Digging up family history
Genealogy Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Paul Seto has traced his family history back 11 generations and 200 years
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Earth looked at for clues into history of Mars
Mars Sunday, December 12th, 2010
There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have been over decades. These places could help scientists develop a timeline of the Red [...]
Oral history just as important as documents
Genealogy Monday, October 4th, 2010
One of the most overlooked aspects of genealogy is oral history.
Finding history: Web, vets help unearth war wrecks
History Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
HYDE PARK, N.Y. — Justin Taylan boots up his laptop computer in the climate-controlled comfort of a cafe and clicks on photographs of a World War II airplane lying in pieces amid a steamy jungle on the other side of the world. He browses through a series of digital images of the vine-entangled wreckage of [...]
Texas Board of Education: Textbooks anti-Christian
Religion Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
(CBS/AP) – Texas’ State Board of Education – following a long history of throwing itself into “culture war” issues – is set to vote Friday on a resolution calling on textbook publishers to limit what they print about Islam in world history books. The resolution cites world history books no longer used in Texas schools [...]