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Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn't the first Internet company to connect people online. And it won't be the last. Here's a look at how social networking has evolved. Some companies have come and gone. Some are mere shells of their former selves. And others show promise, even as Facebook dominates the social Web.
Today is Friday, May 18, the 139th day of 2012. There are 227 days left in the year.
The founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, a group of museums in Los Angeles and Denver, has been named director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, the museum complex announced Tuesday.
A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan, researchers said Monday.
Today is Sunday, May 13, the 134th day of 2012. There are 232 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.
Today is Sunday, May 6, the 127th day of 2012. There are 239 days left in the year.
The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one man sprawled on top of the other.
Today is Saturday, April 28, the 119th day of 2012. There are 247 days left in the year.
Today is Friday, April 20, the 111th day of 2012. There are 255 days left in the year.
Avon Products Inc. on Monday tapped Sheri McCoy to replace CEO Andrea Jung later this month. McCoy takes the reins of an iconic but struggling company, which became a fixture in households across the country as legions of "Avon ladies" went door to door selling makeup.
A look the iconic cosmetics company Avon since it was founded 126 years ago:
Today is Thursday, April 12, the 103rd day of 2012. There are 263 days left in the year.
Today is Wednesday, April 4, the 95th day of 2012. There are 271 days left in the year.
GOP Women Party Hard - LIFE“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as …
200 Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Northern Gulf of Mexico (CNN) -- A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
When General Grant expelled the JewsIn 1862, General Grant issued a general order expelling Jews from his area of operation.
The Easter Island "Heads" Have BodiesMaybe this isn’t a newsflash to anyone but me, but, um, the Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are disproportionately large, many people (myself included) te …
Mexico unearths monolith of Aztec God Archaeologists in Mexico made a dramatic discovery in the state of Morelos when they uncovered an 8th century monolith featuring an Aztec God weighing 60 tonnes
Wallenda Walk The FallsNik Wallenda will do a tightrope walk over Niagara Falls between NEw York and Canada on June 15th. This hasn't been done for many, many years and should be the experience of a lifetime. Come and join us! I'll look around and see if theres some history to the other wa …
EOD air commando receives fourth Bronze StarSince joining the Air Force in 1999, he's been on 500 combat missions.....
Funeral museum offers coffins and tombstonesAn exhibition of hearses and coffins is on offer at Vienna’s Funeral Museum. A 1,000-piece collection of exhibits at the Funeral Museum gives an intriguing insight into funerary tradition, burial rituals and the Viennese population's fascinating relationship with death. …
Retracing the tracks of a Cold War institution - The LocalThe British Military Train ferried soldiers between Berlin and West Germany throughout the Cold War. It took to the rails for one last time last weekend, laden with former regulars and their memories. James Gheerbrant was on board.
6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of AmericaWhen it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the v …
Old table lamp turns out to be £550,000 Ming vase An old vase that had been crudely turned into a lamp sold for £550,000 because it was a rare 15th century Chinese object from the Ming dynasty
The Islamization of Nigeria, a case study.(or more than you ever wanted to know about the Falani and Igbo people of Nigeria) The Fulani, were, and are, a nomadic people who have been influential throughout the history of North West Africa for …
A solider named AlexanderFor decades, Siegfried Laier of Moerlenbach, Germany, has been searching for an American soldier. More than half a century ago—when Siegfried was just a boy—he formed a friendship with the young GI. It was March of 1945 … The final days of …
Right or Wrong of Nobel PrizeNobel Prize may be considered as a dream or divine thing.The Nobel Committee is usually respected for their special way to select the awardees of the prize.However,some controversies have tarnished its sanctity which may be perceived from the article published in Time in 20 …
Kim Jong-un's grandfather 'was Japanese collaborator' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). by North Asia correspondent, Mark Willacy. Updated May 11, 2012 10:30:04New documents unearthed in Tokyo reveal that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's maternal grandfather worked for the Japanese military, sparking claims that the reclusive state's leader is the descendant of a traitor. Japanese human rights activist and researcher Ken Kato says t …
Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist One of our fave uppity women -- Anne Boleyn. She demanded a high price for her favors, then failed in her primary duty: to birth a son. Off with her head! What part of the story we learned about her is true and what is fiction? The deformed infant? She says it never happened.
Dog domestication may have helped humans thrive while Neandertals declinedNepal's mystery language on the verge of extinctionGyani Maiya Sen, a 75-year-old woman from western Nepal, can perhaps be forgiven for feeling that the weight of the world rests on her shoulders. She is the only person still alive in Nepal who fluently speaks the Kusunda language. The unknown origins and mysterious sentence s …
Mother's Day Facts and Figures » Anderson Independent MailStarted officially in 1868 by Ann Jarvis, Mother's Day was originally intended to "reunite families divided during the Civil War." In 1872, Julia Howe, the songstress who penned "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized the first official Mother's Day observances in New York C …
Does the idea of same sex marriage fly in the face of thousands of years of traditional marriage? Actually, no.Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University's history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexu …
The Radical Pacifist History of Mother's DayMother's Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use their position as mothers to influence society in fighting for …
BBC News - Sandwich celebrates 250th anniversary of the sandwichWhen John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, ordered beef served between slices of bread about 250 years ago he probably did not think his request would become a global convenience meal. The story goes that the Earl asked for the particular serving so that he could eat whil …
Mother's Day's Dark HistoryAs early as the 1850s, West Virginia women's organizer Ann Reeves Jarvis held Mother's Day work clubs to improve sanitary conditions and try to lower infant mortality by fighting disease and curbing milk contamination, according to historian Katharine Antolini of West Virginia …
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