What’s your town in US? Monkeys Eyebrow, Boring, Climax?
August 8th, 2012 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS) From Monkeys Eyebrow to Belchertown, America is full of weird and downright embarrassing town names. But Toad Suck is apparently the worst, according to a global ... Read more...
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200,000 Titanic records published online
April 9th, 2012 - 8:58 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 9 (IANS) More than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic have been published online coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking, BBC reported Monday.The documents provide ... Read more...
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Obama’s long-lost Irish relatives ‘not pleased at hearing ancestry’
March 18th, 2011 - 12:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 18 (ANI): A family history website has said that US President Barack Obama has 28 living relatives, including a Vietnam veteran and school nurse, descended from an Irishman who ... Read more...
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Victorian criminal records show female convicts got harsh punishments
February 25th, 2011 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 25 (ANI): The harsh punishments handed out to female convicts in Victorian times have been revealed through thousands of criminal records.Family history website, Ancestry.co.uk will for the first time publish ... Read more...
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An ‘American Schindler’ who helped 4,000 Jews escape from the Nazis
August 18th, 2010 - 3:51 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug.18 (ANI): At least 4,000 Jews, some of them the brightest Jewish minds from art and literature, were shipped from Nazi Germany to New York in the early 1940s, newly released ... Read more...
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