Paul Bogle or Thomas L. Jennings?

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"Recently, Peter Knibb, chief financial officer of Pan Caribbean Financial Services, sent me a February 2012 issue of BET magazine in which the identical picture and pose most Jamaicans identify with National Hero Paul Bogle was ascribed to Thomas L. Jennings," writes Devon Dick:http://bit.ly/1C6Cas8

Photo: Paul Bogle, courtesy of the Jamaica Historical Society.

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Colorful Phrases From Ancient Roman Graffiti

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When the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were suddenly consumed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., many of their buildings were so intimately preserved that modern archaeologists can even read the graffiti scribbled onto their ancient walls. See if any of these remind you of a twenty-first century bathroom.

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Klan members recruit on anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

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Klan members used 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ to distribute recruitment fliers in Selma

A leader of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK admitted that members of his organization distributed over 4,000 recruitment fliers in the city of Selma,...

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Amazing Grace

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At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded. He says, "A lot of people don't realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano. Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who used to be the captain of a slave ship, and many believe he heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant. And it has a haunting, haunting plaintive quality to it that reaches past your arrogance, past your pride, and it speaks to that part of you that's in bondage. And we feel it. We feel it. It's just one of the most amazing melodies in all of human history." After sharing the noteworthy history of the song, Mr. Phipps delivers a stirring performance that brings the audience to its feet! 

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Stunning 2200-Year-Old Mosaics Discovered in Ancient Greek City

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 Three new mosaics were recently discovered in the ancient Greek city of Zeugma, which is located in the present-day province of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. The incredibly well-preserved mosaics date back to 2nd century BC

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McCartney Candids

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The candid camera of 'Lovely Linda' McCartney which captured the Beatles, Mick Jagger and Steve McQueen on film

Paul McCartney says that his wife Linda (pictured together centre), who died tragically of breast cancer at 56, was the most important photographer covering the sixties' rock and roll music scene. 'I can think of no one else whose work was so comprehensive and who captured the essence better than Linda,' writes Paul in a new edition of a portfolio of her work. Linda's passion for music inspired her to work independently and she amassed a major portfolio of photographs of rock musicians from the 1960s to the 1990s. Her collection includes candid shots of The Rolling Stones (top left) which marked the start of her commercial photography career. The couple bought a modest farmhouse together on the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland in 1982 (bottom left) after the breakup of the Beatles and she took several photos of her husband (top right, during a holiday in Jamaica in 1971) during their marriage. Bottom right is her shot of Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw in Jamaica in 1973.

Barbara Newhall Follett, vanished literary child prodigy

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Today marks the 101st birthday of Barbara Newhall Follett, the literary child prodigy who published at 13 and disappeared at 25.

"Vanishing Act" by Paul Collins

In a New Hampshire apartment during the winter of 1923, this typewritten notice was fastened squarely against a closed door: Nobody may come into this room if the door is shut tight (if it is sh

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New Mahalia Jackson Biopic

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New Mahalia Jackson Biopic to be Filmed in Chicago

Bill Duke brings his years of talent and experience to direct and executive produce The Mahalia Jackson Story, a music biopic chronicling the life of…

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10 Jobs That No Longer Exist

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The disappearance of the majority of these jobs can simply be attributed to technological advances....

 Bowling Alley Pinsetter

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Bowling alley pinsetters were young boys employed at bowling alleys to set up the pins for clients. (Image credits: wikimedia.org)

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Monopoly Cheat

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Ever Cheat At Monopoly? So Did Its Creator: He Stole The Idea From A Woman

The game Charles Darrow sold in the 1930s bore a striking resemblance to a game Lizzie Magie patented in 1904. In "The Monopolists," Mary Pilon tells...

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Passing

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‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO]

Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.”…

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3,400-year-old tomb

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At Luxor, Egyptologists have unearthed a ca. 3,400-year-old tomb.

http://www.archaeology.org/news/3056-150303-egypt-luxor-tomb

(Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)

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The Untold History of ‘Soul Train’

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Author Ericka Blount Danois Dishes on the Untold History of ‘Soul Train’

*It's been three years since Don Cornelius, founder of "Soul Train," committed suicide. But author Ericka Blount Danois opened up recently to Jet Magazine...

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Churchill now and forever

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Medieval Injury

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Did this medieval knight die while jousting? Breaks on 12th century skeleton suggest noble was injured during tournament

The bones (pictured) were found at Hereford Cathedral in England and show signs of injury to the right shoulder as well as fractured ribs.

Edward John Eyre - Governor of Jamaica 1864-66

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Edward John Eyre - Governor of Jamaica 1864-66. 

"Eyre’s behaviour sparked intense controversy among prominent British intellectuals that included John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Thomas Henry Huxley who advocated his trial for murder, while Eyre was supported by Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson." britannica.com. 

For access to the NLJ's digital collection on Eyre: http://dloc.com/CA01099983/00001

the lost ‘City of the Monkey God’

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Archaeologists discover ruins that may be the lost ‘City of the Monkey God’ — which ‘must never...

The city was built in Honduras by a vanished culture so little studied that archaeologists have not named the ancient civilization.

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Ann Lowe

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Did you know Ann Lowe (1898 – February 25, 1981) was “the first African American to become a noted fashion designer?" She also designed American fashion icon Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. http://www.afropunk.com/photo/ann-lowe 

Princess Diana had an eye for Eric Clapton

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Royal fan: Princess Diana was still married to Charles when she first met Eric Clapton. She was clearly a fan

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The Sumerian creation tales

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Do the Sumerian creation tales not only tell about the creation of man, but also the creation of Earth?

The Sumerian creation tales not only tell about the creation of man, but also the creation of Earth. In the bible we have a consolidated version that says God created the heavens and Earth in 7 days. Well the Sumerian “7 tablets of creation” tell a much more detailed story about the creation of Earth. -  

See more at: http://ancientexplorers.com/blog/sumerian-creation-tales/#sthash.4VILTPP6.dpuf

How Linguists Are Pulling Apart the Bering Strait Theory

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"In 1892, when the geologist George Frederick Wright published his massive study, Man and the Glacial Period, which challenged some of the tenets of the Bering Strait Theory as it was then formulated, he was attacked, as David J. Meltzer pointed out in First Peoples in a New World, “with a barrage of vicious reviews which were unprecedented in number and savagery.” One critic of the book, William John McGee, the head of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 'was especially bloodthirsty... read on http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/03/19/how-linguists-are-pulling-apart-bering-strait-theory-154063?page=0%2C0

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presidents in US history

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The 10 dumbest (and smartest) presidents in US history

Some presidents weren't firing on all cylinders.

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The story of the first West Indians to arrive in Britain on the troop ship Empire

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WINDRUSH- The story of the first West Indians to arrive in Britain on the troop ship Empire...

Arrival: Part of the Windrush 60th Anniversary season. The story of the first West Indians to arrive...

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North America's first black president

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North America's first black president, Vicente Guerrero, predates Obama by 180 years

If Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek pronounced “He is the first black president in North America,” most of us would confidently answer “Who is Barack Obama?” And we...

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Nimoy farewell

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Live long and prosper our dear animal loving friend ...

We  report the passing of the legendary Leonard Nimoy who died this morning, age of 83, in the comfort of his home in Los Angeles. Nimoy succumbed to the end stages of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)

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22 million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks

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22 million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks

1952

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Remember wooden desks, chalkboards and cursive writing charts? 

The 1952 third grade class of Lincoln Elementary School in Cook County Illinois. 

 http://www.ancientfaces.com/…/lincoln-school-illino…/1289806

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Count Matchukie

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Did you know Count Matchukie is regarded as the 1st deejay in Jamaica when he started a toast at a session of the sound system of Tom the Great Sebastian on December 26, 1950?

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