Two weeks after Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, he was laid to rest in Houston, in a grave next to his mother’s. Two rows of police officers saluted as Floyd’s coffin went past. (The Times recently profiled Floyd’s life.) …
Native American tribe language map. ( flickr) By April Holloway – By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country. But centuries ago, the land that is now the United …
Christian prisoners are sold as slaves on a square in Algiers. Jan Luyken, 1684 By Jeff Grabmeier, Ohio State News – grabmeier.1@osu.edu Editor’s note (2020 Mar 21): For an update on this story, visit: Why is a 16-year-old book on slavery so popular …
By Rich Haridy June 02, 2020 – 2nd Place / Oneshot : Movement/Nature. Claudio Piccoli – This year’s International Photography Awards (IPA) One-Shot contest focused on how a single image can profoundly convey the concept of movement. The incredible array of celebrated shots illustrate …
Landscape at the Baikal lake in Siberia, origins of the first Americans? Source: serge-b / Adobe Stock – 2020 May 21 Ancient-Origins – Using human population genetics, ancient pathogen genomics, and isotope analysis, a team of researchers assessed the population history of the …
Scientists are claiming current theories “over-simplify” how the Americas were populated. – By Ashley Cowie – Most of us were taught that the Americas were void of humans until around 13,000 years ago. However, authors like Graham Hancock in his new book America …
Archaeologists in Greece are showing how Philip of Macedon paved the way for his son Alexander to become a legend. By Richard Grant; Photographs by Myrto Papadopoulos SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE | June 2020 – I drive on a dirt road in Northern Greece through …
Tales of a Muslim group of drug-fueled, stealth killers stir imaginations, but stray far from the true history of the Nizari Ismaili state. The ruins of the Nizari fortress of Masayf in Syria. The Nizari Ismailis, often referred to by the pejorative term …
Representation of Universe in Jain cosmology in form of a lokapurusa or cosmic man. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search – According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents—soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion—have always …
By Nick Lavars 2020 Jun 04 – New research has uncovered a link between gut molecules and early death induced by sleep deprivation. megija/Depositphotos. – Poor sleep is known to affect human health in all kinds of harmful ways, with studies linking it …
