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A lifetime ago, a young black South African student was on trial with 21 other suspects accused by the white racist government of treason, terrorism and working for the African National Congress.
America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons.
Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.
Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn't the first Internet company to connect people online. And it won't be the last. Here's a look at how social networking has evolved. Some companies have come and gone. Some are mere shells of their former selves. And others show promise, even as Facebook dominates the social Web.
Today is Tuesday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2012. There are 223 days left in the year.
The founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, a group of museums in Los Angeles and Denver, has been named director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, the museum complex announced Tuesday.
A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan, researchers said Monday.
Today is Sunday, May 13, the 134th day of 2012. There are 232 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.
Today is Sunday, May 6, the 127th day of 2012. There are 239 days left in the year.
The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one man sprawled on top of the other.
Today is Saturday, April 28, the 119th day of 2012. There are 247 days left in the year.
Today is Friday, April 20, the 111th day of 2012. There are 255 days left in the year.
Avon Products Inc. on Monday tapped Sheri McCoy to replace CEO Andrea Jung later this month. McCoy takes the reins of an iconic but struggling company, which became a fixture in households across the country as legions of "Avon ladies" went door to door selling makeup.
A look the iconic cosmetics company Avon since it was founded 126 years ago:
Today is Thursday, April 12, the 103rd day of 2012. There are 263 days left in the year.
TO all the VETERANS and ACTIVE duty here on the vine---SEMPER FI and welcome home........TO all those who have paid the ULTIMATE price for FREEDOM----YOU will never be forgotten! TO all others---YOU enjoy the FREEDOMS that you have today because of US---THOSE who served and are …
An Alternative Theory of UnionsPeople who worry about the increasing gap between rich and poor generally look back on the mid twentieth century as a golden age. In those days we had a large number of high-paying union manufacturing jobs that boosted the median income. I wouldn't quite call the high-paying un …
DNA study seeks origin of Appalachia’s Melungeons | News | The Sun HeraldInteresting how far racism will go. Interesting how science can serve their purpose. I just wonder how the DNA can tell the race and origin of people that died more than 200 years ago. What's more, these people could be descendants of Portuguese settlers since Spain was invaded b …
NOTE: This article was originally published at Newsvine in March of 2010. It is reprinted for the Memorial Day weekend. Well, I was in the Regular Army back in the Seventies, but I didn't see any action. In fact, I joined up the month after Saigon fell and never got past M …
13 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshoppedby Eric Yosomono ”World War II was a hell of a time. Ask your grandpa: He'll tell you all about the solemn, grim-faced, gritty reality of the whole thing until you become grizzled by proxy. Now, we're not going to sit here and say your grandpa is full of crap (the guy coul …
Dogs, booze and bling: Northern Ireland's medieval shopping mallExcavations on Dunnyneil Island in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, have revealed a seventh century trading emporium frequented by merchants from as far afield as modern day Russia, Germany, Iceland and France. Back in early medieval times, there was no cash economy, few buye …
The Liberation of Buchenwald: The Story Behind an Iconic Margaret Bourke-White Photo -Survivors at Buchenwald in April 1945 — “staring out at their Allied rescuers,” as LIFE magazine put it, “like so many living corpses”
Åland shipwreck beer could be brewed again Finnish scientists say it could be possible to recreate the 170-year-old beer found alongside what is thought to be the world’s oldest drinkable Champagne in an Åland shipwreck. Analysis of the bottles’ content found living bacteria that could be enough to bre …
PhotoBlog - Experts stumped by ancient Jerusalem stone carvingsNothing is said if the markings have been cross-referenced wit other ancient symbols/writings
Hollande and Rajoy stand by Greece | Athens NewsThe French and Spanish are simply expressing timidity based on despotic Privatizationist Bourgeois Bias. The Euro is Doomed, and so is Democratic Socialism !
Charles Garcia: Was Columbus a Secret Jew?Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus's grand passion: the quest to liberate Jerusale …
Two former Airmen inducted into Astronaut Hall of FameRetired General Kevin Clinton and retired Col. Charles Precourt along with Franklin Chang Diaz, were the 11th group of Astronauts Hall of Fame during a cermony on May 5th.
Winston Churchill, Harvard Minority | Power LineI had somehow forgotten that Winston Churchill’s grandmother was one-quarter Iroquois indian, which makes Winston (if I’ve done my genealogical math correctly) one-sixteenth native American–twice as much as Elizabeth Warren supposedly is. Let’s see t …
Do You Suffer From Answer Syndrome?No matter what the topic of conversation, you have something to say about it. I mean, of course you do! You took a lot of history and science courses in college, and you keep up with the latest news — from more than just one source, thank you very much. So what's the ques …
Was Columbus secretly a Jew? Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus's grand passion: the quest to liberate Jerusale …
CSAF presents rescue pilots multiple medals in ceremony Air Force Chief of Staff, General Norton Schwartz presented two Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor to each of two Rescue Helicopter Pilots.
Our times: New Orleans ravaged by flu epidemic in 1918After being spared in an early spring round that ravaged military camps in the United States and in the trenches of Europe, New Orleans got its first reported case in October 1918.
The vast, abandoned salt mines that lurk beneath DetroitOver 1,000 feet beneath the city of Detroit is a 1,500 acre sprawl of tunnels created by salt miners at the turn of the twentieth century. Over at Environmental Graffiti, there's a fascinating story about the rise and fall of Detroit as the great city of salt production.
The first female aeronaut inspired the Mile High Club in 1784You'd probably guess, if asked, that the first Mile High Club members were those dashing stunt pilots of the 1920s, who did things like play tennis on the wings of a plane. You'd be off by a century and a half. As soon as the very first woman took to the skies, people started h …
Faux history for the GOPRepublicans love David Barton and his new book, "The Jefferson Lies" -- even though it gets history wrong Earlier this month, the evangelical writer David Barton’s new book, “The Jefferson Lies,” hit the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. …
How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by RedditLast January, as he prepared to offer the class again, Kelly put the Internet on notice. He posted his syllabus and announced that his new, larger class was likely to create two separate hoaxes. Hetold members of the public to "consider yourself warned--twice." This time, …
'Cursing stone' found on Isle of CannaA stone discovered by chance on the Isle of Canna is Scotland's first known example of a bullaun "cursing stone", experts have revealed. Dating from about 800 AD, the stones are associated with early Christian crosses - of which there is one on the isle. It was found in an ol …
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