History Round-up!

The next "round-up" of interesting items I've noticed over the last few weeks... this time of history-related tidbits...

Did you lost a coin in Newfoundland around 1627...? If you did, it's been found. The CBC story has a good picture.

Check out the discovery of the HMS Ontario... sunk in 1780 in a Halloween squall.

Here's a great article from the Vancouver Sun written by George Fetherling about the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858.

Hey! Watch where you're walking: 1200AD Version. (An 800-year-old footprint was found in Manitoba... on the site that a museum is being constructed...)

Paris during the occupation, in photos.

The B.C. Government's statement on the Anniversary of the Komagata Maru. Another example pointing to our province's racist past. No judgement implied, just reporting the fact.

Explore a 4th-Century copy of the Bible. Here's the CBC story to explain, and here's the Codex Sinaiticus site.

The U.S. Civil War Re-enactors don't get all the fun: apparently Canada does the Siege of Fort Louisbourg... here's the lead-up, and here's Parks Canada's info on the Fort.

And the end of this past July marked the 50th anniversary of NASA.

Some cool photos from the Natural History Museum in New York City, and Pruned pulled some of the best ones out.

Brothers in Turin claimed to have "overheard" secret Soviet missle launches in the 1950s and 1960s, some of which you can listen to here... and, of course, the nay-sayers...

European woman's skull found in New Zealand and dated to before Captain James Cook's voyage discovered the place...

The ancient Greek gadget called the Antikythera Mechanism (because it was found near the island of Antikythera) turns out to have the Olympic symbol engraved on it.

Library and Archives Canada discovered what is believed to be the oldest document ever printed in Australia, a playbill from 1796, which they then gave to the National Library of Australia as a gift.

There's a new arctic expedition trying to find the ships from Franklin's doomed 1845 exploration of the Northwest Passage.

Here's a photo set of vintage business signs.

Finally, a video of the 1969 moon landing...