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Japan Announces New Name for Iwo Jima

The Japanese island of Iwo Jima has been renamed Iwo To, 60 years after it became the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war.
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Posted in History No Comments 20.06.2007 on 16:06.

Ex-KKK Man Guilty of 1964 Murder of Black Teenagers

A 71-year-old man alleged to have been a member of the Ku Klux Klan has been found guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers that sparked a summer of violence later depicted in the film Mississippi Burning.
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Posted in History No Comments 16.06.2007 on 02:06.

Ex-Klansman Found Guilty of 1964 Killings

Federal authorities are under pressure to bring unsolved race crimes from the civil rights era to trial after a 71-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of charges over the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers.
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Posted in History No Comments 15.06.2007 on 23:06.

Former Un Chief With Nazi Past Dies at 88

Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary general whose election as Austrian president in the 80s triggered an international outcry after his Nazi military service was revealed, died yesterday at the age of 88.
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Posted in History No Comments 14.06.2007 on 21:06.

Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America’s Roots

Aboard the African Star - After working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck — and desperate
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Posted in History No Comments 11.06.2007 on 13:06.

Adaptation = Happiness… or does it?

Far too many of us stop (consciously) learning, growing, developing and adapting (emotionally, psychologically, academically, physically, creatively, practically, technologically) when we hit our late teens or early twenties. We become like the lump of clay that has set; no longer able to be molded or shaped.
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Posted in History No Comments 11.06.2007 on 12:06.

In 1001, When Leif Ericsson Sailed the Ocean Blue

Who really discovered America? While it is obvious that others were here when Columbus arrived, was he the first European? What about stories of the Vikings being here before him?
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Posted in History No Comments 11.06.2007 on 12:06.

Russian Tsar’s Erotic Letters to Young Mistress Auctioned

Yesterday some 22 unpublished erotic letters written by Tsar Alexander II to the woman he simply called ‘Katia’ - and by her to him - were auctioned in Paris.
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Posted in History No Comments 11.06.2007 on 12:06.

Diary of ‘polish Anne Frank’ Published 64 Years on

A teenage Jewish girl living under the Nazis in Poland during 1943 feared she was turning into an animal waiting to die, according to her diary, which documents the final months before her death in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Posted in History No Comments 11.06.2007 on 12:06.

Aboriginal Remains Return to Tasmania After 20-year Fight

The long exile has ended for 17 Tasmanian Aboriginal people whose remains, stored for more than a century in the Natural History Museum’s collection, were formally returned to their people yesterday.
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Posted in History No Comments 11.06.2007 on 12:06.