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Scientists have identified the scribes who wrote two of the four original 1215 copies of the Magna Carta. They found the copies held in Lincoln and Salisbury were written by scribes based at those cathedrals, rather than by someone working for King John. The discovery was made ahead of the 800th anniversary of the historic charter on Monday.…
How a chicken farmer, a pair of princesses, and 27 imaginary spies helped the Allies win World War II.…
Japan's last ninja: Engineer, 63, who can hear a needle drop in the next room and kill from 20 paces is last in 500-year line of Japanese assassins
• Jinichi Kawakami is 21st head of the Ban clan, a dynasty of secret ninjas
• He began training in ancient art of ninjutsu aged six under Buddhist master
• For concentration, he would stare into a candle until he was 'inside' flame
• For hearing he would practice listening to needle dropping on wood floor
• Says he will let the art die with him because ninjas 'don't fit with modern day'
• 'We can't try out murder or poisons. Even if we can learn, we can't try it out'
The last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers of World War II has died. ChesterNez, died this morning [Jun 7] age of 93. RIP
OKLAHOMA CITY – Contractors recently discovered something amazing hidden behind the walls of a local high school. … Emerson High School… removing the whiteboards from the walls and discovered… Several chalkboards with writings and student drawings from 1917 were hidden behind the walls. The work assignments of teachers from nearly 100 years ago are still intact.…
…Hitler was still asleep at 10 a.m. when Nazi associate and arms minister Albert Speer arrived at the Berghof. He was awakened around noon and told the news. Hitler was not angry, or vindictive – far from it. … “The news couldn’t be better,” Hitler said when informed of the invasion…
[News report video with breif D-Day landing film]
An overview of the D-Day invasion, including a link (under the first photo) to a recording of a CBS radio broadcast covering news of the invasion.…
You are about to embark on the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months. …
On June 6th, 2014 an 11-year-old boy wanted to say thank you to the soldiers who fought and died on Omaha beach on D-Day morning 70 years earlier. So his mother took him to Normandy, France.
Some 20,000 residents in the western German city of Cologne are being forced to evacuate their homes after authorities discovered a 200-kilogram (440-pound) bomb from World War II. Schools and kindergartens remained closed and dozens of ambulances were on the scene to evacuate residents of a nursing home.…
When Officer Don Hull pulled 1-year-old Joseph Webber out of the rubble of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, he had no idea if the boy would live or die. … Twenty years after the bombing, Hull and Webber, now a 21-year-old college student studying zoology at Oklahoma State University, were reunited. …
Legal Insurrection's tribute to VE day.
70 years ago today the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. …
Underwater explorers in Madagascar say they have found what is thought to be the treasure of notorious Scottish pirate William Kidd. …50kg silver bar… Capt Kidd was executed in 1701 for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.…
The American Stars and Stripes and the yellow-and-red flag of the Republic of South Vietnam will fly across California this week as many of the 2.7 million Vietnam War veterans join 1.7 million Vietnamese-Americans in remembering the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, which took place on April 30, 1975….
When he stood on his toes, leaned his head back and began to incoherently shout "Louie Louie" into a microphone 52 years ago, Jack Ely had no idea he was creating a rock 'n' roll classic.… Ely, who died Tuesday at age 71, had simply walked into a tiny Portland recording studio with his band one day in 1963 to cut an instrumental version of a song that had been a hit on Pacific Northwest jukeboxes — one that kids could dance to.…
WRIGHTSTOWN, New Jersey – The ground shook near a New Jersey military base as an explosives team detonated a 500-pound (225-kilogram) World War II-era bomb… had been discovered Thursday during excavation for a new building at Middlesex County College, which is on the site of the former Raritan Arsenal.…
Mary Doyle Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell's iconic 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the home front during World War II, has died. She was 92. …in Simsbury, Connecticut, after a brief illness, …not to be confused with a poster by a Pittsburgh artist [shown here] depicting a woman flexing her arm under the words "We Can Do It" — would later be used in a nationwide effort to sell war bonds.
[Various local and state folks recall the aftermath]
“I was one of about 20 police and firefighters from Bartlesville that worked the Murrah Building explosion site. I was assigned to work outside the church where relatives of the victims waited for notification that their loved one had been found. On two separate occasions as folks were leaving the church, they came over to us and thanked us for being there. These folks had just been notified their loved ones had been found, yet they took the time to come and thank us. That is a memory I will never forget.…"
…He wasn't a firefighter at the time. Hrivak was a nursing student and fresh out of the Air Force. He had extensive mountaineering and rope rescue experience, which first responders thought would be useful at the site of the bombing. He learned everything on the job during the six weeks he was there, searching for survivors, sifting through debris, and trying to help heal a broken city. And years later, those experiences turned out to be invaluable, when Hrivnak's team got the call to respond to the Oso [Washington] mudslide….
…Almon had her first and only birthday the day before she was killed.
Her mother, then 23-year-old Aren Almon-Kok, was desperately searching for her daughter for nearly 24 hours. The search came to an end when she saw that photo on the front page of a local paper.
Then it was everywhere, on every news station and newspaper in the world.
Almon-Kok, who still throws a birthday party for her late daughter each year, spoke to The Daily Mail about what that horrible day was like, and what it felt like to see that photo of Baylee everywhere she looked. …
…the woman whose leg was amputated in the midst of the crumbled Murrah building… After hearing that Daina’s prosthetic is out-dated and ill-fitted, someone decided that Daina could still use a little help. A GoFundMe campaign has been started to raise funds for a new leg for Daina.…
…Florence Rogers remembers April 19, 1995 like it was yesterday.
She worked in the credit union inside the federal building and watched the floor in front of her fall six stories.
“I was the only one that got out of that room. All of the other eight that were in there perished,” said Florence Rogers.
Rogers was thrown back from the blast onto an 18 inch ledge. Her coworkers’ desks collapsed with the floor when the bomb exploded.…
…After taking care of pediatric patients who came in right after the bombing, ambulances stopped coming to the hospital, so Dr. Tuggle and his colleague, Dr. Andy Sullivan, decided to go straight to the blast zone. Police led them to Daina Bradley, a 20-year-old mother of two, was trapped under a collapsed column. Her right leg was pinned under a beam. The doctors had to make a quick decision to safe Bradley’s life.
“Could we cut through the pillar? Could we raise it with the jaws of life? And there was no way. It was just going to bring the building down. So, Andy talked about the options and said, ‘it looks like we are going to have to amputate….'”
…“It was smoky. Hard to breath. And you knew you had no choice. And water from busted pipes was coming down. I would actually take a shower to get the soot and concrete dust off me and clean my glasses so I could go back in and do it again,” Avera remembered.
Then, Avera heard something.
“All of a sudden, I hear this baby crying. So we turn around. And I went over to where I hear it and we started digging around the rock. And we found two babies…."
In those first frantic minutes after the bombing, Avera was too busy to notice the photographer.
He never knew the photo was being transmitted around the world. …
…When I drove back to Norman to head to the newsroom, the radio alerted me that children had perished at the daycare, and I began to weep as I drove. The adrenaline started to fade, and I began to grasp the reality and scope of what had happened.
In the days that followed, I tried to convey the emotions and the feel of the recovery in my stories. But ... there really were no words. So many people were terribly injured. So many people had died. So many people were emotionally broken. Including me. …
…Jannie Coverdale, the boys’ grandmother, refused to give up hope.
“I’m almost positive that Aaron and Elijah will be found alive,” she said in the days following the bombing.
Fate would not allow it. The boys, inseparable in life, would share the same casket.
“I kept saying I believe in miracles,” says Jannie. “When they came and told me they had identified their bodies, I started screaming at God and I told him I would never serve him again. And I meant it.” … "I had a journey. A very long journey. And my anger really didn’t go away until I started writing Terry Nichols. And he asked me to forgive him.” …
Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus. …
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