Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #155
Saturday, July 7, 2007
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Super-Eruption: No Problem (Toba)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/06/2007 12:02:21 PM EDT · 20 replies · 667+ views
Nature | 7-6-2007 | Katherine Sanderson
Super-eruption: no problem?Tools found before and after a massive eruption hint at a hardy population. Katharine Sanderson Massive eruptions make it tough for life living under the ash cloud. A stash of ancient tools in India hints that life carried on as usual for humans living in the fall-out of a massive volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. Michael Petraglia, from the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues found the stone tools at a site called Jwalapuram, in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, above and below a thick layer of ash from the eruption of the Toba volcano in Indonesia ó...
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Helix, Make Mine a Double
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Change to gene theory raises new challenges for biotech
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Posted by aimhigh
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 6:32:19 PM EDT · 5 replies · 70+ views
International Harold Tribune | July 3, 2007 | Denise Caruso
The $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific principles on which it was founded. Last month, a consortium of scientists published findings that challenge the traditional view of the way genes function. The exhaustive, four-year effort was organized by the United States National Human Genome Research Institute and carried out by 35 groups from 80 organizations around the world. To their surprise, researchers found that the human genome might not be a "tidy collection of independent genes" after all, with each sequence of DNA linked to a single...
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Was Lucy a Brutal Brawler?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 2:40:31 PM EDT · 28 replies · 288+ views
Discover | June 26, 2007 | Boonsri Dickinson
Anthropologists have long assumed that the short stature of australopithecines like Lucy was related to treetop living: Having short legs makes it easier to climb trees and gives stability when balancing on branches. David Carrier, a biologist at the University of Utah, has another idea. After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees. They're also the ones whose males exhibit especially aggressive behavior. Carrier doesn't rule out that...
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Climate
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Ancient Greenland was actually green!
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Posted by Ancient Drive
On News/Activism 07/05/2007 5:54:18 PM EDT · 49 replies · 1,153+ views
MSNBC | 7-05-07 | By Ker Than
The oldest ever recovered DNA samples have been collected from under more than a mile of Greenland ice, and their analysis suggests the island was much warmer during the last Ice Age than previously thought. The DNA is proof that sometime between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago, much of Greenland was especially green and covered in a boreal forest that was home to alder, spruce and pine trees, as well as insects such as butterflies and beetles.
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India
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Sanskrit echoes around the world
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Posted by Lorianne
On General/Chat 07/06/2007 3:18:56 AM EDT · 29 replies · 251+ views
Christian Science Monitor | July 5, 2007 | Vijaysree Venkatraman
The rise of India's economy has brought an eagerness to learn the ancient 'language of the gods' -- and a great-great aunt to English. Deep inside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a Wednesday evening recently, a class of about a dozen students were speaking an arcane ancient tongue. "It is time for exams, and I play every day," says one. "Perhaps, you should study, too," counters another at the conversation table. The others laugh. No, this isn't Latin 101 -- that would be easy. This is Sanskrit, a classical language that is the Indian equivalent of ancient Greek...
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Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
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Workers Discover Ancient 'Snake' (UK)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/05/2007 2:08:07 PM EDT · 42 replies · 1,314+ views
BBC | 7-4-2007
Workers discover ancient 'snake' An aerial view of the 4000 year old 'Rotherwas Ribbon' Diggers constructing a new access road have uncovered a mysterious serpent-shaped feature, dating from the early bronze age. The 197ft (60m) long ribbon of stones, found in Rotherwas, near Hereford, is thought to date from the same period as Stonehenge, roughly 2000 BC. County archaeologist Dr Keith Ray said as far as he is aware the stone feature is unique in Europe. "We can only speculate it may have been used in some kind of ritual," he said. 'International significance' The Rotherwas Ribbon, as it is...
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Ancient Europe
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Ancient island settlement rebuilt
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 7:28:14 PM EDT · 10 replies · 109+ views
BBC | Friday, June 29, 2007 | unattributed
An ancient Shetland settlement at risk of crumbling into the sea has been rebuilt - despite fears that it will soon be eroded. The work on the burial site in Sandwick Bay, Unst, follows an excavation led by the Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problems of Erosion Trust (Scape). It teamed up with the Council for Scottish Archaeology's Adopt-a-Monument scheme for the rebuild project. The new structures will allow visitors to see the excavation findings. It is thought that the structures may only last a couple of years, due to coastal erosion. Local groups, working with archaeologists and ancient building...
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Prehistory and Origins
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'First west Europe tooth' (million-year-old human tooth) found in Spain
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Posted by GraniteStateConservative
On News/Activism 06/30/2007 6:05:03 PM EDT · 12 replies · 368+ views
BBC News | 6-30-07 | BBC/AFP
Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a distant human ancestor that is more than one million years old. The tooth, a pre-molar, was discovered on Wednesday at the Atapuerca site in northern Spain's Burgos Province. It represented western Europe's "oldest human fossil remain", a statement from the Atapuerca Foundation said. The foundation said it was awaiting final results before publishing its findings in a scientific journal. Human story Several caves containing evidence of prehistoric human occupation have been found in Atapuerca. In 1994 fossilised remains called Homo antecessor (Pioneer Man) - believed to date back...
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Fossil Tooth Belonged to Earliest Western European, Experts Say(in Spain, 1.2million years old)
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Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 07/03/2007 12:39:19 AM EDT · 10 replies · 379+ views
National Geographic News | 07/02/07 | James Owen
Fossil Tooth Belonged to Earliest Western European, Experts Say James Owen for National Geographic News July 2, 2007 A fossil tooth discovered last week in Spain belonged to the oldest known western European, scientists have announced. The early-human molar was discovered last Wednesday at the Sierra Atapuerca archaeological site in the Burgos Province of northern Spain. Caves at the site, which lies about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of the provincial capital of Burgos, have previously yielded other prehistoric human remains (map of Spain). Early human fossils found at the nearby Gran Dolina site in 1994 indicated that humans had...
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Paleontology
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Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
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Posted by Flavius
On News/Activism 07/04/2007 8:30:21 AM EDT · 81 replies · 1,303+ views
ap | 7/4/07 | ap
BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers. Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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What Has Five Sides...
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China: Mysterious building discovered in emperor's tomb (a buried step-pyramid?)
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Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 07/01/2007 3:31:24 AM EDT · 45 replies · 1,081+ views
China Economic Net | 07/01/07
Mysterious building discovered in emperor's tomb Last Updated(Beijing Time):2007-07-01 10:33 Chinese archaeologists said that after five years of research they have confirmed that there is a 30-meter-high building buried in the tomb of Qinshihuang, Chinese first emperor more than 2,000 years ago. The building, buried in the 51-meter-high, pyramid-like earth above the tomb's main body underground, has four surrounding stair-like walls and each wall with nine steps of platforms, said Duan Qingbo, a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology. The whole building were buried under the earth, which made it difficult for researchers to get a complete picture of it,...
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China
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Rare Green Crystals Found In 2,500-Year-Old Tomb (China)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/05/2007 1:45:36 PM EDT · 43 replies · 1,537+ views
China Daily | 7-4-2007 | Xinhua
Rare green crystals found in 2,500-year-old tomb (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-07-04 16:43 JING'AN -- Chinese archaeologists exploring a 2,500-year-old tomb in east China's Jiangxi province that contained 47 coffins in a remarkable state of preservation were stunned to discover several pieces of green crystal lodged in the bones of the skeletons in the coffins. One of the diamond-shaped crystals was 8.5 centimeters long. The coffins also contained bronze, gold, silk, porcelain and jade items and even body tissue. Archaeologists said the crystals appeared to have "grown" in the bones. They pointed out that the coffins were made from halved nanmu, a...
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Workers destroy ancient Chinese tombs: media
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 7:24:37 PM EDT · 3 replies · 54+ views
Reuters | Tuesday, July 3, 2007 | unattributed
About 10 ancient tombs dating back nearly 1,800 years have been destroyed by construction workers building an IKEA branch in Nanjing in southeastern China, a city newspaper said on Tuesday. The tombs -- from the "six dynasties" period from AD 220 to 589 -- were uncovered on the outskirts of the ancient capital in Jiangsu province, the Nanjing Morning Post said. City archaeologists told the newspaper the tombs might have been those of a wealthy family of the period as the workmanship was of high quality. The tombs were constructed of green bricks embroidered with ornate lotus patterns. The tombs...
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Thrace
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5000-Year-Old Golden Architectural Decoration Unearthed in Bulgaria
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 5:59:58 PM EDT · 5 replies · 60+ views
Novinite | Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | somebody in Bulgaria
While carrying out excavations of small prehistoric moulds, archaeologist Martin Hristov also discovered well-preserved wall ornamentation details in the form of spirals, which are made of tubules of pure gold. Those spirals are unique artifacts compared to all prehistoric ones found in Bulgaria until now. In the middle of the mound Hristov unearthed eight different pottery objects, hidden in a hole and covered with stones... Meanwhile, the archaeologists have now solid ground on which to base their previous hypothesis that the mines and the production center of objects of gold and their art processing was situated on the territory of...
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Orpheus Tomb Discovered
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/29/2007 4:27:37 PM EDT · 85 replies · 2,076+ views
News.bg | 6-29-2007 | Olga Yoncheva
Orpheus Tomb Discovered? Updated on: 29.06.2007, 17:51 Published on: 29.06.2007, 17:46 Author: Olga Yoncheva Orpheus sanctuary in Rhodope mountains is with thousand years older than the Egyptian pyramids. The sensational discovery was made by an archaeological expedition which investigated the temple of the Thracians near the village of Tatul, informed BNT. The scientists found 6000-year old buildings with preserved tools made of semi-precious stones, crockery, animal remains. According to the archaeologists now it can be claimed that this is the Tomb of Orpheus, which has been visited of thousands of pilgrims from around the antique world. The sanctuary is one...
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Egypt
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Egypt to use DNA tests to identify pharaoh Tuthmosis
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 7:21:10 PM EDT · 5 replies · 45+ views
Reuters Africa | Tuesday July 3, 2007 | unattributed
Egypt will run DNA tests on an unidentified mummy to determine whether it is the pharaoh Tuthmosis I, who ruled over a period of military expansion and extensive construction, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said the findings would be compared with DNA from mummies of known members of Tuthmosis's family, including Queen Hatshepsut, whose mummy was identified last week, and Kings Tuthmosis II and III, according to MENA. Hawass said on Wednesday that he had recently concluded that a mummy once assumed to be that of Tuthmosis I was not in fact his,...
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Near East
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The other side of Socatra: Archeological discoveries
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 2:47:25 PM EDT · 4 replies · 75+ views
Yemen Times | Issue: (1064), Volume 15 , From 2 July 2007 to 4 July 2007 | Nisreen Shadad
The number of Yemeni islands in these regions amounts to 182 islands, the most important of which is the Island of Socotra. Other Yemeni islands are scattered in three main sectors, namely, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea... Yemeni archeologist Ahmed Billah, who is researcher working in Socotra, is concerned that the ancient features must be protected from the adventures of man. "I recommended in my last report on the island practical solutions to overcome the dangers threatening the ancient landmarks in Socotra. People are using flagstones and ancient rocks in building the houses. Add...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Archaeological discoveries in Tall Twaini
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 7:37:40 PM EDT · 3 replies · 23+ views
SANA | Sunday, July 1, 2007 | Ghossoun (?)
The Syrian-Belgian joint excavation mission in the coastal city of Latakkia, Tall Twaini site has recently discovered a bronze archaeological masterpiece on a shape of furniture stuffed with a lead material in addition to a bronze dagger dating back to the old bronze age. Director of Jabla Directorate for Antiquities Ibrahim Kheir Bek said: "these findings were unearthed at the same building which is probable to be a temple where a necklace of beads and an imperial stamp were founded in it." The unearthing works made in the place had reached to a level that dates back to Ugarit period...
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Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
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Persepolis Tablets Reveal Realities of Ancient Persia
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 06/30/2007 9:34:58 PM EDT · 8 replies · 531+ views
CHN Press | 6/27/07 | CHN Press
Tehran, 27 June 2007 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- For the first time, a text has been found in Old Persian Language that shows the written language was used for practical recording and was not just limited to the royal family. The text is inscribed on a damaged clay tablet from the Persepolis Fortification Archive which is currently kept at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago for being decoded. The tablet is an administrative record of the payout of at least 600 quarts of an as-yet unidentified commodity belongign to 2500 years ago in five villages near Persepolis world...
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Greece
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The Story of the Archimedes Manuscript
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Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 07/03/2007 10:07:49 AM EDT · 12 replies · 761+ views
Spiegel Online | 22 June 2007 | Matthias Schulz
For 2,000 years, the document written by one of antiquity's greatest mathematicians was ill treated, torn apart and allowed to decay. Now, US historians have decoded the Archimedes book. But is it really new? When the Romans advanced to Sicily in the Second Punic War and finally captured the proud city of Syracuse, one of their soldiers met an old man who, surrounded by the din of battle, was calmly drawing geometric figures in the sand. "Do not disturb my circles," the eccentric old man called out. The legionnaire killed him with his sword. That, at least, is the legend....
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Peru: Tomb Believed To Be Older Than "SeÃ’or de Sipan" Found In Northern Peru
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/04/2007 4:08:01 PM EDT · 16 replies · 256+ views
Living In peru | 7-3-2007
Art/Culture/History | 3 July, 2007 [ 10:45 ] Peru: Tomb believed to be older than "SeÒor de Sipan" found in northern Peru© Andina (LIP-ir) -- A team of archaeologists, led by Walter Alva, have discovered the wooden tomb of another member of the Mochica culture's elite - older than the "SeÒor de Sipan" (Lord of Sipan). These findings belong to the Moche civilization, which ruled the northern coast of Peru from the time of Christ to 800 AD, centuries prior to the Incas. Alva has stated that he and his team are investigating and within the next few days will...
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Bird Is the Word
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Takeoffs a problem for giant bird (Argentavis magnificens, 23-foot wingspan)
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 07/03/2007 12:54:54 AM EDT · 17 replies · 307+ views
AP on Yahoo | 7/2/07 | Randolph E. Schmid - ap
WASHINGTON - Weighing in at 150 pounds or more, the all-time biggest bird couldn't just hop into the air and fly away, researchers say. A team led by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University used computer programs originally designed for aircraft to analyze the probable flight characteristics of Argentavis magnificens, a giant bird that lived in South America 6 million years ago. Like today's condors and other large birds, Argentavis would have had to rely on updrafts to remain in the air. Doing so, it could have soared for long distances, they conclude in a paper in Tuesday's edition of...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Science Imitates (Comic Book) Art
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 12:59:44 PM EDT · 10 replies · 180+ views
Discover | June 20, 2007 | unattributed
Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side, crossed over into anatomical nomenclature with a 1982 comic in which a caveman teaches a class this faux-scientific word. (Larson later joked, "Father, I have sinned -- I have drawn dinosaurs and hominids together in the same cartoon.") But when fossil evidence suggested that the dinosaur used its stego-tail as a weapon, scientists co-opted the moniker. Ken Carpenter, a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, was the first to use the term professionally, quipping, "And now, on to the thagomizer," when describing a specimen with broken tail spikes at...
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Faith and Philosophy
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India: Putting the Fallouts of the Islamic Invasion and British Occupation in Perspective
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Posted by sergey1973
On Religion 06/22/2006 6:23:43 PM EDT · 25 replies · 1,060+ views
Islam Watch | 05-26-2005 | Alamgir Hussain
A major part of the history of India is characterized by two major foreign rules: the Islamic invasion and the British occupation. The Islamic invasion started with the assault of Muhammad bin Qassim in 712 on the order of Hajjaj, the governor of what is now Iraq, and it took until 1690 for the Muslim rulers to conquer India completely. The fall of Islamic rule started with the British East India Company's capture of Bengal in 1757, during the days of Industrial Revolution in Europe. The British rulers took almost 150 years to capture the entire sub-continent from the hands...
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Navigation
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Volvo's treasure hunt finds real-life pirate treasure worth $500 million
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Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 07/02/2007 3:08:52 AM EDT · 15 replies · 1,171+ views
eGMCarTech | 06/22/07
Volvo's treasure hunt finds real-life pirate treasure worth $500 million Posted on: June 22nd, 2007 Filed under: Industry News, Volvo Remember Volvo's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End treasure hunt? The Volvo treasure chest is filled with $50,000 in gold and a key to a new Volvo from the sea floor. Well the retrival of that chest will hang in the balance until controversy dies down over the discovery of real life treasure by Volvo's Hunt partner, Odyssey Marine Exploration. Earlier this year, Volvo selected Odyssey to sink a treasure chest in the Western Mediterranean. They had planned to...
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Vikings
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Replica Viking longship sets sail - Sea Stallion of Glendalough
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 07/01/2007 3:16:55 PM EDT · 11 replies · 619+ views
AP on Yahoo | 7/1/07 | Jan M. Olson - ap
ROSKILDE, Denmark - A 100-foot-long replica of a Viking longship glided out of a Danish fjord Sunday with 65 crew members determined to sail across the North Sea to Ireland. Roughly 4,000 people watched the Sea Stallion of Glendalough begin the attempt to relive the perilous journey its Viking forebear made some 1,000 years ago. The ship is billed as the world's biggest and most ambitious Viking ship reconstruction. It was modeled after a warship excavated in 1962 from the Roskilde fjord after being buried in the seabed for nearly 950 years. "The Vikings are coming back. Be prepared," skipper...
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Agriculture
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Call to tap hidden water under desert
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/02/2007 12:23:15 PM EDT · 15 replies · 222+ views
Gulf News | July 01, 2007 | Emmanuelle Landais
Groundwater reserves under Arabian deserts have yet to be exploited but could provide vital resources for agriculture in some of the world's driest areas, according to a space photography expert. Large underground reserves are situated under what appears to be barren deserts, said Farouk Al Baz... Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing at Boston University... Al Baz said radar images of Arab deserts have revealed numerous courses of rivers and streams that led to depressions where lakes have formed... "A lot of pumping in one area at the same level is not good. What is there is probably all...
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Africa
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'Stolen' treasures better off in the West, says African curator
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Posted by MadIvan
On News/Activism 04/13/2006 2:16:15 AM EDT · 29 replies · 1,295+ views
The Daily Telegraph | April 13, 2006 | Mike Pflanz
Antiquities "looted" during the colonial era are better off in western collections than being returned to Africa, according to a Kenyan curator overseeing an exhibition of artefacts loaned to Nairobi by the British Museum.Governments in Africa and other former colonies have long demanded that Europe hands back boatloads of relics plundered by explorers, anthropologists, missionaries and others before and during colonisation. But facilities to care for precious objects that may otherwise be left to rot are far better among the world's great museum houses than those in Africa, Kiprop Lagat said yesterday. Mr Lagat, 35, is running a six-month exhibition...
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Longer Perspectives
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News Ages Quickly - Scientific publishing moves into the 21st century at last
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Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 07/05/2007 4:46:53 AM EDT · 12 replies · 303+ views
Reason | July 3, 2007 | Ronald Bailey
Arguably, the Information Age began in 1665. That was the year the Journal des scavans and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London started regular publication. Making new scientific information more easily and widely available was the spark that ignited the Industrial Revolution. The founding editor of the Journal des scavans, Denis de Sallo, chose to publish his new journal weekly because, as he explained, "news ages quickly." Scientific news ages even more quickly in the 21st century than it did in the 17th century. Last week, one of the world's leading scientific journals, Nature, conceded this fact by...
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Rome and Italy
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Pope Benedict said to plan examination of St. Paul
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Posted by NYer
On Religion 06/29/2007 9:32:01 AM EDT · 15 replies · 253+ views
Kath Net | June 29, 2007 | Paul Badde
According to reliable sources, Pope Benedict XVI. has given green light for an examination of the interior of St. Paul's tomb in the Basilica San Paolo fuori le Mura. The position of the stone coffin has not been altered since the year 390. Soon, it is said, archeologists will remove a plug with which the coffin had been sealed in Antiquity. An endoscopic probe is supposed to transmit images of the content. What they will show nobody knows. This alleged decision of the Pope has to be seen in the context of the Year of St. Paul which was...
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Pope OKs opening of St. Paul's tomb
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Posted by Bladerunnuh
On News/Activism 06/30/2007 2:19:17 PM EDT · 54 replies · 1,657+ views
World Net Daily | 6-30-07
Eighteen months after the sarcophagus believed to have once contained the remains of St. Paul the apostle was positively identified by Vatican archaeologists, Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to plans by investigators to examine the interior of the ancient stone coffin with an optical probe, according to a German Catholic paper. As WND reported in 2005, the sarcophagus was discovered during excavations in 2002 and 2003 around the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in south Rome. "The tomb that we discovered is the one that the popes and the Emperor Theodosius [A.D. 379-395] saved and presented...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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From Rags To Riches, Or How Undergarments Improved Medieval Literacy
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/06/2007 12:10:23 PM EDT · 42 replies · 1,142+ views
Alpha Galileo | 7-6-2007 | University Of Leeds
06 July 2007 From Rags to Riches, Or How Undergarments Improved Medieval Literacy Thought the invention of the printing press led to an upsurge in literacy rates in the later Middle Ages? Wrong, according to some historians of communication, who believe that paper was more important than printing. "The development of literacy was certainly helped by the introduction of paper, which was made from rags," says Dr Marco Mostert, a historian at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Utrecht University and one of the organisers of this year's International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. "These rags came from discarded...
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Early America
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Revolutionary War hero honored with statue
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Posted by Pharmboy
On General/Chat 06/29/2007 11:58:18 PM EDT · 27 replies · 229+ views
Charlotte Observer: AP Story | Jun. 29, 2007 | The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. --Hundreds gathered at the end of Charleston Peninsula to watch the unveiling of a statue to honor Revolutionary War hero and former South Carolina governor, Maj. Gen. William Moultrie. Moultrie's most famous battle was fighting off a British attempt to capture what was then called Charles Town Harbor. Moultrie and his group of about 400 men battled from a fort made of sand and palmetto logs on Sullivans Island. Moultrie's unit held firm against an estimated 2,000-strong British group trying to cross from what's now Isle of Palms. "This statue represents freedom and liberty, from now to eternity,...
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The Americans Who Risked Everything
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Posted by TBP
On General/Chat 07/04/2007 1:00:05 AM EDT · 18 replies · 193+ views
RushLimbaugh.com | Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr.
"Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor" It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home. Thomas Jefferson arrived early at the statehouse. The temperature was 72.5 degrees and the horseflies weren't nearly so bad at that hour. It was a lovely room, very large, with gleaming white walls. The chairs were comfortable. Facing the single...
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Project aims to identify blacks who fought in Revolution
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 07/19/2006 10:28:41 PM EDT · 46 replies · 1,101+ views
AP via boston.com | July 19, 2006 | Mark Pratt
BOSTON --Thousands of black men fought for American independence during the Revolutionary War, yet their contributions to the nation's freedom are for the most part unrecognized and rarely appear in modern history books. Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Sons of the American Revolution are hoping to change that by undertaking an ambitious project to identify those soldiers, and then find their descendants. "My first goal with this project is to enhance the awareness of the American public of the role of African-Americans in the struggle for freedom in this country," said Gates, director of the W.E.B....
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Civil War
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Today in History: Pickett's Charge (03 July 1863)(great illustrations)
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Posted by yankeedame
On General/Chat 07/03/2007 11:51:36 AM EDT · 94 replies · 832+ views
Answers.com
Pickett's Charge A lone cannon and the field of Pickett's Charge. The Copse of Trees (focal point of the charge) is the right-most cluster of trees on the ridge, "The Angle" is marked by the single tree to the left of the Copse of Trees. Pickett's Charge was a disastrous infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge, on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Its futility was predicted by the charge's commander, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and it was arguably an...
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World War II
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The World at War: a remarkable TV documentary that cries out to be seen
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Posted by Lorianne
On General/Chat 07/06/2007 5:01:07 PM EDT · 20 replies · 231+ views
Daily Mail | 6th July 2007 | Max History
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby selling war bonds; German armour thrashing through the fatal autumn mud of Russia; GIs jitterbugging with British girls; air duels in the Pacific and tales of housewives enduring the blitz on Britain. These are just a few of the many faces of The World At War, probably the most remarkable TV documentary series ever made. It reached British screens for the first time in 1974, amid tumultuous critical acclaim. In the intervening 33 years, hundreds, maybe thousands more programmes have been made about World War II. None, however, has come close to matching the majesty...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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What's Your Favorite Television Show?
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Posted by HungarianGypsy
On General/Chat 05/15/2007 11:52:16 AM EDT · 182 replies · 1,526+ views
I don't watch too much television, but one of my favorite shows is Supernatural on the CW. So, I was just curious about what other Freepers like to watch.
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