The Darkest Days “In the spring of 1944, a group of 38 Ukrainian Jews emerged weak and jaundiced from a cave they’d used for nearly a year to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Nearly fifty years later, one caver…
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Space Dust to Unlock Mexican Pyramid Secrets Showers of space dust are helping unlock the secrets of a 2,000-year-old Mexican pyramid where the rulers of a mysterious civilization may lie buried.
When Marriage Between Gays Was By Rite
When Marriage Between Gays Was By Rite RITE AND REASON: A Kiev art museum contains a curious icon from St Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai. It shows two robed Christian saints. Between them is a traditional Roman pronubus (best man)…
Georgia Curriculum Review
A teacher’s review of Georgia’s new high school history curriculum: Dumbing down our past doesn’t serve our future The Civil War is just one of the topics that have been removed from the US history course, which focuses on 1876…
Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval Britain
Posted so I can read more of it later: Time traveller’s guide to Medieval Britain
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Interesting story: Oldest known world boggles minds
Knowledge News
We’re focusing on history and science right now, and I’m considering buying a subscription to KnowledgeNews. I respect the breadth and depth of information represented by my friends here, so I’m going to ask a favor of you. Would you…
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Totally Random
Piracy funds terrorism. No, really—Microsoft and the MPAA say so, so it MUST be true! I expect arrests of all us nasty P2P network users any moment now. Oh—Spartacus Educational looks like an interesting history resource. I’m posting the link…
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