Jesus 'may have visited England', says Scottish academic

"Jesus Christ could have come to Britain to further his education, according to a Scottish academic. Church of Scotland minister Dr Gordon Strachan makes the claim in a new film entitled And Did Those Feet. The...

Philippines declares emergency after 46 killed

"Ampatuan (Philippines): The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the...

Multiple identities

The Shanaakht (Identity) Festival returned to Karachi on Monday. It is a three day festival organized by the Citizen's Archives of Pakistan. Each morning of the festival is reserved for visiting school children...

Samuel Adams: Virtue, Knowledge, and Liberty

I thought I would place some quotes from the great American thinker,  Samuel Adams here,  for they are guiding principles even in our own times:  Adams has been remembered in American history for...

Gracilization: evidence of humans domesticating themselves

""gracilization" -- that is, "a worldwide thinning of the human skull" starting around 40,000 years ago. Why was it that, millenniums before the agricultural revolution, our ancestors became progressively lighter-boned and smaller? A crucial clue: The fossil record and...

Baybayin – the lost tagalog script of pre-Spanish conquest

As the days go by I learn more about the nation its history and the people in these beautiful Islands of the Philippines. Until today I thought the West brought literacy to Philippines but that is not so in fact...

Ethnic Make Up of ‘Palestinians

 Lots of work on this one. Thanks to our friends and supporters this information was compiled. I hope it helps.Ethnic Make Up of ‘Palestinians’. Extracts from: “Bosnia – Motherland of “Palestinians” by Manfred R. Lehmann and “Palestinians ‘Peoplehood’...

Ardipithecus 'Ardi' Ramidus: Human Ancestor Fossil Discovered

Ardipithecus ramidus ('Ardi' for short) is the name of a fossil that scientists discovered in Ethiopia and have been studying for about 15 years. Ardi was a pre-human species that lived about 4.4 million years ago in present-day Ethiopia, abcnews reports. The Ardi fossils...

Spectacular Anglo Saxon Hoard Found in Staffordshire

An amateur relic hunter Terry Herbert has stumbled upon a spectacular Anglo Saxon gold hoard in Staffordshire, England.  The hoard, possibly from the Seventh Century was found in an undisclosed farmer's...

What will history say? What say you?

Conservatives, when speaking of the concept of limited government, are speaking to the issue of the Constitutional limits of the federal government as our Constitution so clear states in Article 1, Section 8 of...

Michael Steele: Opposing a radical political agenda is not racist

Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, knows what racism is and, according to him, opposing a radical political agenda or voicing opposition to President Obama's policy proposals is not...

Bids & Auction For Dinosaur & Other Extinct Species Foosil

Its really interesting to know about this. Bids and auction on extinct species fossil and that too with high prices available now though auction. So owing this fossils may be for museum is too costly yet...

Qwerty – a technological rethink?

What an auspicious occasion it being the 09-09-09 today and to mark the occasion what better than to celebrate the QWERTY keyboard after 134 years of its <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />US history. Yes its been...

Obama to address Children vs WWII - Never let this happen again!

"Today, our President Obama has said he was going to address the Children of America.  There is one group of America's who are concerned that this amounts to an political indoctrination of young persons in v various stages of there intellectual development.  On...

Today in Feminist History

"On August 26th, 1920 the 19th Amendment went into effect. It gave women the right to vote in the United States. This is why today is also marked the annual Women's Equality Day, started in 1971 by Bella Abzug." ...

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