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US Civil War ‘led to ill health’

Many soldiers who fought in the US Civil War suffered a life of ill health afterwards, a study says. Read (BBC)

2006 02 07 Health Comments (0)

The Past Lives of some Chesapeake Bay Islands

The AP looks at the past lives of some Chesapeake islands that are now completely or partially submerged. Read (AP via WVEC)

2005 11 23 Environment Comments (0)

Lewis & Clark Mapped It – Then the Nation Remade the West

It’s been 200 years since Lewis and Clark made their trip through the Northwest, and much has changed. Many of the rivers have been damned, which flooded land and adversely affected the salmon. Most of the region has fewer people now than it did then. The exception is the state of Washington, which has more [...]

2005 11 12 Comments (0)

Did pioneer farmers fail to spread their seed?

European immigrants may have passed on agricultural skills, but not their genes. Read (Nature)

2005 11 10 Comments (0)

Marine Corps Museum Is On Schedule

The National Museum of the Marine Corps is being built near the main entrance to Quantico and is on track for a November 2006 opening. Read (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)

2005 11 10 Entertainment Comments (0)

China finds ancient observatory

Archaeologists in northern China have reportedly found one of the world’s oldest observatories. The remains are thought to be about 4,100 years old. Read (BBC)

2005 11 03 Comments (0)

Comets Blasted Early Americans

A supernova could be the “quick and dirty” explanation for what may have happened to an early North American culture. Read (WTOP)

2005 10 28 Comments (0)

Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull

Archaeologists in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have unearthed a skull they say is 1.8 million years old _ part of a find that holds the oldest traces of humankind’s closest ancestors ever found in Europe. Read (AP via WTOP)

2005 08 23 Comments (0)

Fossil Poachers Find Easy Pickings on Remote Federal Land

The Forest Service says that fossil poaching has become rampant in recent years at Oglala National Grasslands in Nebraska. Read (New York Times)

2005 08 11 Comments (0)

Footprints of ‘first Americans’

Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence. A team of scientists came to this controversial conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico. Read (BBC)

2005 07 05 Comments (0)

Racing Against Time

Five sites in Culpeper County were indirectly named among “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” – the 2005 list issued Thursday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Read (Culpeper Star Exponent)

2005 06 03 Environment Comments (0)

Park Looks to Past to Recreate Civil War Road

The National Park Service found that recreating Sunken Road in Fredericksburg, Va., as a dirt road, wasn’t as simple as it sounds. Read (WTOP)

2005 04 26 Comments (0)

Judge Won’t Stop Civil War Battlefield Development

A preservation group has been trying to stop a developer from building homes on a battlefield in Culpeper, Va.

The Golden Oaks property is believed to have to seen the heaviest fighting during the Battle of Brandy Station — a day-long clash that left more than 1,000 dead.

2005 01 27 Comments (0)

Fierce mammal snacked on dinos

A fossil from a remote Chinese region overturns opinion on the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.

2005 01 13 Environment Comments (0)

Bison shed light on big wipeout

New data casts doubt on the popular theory that big North American mammals were wiped out by human hunting.

2005 01 03 Comments (0)

Rethinking Jamestown

America’s first permanent colonists have long been considered lazy and incompetent, but new evidence suggests that it was a prolonged drought, not indolence, that almost did them in. Read (Smithsonian Magazine)

2005 01 01 Comments (0)

First American civilization sprang up fast

On the central Peruvian coast, more than 5000 years ago, people switched from hunting to building pyramids in less than 150 years

2004 12 23 Comments (0)

Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico’s 2,000 year-old “Pyramid of the Moon” may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday.

2004 12 03 Comments (0)

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