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Today in History for 30th July 2013
Historical Events 579 – Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. 1908 – Around the World...
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Six decades after Korean War, a second rescue attempt for missing airmen
By hnn BEIJING — As more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers swarmed over far fewer American Marines and soldiers in subzero temperatures on treacherous terrain in one of the fiercest battles of the Korean...
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'Paradogs' lured with meat out of aircraft behind enemy lines in WWII
By hnn Lance Corporal Ken Bailey was asked to train up the “paradogs” so they could be used as the “eyes and ears” of the soldiers on the ground. The dogs, which would be given minimal food and water...
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Dinosaur skeletons headed to auction, not museum
By hnn Many paleontologists agree that two fossilized dinosaur skeletons found in the Hell Creek formation in Montana might be a major discovery. The fossils apparently show two dinosaurs locked...
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Detroit-area plant where Rosie the Riveter worked facing demolition
By hnn YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MICH.—The Detroit-area factory where Rosie the Riveter showed that a woman could do a “man’s work” by building Second World War-era bombers, making her an enduring symbol of...
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Game Review: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, by Ubisoft
By David Lauterborn Gunslinger, the latest entry in Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez series, offers good gunplay and an interesting blend of fact and fiction, even if the plots are hit and miss. …read more...
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DVD Review: Sugarfoot: The Complete First Season, by Warner Archive
By David Lauterborn Actor Will Hutchins portrayed the sarsaparilla-drinking, easy-to-blush, gunless but forthright and honest Sugarfoot in this offbeat 1950s TV Western. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE...
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Inca mummies: Child sacrifice victims fed drugs and alcohol
By hnn Scientists have revealed that drugs and alcohol played a key part in the months and weeks leading up to the children’s deaths. Tests on one of the children, a teenage girl, suggest that she was...
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Book Review: American El Dorado, by Ron Elliott
By David Lauterborn In his new book American El Dorado, Ron Elliott exposes the infamous 1872 diamond hoax, keeping the facts straight while creating dialogue to flesh out the dupes and perpetrators....
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Book Review: Texas Ranger John B. Jones, by Rick Miller
By David Lauterborn In his award-winning biography of John B. Jones, author Rick Miller also paints a vivid picture of the Texas Rangers’ heyday. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around...
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Wild West – October 2013 – Letters From Readers
By David Lauterborn In the October issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about Josephine Earp’s true identity, Edgar Paxson’s painting of Custer’s Last Stand, ill-fated photographer Mark...
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Interview With Historian Paul Lee Johnson
By David Lauterborn In his new book The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary, author Paul Lee Johnson examines the little-known McLaury side of the October 1881 gunfight near the...
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Book Review: Wyatt Earp, by Andrew C. Isenberg
By David Lauterborn Andrew Isenberg presents compelling arguments about celebrated lawman Wyatt Earp’s flawed character, but he falls short of proving his premise that Earp led a vigilante life. …read...
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Woman arrested after green paint found on organ at National Cathedral
By hnn A wave of vandalism continued to mar some of Washington’s more popular landmarks Monday with at least three more attractions spattered with green paint, and authorities announced the arrest of a...
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Clay Allison: ‘Good-Natured Holy Terror’
By David Lauterborn How much trouble he ever caused in Texas is debatable, and during his time in Colfax County, New Mexico Territory, Clay Allison mostly did his fighting for a cause …read more...
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Wild West Discussion – October 2013
By David Lauterborn Regarding the gunfight that broke out on October 26, 1881, near Tombstone's O.K. Corral: Do you see it as a battle between good and evil or a battle between two flawed frontier...
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Wild West – October 2013 – Table of Contents
By David Lauterborn The October 2013 issue of Wild West features stories about Will McLaury of post-gunfight fame in Tombstone, the 1871 Camp Grant Massacre in Arizona Territory, mythologized gunman...
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Daily Quiz for July 31, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff Thomas Edison’s first laboratory is on display in a museum in this city. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article Archives
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Today in History for 31st July 2013
Historical Events 1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor 1948 – “Brigadoon” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances 1970 – Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends “Huntley-Brinkley...
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Critics accuse Canada's Conservative Party of ‘politicizing history’
By hnn The release of the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s first research strategy — following a two-year process of reflection that was nearly derailed by the federal government’s decision last year...
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Diocletian’s palace gets laser facelift
By hnn Conservators in Croatia have completed a ten-year project to remove more than 1,700 years of grime from the courtyard of the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian (AD244-311), in the coastal...
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Kenyan lawyer on quixotic quest to nullify trial of Jesus
By hnn The conviction of Jesus by Pontius Pilate may be the most famous court verdict — and perhaps the most consequential, since it led to Christ’s crucifixion and the founding of a global religion....
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Stolen £1.2m Stradivarius found by police
By hnn A riddle worthy of a detective novel – involving an internationally acclaimed violinist, her prized instrument stolen at a busy London station, and a false trail leading to Bulgaria – may be...
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Woolly mammoth DNA may lead to a resurrection of the ancient beast
By hnn The pioneering scientist who created Dolly the sheep has outlined how cells plucked from frozen woolly mammoth carcasses might one day help resurrect the ancient beasts. The notional procedure –...
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Viking treasure hoard to make Shetland return
By hnn TREASURES from the largest hoard of Viking silver ever found in Scotland are returning to the Northern Isles for the first time since they were unearthed on Orkney more than a century ago. In...
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Tomb raiders exploit chaos in Egypt
By hnn Egypt’s cultural heritage is in danger. Grave robbers, sometimes heavily armed, are taking advantage of political chaos to plunder its poorly guarded archaeological sites. Authorities feel...
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Great Pompeii Project finally under way
By hnn The Villa of Mysteries, first excavated in 1909, is named after a large and colourful cycle of frescoes showing young women undergoing an ancient Roman marriage initiation rite. Conservators are...
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Library of Congress races to preserve TV history
By hnn (CBS News) CULPEPER, Va. — There are moments that define America, and the record of many of them are stored in a vault in Culpeper, Va. But these videotapes, some 50 years old, are...
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Germany still burying Eastern Front dead from WWII
By hnn Germany will open its last big war cemetery in Russia on Saturday, marking the culmination of a huge effort to recover Wehrmacht soldiers killed on its Eastern Front in World War II. By the end...
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Star Trek shuttlecraft on display at NASA HQ
By hnn Capt. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise had a five-year mission. But one of the starship’s shuttles has been on a nearly 50-year mission that ends Wednesday. The shuttle craft Galileo, which...
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Speed Demons
By Scokeley Vanderbilt heir ditched railroads for cars and launched a race that put the American auto industry on the map. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle...
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Congress lawmakers plan new legislation for Latino museum
By hnn Lawmakers are introducing new legislation in Congress to create a national Latino American history museum. Two years ago, a presidential commission called for the creation of a Smithsonian...
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Daily Quiz for August 1, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff The first Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to an American writer went to this author. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article...
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Was Pres. Lyndon Johnson aware of Soviet plans to invade Czechoslovakia?
By Gerald Swick Dear Mr. History, There is one thing in history that particularly interests me. Was President Lyndon Johnson aware of the plans of the Soviet Union and its vassal states to invade...
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Today in History for 1st August 2013
Historical Events 1785 – Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends. 1942 – German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers 1963 –...
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