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Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a prominent member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been celebrated as one of the great German heroes who actively opposed the Third Reich during the Second World War.
King Tutankhamen's Tomb - Crystalinks
Howard Carter was a British archaeologist who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (November 1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen the only unplundered tomb of a Pharaoh yet found in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. On 16th February 1923, Carter opened the burial chamber and first saw the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.In 1891, at age 17, with a talent for drawing and an interest in Egyptian antiquities, he was hired by the Egypt Exploration Fund in London to help with the epigraphic recording of tombs in Middle Egypt. At the beginning of 1900 Howard Carter was appointed Chief Inspector of Antiquities to the Egyptian Government with responsibilities for Upper Egypt. The Earl of Carnarvon, visited Egypt for health reasons in 1905, became interested in Egyptian antiquities and decided to finance some archaeological work. He funded Carter's excavation work beginning in 1909. After cataloguing his extensive finds, Carter retired from archaeology and became a collector. Carter died in England.
The Panic of 1837 was an economic depression, one of the most severe financial crises in the history of the United States. The Panic was built on a speculative fever. The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank stopped payment in specie (gold and silver coinage). The Panic was followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and record unemployment levels.
Ivan Ivanitz Chabert, the 'fire king', was a famous Magician and was probably the most notable, and certainly the most interesting character in the history of fire-eating, fire-resistance, and poison eating. He was the last prominent figure in the long line of this type of artists to appeal to the better classes and to attract the attention of scientists, who for a considerable period treated his achievements more or less seriously. After retiring, Chabert became a pharmacist in New York City, selling health concoctions of his own making.
"Although he was suspected of trickery by many, was often challenged, and had an army of rivals and imitators, all available records show that Chabert was beyond a doubt the greatest fire and poison resister that ever appeared in London." - Harry Houdini
'Oh, Mom!'
MSBC - May 8, 2008
Two young journalists strike blog gold with a site that collects unintentionally
hilarious (and often touching) e-mails from mothers to their children.
Mom's gift to kids: 'No!'
Oprah.com - May 8, 2008
Using mom's date of birth to pick her gift
AOL - May 6, 2008
10 Mother's Day Dos and Don'ts
AOL - May 3, 2008
'Wii Fit' for Mom's Day? Wal-Mart thinks so
MSNBC - May 3, 2008
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's film Spellbound.
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, patterns and offset lithography. He attended Princeton University, where he painted, influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and majored in history. Early visits to New York art galleries would prove to be an influence upon his artistic development.
Stevie Wonder was born Steveland Hardaway Judkins. He is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won twenty-five Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti once referred to him in a concert as a "great, great musical genius".
Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, talk box, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, bass guitar, organ, melodica, and clarinet. In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills. Diana Ross, once called Wonder, "Motown's musical genius."
Yuval Neeman was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. One of his greatest achievements in physics was his discovery, in 1962, independently from Murray Gell-Mann, of the classification of hadrons through their SU(3) flavor symmetry, today known as the quark model. A nobel prize for this discovery was given to Murray Gell-Mann but not to Prof. Neeman, which left him with much frustration in years ahead. Nevertheless, Neeman made other important contributions in his scientific career to particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and the philosophy of science.
Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. He was originally called "Namgyal Wangdi", but as a child his name was changed on advice from a lama. "Norgay" means "fortunate". His father, Ghang La Mingma, died in 1949. His mother, Kinzom, lived to see him climb Everest. He was the 11th of 13 children. He ran away to Kathmandu twice as a boy, and eventually settled in the Sherpa community in Too Song Bhusti in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian linguist, philosopher, who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. She is credited with writing the first book, that still survives, discussing both differential and integral calculus. Pietro Agnesi recognized the talents and intelligence of his daughter Maria and treated her as a child prodigy. She was given tutors to learn five languages - Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French and Spanish - as well as philosophy and science.
Enya, sometimes presented in the media as Enya Brennan, is an Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and is officially the country's second biggest musical export (second only to U2). Her works have earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination and is also famous for performing in 10 different languages during her lengthy career. Enya is an approximate transcription of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish, in the Donegal dialect.
On this day in 1792, twenty-four brokers sat down to fix rates for commissions on stocks and bonds. From that agreement came what has been known since as the New York Stock Exchange or Wall Street.The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is located in the financial district, an area in lower Manhattan, on a street named after a defensive wall built around 1650. Wall Street became interchangeable with the Stock Exchange. The original brokers' meeting place was quite different from today¹s noisy, crowded, high-energy floor. In bad weather, they met at a coffee house and when the day was sunny, the brokers sat under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to conduct their business.There are now over 51 million individual investors and 10,000 institutional investors who are represented on the floor of the NYSE by 480 member-trader firms. The NYSE is respected throughout the world and attracts investors from many countries.
2012 Blog: World to End in 2012 (Check Back for Updates) Live Science - May 9, 2008
ANIMALS Oldest gorilla in captivity turns 55 at Dallas Zoo AP - May 9, 2008
ARCTIC Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer AP - May 3, 2008
ARTChina's Masterpiece Factories National Geographic - May 8, 2008
ASTROLOGY May Horoscopes AOL - May 1, 2008
ASTRONOMY Current Moon Phase
Current Solar Data From NOAA
Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA
Spaceweather.com
Thunderbolts Picture of the Day
Nasa plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid travelling at 28,000 mph Guardian - May 8, 2008 Are the rovers cut out to detect alien life? MSBC - May 8, 2008 XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe PhysOrg - May 7, 2008 Solar System's 'look-alike' found BBC - May 6, 2008 Black Hole Rips Apart Screaming Star Live Science - May 6, 2008 Did Earth once have multiple moons? New Scientist - May 6, 2008 Spacecraft to fly into Sun's corona for first time New Scientist - May 6, 2008 65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads PhysOrg - May 5, 2008
AUTISM - MAY 2008 Autism Linked to Parents' Mental Illness AOL - May 5, 2008
BEES A Third of Honey Bee Hives Lost in 2007 AOL - May 8, 2008
BIRDS Can Birds Tell If We Look Them in the Eye? Live Science - May 5, 2008 Birds can 'see' the Earth's magnetic field New Scientist - May 1, 2008
BLOGS Sex is just one more chore on her to-do lis MSNBC - May 8, 2008
BOTANY
BREAST FEEDING Breastfeeding Associated With Increased Intelligence Science Daily - May 6, 2008 Breastfeeding Rates Up, Along With Guilt Live Science - May 6, 2008
BUSINESS Oil surpasses $125 per barrel ahead of US driving season AP - May 9, 2008
CARS Plane-car hybrid that will revolutionise the way society works BBC - May 8, 2008
COMPREHENSION Comprehension Climbs When You Slooooow Doooown Wired - May 9, 2008
CONSCIOUSNESS What We Know (and Hate) About Consciousness Live Science - May 2, 2008
CROP CIRCLES Crop Circles 2008 CCC Tenn.: First American Crop Circle - May 5th CCC - May 8, 2008
DINOSAURS China: Dino-Era Bird Fossil Found; One of Oldest Known National Geographic - May 6, 2008
EARTH Innovative technology provides insight into what¹s below the Earth¹s surface PhysOrg - May 5, 2008'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 History of Ancient Supercontinent's Breakup Detailed Live Science - April 29, 2008 Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever Live Science - April 21, 2008 Google Earth Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Google Earth
EARTHQUAKES Major Earthquakes in Japan - 6.2, 6.8 IRIS - May 9, 2008
ECOLOGY How cleaning up America dried up the Amazon New Scientist - May 8, 2008
ELECTION 2008 Obama plans to declare victory May 20 Yahoo - May 8, 2008
ELLIE'S WORLD TODAY "Bloodline, the Movie" Ellie's Adventures with Rene Barnett & Bruce BurgessFriday Happy Mother's Day
EMOTIONS Humans: The Strangest Species Live Science - May 3, 2008 Researchers explore altruism's unexpected ally -- selfishness PhysOrg - May 2, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT Star Jones Lashes Out at Walters AOL - May 8, 2008
EVOLUTION Platypus Genome Reveals Secrets of Mammal Evolution National Geographic - May 8, 2008
FACE Why Face Symmetry Is Sexy Across Cultures And Species Science Daily - May 8, 2008Face Analysis Physignomy Crystalinks
FASHION
FEUL SOURCES Newly Discovered Water, Oil And Gas Locations Surveyed In Afghanistan Science Daily - May 2, 2008
FOOD Secret Found: What Makes Food Look Tasty Live Science - May 7, 2008
GENETICS New cancer gene found PhysOrg - May 8, 2008
HEALTH & ALTERNATIVE HEALING Needle-free device delivers pain-free analgesia Reuters - May 5, 2008 Health Stories in the News Yahoo
HISTORY 15 Historical Events That Fascinate Us May 2, 2008
HOMES - APARTMENTS Feng Shui - Selling Your Home AOL - May 5, 2008 Cutting cleaning time to minimum AOL - May 2, 2008 Bargain Cities for First-Time Buyers AOL - May 2, 2008 Top 5 mistakes home buyers make AOL - May 2, 2008 From Empty Apartment to Sumptuous Sanctuary AOL - May 1, 2008
HUMAN INTEREST
INSTANT MESSAGING Instant messaging -- a new language? PhysOrg - May 2, 2008
INTERNET Beyond 15 minutes of fame: Internet celebrity Telegraph.co.uk - May 2, 2008
ISRAEL Israel celebrates its 60th with pride, but also uncertainty AP - May 8, 2008
JOBS Cool jobs for men AOL - May 2, 2008 Canon to build new factory in US, create 1,000 jobs PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 13 Things You Should Do Before You Quit Your Job AOL - May 1, 2008 Hiring Leaps in Public Sector AOL - May 1, 2008
LONGIVITY 114-year-old man takes keys to longevity to the grave MSNBC - May 8, 2008
MARINE BIOLOGY Male seahorses are nature's Mr. Mom, researchers say PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Colossal Squid Has Glowing "Cloaking Device," Huge Eyes National Geographic - May 2, 2008 8 Supersize Sea Monsters ABC - May 1, 2008
MAY 2008 May 20 - Full Moon 29º Scorpio May 20-26 - Fleet Week NYC May 21 - Sun in Gemini May 26 - June 19 Mercury Retrograde May 26 - Memorial Day
MUSIC Music Reduced to Beautiful Math Live Science - May 7, 2008
MYANMARHow Do Cyclones, Hurricanes and Typhoons Differ? Live Science - May 6, 2008 Burma Wikipedia
NATURAL DISASTERS Natural disasters from space ABC - May 8, 2008
OCEANOGRAPHY
PALEONTOLOGY Ancient sea creatures 'dressed up' in space diamonds Times Online - May 8, 2008
PHOTOGRAPHY & NEWS Touch screens added to newest digital photo frames MSNBC - May 2, 2008 Quantum camera snaps objects it cannot 'see' New Scientist - May 2, 2008 AOL CNN Yahoo National Geographic
PHYSICS Researchers demonstrate for the first time how light squeezes through small holes PhysOrg - May 8, 2008
PLATYPUS
POWERBALL Couple Claims $180m Powerball Jackpot AOL - May 7, 2008
RELATIONSHIPS Breaking Up Not So Hard, Study Finds Live Science - May 2, 2008
SCIENCE Selection of Abstracts and Online Articles SSE
SIGNS Lost in Translation: Awkward Signs from Around the World AOL - May 7, 2008
SLEEP Too Much, Too Little Sleep Can Hurt AOL - May 8, 2008
TECHNOLOGY Munch-o-matic: Scientists Develop The Artificial Mouth Science Daily - May 6, 2008 Strap-On Helicopter Could Offer Solo Flying Experience PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Electronics' 'missing link' found BBC - May 1, 2008 Real Trekkie Tricorder Invented Live Science - April 30, 2008
TREES Unique and interested trees Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide for database PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Trees Wikipedia
UFO'S When E.T. phoned home, where did he call? MSNBC - May 8, 2008
VIDEOS
VISION
VOLCANOES Chile Volcano's impact seen hundreds of miles away NN - May 9, 2008Images: Chile Volcano Erupts With Ash, Lava, Lightning National Geographic - May 7, 2008
Volcano in Chile spews lava and blasts ash 12 miles into sky National Geographic - May 6, 2008
WOMEN A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women come AP - May 3, 2008
WYOMING Wyoming Air Pollution Rivals Big Cities Live Science - May 8, 2008 Wyoming Wikipedia
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