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World Trader Center boat accidentally cut in half
Updated: 2010-07-31 00:32:39
The 18th century boat found at the World Trader Center site two weeks ago was accidentally cut in half when workmen poured a concrete wall last year. The Port Authority did not see the boat while building the wall last year because they had just dug a narrow trench and poured concrete into it, while [...]2,400-year-old Iberian weapons discovered in Spain
Updated: 2010-07-30 19:26:13
A collection of weapons belonging to Iberian warriors have been found at La Bastida de les Alcusses in Valencia. Excavations have recovered over 60 iron objects in a small area of the western entrance to the village of La Bastida, including weapons, rods and nails belonging to the jamb of a door, the experts explained. [...]Dinosaurs shape-shifted as they aged
Updated: 2010-07-30 16:24:04Palaeontologists John Scannella and Jack Horner are presenting the case that the triceratops and it’s relative the torosaurus, despite the different skulls, are actually the same species in different stages of life. Triceratops had three facial horns and a short, thick neck-frill with a saw-toothed edge. Torosaurus also had three horns, though at different angles, [...]Ancient Greek to be taught in English schools
Updated: 2010-07-30 14:51:52
Ancient Greek is set to be taught in three schools in England in an attempt to boost children’s language skills. Lorna Robinson, charity director, who will be teaching the one-hour lessons every two weeks, told the Times Education Supplement: “People can be daunted at the idea of learning a language that has a different alphabet [...]Shrimp is world’s oldest unchanged animal
Updated: 2010-07-29 23:51:02
Fossil evidence shows that the tadpole shrimp is one of the world’s oldest unchanged animals, remaining virtually the same for 200 million years. Fossil finds show that the shrimp is virtually the same today as it was 200 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs evolved. The shrimps are adapted to living in temporary water [...]1,800-year-old grooming set found in Turkey
Updated: 2010-07-29 21:02:57
A pair of 1800-year-old bronze tweezers and a manicure rasp have been found at the Andriake Port in Turkey. Indicating that the 1,800-year-old care set was considerably advanced compared to similar ones in the Roman period, Çevik said human’s basic needs were the same even if history and culture change. “Nevertheless, a counterpart for the [...]Saving the Tower of Pisa from collapse
Updated: 2010-07-29 19:58:44
The Telegraph has posted an interesting article about the architectural challenges of saving the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapsing. Burland was convinced he had such a solution – a process called soil extraction – and ultimately he won over the rest of the committee. Akin to microsurgery, it entailed drilling out slivers of soil [...]13th century inscriptions found in Indian temple
Updated: 2010-07-29 17:57:26
Inscriptions dating back to the Pandya and Nayak periods have been found in an ancient temple in southern India. The inscriptions date back to the period of Sundara Pandiyan (1212-1239), Jatavarman Kulasekara Pandiyan-II (1237AD)-to Veerapandiyan (1253-74) and Nayak period (1782AD) said a team of epigraphists who recently found the etchings on the tank bund of [...]19th century British ship found in the Arctic
Updated: 2010-07-29 15:44:49
The HMS Investigator, which was abandoned in the Arctic during a 19th century rescue mission has been found by archaeologists in Canada in Mercy Bay. Canada’s government says the discovery bolsters its claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, which is feared threatened by increased shipping. The Investigator was abandoned while searching for the Franklin expedition, itself [...]Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA mapped
Updated: 2010-07-29 01:20:32
Scientists have decoded the genome of Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old mummy found in the Italian Alps. “We now have access to the complete genetic profile of this world famous mummy. As a result the path is clear for an imminent solution to many of the puzzles surrounding the Iceman,” the Bolzano-based European Academy (Eurac) said [...]Sponsors wanted to restore the Colosseum
Updated: 2010-07-28 23:14:36
The Italian government is looking for private sponsors to help pay for restoration work on the famous Colosseum in Rome in exchange for advertising rights. A string of collapses at the nearby forum have also raised fears about visitor safety and whether the buildings can remain standing for much longer. However the dire state of [...]Ancient human remains found in Florida woods
Updated: 2010-07-28 21:14:06
The remains of a person who lived 500 to 700 years ago were found in the Ocala National Forest in Florida. Asa Randall, a senior archaeologist with the University of Florida, based his estimate on the depth of the burial site and the type of soil in which the remains were found, Lowe told CNN. [...]Who wrote the Dead Sea Scolls?
Updated: 2010-07-28 17:54:46
Just yesterday I posted about how chemical analysis of the Dead Scrolls show that they were made in the area they were found. Directly contradicting that, however, is this story from the National Geographic that suggests the scrolls originated elsewhere and were written by multiple Jewish groups. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered more than [...]X-Rays reveal secrets of Mayan dyes
Updated: 2010-07-28 15:54:33
An x-ray study of Mayan pigments has helped scientists create a dye that will last for a millennia. “This pigment has been stable for centuries in the hostile conditions of the jungle,” said Eric Dooryhee at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. “We’re trying to mimic it to make new materials.” Dooryhee and team [...]3D mapping the Titanic
Updated: 2010-07-27 21:04:13
A team of scientists are about to set off on an expedition to map the Titanic in 3D. The expedition to the site 2 1/2 miles beneath the North Atlantic is billed as the most advanced scientific mission to the Titanic wreck since its discovery 25 years ago. The 20-day expedition is to leave St. [...]Ancient head reshaping in Australia
Updated: 2010-07-27 18:16:27
A misshapen skull, which dates back 10,000-13,000 years ago, has been found near Swan Hill in Victoria, Australia. The skull, belonging to a tall and solidly built Aboriginal man, has a misshapen cranium. Also, his bones reveal he had multiple breaks in both forearms, a fractured ankle so severe his shinbones fused together and arthritis [...]Four ancient shipwrecks found off Italian coast
Updated: 2010-07-27 16:37:59
Sonar scanners have revealed the final resting places of four ancient shipwrecks, off the coast of the Italian island of Zannone. The remains of the trading vessels, dating from the first century BC to the 5th-7th century AD, are up to 165 meters underwater, a depth that preserved them from being disturbed by fishermen over [...]Ancient legal tablet found at Tel Hazor
Updated: 2010-07-27 14:37:49
A legal tablet dating back to the 18th or 17th centuries BC has been uncovered at Tel Hazor in Northern Israel. It is the first time a document resembling Hammurabi’s laws has been uncovered in Israel. The Code of Hammurabi constituted the most ancient and extensive legal codex in the ancient Near East. Some of [...]What is history?
Updated: 2010-07-27 11:03:38
What is History?
An easy answer would be: everything that has gone before each moment in time. But this simply is not true. History is not the past itself, but the study of a past that, especially going back to our earliest histories, remains dynamic and changing. The old adage: ‘istory is written by the victors’has always seemed an exclusive view of our written sources and the further back we go, the less weight this idea holds.
Who wrote History?
The two canonical histories ...Uber Liberal Oliver Stone Proclaims Hitler Needs Context
Updated: 2010-07-27 04:25:09
Nincompoop Hollywood writer/director Oliver Stone told the Sunday Times of London (would link to it but you have to pay, a simple internet search finds commentary on this topic) — while promoting his documentary South of the Border about South American politics — that “Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr [...]The world’s best preserved meteorite impact crater
Updated: 2010-07-27 01:30:39
Researchers studying imagery in Google Earth have discovered what may be the world’s best-preserved small impact crater in the Sahara desert. The immaculate, 148 ft. wide crater was likely excavated by a fast-moving iron meteorite, a few thousand years ago, scientists said Thursday. Dubbed Kamil, the crater is remarkably preserved when compared with most of [...]Migration to Americas from variety of places
Updated: 2010-07-26 23:18:29
Analysis of some of the oldest remains found in the Americans suggest that early migrants to the hemisphere came from a variety of locations. Anthropologists had long believed humans migrated to the Americas in a relatively short period from a limited area in northeast Asia across a temporary land corridor that opened across the Bering [...]4th century Roman villa found in Wales
Updated: 2010-07-26 21:16:05
The discovery of a Roman villa in northwest Wales is forcing experts to reconsider Roman settlement in the country. The villa is likely to have belonged to a wealthy landowner, with pottery and coin finds on the site indicating occupation in the late 3rd and early 4th Centuries AD. It was roofed with local slates, [...]Hunting for a Ming Dynasty wreck in Kenya
Updated: 2010-07-26 19:12:47
Chinese archaeologists are searching for a 15th century shipwreck that will provide evidence of commerce between China and Kenya. The sunken ship is believed to have been part of a mighty armada commanded by Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He, who reached Malindi in 1418. According to Kenyan lore, reportedly backed by recent DNA testing, a [...]Remains of enormous extinct rat discovered in cave
Updated: 2010-07-26 16:58:51
The remains of a rat the size of a small dog have been found in a cave in East Timor. The huge rodent, which died out about 2,000 years ago, was three times as big as its modern cousins and weighed more than 13lbs, about the same as a small dog. Australian archaeologists from the [...]The oldest example of man’s best friend
Updated: 2010-07-23 22:21:40
The jawbone of a dog, which dates back 14,000 years, may be the oldest example of a domesticated dog. Every dog has its day, but that day took more than 14,000 years to dawn for one canine. A jaw fragment found in a Swiss cave comes from the earliest known dog, according to scientists who [...]“A Savage Conflict” Wins Distinguished Book Prize from Military Historians
Updated: 2010-07-19 03:09:55
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War, By Daniel E. Sutherland
From the News-wire:
Newswise — Daniel E. Sutherland, professor of history at the University of Arkansas, has been awarded the Distinguished Book Prize by the Society of Military Historians for his work A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas [...]The Progressive American
Updated: 2010-07-16 22:40:53
I have been extremely busy and have had to neglect the blog. I have three graduate classes ending in a week and three massive papers. Here is something I will be writing on soon and thought I would share it ahead of time. My Social Justice research will led back to the Progressive movement of [...]Siena College Research Institute Survey of U.S. Presidents
Updated: 2010-07-06 21:44:12
Since 2002 Franklin Delano Roosevelt has ranked number one in New York’s Siena College Research Institute Survey of U.S. Presidents, which ranks the best Commander-in-Chiefs of all time in a number of different categories, and has done so five times.
I’ll let the list speak for itself:
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. George Washington
5. [...]