Tag: History

Visitors wander around a new exhibition entitled 'Vikings: Life and Legend' at the British Museum in central London, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The centerpiece of the show is the biggest Viking ship ever found, which was unearthed on the banks of a Danish fjord in 1997, it is 37 meters (120 feet) long and had 40 pairs of oars. Its scale is awe-inspiring, though imagination is required to picture it as it once was, because only about 20 percent of the ship's timbers remain, set within a modern steel skeleton the size and shape of the original vessel. The new exhibition strives to make people think again about the Scandinavian pillagers who raided and struck terror into English villages. The exhibition aims to show how Viking energy and ideas re-drew the map of the world, through the presentation of their ships, their weapons, their crafts, their words and even their skeletons. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Exhibition argues Vikings more than hairy raiders

Jill Lawless · March 4, 2014 5:25 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2010 FILE photo released by Chile's Paleontological Museum of Caldera, a prehistoric whale fossil lays in the Atacama desert near Copiapo, Chile. A team of Chilean and Smithsonian Institution scientists investigating the graveyard of marine mammal fossils say toxins generated by algae blooms most likely poisoned the animals millions of years ago. The study by a team of Chilean and Smithsonian Institution scientists was published Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (AP Photo/Museo Paleontologico de Caldera, File)

Chile: Fossil whales in desert mystery solved

LUIS ANDRES HENAO · February 26, 2014 10:12 pm

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at a basketball game. AP Photo

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Joe Biden at black history event: ‘I may be a white boy, but I can jump!’

Paul Bedard · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Biden: ‘I May Be a White Boy, But I Can Jump’

Biden: ‘I May Be a White Boy, But I Can Jump’

Daniel Halper · February 26, 2014 2:09 am

Group aims to repair DC’s black Civil War memorial

Group aims to repair DC’s black Civil War memorial

Brett Zongker · February 24, 2014 9:56 pm

Greek Jewish community seeks return of Nazi ransom

Greek Jewish community seeks return of Nazi ransom

Costas Kantouris · February 24, 2014 8:14 pm

Undated file photo shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, in Poland, which was liberated by the Russians, in January 1945. Writing over the gate reads: "Arbeit macht frei" (Work liberates). German prosecutors have arrested three elderly men on suspicion they served as guards at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp. Stuttgart prosecutors' spokeswoman Claudia Krauth said Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 the three men, aged 88, 92 and 94, were all taken to a prison hospital where they will be held as the investigation continues. The men, whose names were not released, are all suspected of accessory to murder as guards at the death camp in occupied Poland. They are part of a group of some 30 suspected former Auschwitz guards that German federal prosecutors recommended charges against last September. (AP Photo,File)

Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects

David Rising · February 20, 2014 3:41 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 file photo, former South Korean comfort woman Kil Un-ock, center, who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, shouts slogans during a rally against the recent comment of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in front of Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Japan's top government spokesman said Thursday that Tokyo would consider re-examining a 20-year-old study that led to a landmark apology over its forced prostitution in World War II. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Japan may review probe on WWII sex slavery

Mari Yamaguchi · February 20, 2014 12:41 pm

Hungary postpones erecting disputed WWII memorial

Hungary postpones erecting disputed WWII memorial

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 11:03 am

Montpelier getting visitors immersed in history

Montpelier getting visitors immersed in history

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2014 7:46 am

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Auction: Rare artifact shows VW Beetle as emblem of Nazis

Paul Bedard · February 17, 2014 5:00 am

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Frank Wolf: Give George Washington his holiday back

Paul Bedard · February 17, 2014 5:00 am