President Barack Obama and the First Lady invited Star Wars Director George Lucas and a few of the cast members from his new film, Red Tails, to the White House Friday for a movie night. But the guests of honor were a few of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the black WW II aviators whose story -- brought to the big screen thanks to Lucas's own money -- is opening in theaters on January 20.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have located seventeen lost pyramids throughout Egypt after studying images produced by a state-of-the-art infrared technique that allowed them to clearly see the ruins underground.
The chances of getting cancer are declining... and the chances of dying of cancer are declining even faster, reported researchers at a news conference on March 12. And a new study showed that long-term Vitamin E supplements substantially reduced the chances of getting prostate cancer
The most renown American surgeon was born 160 years ago on September 22. Dr. William Halsted introduced the idea of washing hands and sterile instruments, the concept of anesthesia during surgery. The amazing part is that the majority of Halsted's stunning accomplishments were achieved while addicted to cocaine and morphine. A new film documents the work of this medical genius.
A hiker in the hills found a Pablo Picasso lithograph worth tens of thousands of dollars. It had been missing since teens broke into a California mansion, home of a Ukrainian diplomat.
A Roman marble coffin which was spotted in the bushes of a garden in England has sold at auction for £96,000. The 7ft sarcophagus from the 2nd century was being used as a trough to stand flowers in on a property in Dorset.
A Chinese bowl that a New York family picked up for $3 at a garage sale turned out to be a 1,000-year-old ceramic treasure by a Chinese master. The bowl — 5 inches in diameter with a saw-tooth pattern etched around the outside — was sold at auction for $2.2 million at Sotheby's auction house in New York on Tuesday.
At 71, Margaret Ann Wolf Harris heard her father's voice for the first time in her adult life. Her dad, Sgt. Cody Wolf, died in World War II when his plane was shot down over Germany on Jan. 11, 1944. But a couple of weeks before his death, he contributed to a Christmas broadcast, produced by war correspondents of the Maryland newspaper The Baltimore Sun. His baby daughter got to hear it recently.
After almost 70 years, the letters written by a World War II sailor made the final leg of a mysterious journey. On Wednesday they were turned over to 85-year-old Dorothy Bartos Carlberg, the girl for whom the notes were penned.
A tattered vintage sweater from West Point bought at a Goodwill outlet store for fifty-eight cents could fetch more than $20,000 at auction. The sweater belonged to legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, who had served as an assistant coach at the school just before landing his role with the champion Green Bay Packers.
An exquisitely feathered fossil unearthed in northeastern China shows a new dinosaur, named Changyuraptor yangi, which measures more than 4 feet long and -- like the Microraptor, which is less than half its size --flies with four wings.
Women's Equality Day commemorates the day in 1920 when voting rights for women officially became part of the U.S. constitution. The 19th Amendment securing women the fundamental right to vote was a product of decades of organizing, protesting, and agitating. On August 26, we celebrate those who continue the work of building a society where women thrive, where every door is open to them, and their every dream can be realized.
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Thousands attended the formal dedication Sunday of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall – an emotional day for those, including President Obama, who came to honor the slain civil rights leader, calling him a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect.
Today, on the first day of Black History Month in the US, some pretty savvy college kids made history 56 years ago, by not getting up from a lunch counter.
After a contractor discovered a boy's time capsule from 1949, he tracked down its creator to see if it had any special meaning.
Getting Santa's North Pole address is difficult, so two resourceful kids simply left their letters in the chimney... only to be discovered 100 years later.
It's been a half century since a California rock band played its first concert under a new name and started a long, strange trip into music history.
She started the movement for a woman's right to vote in the U.S. and should be on the bill commemorating the achievement's 100th anniversary.
Thanks to the kindness of an Irish princess during the Renaissance, the town of Geel has been helping visitors with mental illness ever since.
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