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Doctor killed Beethoven, pathologist claims

History | 191 hits | 7:26 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.

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'Canadaville' thriving two years after Katrina

History | 233 hits | 8:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

Magnaville - dubbed Canadaville by residents, was created by Frank Stronach, chairman of auto parts company Magna International. The magnate bought 369 hectares of land, outside Simmesport, a small town in Louisiana, 240 kilometres north of New Orleans in

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Champlain's home unearthed; a "significant discovery" says Verner

History | 192 hits | 10:38 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

The federal government announced Friday a "significant" discovery" of the remains of Samuel de Champlain's living quarters, built inside Fort Saint-Louis in 1626.

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U.S. submarine believed found 65 years after sinking in Bering Sea

History | 211 hits | 11:16 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

The mangled remains of a vessel found in the Bering Sea are likely those of a Second World War submarine that disappeared with a crew of 70 off the Aleutian Island Kiska.

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Sunken ship may have belonged to Blackbeard

History | 186 hits | 6:42 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

A research dive will begin Wednesday to recover a cannon and other artifacts from a sunken ship some believe belonged to the pirate Blackbeard

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EGYPTIAN archaeologists discover 'oldest human footprint'

History | 226 hits | 8:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

EGYPTIAN archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said overnight.

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B.C. find could bolster theory first Americans came by boat

History | 251 hits | 8:48 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Scientists probe underwater site of possible prehistoric campground on Queen Charlotte Islands

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Archaeologists solve riddle of site of original Montreal settlement

History | 212 hits | 6:21 AM on Monday | posted by kitty

Beneath the worn cement floors of one such warehouse lies what archaeologists believe are the first permanent buildings of the settlement that became Montreal.

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Second World War pilot prepares to revisit 'Shangri-La'

History | 237 hits | 8:28 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Cedric Mah has experienced or witnessed virtually everything in his 85 years and he accepts his coming trip to Shangri-La with aplomb. After all, he's been there before.

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Soldiers greeted by 'Angel'

History | 234 hits | 12:06 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Dieppe veterans rejoiced with tears as they reunited with a nurse who tended to their war wounds 65 long years ago.

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Vets' tears flow freely

History | 234 hits | 12:05 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Return to bloody battle site sparks vivid memories

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Dieppe: 65 years later

History | 223 hits | 12:04 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Anniversary marks one of the bloodiest events in Canada's military history

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Canadian naval history at bottom of Irish Sea

History | 291 hits | 8:24 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

DIVERS probing a mysterious shipwreck off the north coast of Wales have traced the origins of a bell from the sunken vessel and discovered a long-lost treasure of Canada's naval history: a 90-year-old minesweeper built by the fledgling Royal Canadian Nav

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Viking ship lands in Ireland after 1,000 years

History | 252 hits | 2:58 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

A reconstructed Viking ship pulled into Dublin on Tuesday nearly 1,000 years after the original sank off Denmark's coast, with its crew retracing the gruelling voyages made by marauding Nordic raiders to Ireland.

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The age-old key to Arctic sovereignty: Boots on the ground

History | 277 hits | 8:27 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

History holds a frost-bitten warning for those with designs on our rich tundra

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Hitler's music collection stuns historians

History | 305 hits | 7:41 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Adolf Hitler's newly discovered record collection has revealed he listened in private to the Jewish musicians and Russian composers branded "subhuman" by his regime.

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Rommel's sunken gold 'found' by British expert

History | 292 hits | 8:27 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

A British researcher claims to have located Rommel's elusive sunken treasure just weeks after a team of German divers scouring the Mediterranean failed to find the hoard.

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Hell on Earth: The never before seen colour photographs of the bloody battle of Passchendaele

History | 403 hits | 8:59 AM on Thursday | posted by TonyCanuck

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War museum chair aims to resolve feud over air raids

History | 226 hits | 9:00 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

A modern-day battle fought over an air war more than 60 years ago may soon come to an end.

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Crater Could Solve 1908 Tunguska Meteor Mystery

History | 266 hits | 8:54 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska, Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact crate

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Research triggers hunt for Iwo Jima cameraman

History | 213 hits | 7:31 PM on Saturday | posted by canucker

Bob Bolus was flipping through Parade magazine two years ago when he came across an article about Sgt. William H. Genaust, who filmed the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima, Japan, in 1945.

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Newton's fourth law: We'll die in 2060

History | 386 hits | 7:19 PM on Monday | posted by Scape

RENOWNED British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060 in a 1704 letter that went on show in Jerusalem today.

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Kurt Waldheim, Former U.N and Nazi. Chief, Is Dead at 88

History | 208 hits | 12:09 AM on Friday | posted by Scape

Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary General and President of Austria whose hidden ties to Nazi organizations and war crimes was exposed late in his career, died today at his home in Vienna. He was 88.

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19th-century weapon found in whale

History | 311 hits | 2:26 AM on Wednesday | posted by canucker

A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has

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Why the Titanic was doomed from the start

History | 526 hits | 9:35 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

The Titanic faced disaster from the moment it set sail, experts now believe.

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Did comet over Canada wipe out mammoths?

History | 254 hits | 9:34 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

There are intriguing new clues in the mystery of how the woolly mammoth met its demise in North America some 10,000 years ago.

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Sword Napoleon wore into battle in Italy sells at auction for US$5.6 million

History | 244 hits | 9:27 AM on Sunday | posted by snookums

A gold-encrusted sword that Napoleon wore into battle in Italy has sold today for more than US$6.4 million at an auction south of Paris.

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Descendants of Napoleon sell his sword

History | 351 hits | 3:49 PM on Saturday | posted by snookums

The gold-encrusted sword used by Napoleon to drive the Austrian army from Italy will be on the block Sunday at an auction house in Paris.

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Democracy stuns Polish coma man

History | 313 hits | 5:25 PM on Sunday | posted by Scape

A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.

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Only one Canadian veteran of Great War left after Dwight Wilson dies at 106

History | 254 hits | 1:02 PM on Wednesday | posted by Canadaka

There is only one Canadian veteran of The Great War left after Dwight Wilson died in Toronto Wednesday at 106.

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Hitler was ordered to trim his moustache

History | 396 hits | 6:22 PM on Sunday | posted by Scape

A previously unpublished essay by a writer who served alongside Hitler in the First World War trenches reveals that the future Führer was only obeying orders when he shaped his moustache into its tightly-clipped style. He was instructed to do so in order

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Stalin was ‘sensitive’ boy archives

History | 259 hits | 7:24 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Mother wrote that future Soviet leader also loved flowers

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The day the Hindenburg went down

History | 248 hits | 7:23 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Survivors recall dirigible disaster 70 years ago today in New Jersey

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Buddha paintings found in Nepalese cave

History | 252 hits | 11:50 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Paintings of Buddha dating back at least to the 12th century have been discovered in a cave in Nepal's remote north-central region by a team of international researchers who were tipped by a local sheep herder.

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Mad Trapper to be revealed

History | 251 hits | 10:03 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

A tiny Arctic hamlet has decided to allow two Alberta filmmakers to try to settle one of the North’s most enduring mysteries by exhuming the body of the Mad Trapper of Rat River.

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The longest battle

History | 219 hits | 9:46 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

"Open hostilities with England at once," was the signal sent to all units of the German Navy on 3 Sep 1939. Seven hours later, the German submarine U-30 fired a salvo of torpedoes and sank the passenger liner, SS Athenia which was bound for New York.

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The Beaver magazine seeks 'worst Canadian' in country's history

History | 484 hits | 3:01 PM on Wednesday | posted by snookums

The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine is inviting Canadians to name what they consider to be the "worst Canadian" in the country's past.

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Gladiators' graveyard discovered

History | 268 hits | 12:00 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Scientists believe they have for the first time identified an ancient graveyard for gladiators.

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The Charter of Rights And Freedoms Is 25 On April 17th

History | 345 hits | 2:59 AM on Tuesday | posted by Canadaka

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