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well-preserved 700-year-old mummy
...discovered by chinese road workers
archaeology  china  history 
march 2011 by amy
Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915 « How to be a Retronaut
RT @ebertchicago Color photographs of Shackleton's 1915 Antartica expedition. (extraordinary didn't know these existed)
history  photography  antarctica  whoa 
march 2011 by amy
The Loss of a Good Man - NYTimes.com
He was the founding director of the Peace Corps, the signature success of Kennedy’s New Frontier. He founded Head Start, created the Job Corps and Legal Services for the Poor, and gave us Volunteers in Service to America, which was the domestic version of the Peace Corps. He served as president and chairman of the Special Olympics, which was founded by Eunice Shriver. Indefatigable and unrepentantly idealistic, Mr. Shriver may have directly affected more people in a positive way than any American since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
usa  politics  history 
january 2011 by amy
If Historical Events had Facebook Statuses | Cool Material
RT : If anyone missed it earlier: If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses: It really is rather GOOD.
amusements  history  social_media  from twitter_favs
august 2010 by amy
BBC - Dimensions - Index
"Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are."
maps  visualizations  history  infographics  bbc 
august 2010 by amy
BBC News - Today - Fonteyn: Revolutionary ballerina?
Dame Margot Fonteyn, one of Britain's most famous ballerinas, was "up to her neck" in a coup plot in Central America - along with Fidel Castro, according to government files released today at the National Archives.
jeepers  history  UK 
may 2010 by amy
Mount St. Helens, 30 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
RT Today is the 30th anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens eruption. *Astonishing* "Big Picture" photos:
history  photography  science  geology  from twitter_favs
may 2010 by amy
Old New York in Colour - Part 1 - Downtown - New York, NY : citynoise.org
I can't stop looking at these color photographs of old New York. (via @kottke)
nyc  history  photography 
april 2010 by amy
Search the PopSci Archives | Popular Science
We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements.
history  science 
march 2010 by amy
Magnum
Drooling. One of the most important photography archives of the 20th cent now available at UT Austin. http://bit.ly/964nBO
twitter_fav  @EllnMllr  pb  photography  history 
february 2010 by amy
From the Archive: Faded but Still Vibrant - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
rt @nytjim Treasures of the National Geographic photo archive. Very cool images. http://bit.ly/HWrVK lovely
twitter_fav  @AnnCurry  history  photography 
september 2009 by amy
TG Daily - Computers unlock 4,000 year old language
It is possible to see the underlying grammatical structure of the Indus script even if the scientists don't know what each word means. Such a model is stage one for decipherment, because any meaning ascribed to a symbol must make sense in the context of other symbols that precede or follow it.
language  statistics  history  world 
august 2009 by amy
British Newspapers - Home
Explore two million pages of 19th century newspapers
uk  history  journalism 
june 2009 by amy
Internet Archive: Free Download: What's A Heaven For?
Shows a montage art presentation about Booker T Washington's life and its effect on America.
videos  usa  history 
june 2009 by amy
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