Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and…
Month: April 2011
Apr 20, 1999: A massacre at Columbine High School
Two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. At about 11:20 a.m., Dylan…
Apr 20, 1777: New York adopts state constitution
The first New York state constitution is formally adopted by the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York,…
Lou Michel recalls without hesitation the moment on a May day in 1999 when Timothy McVeigh delivered a soliloquy so dark, so chilling that the hair rose on the back of the veteran reporter’s neck.
By JULIE DELCOUR World Staff Writer Published: 4/18/2010 2:23 AM Lou Michel recalls without hesitation the moment on a May day…
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Friday, January 20, 1961 Heavy snow fell the night before the inauguration, but thoughts about…
What the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate means to my family
The dream lives on PERSPECTIVE What the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate means to my family.…
Cracking a Century-Old Enigma
Mathematicians unearth fractal counting patterns to explain a cryptic claim By Davide Castelvecchi | Thursday, April 14, 2011 | 13 Srinivasa RamanujanImage: Photo Researchers,…
Early human fossils from South Africa could upend longheld view of human evolution
Permanent Address: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=early-human-fossils-from-south-afri-2011-04-18 By Kate Wong | Monday, April 18, 2011 | 9 MINNEAPOLIS—It’s a great irony of paleoanthropology that for all the insights…
FBI opens online vault, revealing UFO, Roswell files
Real-life ‘X-Files’ reveal policy of destroying documents related to UFO investigations because they would have taken up too much filing…
Last Supper was a day earlier, scientist claims
Last Supper was a day earlier, scientist claims Mon Apr 18, 12:31 pm ET LONDON (AFP) – Christians have long celebrated Jesus Christ’s Last…
