Category: News
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Women’s hands predominant in prehistoric paintings
New research suggests that the handprints in most prehistoric paintings in caves were the work of women. Researchers at Penn State University have studied the dimensions of the hands and came to this conclusion. The researchers used the conclusions of a previous investigation of biologist John Manning. He studied the relationship between the size of…
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Black Hawk Down-incident (1993) revisited
On the 6th of October 1993 two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia. They were on a mission to capture or kill a band of local warlords as they were shot by militia fighters using rocket-propelled grenades. The pilots were lynched by mobs. What followed was a savage rescue operation by…
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Tape recordings of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials online
The tape recordings of the Frankfurter Auschwitz Trials can now be heard on the website of the Fritz Bauer institute. These audio files contain the recordings of the trial, held on December 20th, 1963, against 22 former SS officers and employees of the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp. It was the second process against Nazis who…
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Book Review: Cold Case Kennedy
The assassination of John F. Kennedy still stirs the minds of historians and conspiracist alike, given the amount of publications on the matter. The murder on that faithful 22th of November 1963 still echoes strongly in our collective memory, while many believe the 35th president of the United States would have been able to cope…
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CIA says Josip Broz Tito was a Russian
Thats wat the Serbian newspaper Blic Monday bases on a released document of in the U.S. secret intelligence agency CIA. In this four pages long document an analysis is made of Tito’s use of the Serbo-Croatian language during a speech held in 1977 by the former president of Yugoslavia. According to this analysis, Tito used…
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Ancient Egyptian beads made from outer space material
A new study of the London’s University College’ Institute of Archaeology suggest that ancient Egyptian beads were formed from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from outer space. This sheds new light on the mastery of Iron Craft by the Egyptians: These 5000 year old artifacts were created 2000 years before the start of Egypt’s…
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Shakespeare: food hoarder and taxe-dodger
The shadowy side of Britain’s well known bard’s personality may have been forgotten for a long time. Widely regarded as the greatest writer in English history, William Shakespeare is mostly know for his sonnets and plays. His historical image is that of a nice, friendly man in everyday life. But a recent study of Aberystwyth…