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The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters in London.
Spectacles resting on his nose, his gold-headed cane holding down the speech in front of him, Abraham Lincoln appealed to "the better angels of our nature" in an inaugural speech history would remember.
Dwight D. Eisenhower opened his inaugural speech with "a little private prayer of my own," an unusual, even intimate prelude to remarks that sketched the nuclear-tinged dangers of the time in stark terms and before a vast audience.
Woodrow Wilson made Americans citizens of the world by his words and deed.
Theodore Roosevelt loved a parade and on March 4, 1905, Washington gave him one as spirited as the man himself.
Franklin Roosevelt swept into Washington in the threadbare depths of the Depression, told the nation it would revive, and got to work.
Grover Cleveland's inauguration was big news in Oshkosh, Wis., on March 4, 1885. So was an alarming report that kissing causes death.
A goof on a historical display at the Kentucky Capital has been fixed.
For Sale: One Litchfield Jailhouse -n an effort to raise $60 million, the state will be selling off what it calls "surplus real estate." One of the items on the list is the old jailhouse in Litchfield.
Skeleton in Warwick cellar may be Native AmericanWARWICK, R.I. -- The skeleton discovered Wednesday by construction workers digging in the basement of a house in Lakewood may be that of a Native American, Paul Robinson, an archaeologist with the state Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, said on Thursday.
Get a Mammogram. No Don't. Repeat.The current dispute over mammograms gives many people who've been around since the 1980s a sense of déjà vu. Like archeologists arguing endlessly over the same set of bones, cancer specialists, it can seem, have been arguing endlessly over pretty much the same set of data.
I have been blessed to have the privilege to see the festivities on the news for several events. Nothing compares to the energy you feel in their presence. Men and women of the World War II era making a voyage to see the memorial built in their honor.
Disgruntled Japanese Prepare to Votehe recession's latest victim in Japan may not be corporate earnings but the political careers of the ruling party in the country's parliament.
How to Prevent Swine FluThe problem is that no one listens including the media. Swine flu if it mutates to something equivalent to the Spanish flu of 1918/1919 (Spanish flu was a swine flu variant) has the same potential to kill humans on an unprecedented scale as it did 90 years ago.
Forsyth, Georgia – Reading Feeds the Brain, the Spirit & the Soul Reference Information for the Book
Most Cologne archive documents intact despite collapseThree months after the collapse of Cologne's city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.
Is the Book of Judith, held as canonical by the Catholic Church but not so by Protestants and Jews, historical fact or literary fiction? It seems the Catholic Church wants to have it both ways.
Weasel testicles and other contraceptivesHistory has seen a wide variety of unusual contraceptives, some lethal, most bogus
Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is RealRacialized science seeks to explain human population differences in health, intelligence, education, and wealth as the consequence of immutable, biologically based differences between "racial" groups.
This article was printed on April 8,1876 in the Colored Tribune (later the Savannah Tribune) in Savannah, Georgia. It appears to have originally been written by The National Monitor, a monthly religious publication founded by Rufus L. Perry, a minister and former slave.
Rudest names from the Middle Ages are dying from embarrassmentCock, Daft, Death, Smellie, not to mention Gotobed, Shufflebottom and Jelly: they are all surnames that would have caused their owners considerable embarrassment over the years.
Patterns: The Evolution from New Ideas to Profound Human ImpactThere are but a few handfuls of individuals in all of history whose thinking was so profoundly original that each provided an absolutely new way of thinking for all who followed.
El Paso, Texas - Imagine entering a large auditorium, the lights are low. You sink down into one of the thousands of plush red velvet seats and have a clear view of the large heavily draped stage.
Security tight as Obama takes oathBarack Obama was sworn in Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States with no major security problems, but authorities are looking into an unspecified threat to disrupt the inauguration.
It took awhile for my memory to recall the name of Mr.
Wanted: More Long Island ghost stories (Video)---Main Link is Video. Print Story link below.--- Calling all ghosts.
Back to the Twenties Through the Looking Glass - SteagallIn this the 10th edition of Wizards we are going to take a look at the parallels between current times and the late 1920s - the period just before the great stock-market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression.
Log-rolling Legislation - The New York TimesA fascinating March 1852 criticism on logrolling in legislation, which is sadly still relevant to today's Congress.
BT tunnels under central London up for sale BT has put a 100ft complex of tunnels beneath High Holborn on to the property market and Simon Woodroff, the man behind YO! Sushi and budget hotel group Yotel, may snap up the underground space.
Council sparks anger after it names two tower blocks after leader of Sidney Street siege police killers A housing association has come under fire after it named two tower blocks after the leader of a gang of police killers.
Tzars gold will make You Cold, or World Most Expensive Car Window Film. (GALLERY)This story will sound fantastic, but written here is true, only true and nothing more than true. But as we know real truth very often sound more fantastic than true lies. But of course it is up to You – to believe? Or not to believe.
Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, whose team first happened on th …
Elvis Presley Week August 9-17: a Tribute to the King of Rock N' Roll - I was born the year Elvis Presley was just becoming famous: 1956. It wasn't much later that millions of people around the world became obsessed fans of the gorgeous hunk of burning love, Elvis Presley.
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