Earthâs magnetic pole shifts, screws up runway at Florida airport
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110107/sc_yblog_thelookout/florida-temporarily-closes-runway-due-to-magnetic-pole-shifting
Article says magnetic north pole moving toward Russia. Pole shifting rate is at around 40...
Scholars apologize for attributing Western democracy to a make-believe civilization.
WASHINGTON—A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at the National Geographic Society to announce they had "entirely fabricated" ancient Greece, a culture long thought to be the...
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal
Posted in the N-word thread, I thought it would be best to give it it's own thread for discussion.
Statue of Freedom
Slaves Built the White House, U.S. Capitol (PBS- News Hour with Jim Lehrer)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/video/blog/2009/01/slaves_built_the_white_house_u.html...
I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if war, colonialism, imperialism, manifest destiny and all that other junk that has shaped the world into whatit is today.
What would have happened if all those civilizations were left undisturbed throughout history. What kind of world would we...