Columbia University seeks to change 1920′s era whites-only fellowship bequest

Note they aren’t simply giving up the money and haven’t in almost 100 years.

Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship...

Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed for road fill

Oops!

A Mayan pyramid that has stood for 2,300 years in Belize has been reduced to rubble, apparently to make fill for roads.

Local media in the...

Photo: Ancient quarry used to build Jerusalem found

Okay, this is cool.

A huge quarry, along with tools and a key, used by workers some 2,000 years ago, have been discovered during an...

Chicago museums are prohibited from lawfully displaying firearms of historic value

Well, yeah, lift it, as Ald. Burke suggests. But, wow, that there is such a law in the first place and that it will likely...

15,000-year-old fossil words reveal Ice Age language

Hmm:

Would Ice Age man understand us? It may depend on the words we choose. Digging through languages in Eurasia for “fossil” words that have escaped...

NH auction house offers EKG of Neil Armstrong’s heartbeat taken when he stepped onto moon

Well, here’s one for the guy or girl who has everything.

AMHERST, N.H. – A New Hampshire auction house is offering an EKG of Neil Armstrong’s...

Archaeologists in Ga. find remains of frontier fort in Revolutionary War battle

Cool stuff, more at link below.

Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War...

Alan Wood, WWII vet who provided flag on Iwo Jima has died

Five Marines and a Navy Corpsman later raised that flag in a stirring moment captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.Steven Wood says his father was always humbled by his small role in the historic moment.In a 1945 letter to a Marine general who asked for details about the flag, Wood...

150 Yrs Ago This week in the Civil War Confederate fighters conduct raid

Little History at link. Yes, I have a category for that. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah! lol Always did like my History.

Aiming to destroy a vital...

Video: 100-Year-Old Oklahoma Time Capsule Opened

The video is at link below. It’s okay, but – kinda meh. Could have better video. Some cool stuff inside. Fair number of Indian artifacts,...

Margaret Thatcher dead: George Galloway leads chorus of ‘celebration’ from the left

This is who they are. This is what they do.

The Left has led sickening celebrations in response to the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

MP George Galloway led the way with a crass tweet, while at the NUS National conference in Sheffield there were cheers when her...

North Korea threatens to scrap armistice that ended war

North Korea threatened on Tuesday to scrap an armistice that ended the 1950-53 civil war and sever a military “hotline” with the United States if South Korea and Washington pressed on with two-month-long war games.

It was a notable sharpening in the North’s often bellicose rhetoric and followed word from U.N. diplomats...