Science The Camera That Went To The Moon And Changed How We See ItNPR - Scott NeumanIn the summer of 1962, Walter Schirra — who would soon become America's third man to orbit the Earth — walked into a Houston photo supply shop looking for a camera he could take into space. He came out
Moon Apollo 11 really landed on the Moon—and here’s how you can be sure (sorry, conspiracy nuts)Fast Company - Charles FishmanWe went to the Moon. Here’s all the proof you’ll ever need. This is the 43rd in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until July 20, exploring the 50th anniversary of the first-ever
Windmill These Ancient Windmills Were Built Over 1,000 Years Agogreatbigstory.com When you think of windmills, the Netherlands might first come to mind. But some of the oldest windmills in the world are in Nashtifan, Iran. Dozens …
Science Enigmatic skull may be the oldest modern human outside Africa. But questions abound.National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasA controversial study argues that early Homo sapiens were in Greece by 210,000 years ago, sparking intense debate. Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned
Moon Moon landings: What was the 1969 Apollo 11 mission?BBC NewsIt's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter? Why
Neil Armstrong 50 Facts About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing for Its 50th Anniversarymentalfloss.com - BY mentalfloss .com On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with the goal of …
Apollo Missions Meet Poppy Northcutt, the Woman Who Helped Bring the Apollo 11 Astronauts Home SafelyTIME - Olivia B. WaxmanThe boundary broken by the Apollo 11 astronauts, when they became the first humans to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, is one of the most famous in history. But the Apollo program also saw other kinds
Columbia University A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human PrehistoryThe New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERA skull fragment found in the roof of a cave in southern Greece is the oldest fossil of Homo sapiens ever discovered in Europe, scientists reported on Wednesday. Until now, the earliest remains of modern
British Museum British Museum to return Buddhist heads looted in Afghan warThe Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondentFourth-century Buddhist terracotta heads probably hacked off by the Taliban and found stuffed in poorly made wooden crates at Heathrow are to be returned to Afghanistan where they will be star museum The
Auschwitz Primo Levi brings readers as close as prose can to the horror of AuschwitzThe Guardian - Sam JordisonWhile in Auschwitz, the exhausted and starving Primo Levi was not even granted the reprieve of a night’s sleep. The hours of darkness were, he writes in If This Is a Man, long, laid on his narrow wooden
Military History Dutch WWII submarine wrecks disappear from Malaysian seabedThe Guardian - Daniel BoffeyThe wrecks of two Dutch submarines sunk off the Malaysian coast during the second world war have disappeared along with the remains of the 79 men who perished onboard. Researchers discovered just a few
British Museum Why Britain Won't Return Ethiopia's Sacred TreasuresThe Atlantic - Daniel TrillingIn recent years, requests for the permanent return of items taken during the imperial era without their owners’ consent have gathered pace. LONDON—In a storeroom of the British Museum here sits a collection
DNA The first Europeans weren’t who you might thinkNational Geographic - Andrew CurryGenetic tests of ancient settlers' remains show that Europe is a melting pot of bloodlines from Africa, the Middle East, and today's Russia. The idea that there were once “pure” populations of ancestral
Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu: Archaeology, DNA prove Palestinians not native to Land of Israeljpost.com - Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman “There’s no connection between the ancient Philistines & the modern Palestinians, whose ancestors came from the Arabian Peninsula to the Land of …
Pompeii Unexploded World War Two-era bombs lurking beneath ruins of PompeiiThe Telegraph - By Josephine McKennaThe ancient city of Pompeii is one of Italy’s most popular tourist attractions drawing nearly three and a half million visitors a year. But most tourists don’t realise that the city, which was devastated
Dwight D. Eisenhower The Most Important Road Trip in American HistoryThe New York Times - By BRIAN C. BLACKOn the morning of July 7, 1919, Dwight Eisenhower, at the time a 28-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Army, set out on a drive across the country. For the American military, World War I had illustrated
James Monroe James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door.The New York Times - By AUDRA D. S. BURCH and MIRANDA BARNES[For more coverage of race, sign up here to have our Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox.] CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — So many Monroes in rural Albemarle County remember the moment they a
Apollo Missions Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon, and Its First Great GeologistThe New York Times - By KENNETH CHANG[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] At the start of a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference in in
Books The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: when Vietnam came homeThe Guardian - Clara BinghamIf it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with, no more appeasement Ronald Reagan My last thought before the shot was that you should never point a gun at someone Donovan Rundle On 4 May 1970, the Ohio
Myanmar Myanmar’s temple city Bagan awarded UNESCO World Heritage statusReuters - Simon LewisYANGON (Reuters) - UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on Saturday, nearly a quarter of a century after the complex of Buddhist temples was first nominated for
Frankfurt Major evacuations in Frankfurt over World War II bombDW News - Nik Martin (with dpa) An area around the European Central Bank has been evacuated so authorities could defuse a 500-kilogram American bomb. Some 16,500 people were told to …
Music Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural SouthNPR - Debbie ElliottTimothy Duffy is on a mission to document America's vernacular music — specifically, the blues — and the everyday men and women who carry on the tradition. He's the co-founder of Music Maker Relief Foundation,
Opinion (UK) Britain’s story of empire is based on myth. We need to know the truthThe Guardian - Priyamvada GopalThese days we’ve become wearily accustomed to depictions of Brexit Britain as oppressed by a villainously imperial Europe. Annexed “without permission”, Nigel Farage claimed melodramatically, defending
Nativity Inside the ‘Magnificent’ Discovery at Church of the NativityThe Daily Beast - Candida Moss At the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the location where tradition says Jesus was born, something strange was recently discovered hidden inside …
History Viking Grave Discovery In Sweden Leaves Archaeologists StunnedForbes - David Nikelremains of longhouses and at least one ship lying just below the topsoil near Halden in the south-east of Norway. Just months later, another ship discovery was made on the shores of the Oslofjord at the
Tutankhamun King Tut bust that Egypt claims was 'stolen' sells for $6 millionFox News - James RogersA controversial 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of boy pharaoh King Tutankhamun has been sold for nearly $6 million at auction in the U.K., despite protests from the Egyptian government. The brown quartzite
Books In The Shadow of Vesuvius by Daisy Dunn review: an irresistible life of PlinyThe Telegraph - By Harry SidebottomDoing your homework can save your life. A proposition met with derision by the sons of this reviewer, but it worked for Pliny the Younger. When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, his uncle, Pliny the Elder, commander
World News Excavating a Horror That Some Koreans Wish Would Stay BuriedThe New York Times - By CHOE SANG-HUNASAN, South Korea — On a lush hillside torn open by an excavator, Park Sun-joo and volunteers combed through the soil with trowels and brushes, looking for villagers, including children, who were bludgeoned
Play buttonHistory 8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britainhistoryextra.com Britain is blessed with some truly magnificent ancient sites, from a Palaeolithic cave burial to a site of prehistoric rock art. Here, author and …
