http://hdlns.com/g141 http://hdlns.com/rss_g141.xml Arts and Entertainment -> Humanities en-us Aggregation copyright hdlns (dot com), articles copyright original authors. http://hdlns.com/g141/Humanities+-+Humanities HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. http://hdlns.com/g141zf8572za44867986/Do+you+want+people+to+discuss+your+published+work%3F There's a recent paper on blogs as a channel of scientific communication that has been making the rounds. Other bloggers have discussed the paper and its methodology in some detail (including but not limited to Bora and DrugMonkey and Dr. Isis), so http://hdlns.com/g141zf8540za44867439/Knowing+What+You+Don%27t+Believe (by Blake Myers-Schulz and Eric Schwitzgebel) Virtually every introduction to epistemology (online examples include the Stanford Encyclopedia and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) highlights the debate about what is commonly called the 'JTB' t http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866721/DNA+tests+give+names+to+Fromelles+fallen Source: The Sydney Morning Herald (3-17-10)Now, the 249 lost Diggers of Fromelles have not only been laid to rest with full military honours but 75 of the soldiers will have a name, a headstone - and a family to grieve their passing. Yesterday http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866716/Bronze-era+Buddhist+sites+discovered+in+Pakistan Source: Gulf Times (Qatar) (3-8-10)The Italian archaeological mission in Pakistan has discovered a large number of Buddhist sites and rock shelters in Kandak and Kota valleys of Barikot in Swat in the North West Frontier Province which depicted http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866725/Gunman+tries+to+attack+Lenin%27s+corpse+in+Red+Square Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-16-10)A man armed with a high-powered gas pistol tried to break into Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin's tomb on Red Square in Moscow, shooting a policeman in the process. The man, named as Sergey Karpentsov, is quoted http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866720/Scientists+turn+North+America+migration+theory+on+its+head Source: Vancouver Sun (2-26-10)Two U.S. scientists have published a radical new theory about when, where and how humans migrated to the New World, arguing that the peopling of the Americas may have begun via Canada's High Arctic islands and the http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866715/Sotheby%27s+to+offer+Corot+painting+taken+by+Nazis Source: Reuters (3-12-10)Sotheby's will auction a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot worth around $1.5 million after it was returned to the heirs of the original owners, Jewish bankers forced to flee Europe in World War Two. "Jeune femme http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866724/FBI+makes+new+push+to+solve+biggest+art+theft+in+US+history Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-16-10)Twenty years after two thieves walked into a Boston museum and pulled off the biggest art theft in history, investigators are making a renewed effort to recover a haul valued at up to $500 million (£330 mill http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866719/Neolithic+man+puts+major+bypass+on+hold+outside+Belfast Source: Belfast Telegraph (UK) (3-3-10)Thousands of years ago our Neolithic forebears were hunting wild game with flint arrows in the hills overlooking what is now Ballymena. Now they’re still making their presence felt, delaying a road d http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866714/Oh%2C+say+you+can+see%3A+Geocache+through+history Source: HamptonRoads.com (3-16-10)...The Star-Spangled Banner Geotrail combines an activity called geocaching (pronounced GEO-cashing) with the upcoming 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Designed by three organizations, each with slightly d http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866723/Meat-Eating+Amphibian+Predated+Dinos Source: Discovery News (3-15-10)A newly found bumpy-skinned, terrestrial amphibian lived 70 million years before dinosaurs in what is now Pennsylvania. An interesting "rock" initially tossed aside at a FedEx site near Pittsburgh International http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866718/Iron+Age+hopes+for+Moray+field Source: The Press and Journal (UK) (3-6-10)Experts believe they have discovered another Iron Age power centre in Moray. Yesterday National Museums of Scotland curator Dr Fraser Hunter said investigations at a field at Burghead have possibly re http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866722/Dinosaurs+Choked+on+Ozone Source: Discovery News (3-15-10) What killed the dinosaurs? Ok, ok, we know an asteroid did it, roughly, but that made a comparatively small hole in the ground -- what actually killed them? We've heard lots about nuclear winter, global wildfire http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44866717/Bronze+age+remains+in+County+Kerry+block+broadband+plan Source: Irish Examiner (3-8-10)THE cyber age’s bid to spread its message into a pristine landscape has perished between a rock and a hard place in a Bronze Age valley. Age-old archaeological remains are standing in the way of plans to br http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44866440/is+poetry+translation+possible%3F+-+Kirsch+and+Kaminsky The realities of the world change. Languages such as Chinese, Spanish, French, and English are no longer confined to their original geographic locations (and some, like Yiddish, exist outside geography), and we certainly'thank God!'no longer live in http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44866439/I+feel+...+fermented There's plenty of evidence that artists can make decent movies - Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor Wood, Julian Schnabel to name a few - but it rarely works the other way around. Looking at Dennis Hopper's goatee-stroking conceptual works, or Sylvester... http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44866441/the+ethics+of+shock+and+incomprehension From two hundred yards, a handheld digital camera tracks a Humvee down a desolate road. Voices, in Arabic: 'Keep the camera on it!' 'Allahu akbar.' Most of the audience at last year's MoMA screening of Mauro Andrizzi's documentary Iraqi Short... http://hdlns.com/g141zf8666za44864137/Alma+Mater+Hoops+Watch We are about to embark on one of the great weekends in all of sports with the tipoff of the NCAA tournament. Each year my loyalties fluctuate. Unlike in professional sports, where my loyalties are firmly based in Boston, my college sports loyalties f http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44854355/Rewriting+History+in+Texas Source: NYT (3-15-10)The Texas Board of Education, notorious for its past efforts to undermine the teaching of evolution in public schools, has now moved to revise the social studies curriculum to portray conservative ideas and movements in a m http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44854357/Ruins+of+7th+century+Arab+palace+identified+in+Israel Source: AFP (3-16-10)Ruins in northern Israel previously thought to have been a synagogue have now been identified as a 7th century palace used by the Umayyad caliph who started construction of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, archaeologists said http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44854356/Latvian+Nazi+unit+veterans+march Source: BBC (3-16-10)Hundreds of Latvian veterans who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in World War II have held a peaceful march in the capital, Riga. The veterans laid flowers at Riga's Freedom Monument. Police said about 1,000 people took http://hdlns.com/g141zf8557za44848686/Lowest+Common+Denominators This Texas Controversy compounded with the years of meticulous study I’ve done on religion & the American Founding got me thinking about what K-12 students should be taught. The problem is history is complex and there are great complex nua http://hdlns.com/g141zf8557za44848685/We%27ll+Decide+if+Your+Qualify+of+Life+Is+Good+Enough%2C+Maam Feral Genius, Jennifer Abel has an infuriating rant at the Guardian about an Arizona woman who was kicked out of her house for using solar panels and an icebox, running afoul of codes requiring her to have real electricity and a refrigerator. “ http://hdlns.com/g141zf960za44847833/James+Madison+-+Fourth+President On March 16, 1751, James Madison was born in Virginia and grew up at Montpelier which would eventually become his home. Madison is known as the Father of the Constitution because he was the primary author of most of the document. After the Constituti http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841662/%27Lost%27+Shakespeare+play+Double+Falsehood+published Source: BBC News (3-15-10)A play which was first discovered nearly 300 years ago has been credited to William Shakespeare. The work, titled Double Falsehood, was written by the playwright and another dramatist, John Fletcher. Theatre impresar http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841671/3%2C400-Year-Old+Statues+Unearthed+in+Egypt Source: AP (3-16-10)Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of archaeologists has unearthed two large red granite statues at the mortuary temple of one Egypt's most powerful pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago. A ministry statement Tuesday http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841657/Top+secret+interviews+with+WW2+Japanese+navy+brass+to+be+published Source: The Mainichi Daily News (3-14-10)The Koyanagi File -- an extensive collection of testimonies on the Pacific War by former navy ministers and commanding officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy -- will be released to the public for the fir http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841666/Nazi+victims%27+mass+graves+found+in+Austria+under+soccer+field Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-12-10)Two mass graves containing scores of people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War have been found underneath an army football pitch in Austria, government officials said on Friday. Some of the remai http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841652/Historic+Savannah%2C+GA+square+reopens Source: AP (3-12-10) For more than 55 years, Savannah counted Ellis Square among its lost historic treasures. Of the city's 22 public squares, Ellis Square was one of the first plotted in 1733. Since 1872, it was home to the City Market where http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841661/Abba+receive+Hall+of+Fame+honour Source: BBC News (3-16-10)Swedish pop band Abba have been inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with British bands Genesis and The Hollies. Abba's Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad accepted their trophies, but Bjorn Ulvae http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841670/WWII+veterans+given+lottery+cash+%28Scotland%29 Source: BBC (3-16-10)Three World War II veterans are among those to be given cash to return to their wartime locations after a new round of lottery grants were announced. The men have received a share of grants of £7,925 from the Big Lott http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841656/Drew+Student+Is+Accused+of+Stealing+and+Selling+Valuable+Historic+Letters Source: NYT (3-15-10)William John Scott is a freshman at Drew University. He studies political science. He plays defense on the lacrosse team. He describes himself on Facebook as a night person who likes to party. But federal prosecutors say h http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841665/Congress+to+vote+on+healthcare+cash+for+9+11+rescuers Source: BBC (3-16-10)A US Congressional committee will vote later on a bill providing long-term healthcare for emergency workers who fell ill after working at Ground Zero. Campaigners say 800 people died as a result of exposure to toxic materi http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841660/Omagh+bombing%3A+demand+for+investigation+into+whether+intelligence+withheld Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-16-10)The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee said too many questions remained unanswered over how much the security services knew about the killers' movements around the time of the dissident republican attack 12 years http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841669/%27Lost%27+Shakespeare+play+Double+Falsehood+published Source: BBC (3-15-10)A play which was first discovered nearly 300 years ago has been credited to William Shakespeare. The work, titled Double Falsehood, was written by the playwright and another dramatist, John Fletcher. Theatre impresario L http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841655/Florida+Hemingway+home+designated+landmark Source: AP (3-15-10)Ernest Hemingway's Key West home, where the American author lived in the 1930s, has been designated a literary landmark. Hemingway, who lived in the Spanish-colonial home with his second wife Pauline and their two sons, own http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841664/Living+History+Program+At+Joshua+Tree+National+Park+Takes+You+Back+to+The+1 Source: National Parks Traveler (3-16-10)There are some memorable living history programs to be found across the National Park System, such as the one you find at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Park. A new one has just popped up at Jo http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841659/Ghetto+Laborers+Still+Waiting+for+German+Pensions Source: Spiegel Online (3-10-10)Germany approved the requisite legislation back in 2002, but many of those who worked in Jewish ghettos during World War II are still waiting for their pensions. Indeed, up to 90 percent of applicants have been r http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841668/JD+Salinger+letters+shine+light+on+a+recluse Source: BBC (3-16-10)A collection of previously unseen letters written by the famously reclusive Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger, who died in January, has gone on show at a New York museum. Out of respect for the author's desire for priv http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841654/Fort+Ontario+supporters+rally+to+keep+historic+monument+open Source: Syracuse Post-Standard (3-14-10)Oswego, NY - Civil War and French and Indian War re-enactors joined politicians and other Fort Ontario supporters at a rally today. Closing the fort would save the state $110,000, according to the State http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841663/Mona+Lisa+smile+created+using+%27trick%27 Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-15-10)The Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile was created by a special painting technique which tricks the eye into thinking the expression is changing, a study has claimed. Austrian neurologists say analysis of the masterpi http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841658/A-bomb+survivors+react+fiercely+to+revelation+of+secret+pacts Source: The Mainichi Daily News (3-10-10) Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which suffered U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, reacted fiercely Tuesday to a government-appointed panel's acknowledgement of the existence of Japan-U.S. secret http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841667/The+Movie+%27La+Rafle%27+confronts+wartime+stain+on+French+history Source: Guardian (UK) (3-9-10)Film attempts to recreate the terror of the 1942 Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, in which 13,000 Jews were rounded up in Paris When, in 1995, Joseph Weismann reflected on the chances of a film being made about the horrors he http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44841653/Casino+fight+in+Gettysburg+flares+up Source: Central PA News (3-14-10)Battle lines are being drawn again in Gettysburg. It's economic development vs. historic preservation as philanthropist and former Conrail CEO David LeVan again tries to win a license for a casino on the outski http://hdlns.com/g141zf8534za44838452/The+Archaeology+of+the+Ignorance+of+Pre-Internet+Ordinary+Life Long ago, before there was the internet, I was so much more persistently and baldly ignorant about various and sundry things that interested me. Example: I just got a guitar – well, in October – and resolved that I would finally learn to http://hdlns.com/g141zf8538za44831323/The+Financial+Times+hosts+a+cartoon+about The Financial Times hosts a cartoon about Claude Lévi-Strauss, from the folks who did Logicomix. http://hdlns.com/g141zf983za44829317/The+Devil%27s+Walkingstick%2C+Aralia+spinosa Ever heard of a Hercules-club or Devil's Walking stick? Aralia spinosa is the scientific name of a tree that naturally grows in much of the Southeast but can live nearly anywhere in North America. Very few landscapers recommend the tree but some d http://hdlns.com/g141zf961za44828422/On+This+Day+in+Ancient+History+-+Tiberius Tiberius Public Domain. Courtesy of WikipediaOn this day in A.D. 37, the second emperor of Rome, Tiberius, died. When Tiberius took power following the death of Augustus, he refused to assume many of the proffered honors and rejected flattery. He tr http://hdlns.com/g141zf965za44828274/Women%27s+Property+Rights Property rights include the legal rights to acquire, own, sell and transfer property, collect and keep rents, keep one's wages, make contracts and bring lawsuits. In history, a woman's property has often, but not always, been under the control of her http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828264/Psychopaths+Keep+Their+Eyes+on+the+Prize Michael Torrice in Science: Whether it involves gambling away one's life savings or committing one murder after another, a psychopath inevitably leaves the rest of us wondering: What was going on in his head? Now researchers report that part of... http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828263/Glory%2C+piety+and+politics+in+Pakistan Nadeem F. Paracha in Dawn: The seeds of neo-religious traditionalism disguised as 'modern Islam' were thus sown, and a contemporary identification tool for a number of not-so-clear-minded middle-class youth was discovered. Hijab and beard became 'coo http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828267/Tuesday+Poem Proof Her skin, saffron toasted in the sun, eyes darting like a gazelle. 'That god who made her, how could he have left her alone? Was he blind? 'This wonder is not the result of blindness: she is a woman,... http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828262/Preaching+Hate+in+Uganda From ABC News Nightline: http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828266/Philosophers+Rip+Darwin From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Last year was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the... http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828261/The+pope%27s+entire+career+has+the+stench+of+evil+about+it Christopher Hitchens in Slate: There are two separate but related matters here: First, the individual responsibility of the pope in one instance of this moral nightmare and, second, his more general and institutional responsibility for the wider lawb http://hdlns.com/g141zf8525za44828265/The+Vast+World+of+the+Tiny%2C+Arranged+From+A+to+Z From The New York Times: 'The minuscule, a narrow gate, opens up an entire world.' This is both Hugh Raffles's epigraph and the last line of his miraculous book 'Insectopedia,' as inventive and wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises... http://hdlns.com/g141zf8549za44825520/Finally Someone from the political class begins to sound like Matt Taibbi, on record, on the Senate floor. The only reason people are not mad as hell about the ongoing Wall Street fraud is because they haven't bothered finding out. Read Matt Taibbi. The m http://hdlns.com/g141zf8549za44825519/Sometimes%2C+she+just+stares+at+the+wall... ...Hoping for the sun to glint off her tags. It all started when we brought home that laser-guided parking system as a toy for the cats. http://hdlns.com/g141zf977za44816623/The+Case+for+De+Vere Over the past few weeks I've been interviewing experts on the Shakespeare authorship debate - in particular the case for Edward de Vere as the true author of the plays and sonnets. In the first of a two-part interview I've asked Matthew Cossolotto fr http://hdlns.com/g141zf977za44816622/Does+the+Authorship+Debate+Really+Ruin+Shakespeare%3F Someone sent me an email a while ago asking what would happen to this blog if it was proved that one of the candidates in the Shakespeare authorship debate was actually responsible for the works attributed to Shakespeare. 'Would you be out of a job? http://hdlns.com/g141zf8557za44814460/Social+Groups%2C+Humor+and+Bigotry A little while ago I raised the issue of whether it’s okay to poke fun at the stereotypes of religious groups. I got responses like whereas race is 100% immutable and unchosen, religion is 100% chosen, 100% about beliefs and therefore “fi http://hdlns.com/g141zf8557za44814459/Note+to+the+Villiage+Voice+Blog We are not “Positive Victory.” http://hdlns.com/g141zf8557za44814461/Cargo+Cult+Economics+and+Daylight+Savings+Time I receive the regular email update, The Lighthouse, of the Independent Institute, a West Coast libertarian think-tank. I like the Independent Institute, and I like economic arguments, but this time they laid a major egg, in economist William Shughar http://hdlns.com/g141zf964za44814436/World+War+II%3A+Fighting+Rages+on+Iwo February 19-March 26, 1945 - American forces fight the Battle of Iwo Jima (right). Landing on February 19, 1945, the Marines of the V Amphibious Corps encountered stiff resistance from the Japanese defenders. This was largely due to the actions of http://hdlns.com/g141zf8693za44813408/Gettysburg+in+the+Rain This past weekend, I got to do something I haven’t had to do in a VERY long time, which was to spend some time in Gettysburg with no agenda and no real commitments other than to enjoy myself. The trip had its genesis in a speech to the Allison http://hdlns.com/g141zf8535za44813372/And+this+is+Balfour%27s+Foundations+of+Belief http://hdlns.com/g141zf8535za44813371/Balfour%27s+Theism+and+Humanism+is+online A book Lewis said was 'too little read.' My dissertation adviser Hugh Chandler first notice the close relationship between Lewis's AFR and Balfour's by reading a Moore essay criticizing Balfour. http://hdlns.com/g141zf8527za44812142/R.+Crumb%27s+Illustrated+Genesis. I've been reading R. Crumb's illustrated version of the Book of Genesis, and I've been meaning to blog about it for a while, because it routinely floors me. Unfortunately, every post I can think to write about it would sound like this: You know that http://hdlns.com/g141zf8695za44808451/John+Dower%27s+War+and+Tom+Hank%27s+Imbecility I wrote and posted the following essay two and half years ago. I'm reposting it in answer to Tom Hank's recent statement that, 'Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out t http://hdlns.com/g141zf8688za44806334/Graduate+school+for+history%3A+not+a+good+idea No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g141zf8705za44806195/A+%28Quasi%29+Monkish+Monkey This week's image is found in MS 16 (fol. 223r.) of Castle Huis Bergh's collection of late medieval art: On the one hand, it's just your average image of a monkey riding off to joust on the back of a wild pig. Monkeys do this sort of thing all th http://hdlns.com/g141zf8534za44806189/I+really+don%27t+know+what+to+say Sad and upsetting times in Ireland. Cardinal Brady, it turns out, was instrumentally involved in the closed investigation of the monstrous Fr. Smyth, and himself swore to secrecy two children raped by Smyth. The incident simply resulted in Smyth get http://hdlns.com/g141zf8715za44805721/Tolkien+Bibliogr Tolkien Bibliography OnlineFor the past nine years or so, my students and I have been creating a bibliographic database of scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien. For a long time this database was on Filemaker and thus not accessible outside of the Wheaton c http://hdlns.com/g141zf8538za44799210/In-der-Blog-seinAnotherheidegerblog+on+the In-der-Blog-seinAnotherheidegerblog on the phenomenologist's philosopher.There is, for Heidegger, a crucial difference between the historical (geschichtlich) as a happening (das Geschehen) and the historiographical. The latter tends to view history t http://hdlns.com/g141zf8538za44799209/Telos+on+the Telos on the new class in power.The rise of an intellectual hegemony hits different cultural spheres in different ways, perhaps none more directly than philosophy. Do we live in the age of the philosopher king or the managerial technocrat, for whom k http://hdlns.com/g141zf8706za44798031/NEW+BOOK+OF+NOTE%3A+Medievalisms+in+the+Postcolonial+World Figure 1. Natsume Soseki (1867-1916); Japanese author who wrote short stories set in medieval Britainby EILEEN JOYI was recently asked to review (for the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History) the new essay volume edited by Kathleen Davis and N http://hdlns.com/g141zf985za44796501/Should+Creationists+Be+Ridiculed%3F They lose court cases. They lose elections. They lose arguments. But should creationists lose their dignity? In war, it is useful to demonize your enemy. But I think it is dangerous to demonize your intellectual enemies, because everyone is motivate http://hdlns.com/g141zf963za44794180/Metal+music%2C+Christopher+Lee%2C+and+Charlemagne Christopher Lee -- the actor with the magnificent voice who starred as Dracula in all those Hammer films, and who younger audiences will recognize as Saruman the White from Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku from Star Wars -- has produced a 'symphonic http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785276/Nazis+planned+to+infiltrate+Vatican+with+spies+dressed+as+monks Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-15-10)Germany hatched a plan during World War Two to infiltrate the Vatican with spies disguised as monks, according to secret MI5 intelligence reports. A Nazi sympathiser living in Rome came up with the idea and it w http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785285/Russian+church+wants+czar%27s+burial+site Source: New York Times (3-13-10)Visitors from around the world have turned an isolated ravine in central Russia into a pilgrimage site in recent years. They arrive to gaze at the unadorned earth where the Bolsheviks, in one final act to defile http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785280/Wallenberg%3A+The+lost+hero Source: BBC (3-15-10)Raoul Wallenberg was a heroic Swedish diplomat who made history by assisting and saving thousands of Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust. But Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet Union and disappeared into the Gulag, nev http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785275/30+years+later%3A+The+long+road+to+clearing+Falklands+landmines Source: BBC News (3-14-10)Nearly 30 years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands, a pilot project has begun to rid the territory of some of the 20,000 landmines left behind and clean up land that has been off limits s http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785284/Medieval+Child%27s+Brain+Found+Preserved Source: Discovery News (3-15-10)Scientists were able to identify neurons and cerebral cells from the brain preserved from the 13th century. An international team of researchers has identified intact neurons and cerebral cells in a mummified me http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785279/Dotcom+web+address+celebrates+silver+anniversary Source: BBC (3-15-10)The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March - the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered. In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785274/Wembley+Way+built+by+German+Prisoners+of+War+%28UK%29 Source: BBC News (3-15-10)English Sporting icons don't come much bigger than Wembley Stadium but few realise that it owes some of its splendour to the labour of German prisoners of war . The news, which follows an investigation by BBC Radio 4' http://hdlns.com/g141zf8719za44785283/World+War+I+tunneller%27s+nephew+is+traced Source: BBC (3-5-10)A relative of a Swansea soldier whose story helped inspire a memorial to the tunnellers killed in World War I has been traced ahead of its unveiling. 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