Tag: history
DNA study finds first Americans arrived in waves
A recent DNA study questions whether North America was populated in a single wave of migrants traveling across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Scientists now say Native Americans arrived here in at least three waves....
Palestinians prepared to launch investigation into what really killed Yasser Arafat
Palestinian leaders gave their OK to a plan to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat and determine whether his death was not by natural causes, but was instead poisoned by radiation. That's based on startling possibilities raised in an Al Jazeera investigation....
New indie movie 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' looks at disaster through child's eyes
In Benh Zeitlin's first film, he transports audiences to a Louisiana fairy tale land eerily similar to pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans. The movie follows the life of a 6-year-old, as the life she knows is built up and then torn apart....
China finding new uses for old bomb shelters under its cities
Chinese law requires most of its buildings to come complete with bomb shelters. Now, as the threat of war has subsided and China's prosperity has skyrocketed, many of those bomb shelters, old and new, are being turned to more peaceful, and profitable, endeavors....
New summer movie imagines a Civil War — with vampires
Hollywood may have outdone themselves with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It combines all of Hollywood's best genres into one, and places vampires in a Civil War setting....
VIDEO: Rodney King found dead in California pool; drowning suspected
Rodney King catalyzed a city and a nation when a video of his beating at the hands of the Los Angeles Police was aired on local TV stations. On Sunday, he was found dead in a pool, believed to be a victim of drowning. King famously wondered, at the height of race riots in LA, why we couldn't all just get along....
Scientist discover evidence of Neanderthals being responsible for early cave paintings
No one has given the Neanderthals much credit for being intelligent and creative. In fact, they've always been thought of as humans' younger, dumber cousins. But new evidence suggests they may have been more creative than once thought....
Book recalls life of man who, more than anyone, gives us the images we know of dinosaurs
Charles Knight is the man responsible for putting the picture of a dinosaur in your mind. Probably more than any other person in the world, he's the man who gave us the image of dinosaurs from which all current depictions are based. But whether he was right or wrong, it's probably impossible to ever know....
Foreigners drawn to Detroit, witness to a city's fall and attempt to rise again
Detroit's struggled in the latest economic downturn, first with the collapse of the American auto industry and then with budget crises and other struggles that have laid the city low. But, for some reason, perhaps its European roots, many foreigners are coming to the city to watch it return to life....
As Mad Men season concludes, costume styles show the way forward
Mad Men has long been lauded for the way its transported the audience back to the 1960s. At the start, it showed that its characters weren't ready for the changes that were in store. In the season that just ended, author Tom Fitzgerald says the costumes don't just reflect states of mind, but individual plot elements....
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