April 2012
6 posts
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
mentalflossr:
They called it “Angel’s Glow,” and it may have saved their lives.
March 2012
15 posts
35mm Stock Footage at the Internet Archive →
wilwheaton:
This is history porn at its finest.
Gorilla genome analysis reveals new human links →
rememo:
“Comparing the sequences of humans, chimpanzees and gorillas has enabled scientists to put a more accurate clock on when the three species split from their last common ancestors. It was traditionally thought that the emergence of new species (known as “speciation”) happens at a relatively localised point in time but emerging evidence suggests that this is not necessarily the case, that...
February 2012
26 posts
Archivist challenges Kremlin in Wallenberg saga →
infoneer-pulse:
A former senior Russian archive official says he saw a file that could shed light on Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg’s fate — challenging the insistence of Russia’s KGB successor agency that it has no documents regarding the man who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary before disappearing into the hands of Soviet secret police.
Anatoly Prokopenko, 78, told The Associated...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/26... →
bornanalog:
The last image seems is the most jarring for me - walk in the door and carelessly throw your hat on the table in the front hall, like any random guy home from work. It just looks so normal. I think it’s so profound to me because at some level it’s impossible to accept the thought that Hitler could ever appear to be a normal person. Undoubtedly at one time he did appear normal or even...
January 2012
3 posts
