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Aviation History Resources
St. Louis Public Library has a bumper crop of links for all sorts of information and resources concerning the history of aviation, with subsections on women aviators and WW2.Exploring 20th Century London
"Explore London's history, culture and religions from the collections of the Museum of London, London's Transport Museum, The Jewish Museum and Croydon Museum and Heritage Service." Funky.The Wikipedia and the Death of Archaeology
"Consider this: [...] a resource already exists that may not only sound the death knell of archaeology, but also the opportunity to enable a greater depth and sophistication of anthropology thanHumans and Neanderthals interbred
"...a team of European researchers report a "mosaic of modern human and archaic Neanderthal features" in 30,000 -year-old human fossils from Romania."'Macho man' heroes created for war: Historian
"The veneration of macho men originates from concerns about the readiness of mollycoddled middle class men to stand up for their nations in the 18th and 19th centuries, an Australian National UniThe Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
to be read in detail laterHerds of bison to return to US
"Once the dominant animal in the American west, bison were slaughtered in huge numbers as European settlers pushed across the continent - 31 million between 1868 and 1881 alone. Now moves are afoHar, me hearties! Crew excavates Blackbeard's ship
"This month, a crew of 13 heads out to sea each day, hoping for clear-enough weather to dive the 20 to 25 feet to the ocean bottom to excavate what they believe is Blackbeard's ship." AwesomHorses may have been tamed in Kazakhstan
"Evidence from soil inside the remains of a 5600-year-old horse yard indicates that the ancient Botai people of Kazakhstan were among the earliest to domesticate horses." Borat apparently unI took that 9/11 photo Frank Rich wrote about. - Thomas Hoepker
Using the language of the corporation can get in the way of communication.History of Iraq - 1979-89
A one-woman butter processing operation gained cachet when a chef chose her butter for its excellence.Deepening Our View of Mass Extinctions
"So-called Pulses are times of sudden, catastrophic events like asteroid impacts, whereas Presses are periods of multigenerational stress on ecosystems, such as massive volcanic eruptions."Humanity and The Pace of Change
"All of human achieviement -- all our hopes, dreams, and fears -- in one graph." A graphical representation of the non-linear rate of change of progress that the futurists talk about. CheersPyramids in China
"With the help of Google Earth, the objects are to be seen impressively [...] They have four sides and they are even square like the pyramids in Egypt and in Mexico. Its size can quite be matched
