Contemporary Social Studies 2010
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Ning Brought to you by Search Sign Up Sign In Teaching Digital History using documents , images , maps and online tools Main My Page Members Photos Videos Blogs Forum All Discussions My Discussions Add Contemporary Social Studies 2010 Posted by John Lee on December 6, 2010 at 3:03pm in Visual historical inquiry View Discussions Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject . Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches , social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive . There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies . In fact , there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship . But , what that process entails is a point of
I came across this cool fact today while surfing on Reddit and was impressed enough that I had to share: Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates, mocked his captors until his ransom was paid, then came back with a fleet and killed them all. First, when the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents, Caesar burst [...]
Road construction near the ancient Roman port of Ostia has uncovered a 2,000-year-old wooden ship. “It shows that the coastline during during ancient Roman times was some 3-4 kilometres farther inland than it is now,” said Ostia archaeology official Anna Maria Moretti . The wooden ship was about 11 metres long, making it one of [...]
The remains of a girl stabbed in the head by a Roman sword has been found in Kent, England. Dr Wilkinson said that she had been between 16 and 20 years old when she was killed, and her bones suggested that she had been in good health. He also believes the body had then been [...]
DNA extracted from pills found on a 2,000-year-old Italian shipwreck may offer up new medical insights. “Medicinal plants have been identified before, but not a compound medicine, so this is really something new,” says Alain Touwaide, director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, which has the world’s largest digital database of medical [...]
A stairway covered in Maya hieroglyphics has been uncovered in Campeche, Mexico. Typically, hieroglyphic stairways are part of the central or core elements of the elite ruling class, however, this was not the case at El Palmar because the building was located on the outskirts of the site, away from the center. The location of the stairway [...]
A team of researchers is set to begin the search for skull fragments belonging to Lisa Gherardini, believed to be the model for the Mona Lisa, in order to perform a facial reconstruction to confirm if this is the case. The BBC’s Duncan Kennedy in Rome says although she has one of the most recognisable [...]
Treasures hunters in the Caribbean have found the oldest shipwreck in the area off the Dominican Republic coast. At the last count Captain Billy Rawson and his crew had uncovered 700 silver coins that could be worth millions, jade figurines and even a mirrored stone that was possibly used in Shamanic rituals. Everything was in [...]
This is pretty epic to imagine – Prehistoric humans may have had to battle it out with bears for caves to live in. For the study, Bon and her colleagues performed radiocarbon dating, mitochondrial DNA analysis and isotope investigations of cave bear remains from Chauvet-Pont d’Arc and Deux-Ouvertures caves located along the Ardeche River in [...]
CT scans of the 2,700-year-old mummy of a 14-year-old Egyptian servant girl are helping solve child abuse crimes in the state of Vermont. After spotting the mummy at the University of Vermont’s Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Dr. Jason Johnson, a radiology resident, arranged to have it put through his hospital’s state-of-the-art CT scanner. [...]
Special three-dimensional mapping has removed hundreds of years worth of jungle growth from nearly 100 Maya buildings in the ancient city of Holtun (Head of Stone). Though it’s long been known to locals that something—something big—is buried in this patch of Guatemalan rain forest, it’s only now that archaeologists are able to begin teasing out [...]
Five days after the Titanic sank, the body of a child was pulled from the ocean and buried in Halifax under the maker “Unknown child”. Nearly 100 years later the child’s name has finally been identified. When it sank, the Titanic took the lives of 1,497 of the 2,209 people aboard with it. Some bodies [...]
A 42-foot tall statue of Amenhotep III has been uncovered in Luxor, Egypt. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation. The [...]
Archaeologists have been excavating Buckton Castle in England, a medieval castle left unfinished due to political change. It was occupied for less than 100 years during a time when the King of Scotland lay claim to Lancashire and Cumberland. The University of Salford’s Brian Grimsditch said, due to the unrest, “local rulers like the Earl [...]
Check out this interesting photo gallery of images plucked from the Burns Archives, one of America’s largest collections of historical images. It’s well worth the browse. Man Tarred and Feathered, 1940 This 1940 press photo shows a victim of the oft-used but rarely documents practice of tarring and feathering. The hot, sticky liquid was poured [...]
The discovery of three Neanderthal graves in Spain is raising questions about whether they believed in an afterlife. The deceased appear to have been intentionally buried, with each Neanderthal’s arms folded such that the hands were close to the head. Remains of other Neanderthals have been found in this position, suggesting that it held meaning. [...]
I hope you all had an excellent long Easter weekend; I know I did! The Winterthur Museum in Deleware has acquired one of the earlier known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, an illustration which dates back to the 18th century. Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter rabbit and colored eggs [...]
I thought this was amusing. It’s a sign posted at the Richmond Golf Club in London, England that contains special rules for golfing during the Blitz in 1940. I love rule #7! I’m not sure of it’s source, so if you know where it originated, let me know in the comments below! ShareThis
The CIA has declassified six of their oldest documents, dating back to 1917. According to the CIA, “one document outlines the chemicals and techniques necessary for developing certain types of secret writing ink and a method for opening sealed letters without detection. Another memorandum dated June 14, 1918 — written in French — reveals the [...]
A recent study has revealed that the evolution of language is much more complex than previously thought. It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennium-spanning analysis of humanity’s major language families suggests [...]
A study of fossilized front teeth has revealed that right-handedness was dominant dating back at least 500,000 years. The oldest teeth come from a more than 500,000-year-old chamber known as Sima de los Huesos near Burgos, Spain, containing the remains of humans believed to be ancestors of European Neandertals. Other teeth studied by Frayer come [...]
A 2,000-year-old Roman-era mausoleum has been uncovered from under tons of illegally-dumped rubbish in Italy. The mausoleum, which dates back to the second century AD, was found by police hidden beneath 58 tonnes of garbage in the coastal town Pozzuoli while they were impounding the site they say was used to illegally dispose of waste. [...]
A study of the Tibetan Tripitaka has revealed that brain surgery was being practiced by doctors at least 2,900 years ago. Karma Trinley, an avid researcher and reader of classic Tibetan literature, Buddhism and calligraphy, began studying the Tripitaka in 1970. “It describes in detail how a young Indian doctor watched brain surgery being performed [...]
Mining companies in Australia are damaging Aboriginal sites by dodging Queensland Aboriginal cultural heritage laws. The allegation follows claims a Queensland coal seam gas company has destroyed ancient Aboriginal stone arrangements at Kogan, near Dalby. Indigenous academic Dr Jillian Marsh told AAP laws aimed at protecting indigenous sacred sites are generally tokenistic and toothless. She [...]
Ground-penetrating radar has been used to mark and map historical sites located along a proposed tunnel route in Turkey. As part of the ?stanbul Strait Highway Transit Project, Turkey’s ATA? Company has prepared a special plan to ensure the preservation of historical artifacts on the European side from the Cankurtaran shoreline to Haydarpa?a. So as [...]
An ancient megalitich burial chamber in the Netherlands has been damaged by a fire, possibily started by teenagers having a party. The ancient burial chamber or hunebed on the Groningerweg in Diever in Drenthe has been damaged by fire, with the heat causing one of the massive stones to crack and shatter, local police said [...]
. Daly History Blog where the past meets the present meets the future meets the past Home About me Book Reviews Contact Me Gallery My Books and Articles My talks USS Samuel B . nbsp Roberts USS Samuel B Roberts The Sherman was shortly followed by the Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigate USS Samuel B . Roberts The Roberts is quite a famous ship , having hit a mine during the US Navy s involvement in the Iran-Iraq War a conflict that I wrote about recently during a book . review It says a lot about the construction of the Perry class that the Roberts not only survived the mine strike , but was then lifted home on a ship transporter , and after 13 months of repairs was back in service in time to take part in the Gulf War in 1990 Theres obviously a lot to be said for finding that point where
Daly History Blog where the past meets the present meets the future meets the past Home About me Book Reviews Contact Me Gallery My Books and Articles My talks USS Forrest Sherman USS Forrest Sherman USS Forrest Sherman , a US Navy Arleigh Burke class Destroyer seen coming into Portsmouth Harbour conveniently during my lunch hour Digg Email Print This entry was posted on Monday , April 18th , 2011 at 1:25 pm and is filed under Navy out and about You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed . You can leave a response or trackback from your own site . Like Be the first to like this . post 10 Responses to USS Forrest Sherman John Erickson : says 18 April , 2011 at 6:46 pm Nice shot I’ll pop over to our Navy’s site , see if they have any listing of what’s . up Reply John
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