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LAWTON, Okla. – An Oklahoma homeowner… found a “bomb” while mowing his backyard. …a large shell that was about one foot long.… investigators from Ft. Sill… believe it is a World War I 75 MM explosive ordnance.…
The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest famous for his anti-war and anti-capitalism protests, died Saturday in New York at the age of 94.… sprang into the spotlight in 1968 when he and several other activists seized 600 draft cards of troops about to be deployed in Vietnam and burned the files in rubbish bins with homemade napalm.…
Workers laying pipes in a park in Seville have unearthed a 600-kilogram trove of Roman coins…
…Tulsa's only milkman is retiring. …has been delivering milk, eggs and lots of other stuff to Tulsans' refrigerators for 30 years.…
…"Sunshine Superman" from singer/songwriter Donovan… fifty years ago that it was released… Donovan announced a fiftieth anniversary tour to take place in September and October, celebrating the album. …
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board member Clarence Page argued…
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift argued…
Lifelong Democrat Tom Hanks… publicly stating…
Friday at the United Nations, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the U.N. Messenger of Peace, urged world leaders …
Jesse M Baltazar, a survivor of the notorious Bataan Death March during World War II, has died from cancer aged 95.
The Filipino native joined the US military after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and was wounded in the leg by Japanese bombing during the three-month Battle of Bataan in March of 1942.…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Tuesday morning, people across the state and country will take time to remember the 168 lives that were lost 21 years ago.
On April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, destroying much of the nine-story structure.
While the scars have healed since that day, the memories are still fresh in the minds of so many.…
In late antiquity, the religion split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent.… “all European history has been a great emigration toward the North.” … European unity began with the concept… of a Christendom in “inevitable opposition” to Islam… Europe must now find some other way to dynamically incorporate the world of Islam without diluting its devotion to the rule-of-law-based system that arose in Europe’s north…
…discovery of one of the largest Roman Villas ever found in the UK.… Roman property, similar in size and structure to the great Roman villa at Chedworth.… the remains – some of the most important to be found in decades - have now been re-buried, as Historic England cannot afford to fully excavate and preserve such an extensive site.…
…former Republican presidential candidate and Donald Trump supporter Dr. Ben Carson said…
This is so sublime and funny - especially for those who have lived with Germans for years - I don't even know where to start.…
Robert Bateman, Daily Beast: How the Longbow Ended Knights in Shining Armor
Historians love watershed moments, and few in military history in the West were as important as the battle of Crecy in 1346.…
Thirty-one rolls of undeveloped film, all shot by the same American soldier during World War II were passed along to developers at The Rescued Film Project. There, they carefully worked to develop photos taken seventy years ago.…
Fox News Senior Correspondent Geraldo Rivera argued…
…satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known.… Canadian site… discovered last summer after infrared images from 400 miles in space showed possible man-made shapes under discolored vegetation. …southwest coast of Newfoundland, about 300 miles south of L’Anse aux Meadows, the first and so far only confirmed Viking settlement in North America, discovered in 1960. …
…de Löwenmensch, the Lion Man… a foot tall, carved out of a single mammoth tusk… found in a cave in Germany in 1939 and, owing to some little distractions in the country at the time, forgotten for thirty years. …forty thousand years old, the oldest undisputed representational sculpture found to date.…
About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The confrontation can’t be found in any history books—the written word didn’t become common in these parts for another 2000 years—but this was no skirmish between local clans. Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology. …
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher stated.…
I don't know why, but Breitbart runs at least three articles every time this guy opens his mouth.
The animation was created by the Imperial War Museum to mark the re-opening of the American Air Museum. It shows the progress of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against the Germans from 1939 to 1945 …
…Xena is gay in the new series.…
Ninety years ago, Hollywood's "Million Dollar Baby" was a beloved star earning seven figures. But her career was over at age 6, and her family then squandered her fortune. THR catches up with the spry 97-year-old at her modest home in central California: "People said my performances changed their lives."…
"My doctor has a daughter who wants to be an actress… I'm always telling him to discourage her. There is no future in it. Unless you have good connections and start off early."
Melissa Harris-Perry has made the bold decision to boycott her own program.… Sadly, nobody else will notice.…
Controversial Hollywood director Spike Lee…
…It is intricately made with polished green stone and is thought to have adorned a very important woman or child on only special occasions. Yet this is no modern-day fashion accessory and is instead believed to be the oldest stone bracelet in the world, dating to as long ago as 40,000 years.
Unearthed in the Altai region of Siberia in 2008, after detailed analysis Russian experts now accept its remarkable age as correct.
New pictures show this ancient piece of jewellery in its full glory with scientists concluding it was made by our prehistoric human ancestors, the Denisovans, and shows them to have been far more advanced than ever realised.…
…Denisovans… were known as homo altaiensis, an extinct species of humans genetically distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans… not clear yet how the Denisovans could have made the bracelet with such skill.…
Denisovans… dated back as early as 600,000 years ago…
Sometime before his death in a US drone strike in June 2015, Nasir al Wuhayshi recorded an insider’s account of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. As the aide-de-camp to Osama bin Laden prior to the hijackings, Wuhayshi was well-placed to know such details. And al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Wuhayshi led until his demise, has now published a version of his “untold story.”…
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