Christian Cemetery From Viking Age Iceland Reveals Strenuous Lives And Early Deaths
Legend has it that a Viking from the Faroe Islands settled Iceland around 825 AD. More settlers quickly followed, mostly the Norse who...
On This Day - 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini Bans Rock & Roll In Iran Which Inspired the Clash Song R
via MPRNews: "After taking power during the Iranian Revolution, the Ayatollah Khomeini banned Western music in Iran. That move inspired...
On This Day - 1969 - Armstrong walks on moon: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for man
At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people...
On This Day - 1945 - Atom bomb successfully tested
On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in...
Roman Legion Camp Unearthed in Megiddo, 'Site of Final War'
Discoveries revealed in camp excavation of legion that destroyed ancient Israel, at site where war for final redemption believed to...
Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon - Classic & Rarely Seen Photographs
A new photo exhibition dedicated to Audrey Hepburn is scheduled to launch on July 2 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. A...
The Birth of American Independence
When the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, few colonists desired complete independence from Great...
The survivor and the liberator: Two tales of the horror at the notorious Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentr
As Queen Elizabeth II visits 70 years on, the concentration camp is still in the minds of Captain Eric Brown and Rudi Oppenheimer The...
