The Pentagon has identified the remains of 12 World War II servicemen. The military said Thursday they died in a plane crash in Papua New Guinea on Oct 27, 1943. Their remains will be buried Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.They are Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Jack Volz of Indianapolis; 2nd Lt. Regis Dietz of Pittsburgh; 2nd Lt. Edward Lake of Brooklyn, N.Y; 2nd Lt. Martin Murray of Lowell, Mass.; 2nd Lt. William Shryock of Gary, Ind.; Tech. Sgt. Robert Wren of Seattle; Tech. Sgt. Hollis Smith of Cove, Ark.; Staff Sgt. Berthold Chastain of Dalton, Ga.; Staff Sgt. Clyde Green of Erie, Pa.; Staff Sgt. Frederick Harris of Medford, Mass.; Staff Sgt. Claude Ray of Coffeyville, Kan.; and Staff Sgt. Claude Tyler of Landover, Md.
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Clues as to where Shakespeare was married could be revealed when a crypt is opened in a Grade I listed church in Warwickshire, a charity has claimed. The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) is opening the crypt later on Thursday in All Saints in Billesley to inspect the state of the church floor.
Spanish archaeologists have started the search for the remains of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes. The author's bones are believed to lie somewhere within a convent in Madrid and will help unlock clues as to how Cervantes died.
Eneclann genealogists were acknowledged by President Obama in the speech he made in College Green, Dublin during his trip to Ireland. ‘Eneclann were delighted to be given VIP tickets to the reception in College Green, along with Megan Smolenyak, the American genealogist who first made the connection between the President’s family and Ireland,’ explains Fiona Fitsimon. ‘We weren’t really expecting an acknowledgement, so to hear him thank the genealogists who had worked on his family history was fantastic.’
Russian archaeologists have unearthed what they say are remains of a nephew of the founder of the Mongol Empire, Gengis Khan. The remains of Isunke Khan were discovered during excavation in Russia’s East Siberian region of Transbaikalia, which were earlier initiated by the Russian Far Eastern Federal University.
A tomb believed to be that of St. Philip the Apostle was unearthed during excavations in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis.
The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project last week added its first batch of digitized newspaper pages to a national database dedicated to providing searchable digital copies of historic newspapers from all over the nation.
The gray, concrete, heavily scarred slabs that arrived at the National World War II Museum this week are more than just chunks of an old wall to historians.
A presidential historian charged with stealing millions of dollars in documents from the Maryland Historical Society has had his bail set at $500,000. Hearings for 63-year-old Barry Landau and his assistant, 24-year-old Jason Savedoff, both of New York City, were held Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court. Savedoff's bail was set at $750,000.
The University of Connecticut is digitizing thousands of historical Puerto Rican documents to help make them available to researchers. Library officials said Tuesday the 5,000 fragile documents they are scanning date as far back as 1844 and detail court disputes over slaves, land and livestock.
The forgotten teenager who plunged to his death while building the Titanic is to get a gravestone at last.
Residents in Sherman Oaks are scratching their heads after a mysterious tombstone popped up in a dog park last week. Nobody knows just when it arrived, but some say the marble headstone appeared around July 18 in an open area in front of a condominium complex on the 13000 block of Moorpark Street.
The National Archives of the UK is working with local authorities to pilot a web archiving model which will ensure important online information is preserved for future generations.
The Ravenshaw university authorities have stumbled upon some rare documents of the ancient college, which was founded in 1868, in the record room. The authorities have managed to dig out files more than a hundred years old from the record room of the college and have started measures to preserve these age-old documents by digitizing them.
The family of World War II hero Ted Kenna say they have mixed emotions about putting his Victoria Cross up for auction. Kenna's medal, earned for single-handedly taking out a Japanese machine gun post, will be the first WWII VC to be sold publicly.
The "Love letters" being shared by the Missouri History Museum may not have the drama of, say, a Civil War battle re-enactment, but we're captivated by the romance between a St. Louis soldier and his beloved "dear girl" unfolding on the "History Happens Here" blog.
Historians are seeking sailors and civilians who lived through the Port Chicago explosion that killed 320 mostly African American men in California during World War II.
Plaques to honour six men who risked their lives in military action in the 19th and 20th centuries have been unveiled in Manchester. The brass plaques have been put on display at Philips Park Cemetery.
Wayne Witt Bates did not set out to take on the Daughters of the American Revolution. But he is not used to being challenged on his genealogy. A short list of his credentials: researcher for the Bates Family of Old Virginia (300 members and counting), coordinator of the Bates Family DNA project and, for 15 years, editor of the family newsletter, the Bates Booster.
Most people come to the Plant City Photo Archives and History Center, Florida, to see some old pictures or reminisce. For Vonell Purvis Browning, a trip to the center at 106 S. Evers St. ended with a rekindled romance – and matrimony – with a former sweetheart she had scarcely seen since World War II.
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd found out she is a descendant of one of the famous English colonisers who arrived in the U.S. on the Mayflower ship in the 1620s. The Double Jeopardy star cried as she made some 'absolutely life-changing' discoveries in the latest episode of the U.S. version of Who Do You Think You Are?
Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).
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A painstaking conservation effort to remove old patches and repair weak spots in a 714-year-old copy of the Magna Carta has revealed that the full text of that English declaration of human rights remains intact even though some words are faded and illegible to the eye, the National Archives said Tuesday.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attended a ceremony unveiling a five-volume book series which includes documents on the occupation of Iran during the Second World War.
France may have lost the battle of Agincourt because their soldiers’ armour was so heavy it left them breathless, researchers have claimed. Wearing a full suit of armour doubled the amount of energy used in battle, according to a new study in which volunteers dressed as 15th century knights were made to run on a treadmill.
Stanley Young III got a visit from his ancestors earlier this month. Bundled in a parcel that arrived on his doorstep was an old photo album that depicted his great-grandmother and great-granduncle, along with various other relatives, in all their finery.
A Christchurch heritage landmark has been lost, taking with it the irreplaceable memories of almost 50 New Zealand families.
Very interesting genealogy research by Kimberly Powell: "When I initially researched the French ancestry of author J.K. Rowling, I began with the man that she identified as her maternal great-grandfather, Louis Volant, a Legion d'honneur recipient. This World War One hero was also discussed in depth in this UK Telegraph article in February 2009. While I have yet to receive confirmation on the exact source of this information, it appears to have been a story passed down through the family, and I had no reason to doubt it (my first mistake!)."
Another 14 soldiers who died during the Battle of Fromelles in World War I have found their final resting places. The Veterans' Affairs Minister, Warren Snowdon, is due to unveil 14 newly marked headstones at the Fromelles Military Cemetery in France this morning, 95 years after the bloody battle.
Only one per cent of the National Library’s eight million items – including rare books, etchings and maps – is properly stored. But a massive restoration project called Clean Sweep plans preserve 50,000 titles and the public is invited to watch.
The diaries of feared Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the so-called "Angel of Death" who carried out gruesome medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz, will be auctioned in the United States.
When Edouard Garneau died last August, his wife of 53 years ordered a bench-style tombstone. That wasn't all: Several months later, the monument maker added a high-tech innovation — a small, square image known as a quick response or QR code, affixed alongside the big letters spelling out Garneau.
The Defense Department on Monday said that remains of three soldiers killed in World War II have been identified, and they will be buried Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery. The remains of Army Pfc. Lawrence N. Harris of Elkins, W.Va.; Cpl. Judge C. Hellums of Paris, Miss.; and Pvt. Donald D. Owens of Cleveland will be buried in a single casket, officials said.
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) will receive a grant of $150,000 from energy company, Dominion Resources to build the Commonwealth's only online historical and cultural archive about Virginia's Indian communities.
The British Library has launched a major fundraising campaign to buy the St. Cuthbert Gospel, a remarkably preserved survivor from seventh-century Britain. The British branch of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) has agreed to sell the book for 9 million pounds ($14.5 million), and the library already has commitments for 5 million pounds.
The National Archives is seeking industry input on a plan to create a searchable database of 1940 U.S. census information when it becomes publicly available in 2012.
What is“The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive”? “Hiroshima Archive” is a pluralistic digital archive using the digital virtual globe "Google Earth” to display on it in a multilayered way all the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Jogakuin Gaines Association, and the Hachioji Hibakusha (A-bomb Survivors) Association.
Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician.
You can now upload and share pictures of headstones, memorials and commemorative plaques, and index the names found on them.
An early 17th Century medical recipe book containing a panacea for the ‘Pestilence' or Plague is among an exhibition of priceless treasures being staged by the Cheshire Record Office. The tiny tome, lists a family's home-spun remedies for conditions ranging from the ‘tooth-ache', the ‘running gout that burneth', and a ‘sore legge' to a ‘treacle to destroy all manners of poisons' between 1620 and 1760.
The Queen is to pay tribute to the codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park, the secret cypher base in WWII which broke the German Enigma codes. She will visit the site in Milton Keynes with Prince Philip, and unveil a memorial to the men and women who worked there.
Broken gravestones and orders of service have been found dumped in a field. Mystery surrounds how rubble and paper, including an order of service from a funeral held last month, were found piled up on land near Ffynnon y Cyff, Lixwm.
Two sisters are suing a cemetery in New Jersey for $25 million after discovering that they had been visiting the wrong grave for the past 20 years to mourn their mother's death. Evelyn Edwards and her sister Hortense learned of the blunder after contacting Rosehill Cemetery to complain about the condition of their late mother's gravesite.
The National Archives and Records Administration wants help from Wikipedia and its thousands of “Wikipedian” volunteers.
It was when fashion designer Pia Interlandi was preparing her beloved grandfather for his funeral, complete in his best suit and leather shoes, that she realised her calling was in death wear. "Doing up his leather shoes...I was just like 'where is he going to be walking?' Really. He doesn't need shoes," the quietly-spoken, black-clad 26-year-old said.
Nestled next to Terra Alta's Volunteer Fire Department and behind Hillcrest chapel sits the Shaw graveyard. It was once the town's first main graveyard, but after being closed for more than 100 years, it's been in rough shape.
If they had a million dollars, they’d buy more time. But a vast online library doesn’t have that kind of cash, so it is drastically reducing its devoted workforce. Internet Archive Canada, a small non-profit company, fired 35 of its 47 employees on Wednesday due to a massive drop in donations. Most will leave Aug. 12 unless a white knight appears soon.
An unemployed man has discovered a rare Charlie Chaplin film among a junk shop job lot.
Lizzie Andrew Borden was born on July 19, 1860. She was a New England spinster who allegedly killed her father and stepmother with a hatchet on August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States. The murders, subsequent trial, and ensuing trial by media became a cause célèbre. Although Lizzie Borden was acquitted, no one else was ever arrested or tried and she has remained a notorious figure in American folklore. Dispute over the identity of the killer or killers continues to this day. The fame of the incident has endured in American pop culture and criminology.
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A priceless 12th-century illustrated manuscript containing what has been described as Europe's first travel guide has been stolen from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain.
A book picked up at a church bring and buy sale in America has been identified as a lost memorial to Lord Byron. Marilyn Solana, who bought the book for $35 (£22) in Savannah, Georgia, in 2008, has now returned it to the UK.
“I have made a lot of mistakes. I built this tomb for myself to wish for parents’ forgiveness. I will not be in this life for long,” one wrote on his tombstone in the online cemetery. On their own tombstones, youngsters expressed their standstill and negative thought, which originated from pressures from studies, family break-down and their parent’s neglect.
It began as a local history project – but culminated in a family reunion for relatives who previously hadn’t even known each other existed. In April, the village of Sessay, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, held an archive exhibition as part of the history project and 500 people attended from across Yorkshire.
Two superbly documented fragments from "The Star Spangled Banner," the very flag that flew over Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, MD on Sept. 13, 1814 and inspired Francis Scott Key to pen the words to America’s national anthem, sold for $65,725 as part of Heritage Auctions’ $1,361,858 June 25 Signature® Arms & Militaria Auction.
Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe.
The son of a German officer whose men killed a French captain in hand-to-hand fighting in the First World War has traced the relatives of the dead man nearly 100 years later. A yellowing troop newspaper led the son of Johannes Richter to the family of Captain André Vacquier who died in 1918 in the Vosges region of France.
An appeal by the English Parliament asking the Pope to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon will be among 100 priceless documents from the Vatican's Secret Archives to go on display in an unprecedented exhibition in Rome.
"I frequently comb the pages of eBay in search of local history and was surprised recently when I discovered that a deed to a plot at the San Lorenzo Cemetery was up for auction.
Austin College has made a rare discovery in their book archives. A pamphlet that dates back to and comments on the revolutionary war. And, it's not just the historical value that makes this book so significant, It's what it represents.
A South African anthropologist has asked permission to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed the Bard and whether his poems and plays may have been composed under the influence of marijuana.
Hanks was born in Concord, California. His father, Amos Mefford Hank, was a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln, through Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. His mother, Janet Marylyn (née Frager), was a hospital worker; she is of Portuguese ancestry.
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A woman who thought she had buried her mother 15 years ago got a shock when the old woman turned up alive and in Florida. Grace Kivisto, 56, from Knox County, Illinois, had been told human remains found in a local brickyard in 1996 belonged to her mother, who disappeared over 40 years ago.
This amazing picture of Titanic Captain Edward Smith's private bathtub is among a series of spectacular images that have been shown for the first time during a court case into the salvage rights.
A Ukrainian court on Thursday released on parole a nationalist student arrested for frying eggs on an eternal flame commemorating soldiers who died in World War II, All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda political party said on its website.