shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2008 | race, history, news
Today's Juneteenth, one of the most important dates in black American history. Don't know much about it? Read this article!
Quoted: Fuzzy on your Juneteenth history? Some basic background to help boost your historical street cred.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 10 2008 | crime, history, news
Oh I really want to see this, I wish I had plans to be in London. I find this period in British history so fascinating. Melissa, this fave's for you!
Quoted: A new museum exhibition opens the case file on Jack the Ripper—and affords a grim look at the London of the time—a city made for murder.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2008 | photography, history
Happy Birthday, Queen Elizabeth!
Quoted: Magnum and Slate salute Queen Elizabeth II on her 82nd birthday.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 06 2008 | photography, history
A powerful Magnum/Slate slide show of images from the Civil Rights Movement.
Quoted: Magnum salutes the work of the Congress on Racial Equality, which, through Freedom Rides, sit-ins, education initiatives, and more, bravely fought for civil liberties for those who had been systematically denied them.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 01 2007 | business, history, news, design
Who knew the history of the toothpick could be so fascinating?
Quoted: Charles Forster, born in 1826, was a marketing genius who could've sold beef to a vegetarian. At a time when virtually everything was becoming mass produced, he vowed to make a fortune producing wooden toothpicks.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2007 | cemeteries, history, travel
MSN City Guides slideshow on historical American cemeteries with neat little facts about them... It did pretty well on MSN yesterday!
Quoted: Steeped in history and haunted tales, cemeteries are an integral part of American tradition. Take a photographic tour of 9 burial grounds.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 03 2007 | history, news
I'm sort of obsessed with this kind of stuff - I took the Jack the Ripper Tour in London! Anyway, this seems like a pretty sound theory, but there's still not enough concrete evidence. Guess we'll never know for sure!
Quoted: A prominent South African historian says Joseph Silver was likely the notorious murderer.
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