Around 50 million years ago, long before the Epoch of the Twilight Beasts, a little mammal, Eohippus, scurried about in the forests of North America. This creature, about the size of an average dog, was the ancestor of the magnificent horse we know today. During this Period, called the Eocene, the environment and climate was […] …
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BBC News - Pompeii horse found still wearing harness http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46671050
From debates over Confederate monuments to battles over America’s leadership in the world, understanding today’s contemporary challenges requires historical knowledge and historical perspective. Yet a new report by Benjamin Schmidt and the American Historical Association has revealed that a much smaller percentage of American college students are majoring in history than did in the past.… via …
The now world-famous medieval gun was the ultimate weapon of mass destruction in her day. Mons Meg weighed six toned via Mons Meg, Scotland’s World-Famous Medieval Gun — Uncover Travel
Ecuadorean discovery suggests chocolate is 1,500 years older than once thought https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ecuadorean-chocolate-discovery-1.4882740 Shared via the CBC News Android App
At just over three kilometres (two miles) long, York’s beautifully-preserved walls are the longest medieval town walls in England. via York City Walls – England’s Longest Medieval Town Walls — Uncover Travel
The first people who populated the Americas - http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170328-the-first-people-who-populated-the-americas
by Ted Barris - Excerpt from Dam Busters - via msn.com On May 16, 1943, an unprecedented operation was launched by Squadron 617 of the Royal Air Force. The mission was to destroy three German dams in the Ruhr Valley with a new kind of bomb, dropped from a low-flying Lancaster, to cause flooding and …
Mary Beard is reclining at such a steep angle that her toes hang several feet above her head. Typing leisurely on her laptop, the Cambridge University historian is polishing off a paragraph of her next book on Ancient Rome. It’ll be one more to add to the hundreds of hefty volumes on classics that jostle… via …
via MSN.COM After a huge blaze engulfed the neglected, 200-year-old National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, it is feared that up to 90 per cent of its 20 million artefacts may have been destroyed. Among the priceless artifacts now lost may be Pompeii frescoes that escaped the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. On …
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