- Uncategorized
DNA Link Colonial-era family
DNA links 1991 killing to Colonial-era family – CNN.com By the CNN Wire Staff 2012-01-10T01:30:54Z (CNN) — DNA may help Seattle-area sheriff’s deputies find a suspect in a 20-year-old killing after a comparison with genealogy records connected a crime-scene sample to a 17th-century Massachusetts family. The DNA sample was taken in the death of 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough, who was killed on her high school campus in Federal Way, Washington, in December 1991. The King County Sheriff’s Office has circulated two composite sketches of a possible suspect — a man in his 20s at the time with shoulder-length blonde or light brown hair — but had been unable to put a…
-
Preserving the Moon
January 9, 2012 To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly By KENNETH CHANG California’s catalog of historic artifacts includes two pairs of boots, an American flag, empty food bags, a pair of tongs and more than a hundred other items left behind at a place called Tranquillity Base. The history registry for New Mexico lists the same items. That might be surprising, since Tranquillity Base is not in New Mexico or California but a quarter of a million miles away, in the spot where Neil A. Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon in 1969. But for archaeologists and historians worried that the next generation of people…
- Uncategorized
High School Students Curate Exhibit on History and Culture of Brooklyn
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CURATING A HISTORY COLLECTION? High School Students Curate Exhibit on History and Culture of Brooklyn “Inventing Brooklyn- People, Places and Progress” opens June 2 at Brooklyn Historical Society May 18, 2011: Brooklyn, NY – Fourteen local teens curated the exhibition Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places and Progress at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS). Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places, Progress traces the evolution of Brooklyn into the place we know today. From Native American roots and Dutch colonial influences to icons such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Dodgers, Inventing Brooklynexamines how various people, places, and historical events have shaped the development of the borough. Drawing on archival documents, photographs, prints, artifacts, and oral histories from the…
- Uncategorized
The Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge
Plans for a bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County were more than a decade in the making when, on this day in 1933, construction finally began. For about a century before the bridge’s construction, ferries were the primary means of travel across the bay. Though the idea of a bridge was circulating as early as 1872, it wasn’t until the 1920s that people thought the idea was feasible, in terms of both bridge technology and costs. The final suspension design was the result of a collaboration among Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, Charles Alton Ellis, and Leon Moisseiff. The bridge opened with much fanfare in 1937; its 75th anniversary will…
- Uncategorized
Titanic artifacts set to go up for auction
The crows nest bell from the Titanic on exhibit in London in 2010. The owner of more than 5,000 artifacts from the ship plans to auction them off as a group in April. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The owner of more than 5,000 artifacts recovered from the Titanic intends to auction them off in April on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the famous ship. But don’t expect to be able to bid on any one item from the ship. The artifacts will only be sold as a single lot, according to a filing by Premier Exhibitions (PRXI), an Atlanta-based company that now exhibits the artifacts at various locations…