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Today is Saturday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2012. There are 317 days left in the year.
President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will celebrate the groundbreaking for a new national museum showcasing black life, art and history on the National Mall.
Today is Thursday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2012. There are 319 days left in the year.
Colorado's caucuses offer the Republican candidates for president a glimpse of their support in the Mountain West.
In presidential politics, Minnesota is as close to a Democratic fortress as states come.
With its 24-hour casino gambling, legalized prostitution and drive-through wedding chapels, Nevada seems anything but conventional. When it comes to voting in presidential elections, it's as mainstream as it gets.
Author and activist Maya Angelou hopes for a time when Black History Month will no longer be needed to explain the contributions of African-Americans.
Clint Eastwood helped open a new movie theater on the National Mall Wednesday evening and the Smithsonian Institution honored the actor and director for his six decades of work in American film.
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2012. There are 327 days left in the year.
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/16/2012 on LiveScience Theories about the purpose of Stonehenge range from a secular calendar to a place of spiritual worship.
The true, tragic and pathetic story of how Edward Teller's ambition and lack of a conscience destroyed J. Robert Oppenheimer.
As I explained, there are testimonies of a living victims of Khomeini's massacre that took place during 1988 to 1989.
Contrary to the heroic myth that he always pointed reporters in the right direction, Felt’s leaks were often either carelessly inaccurate or maliciously false.
Having worked on Who Do You Think You Are? as well as three of the PBS series, I thought I would take a moment to address the frequently raised question of which show came first. Who Do You Think You Are? is a British import due to enter its ninth season in the U.K.
The layout of Stonehenge matches the spacing of loud and quiet sounds created by acoustic interference, new theory claims
I decided to print testimonies written by some of those who are under siege and under threat to be massacred in Camp Ashraf , those who have survived the animosities of the Ayatollahs because they stood firm to defend freedom.
Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War. His extraordinary story has now been backed up by a range of compelling evidence, both in France and in Germany, which is published in the latest edi …
Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artefacts from a Greek museum dedicated to the history of the Olympics. Two masked men smashed display cabinets after overpowering a guard in the town of Olympia, officials said. Local mayor Thymios Kotzias said items of "incalculable" valu …
The origins of Stonehenge have long baffled historians - was it intended as a monument for the dead, a celestial observatory, a place or healing?
Much has been written about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, president of retailer Sears Roebuck and Co., teamed up with Booker T.
Perhaps the greatest argument justifying use of words like "Islamist" is that Muslims themselves regularly use them to signify their more "adamant" coreligionists ("al-Islamiyin").
Lt. Col. James Harvey-one of the First Top Guns ever. And a member of the Tuskegee Arimen. The military, for all it's faults was and is one of the most forward thinking, forward acting organizations when it comes to the advancement of people.
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Hot chocolate? The potato? Piranhas? Throughout history, humankind has persisted in the belief that some foods are linked to sex.
Forget roses, chocolates and candlelight dinners. On Valentine's Day, that's rather boring stuff -- at least according to ancient Roman standards. Imagine half-naked men running through the streets, whipping young women with bloodied thongs made from freshly cut goat skins.
Pablo Picasso's Guernica is one of the world's most celebrated works of art.
Diamonds and rubies and sapphires, oh my! Precious stones hold more than glitz and fame. They also hold mystery and intrigue.
DALLAS -- When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead
Intertwined with the history and lore of the St. Francis Dam and its resulting catastrophic failure, is the silent actor, Harry Carey.
Everyone regrets drinking and swears an oath (of abstinence); I swore the oath and regret that. ~ Zahir al-Din Muhammed Babur Shah
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Lead archeologist Jack Hranicky described the early people who roamed the area approximatley 12,000 years ago as Virginia ''First Engineers''...
The current PBS series Downton Abbey is loosely based on the real history of Highclere Castle, the ancestral home of the Carnarvon clan in Hampshire.
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