="posttitle"><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116154.html">Medvedev defends Moscow's role in WWII</a></h2><span class="source">Source:</span> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090830/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_ww2"><i>Yahoo News</i></a> (8-30-09)MOSCOW – Russia's president defended Moscow's role in World War II before the 70th anniversary of its outbreak, saying in an interview broadcast Sunday that anyone who lays equal blame on the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany is telling a "cynical lie."<br /><br />Dmitry Medvedev's remarks were the latest salvo in Russia's bitter dispute with its neighbors over the war and its aftermath. The Kremlin has launched a campaign for universal acceptance of its portrayal of the Soviet Union as Europe's liberator.<br /><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116154.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8882096788342488525?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-61446677996852532622009-08-29T23:17:00.000-07:002009-08-29T23:19:36.247-07:00<h1><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6592238.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">Holocaust's untold heroes</span></a></h1> <h3 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:78%;">By SHAHZADA IRFAN<br />HOUSTON CHRONICLE</span></h3><h2 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Their story is rarely told, but Albanian Muslims took in fleeing Jews during World War II, saving thousands of lives.</span><br /></h2><p id="id2441861" class="Text-TextBody HoustonText">When no other European country dared to withstand the wrath of Nazi Germany, it was the Muslims of Albania who saved a large number of Jewish people from extermination. </p><p id="id2441867" class="Text-TextBody HoustonText">Albania, a Muslim majority country in Europe, opened its borders during World War II and took in thousands of Jews fleeing from different countries. They were treated like honored guests, and many were given fake names and even passports.</p><p id="id2441867" class="Text-TextBody HoustonText"><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6592238.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6144667799685253262?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-39054816399389224312009-08-28T19:38:00.001-07:002009-08-28T19:39:33.989-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8224279.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Australia discovers new dinosaur</span></a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46275000/gif/_46275676_aus_queensland_eromanga_0809.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 97px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46275000/gif/_46275676_aus_queensland_eromanga_0809.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered a new species of dinosaur on a sheep farm in the northern state of Queensland.<p>The fossil remains of the large plant-eating sauropod, nicknamed Zac, are about 97 million years old. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8224279.stm">Read more</a>....<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3905481639938922431?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-28046917993122620402009-08-27T20:59:00.000-07:002009-08-27T21:01:03.186-07:00<h1 id="yn-story-title"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090827/ts_usnews/isunemploymenttheworstsincethegreatdepression">Is Unemployment the Worst Since the Great Depression?</a></span><br /></h1><div class="byline"> <cite class="vcard"> By Matthew Bandyk <span class="fn org">Matthew Bandyk</span> </cite> – <abbr title="2009-08-27T13:27:14-0700" class="timedate">Thu Aug 27, 4:27 pm ET</abbr></div><!-- end .byline --> <p>The "Great Recession" is the name that has stuck for the economic decline that began in late 2007. But there's some reason to think that using the word <i>recession</i> is being kind.</p> The U.S. gross domestic product has shrunk 3.9 percent in the past year, the worst drop since 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_1251423857_0">Great Depression</span>. Plenty of observers are willing to say that this recession is much deeper than anything we've seen since the 1930s--including the big dip in the early 1980s, generally accepted as the other candidate for the worst recession since the Great Depression. "I think it's way worse today," says Ridgely Evers of Tapit Partners....<br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090827/ts_usnews/isunemploymenttheworstsincethegreatdepression"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2804691799312262040?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-21288572859470102302009-08-27T20:33:00.000-07:002009-08-27T20:37:25.843-07:00<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115983.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">Newly-Declassified CIA Histories Show Its Involvement in Every Aspect of the Indochina War</span></a><br /><p><span class="source">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB284/index.htm"><i>The National Security Archive</i></a> (8-26-09)</p>The Central Intelligence Agency participated in every aspect of the wars in Indochina, political and military, according to newly declassified CIA histories. The six volumes of formerly secret histories (the Agency's belated response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados) document CIA activities in South and North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in unprecedented detail. The histories contain a great deal of new material and shed light on aspects of the CIA's work that were not well known or were poorly understood.<br /><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115983.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2128857285947010230?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-54244103948565894992009-08-26T16:58:00.000-07:002009-08-26T17:01:25.285-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ireland/090826/ireland-loses-%E2%80%9Ctrue-friend%E2%80%9D">Edward Kennedy’s role in peace process helped change Irish history</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/photos/6734/ireland_08_26_09_oclery_kennedy_diesEDIT.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 96px;" src="http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/photos/6734/ireland_08_26_09_oclery_kennedy_diesEDIT.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Published: August 26, 2009 08:26 ET</span><p>DUBLIN — Nowhere outside the United States is the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy being mourned as much as in Ireland, the country from where his ancestors emigrated during the potato famine of the 19th century and to which he helped bring peace in recent years.</p> <p>President Mary McAleese said he would be remembered as a “hugely important friend to the country during very difficult times,” and Prime Minister Brian Cowen commented that Ireland had lost a true friend who “worked valiantly for the cause of peace on this island.” (Read other international reactions to the senator's death <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/090826/ted-kennedy-anti-apartheid-crusader">here</a>.)</p><p><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ireland/090826/ireland-loses-%E2%80%9Ctrue-friend%E2%80%9D">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5424410394856589499?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-12200987103005694132009-08-25T15:47:00.000-07:002009-08-25T15:50:54.195-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125107325090852627.html">Policy Makers Seek to Learn From 1937's Stalled Comeback </a></span></h1><span style="font-size:78%;">BY MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS </span><div class="article story"><p> WASHINGTON -- A few months ago, Obama administration officials were sounding the alarm about another 1929. These days, it's 1937 that has them in a sweat.</p> <p> The Great Depression was W-shaped. The stock-market collapse led to a steep economic decline. But by 1933, the economy had rebounded. Then a series of monetary and fiscal blunders drove the country back into a deep recession at the end of 1937.</p><p> That episode is at the heart of the debate over how quickly the government and the U.S. Federal Reserve should unwind the emergency measures they have taken to fend off a Depression-like ...</p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125107325090852627.html">Read more</a>....<span style="font-style: italic;">.(you must subscribe to the Wall Street Journal to read more....sorry! This was enough info for me, though, without a subscription.... :-/ )</span><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1220098710300569413?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-47398194813430136852009-08-24T07:24:00.000-07:002009-08-24T07:26:13.566-07:00<h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/08/chinas-founding-legend-may-not-be-true.html">China's founding legend may not be true</a></h3><br />China's founding dynasty may just be a myth, say archaeologists.<p>In a news report in the current <em>Science</em>, writer Andrew Lawler surveys a decade's worth of discoveries suggesting ancient China sprang from distinct regions, rather than possessing a single national culture some 4,300 years ago. "How China became China is no mere academic topic; it goes to the very heart of how the world’s most populous and economically vibrant nation sees itself and its role in the world," Lawler writes.<br /></p><p><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/08/chinas-founding-legend-may-not-be-true.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-4739819481343013685?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-31168559134720851132009-08-21T19:22:00.000-07:002009-08-21T19:25:07.568-07:00<span style="font-family:Arial, Verdana;font-size:130%;"><b><a href="http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article409.html">A Short History of News</a><br /><br /></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Verdana;font-size:85%;">Some surprising facts about the history of journalsim</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial, Verdana;font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article409.html#bio">By Mitchell Stephens</a></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Verdana;font-size:85%;">Rather than some relatively recent craze, stimulated by the arrival of satellites, television or even the newspaper, the good news is that the frenzied, obsessive exchange of news is one of the oldest human activities. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Verdana;font-size:85%;">Messengers were appointed to bring word, criers to proclaim it and busybodies to spread the word. The need to know helped attract people to crossroads, campfires and market places; it helped motivate journeyers; it helps explain the reception accorded travelers. In most parts of the pre-literate world the first question asked of a traveler was, as it was in Outer Mongolia in 1921, "What's new?" These preliterate peoples were probably better informed about events in their immediate neighborhood than are most modem, urban or suburban Americans.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article409.html">Read more</a>....</p><p><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-003.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny says: <span style="font-style: italic;">" 'Emotional Bunny Times</span></span>' <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">coming soon to a news-stand near you!"</span></span><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3116855913472085113?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-68287737953282885962009-08-20T20:16:00.000-07:002009-08-20T20:17:25.679-07:00<h1 class="newsTitle"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090817-londons-oldest-timber-structure.html">London's Oldest "Boardwalk" Found?</a></span><br /></h1><div class="inlinedate">August 17, 2009</div> <p class="intro"> <!--- startbody --> <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime/london.html">London</a>'s oldest known timber structure could be the city's earliest "boardwalk," archaeologists say. </p> Preserved for more than 5,700 years, the structure was found in an ancient peat bog next to the Belmarsh prison in Plumstead, a suburb of East London near the banks of the River Thames (<a href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=r&c=51.49474410914246,%200.0826978683471843&z=14">see map</a>).<br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090817-londons-oldest-timber-structure.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6828773795328288596?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-83086686141000451272009-08-20T00:15:00.000-07:002009-08-20T00:16:33.372-07:00<h1 class="headline"><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/19/pharoah-tomb.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">Pharaohs' Tombs May Disappear, Egypt Warns</span></a><br /></h1><p><strong>Aug. 19, 2009</strong> -- The ornate pharaonic tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings are doomed to disappear within 150 to 500 years if they remain open to tourists, the head of antiquities has warned.</p> <p>Zahi Hawass said humidity and fungus are eating into the walls of the royal tombs in the huge necropolis on the west bank of <a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/nile-river.htm" target="_blank">the Nile</a> across from Luxor, which is swamped daily by several thousand tourists.</p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/19/pharoah-tomb.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8308668614100045127?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-12618988441322487002009-08-18T19:37:00.000-07:002009-08-18T19:41:58.814-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/nm_mozart_last_days_090817_mn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 115px;" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/nm_mozart_last_days_090817_mn.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MensHealthNews/story?id=8349038"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Strep Throat Killed Mozart, New Theory Argues</span></a><div class="headline" style="font-family:times new roman;"><h2><span style="font-size:78%;">Researchers Say Mozart May Have Died from a Bacterial Infection, Not Poison or Fever</span><br /></h2>Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, Wolfgang Amadeus <a href="javascript:openPopup('/video/playerIndex?id=8238012',%20'popup',%201010,%20700,%20'status=1,%20resizable=1');">Mozart</a> might be the most known classical music composer, but his legacy is still shadowed by a mysterious death.<br />Buried in an unmarked grave, without a casket or his widow at the funeral, historians don't know exactly what killed the 35-year-old musical genius Dec. 5, 1791. His remains have been lost to history.<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MensHealthNews/story?id=8349038"><br />Read more</a>....<br /></div> <div class="dek"> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-1261898844132248700?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-90859881782815815362009-08-17T09:26:00.000-07:002009-08-17T09:31:20.929-07:00<a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/top10_history_mysteries.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >History'</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >s M</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >ost </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Overlook</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >ed Mysteries</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><h1><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.livescience.com/images/top10_myst_ofhistory_465x261.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 93px;" src="http://i.livescience.com/images/top10_myst_ofhistory_465x261.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></h1> Though many of life's great mysteries remain unsolved, there are some lesser known ones that also have stumped researchers for centuries. While grand enigmas such as <a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/070518_bts_barsoum_pyramids.html">Egypt's great p</a><a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/070518_bts_barsoum_pyramids.html">yramids</a>, Stonehenge, the <a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/050318_reason_turin_shroud.html">Shroud of Turin</a> and the downfall of Rome have garnered widespread interest, here are some perennial riddles that remain just as puzzling. -<a href="mailto:tuancnguyen@gmail.com">Tuan C. Nguyen</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/history/top10_history_mysteries.html">Read more</a>....<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-9085988178281581536?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-73338474922268198642009-08-14T19:58:00.000-07:002009-08-14T20:01:00.538-07:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727130600.htm">When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age?</a></span><span class="date"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" > </span><br /><br /><br /> </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/07/090727130600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 92px; height: 129px;" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/07/090727130600.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="date"> Scienc</span><span class="date">e</span><span class="date">Daily (Aug. 12, 2009)</span> — The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford University researchers, outlined in the latest issue of Quaternary Science Review, humans were living in Gough's Cave 14,700 years ago.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727130600.htm">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7333847492226819864?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-33742541639946297542009-08-13T17:31:00.001-07:002009-08-13T17:32:55.989-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/heated_tools1_f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 66px;" src="http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/heated_tools1_f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="pageheadline"><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115415&org=NSF&from=news">Early Fire Use Ignites Discussion about the Evolution of Human Brainpower</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><br />August 13, 2009</strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="pageheadline"><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong></strong></span><p>New evidence that early modern humans used fire in southern Africa in a controlled way to increase the quality and efficiency of stone tools is changing how researchers understand the evolution of human behavior, and in particular, the evolution of human brain power.</p><p>Curtis Marean and Kyle Brown, both paleoanthropologists with the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, and an international team of researchers with members from South Africa, England, Australia and France found 72,000-year-old, silcrete rocks that had been fired and flaked to make stone tools in a cave along the coast of the southern tip of Africa in Mossel Bay.</p><p><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115415&org=NSF&from=news">Read more</a>....<br /></p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="pageheadline"><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3374254163994629754?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-36832706589817405092009-08-12T15:44:00.000-07:002009-08-12T15:45:33.604-07:00<h1 class="headline"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/06/paralyzed-human.html">Oldest Known Paralyzed Human Discovered</a></span></h1><strong>Aug. 6, 2009</strong> -- The remains of a man who could be the world's oldest known paralysis victim have been unearthed by Australian bio-archaeologists in northern <a href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/spine-form.htm" target="_blank">Vietnam</a>. <p>Found at the Neolithic cemetery site of Man Bac, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Hanoi, the remains are between 3,500 and 4,000 years old and belong to an adult male who died around age 25.</p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/06/paralyzed-human.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3683270658981740509?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-81101460307607783812009-08-12T15:39:00.000-07:002009-08-12T15:41:58.061-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/04/gallery/adams-324x205.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 82px;" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/04/gallery/adams-324x205.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/04/adams-twitter.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">John Quincy Adams Entries Sent as Tweets</span></a><img style="font-weight: bold;" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/CHRIST%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-7.jpg" alt="" /><img style="font-weight: bold;" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/CHRIST%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-8.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><strong>Aug. 4, 2009</strong> -- It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time. <p>A high school student touring the sixth U.S. president's archives recently noticed his bite-sized diary entries looked a lot <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/13/twitter-police-alert.html" target="_blank">like tweets</a>.</p> <p>Starting Wednesday, history will meet modern technology as the <a href="http://www.masshist.org/welcome/" target="_blank">Massachusetts Historical Society</a> begins posting Adams' updates from 200 years ago on <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/28/flu-map-twitter.html" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. The historical society will include a presidential tracker of sorts, linking maps to show Adam's progress on a diplomatic trek to Russia as U.S. minister.</p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/04/adams-twitter.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8110146030760778381?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-88360128652573352562009-08-11T08:48:00.000-07:002009-08-11T08:50:44.707-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01125/Shakespeare_1125453c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 135px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01125/Shakespeare_1125453c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5995083/Tomb-search-could-end-riddle-of-Shakespeares-true-identity.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Tomb search could end riddle of Shakespeare's true identity</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A sarcophagus in an English parish church could solve the centuries-old literary debate over who really wrote the plays of William Shakespeare.<br /><br /></span>Parishioners at St Mary's church in Warwick have sought permission to examine the contents of the 17th monument built by Fulke Greville, a writer and contemporary of Shakespeare who some believe is the true author of several of the Bard's works.<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5995083/Tomb-search-could-end-riddle-of-Shakespeares-true-identity.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8836012865257335256?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-87414147959226163352009-08-11T08:12:00.000-07:002009-08-11T08:15:49.850-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46246/title/Humanity%E2%80%99s_upright_gait_may_have_roots_in_trees">Humanity’s upright gait may have roots in trees</a></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />By Bruce Bower</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span> <div class="content_authors print">A new analysis of apes’ wrist bones suggests that a two-legged stride evolved from tree climbing, not ground-based knuckle-walking<br /><br />Chimpanzees don’t knuckle under like gorillas, and that may explain how people ended up walking on two legs, a new study suggests.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46246/title/Humanity%E2%80%99s_upright_gait_may_have_roots_in_trees">Read more</a>....<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8741414795922616335?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-31723247267975664872009-08-10T13:07:00.000-07:002009-08-10T13:18:23.547-07:00<h1 class="newsTitle"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090807-walking-bat.html">Extinct Walking Bat Found; Upends Evolutionary Theory</a></span></h1>A walking bat in <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_newzealand.html">New Zealand</a> took its marching orders from an ancestor, a new fossil-bat discovery reveals. Scientists had long thought that the lesser short-tailed bat evolved its walking preference independently.<br /><br />Since the bat's native habitat lacks predators, researchers reasoned that—much like flightless birds on isolated islands—the bat had adapted to its safer surroundings in part by walking.<br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090807-walking-bat.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3172324726797566487?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-7814233746124825212009-08-09T11:01:00.000-07:002009-08-09T11:02:49.361-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/5984522/Hollywoods-distortion-of-the-truth-alters-history-in-the-eyes-of-schoolchildren.html">Hollywood's distortion of the truth alters history in the eyes of schoolchildren</a></span></h1><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Hollywood's habit of playing with historical facts is leading schoolchildren to get it wrong too – even if they read the true story in classrooms, a new academic study shows.<br /><br /></span><p> Researchers have found that film is an incredibly powerful tool for teaching children about the past which can greatly increase historical knowledge. </p> <p> However, it is so powerful that if the facts are wrong, pupils are more likely to believe them even if they are told otherwise by text books or teachers, they say.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/5984522/Hollywoods-distortion-of-the-truth-alters-history-in-the-eyes-of-schoolchildren.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-781423374612482521?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-52379630097931024172009-08-08T10:33:00.001-07:002009-08-08T10:33:37.571-07:00<h2 class="BlackHead"><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31376&Cr=iaea&Cr1="><span style="font-size:85%;">UN nuclear agency helps unlock secrets buried with Egyptian mummies</span></a></h2><span class="fullstory">6 July 2009 – </span><span class="fullstory">The United Nations nuclear agency is using its expertise to help archaeologists unearth millennia-old secrets, from the supposed murder of King Tutankhamun to the mysterious death of Great Pharaoh Ramesses II, from Egyptian mummies.<br /><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31376&Cr=iaea&Cr1="><br />Read more</a>....<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5237963009793102417?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-26133139672985001702009-08-07T21:46:00.000-07:002009-08-07T21:48:14.238-07:00<h1 id="yn-story-title"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_on_sc/us_sci_aesop_s_crows;_ylt=AosAXWuab_UWmULjAE8pw74PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJscGlyczJrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODA2L3VzX3NjaV9hZXNvcF9zX2Nyb3dzBGNwb3MDMwRwb3MDNgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNhbnVuZGF0ZWRwaG8-"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bird experiment shows Aesop's fable may be true</span></a></h1><br /><div class="byline"> <cite class="vcard"> By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer <span class="fn org">Malcolm Ritter, Ap Science Writer</span> </cite> – <abbr title="2009-08-06T09:06:02-0700" class="timedate">Thu Aug 6, 12:06 pm ET<br /><br /></abbr></div><!-- end .byline --> <p>NEW YORK – From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between 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_1249578470_0">tortoise and the hare</span>, <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1249578470_1">Aesop's fables</span> are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study says at least one such tale might really have happened.</p><p>It's the fable about a thirsty crow. The bird comes across a pitcher with the water level too low for him to reach. The crow raises the water level by dropping stones into the pitcher. (Moral: Little by little does the trick, or in other retellings, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1249578470_2">necessity is the mother of invention</span>.)</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_on_sc/us_sci_aesop_s_crows;_ylt=AosAXWuab_UWmULjAE8pw74PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJscGlyczJrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODA2L3VzX3NjaV9hZXNvcF9zX2Nyb3dzBGNwb3MDMwRwb3MDNgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNhbnVuZGF0ZWRwaG8-">Read more</a>....<br /></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2613313967298500170?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-55389507732335036512009-08-07T13:08:00.001-07:002009-08-07T13:08:27.599-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090806-prehistoric-spiders-3-d-pictures.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PICTURES: Prehistoric Spiders' Weapons Revealed via 3-D</span></a></span><b><br /><br />August 6, 2009—</b>It was ever spider for itself in the brutal pre-dinosaur world of the <a href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/carboniferous.html">Carboniferous period,</a> new 3-D images reveal. About 359 to 299 million years ago, Earth teemed with newly evolved insects and hungry amphibians that had just crawled onto land.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090806-prehistoric-spiders-3-d-pictures.html">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-5538950773233503651?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-39503126525290655072009-08-07T08:37:00.000-07:002009-08-07T13:09:00.885-07:00<h1 class="headline"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/06/vespasian-villa.html">Roman Emperor Vespasian's Summer Villa Found</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:78%;">Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News</span><br /><br /><p><strong>Aug. 6, 2009</strong> -- The summer villa of Roman Emperor <a href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-rome/vespasian.htm" target="_blank">Vespasian</a> has been found in the Sabine hill country northeast of Rome, Italian archaeologists announced today.</p> <p>Titus Flavius Vespasianus is known for rebuilding the Roman Empire following the tumultuous reign of Emporer Nero. Vespasian changed the face of Rome by launching a major public works program, which included the construction of the Colosseum, the structure that arguably defines the glory of <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/15/virtualrome_tec.html" target="_blank">ancient Rome</a>.</p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/06/vespasian-villa.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3950312652529065507?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-67682489779104016802009-08-05T19:38:00.000-07:002009-08-05T19:44:15.951-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i27.tinypic.com/w06cxu.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 178px;" src="http://i27.tinypic.com/w06cxu.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=621330"><span class="headline" id="micro-summary">2 newly discovered works attributed to Mozart</span></a></span><br /><br /><div class="KonaBody"><span class="abstract-head">The results were announced for the first time in public at a news conference in a Mozart residence in Salzburg where the two pieces were performed on the master composer`s own fortepiano.</span><br /><br />The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said two newly discovered pieces were probably composed by Wolfgang as a young boy, according to media reports Monday.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=621330">Read more</a>....<br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6768248977910401680?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-38513861752767390812009-08-04T19:13:00.000-07:002009-08-04T19:17:16.566-07:00<h1 class="headline"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/17/iceman-tattoos.html">Oetzi Iceman's Tattoos Came from Fireplace</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:78%;">Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News<br /><br /></span><p><strong>July 17, 2009</strong> -- The 57 tattoos sported by Oetzi, the 5300-year-old Tyrolean iceman mummy, were made from fireplace soot that contained glittering, colorful precious stone crystals, according to an upcoming study in the <em>Journal of Archaeological Science.</em></p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/17/iceman-tattoos.html">Read more</a>.....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-3851386175276739081?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-60085123634859342122009-08-04T16:55:00.000-07:002009-08-04T16:57:21.966-07:00<h1 class="story"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803185836.htm">Computers Unlock More Secrets Of The Mysterious Indus Valley Script</a></span></h1><span class="date">ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2009)</span> — Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric people have been discovered. Today, a team of Indian and American researchers are using mathematics and computer science to try to piece together information about the still-unknown script.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803185836.htm">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-6008512363485934212?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-89547143657241497942009-08-03T08:15:00.000-07:002009-08-03T08:17:12.301-07:00<h1 class="heading"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6736662.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084"><span style="font-size:85%;">Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time</span></a></h1>On March 2, 1882, Roderick Maclean brandished a pistol outside Windsor railway station and attempted to shoot Queen Victoria. <p> Things did not go according to plan. The monarch lived and Maclean was charged with high treason, but acquitted on the ground of insanity. Ordered “to be kept in strict custody and gaol until Her Majesty’s pleasure shall be known”, he spent the rest of his life in Broadmoor Hospital.<br /></p><p>His case is one of 1.4 million criminal trials from the 18th and 19th centuries that feature in registers that go online for the first time today.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6736662.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-8954714365724149794?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-76906728288413396272009-08-01T11:22:00.000-07:002009-08-01T11:25:12.916-07:00<h1 class="headline"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/14/egypt-fortress-city.html">Ancient Fortress City Unearthed in Egypt</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:85%;">Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News<br /><br /></span><p><strong>July 14, 2009</strong> -- Egyptian archaeologists digging near the <a href="http://geography.howstuffworks.com/africa/the-suez-canal.htm" target="_blank">Suez Canal</a> have discovered the remains of what is believed to be the largest fortress in the eastern Delta, Egypt's Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced.</p> <p>Located at the site of Tell Dafna, between El-Manzala Lake and the Suez Canal, the remains reveal the foundation of a military town about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northeast of the city of western Qantara.</p><p><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/14/egypt-fortress-city.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-7690672828841339627?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156180197396179165.post-28216810229703903452009-07-31T16:31:00.000-07:002009-07-31T16:33:30.111-07:00<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106764.html">Mourning the Death of Handwriting</a></h2><p><span class="source">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily"><i>Time Magazine</i></a> (8-3-09)</p><br />People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case.<br /><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106764.html"><br />Read More....</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4156180197396179165-2821681022970390345?l=hhz-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com2