Discussion - Community | The NewsTalkers

Why unique baby names are trending in the U.S.

Via: perrie-berlin-halpern • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

An increasing number of American parents are choosing unusual baby names. SO....... I came across this article which I found a bit curious... American parents continued...

Nancy Wake - Heroine of World War 2

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 4 Comments • 8 years ago

Nancy Wake - Heroine of World War 2 Nancy Wake DOB/DOD: 30 August 1912, died 7 August 2011 NATIONALITY: New Zealand BACKGROUND: Born in New Zealand and raised in North Sydney, Australia....

What ‘SJW’ really means

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

SJW “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior,” the angel says to Gideon in the book of Judges. That’s pretty harsh because Gideon is neither a warrior nor is he mighty. When the...

Why Did the U.S. Lose the Vietnam War?

Via: pj • History & Sociology • 24 Comments • 8 years ago

Why Did the U.S. Lose the Vietnam War? By Quora Contributor Henry Kissinger signs the Paris Peace Accords on Jan. 27,...

Cave In Rock, IL -- Pictures and Travelogue

Via: community • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 8 years ago

The very first place my son Matthew and I went on vacation was Cave in Rock, iL... We drove over, following the Trail of Tears to the place where the Cherokee crossed the Ohio River, on their...

Forget Sykes-Picot. It’s the Treaty of Sèvres That Explains the Modern Middle East.

Via: community • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 8 years ago

Ninety-five years ago today, European diplomats gathered at a porcelain factory in the Paris suburb of Sèvres and signed a treaty to remake the Middle East from the ashes of the...

Following the Trail of Hansel and Gretel...

Via: community • History & Sociology • 24 Comments • 8 years ago

Let’s face it—as a geologist, I’ve driven on some bad roads… Some VERY bad roads. I’ve made it through Eastern KY on old logging roads, that aren’t really roads at all, but are more like...

Rescuing Warsaw's overgrown Jewish graves

Via: community • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

By Alex Duval Smith BBC News, Warsaw Nature has taken over some of Poland's Jewish cemeteries. But a group of volunteers is trying to ensure those buried in them aren't forgotten....

The house where the Philippines' forgotten 'comfort women' were held

Via: community • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

By Jane McMullen BBC Our World, Mapanique, The Philippines Hundreds of thousands of women and girls across Asia were raped and forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during...

A Visit to the Old and New Hells of Europe Provides a Reminder of Israel’s Importance

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 8 years ago

A Visit to the Old and New Hells of Europe Provides a Reminder of Israel’s Importance By Alan M. Dershowitz, The Gatestone Institute, May 17, 2016 I just returned from a week-long...

A FASCINATING STORY

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 8 years ago

A FASCINATING STORY This was really difficult to copy and load onto the Forum site – it left huge spaces between paragraphs so it is necessary to scroll prodigiously to get to...

New Mexico Legends Acoma Pueblo - Ancient Sky City

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 55 Comments • 8 years ago

NEW MEXICO LEGENDS Acoma Pueblo - Ancient Sky City Strategically built atop a 357-foot sandstone mesa for defensive purposes, the Acoma Pueblo is more familiarly known as Sky City. Believed...

U.S. History Quiz

Via: johnrussell • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

Not as easy as some you see online, but not tremendously difficult either for people who follow US history. See how you do...

From Swastika to Thunderbird

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 35 Comments • 8 years ago

There has been articles and comments regarding the use of the swastika on NT. I would like to give you some background on the use of the swastika in the Native American culture. It has been used...

Morgan Freeman Asks Navajo About God

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 8 years ago

Courtesy National Geographic Channel An unusual guest attended 12-year-old Maysun Peterson’s Kinaaldá, or traditional maturity ceremony, for Navajo girls—Academy Award-winning actor and...

The Battle of Hill 937 - Hamburger Hill Viet Nam. 47th Anniversary

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 24 Comments • 8 years ago

Soon it will be the 47th anniversary (May 10-20) of a battle of the Viet Nam war that showed America the futility of the war. American public opinion had turned against the war. When the story of...

Remembering the Alamo Scouts: History of a Little Known Unit of WWII in The Pacific

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 26 Comments • 8 years ago

Remembering the Alamo Scouts: Many American Indians Fought in World War II Michelle Tirado 5/27/11 By now, most of the world knows what the U.S. Navy SEAL unit can do....

First Nation hopes to lure tourists to British Columbia ghost town where Donald Trump’s grandpa ran a brothel

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

First Nation hopes to lure tourists to British Columbia ghost town where Donald Trump’s grandpa ran a brothel By Glen Schaefer and John Coleburn, Postmedia News (reported by National Post),...

Were the Spartans at the battle of Thermopyle the greatest soldiers in the history of mankind?

Via: community • History & Sociology • 24 Comments • 8 years ago

I am watching (for perhaps the 10th time) the movie 300. It is fairly accurate in the two days of battle stands that King Leonidas fought against the land forces of Xerxes, while his General...

'Rosie the Riveters' honored with visit to Washington

Via: community • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER From Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven decades after their "we can do it" attitude proved invaluable to the Allied victory in World War II, about 30 "Rosie the...

One Hundred Years Ago...

Via: johnrussell • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 8 years ago

A mechanical home refrigerator is marketed for the first time in the United States, but its $900 price discourages buyers, who can buy a good motorcar for the same money...

This Week In History

Via: johnrussell • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

I am going to start a new feature. Every Sunday there will be a new thread "This week In History" featuring lists of some of the well known and important events associated with this week on the...

Hitler 'had tiny deformed penis' and just one testicle, historians claim

Via: perrie-berlin-halpern • History & Sociology • 52 Comments • 8 years ago

Yes it's true! Men with small pee pees are miserable human beings. Women are so more advanced than that! Hitler suffered from a condition called hypospadias which left him with an abnormally...

Color Blind

Via: perrie-berlin-halpern • History & Sociology • 89 Comments • 8 years ago

Our eyes are a wonder of nature. They can see an unlimited array of color. And those of us who are born without that ability, are labeled color blind, and are cheated out of the full spectrum of...

News Orleans Confederate Monuments Can Go, Rules Judge

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 160 Comments • 8 years ago

News Orleans Confederate Monuments Can Go, Rules Judge By Newsmax Wires, January 27, 2016 Monument to P.G.T. Beauregard (Wickimedia Commons) New Orleans can move...

Discussions