Arrival of Immigrants – Ellis Island 1906 This video depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a... 5/21/08 0
China remembers nation’s ancestor Huangdi on Tomb-sweeping Day More than 8,000 Chinese from home and abroad gathered Friday morning at the tomb of Huangdi, the legendary Yellow Emperor who is considered the common... 4/16/08 0
Feds Quietly Dig Up 67 Civil War Graves Working in secret, federal archaeologists have dug up the remains of dozens of soldiers and children near a Civil War-era fort after an informant tipped... 4/9/08 0
What the world will look like when we’ve gone Welcome to Planet Earth: Population 0. This is what our world would look like without people. The images were created to illustrate what would happen... 3/27/08 0
Sotheby’s to auction Magna Carta It’s freedom’s birth certificate.And, if you have a spare $30 million, you could have the Magna Carta hanging from your kitchen wall.The only surviving... 12/18/07 0
Barbara Dainton, the last but one survivor of the Titanic disaster has died Barbara Joyce Dainton, who has died aged 96, was the last but one British survivor of the Titanic disaster. As Barbara West, and at just 10 months old,... 11/14/07 0
Britney Spears’ Jamestown Ancestor and Katharine Hepburn Following up on Britney Spears’ Jamestown ancestor Richard Pace, I just discovered that we would have been deprived of one of the most loved Hollywood... 8/17/07 0
Woman hunts for secrets of the lost colony It has all the makings of a classic mystery.A group of 115 English men, woman and children settled on Roanoke Island, N.C., in 1587, in one of the first... 8/7/07 0