David Kiehn, Bay Area historian, traces old films Edward Guthmann, Special to The San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle December 7, 2010 04:15 PM...
I hate when that happens . . . Builders Lay Road through Burial Mounds in Altai Russia-InfoCentre, 2.12.2010 Public Prosecutor's Office of the Ongudai District...
Good, and good for you . . . Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says research BBC, 1 December 2010 Peruvian foraging societies were already chewing coca...
Hello Group, Today marks a historic anniversary which is Human Rights Day. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights came out on this date in 1948 and...
World's only surviving hieroglyphic still thrives People's Daily [China], December 02, 2010 Tourists visiting the Lijiang River in Yunnan Province will marvel...
A correspondent writes: "When I was at Northwestern University, I remember using Samuel Clarke's Latin translation of Homer's Iliad in N.U.'s library in...
First bullets ever fired in battle found in Yorkshire Metro [UK], 2nd December, 2010 Bronze barrel fragments and very early lead shot were unearthed by a metal...
The oldest salt mine known to date located in Azerbaijan PhysOrg.com [USA], November 29, 2010 French archeologists have recently provided proof that the...
Hello Group, Today marks the 69th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. A number of places had flags at half mast, no doubt to mark the occasion. For a number of...
Extreme Global Warming in the Ancient Past ScienceDaily [USA], Nov. 11, 2010 Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly...
Hello Allison, Winston Churchill has been called Winnie Churchill. I see where it can cause confusion as a slogan for the 1840 presidential election was...
I love when that happens . . . Met Is to Repatriate to Egypt Artifacts From King Tut's Tomb The New York Times, November 10, 2010 The Metropolitan Museum of...
Murder! Intrigue! Astronomers? When Danish and Czech scientists exhumed the remains of the astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague this month, they dug up much more...
Social inequality among Pueblo Indians PhysOrg.com [USA], November 9, 2010 A study in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that...
Amazon: Archaeological wonder or alien crop circles? GlobalPost [USA], November 10, 2010 It's not every day a traveler casually looks out an airplane window...
Hello Group, I note the irony that in a way the applecart got turned over twice in 1859- Charles Darwin publishing The Origin of Species and John Brown raiding...
Kaho'olawe Uncovered Maui Weekly, November 11, 2010 The young student listened intently as his kumu explained the intricacies of navigating the vast ocean....
Ancient Tablets Reveal Mathematical Achievements of Ancient Babylonian Culture Artdaily [Mexico], November 12, 2010 An illuminating exhibition of thirteen...
*Meet the forgotten U.S. soldiers who invaded Russia* By James A. Fussell | Kansas City Star True or false: America once invaded Russia. Nice try. The answer...
Today in History: November 27, 1095 At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, declaring holy war against the Muslims who had...
Andrew Jackson (dradjackson@...) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) ... Personal message: The Russians finally admit...
Who will pay for Pompeii? The Telegraph [UK], 14 Nov 2010 The latest disaster to hit Pompeii was not a particularly serious one by the standards of that...
Skeletons from the 18th Century Reveal Typhus Epidemic from Spain ScienceDaily [USA], Nov. 10, 2010 By studying the dental pulp of skeletons buried in Douai...
Greek pots: the naughty bits The Times [UK], November 05, 2010 One of my favourite "Greek Pot" stories is about this satyr -- who features on a psykter (or...
I love when that happens . . . Ancient mummified hand to be auctioned in Newcastle BBC, 19 October 2010 Staff at a Newcastle auction house have been a little...
I hate when that happens . . . Every cop in town quits after Mexico attack - MSNBC Articles http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=39863570...
Not nice . . . Experts reveal brutal Viking massacre Oxford Mail, 5th November 2010 VIKING skeletons buried beneath an Oxford college were the victims of ...
