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The National Academy of Sciences has released a new book advocating the teaching of Evolution in science courses in US schools and not the non-science ideas of Creationism and Intelligent Design. More than 60% of Republicans do not believe in Evolution, while about 60% of Democrats and Independents do not believe in Creationism.

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Ancient Egypt's most powerful woman, Hatshepsut, has been identified as a mummy discovered in 1903 in the Valley of the Kings. This has to be one of the more important discoveries in Egyptology. On July 15 the Discovery Channel will air a documentary, "Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen", at 9PM ET.
Ancient mummy identified as Queen Hatshepsut : Top Stories : News : Sympatico / MSN

Comfort women for American GIs! Wow, it is known that the Japanese during the Great Pacific War 1931-1945 used hundreds of thousands of Korean women as sex slaves for the Japanese army during the war. However, for the Japanese to coerce their own women to become prostitutes for the occupying American army from September 1945 through the Spring of 1946 is a new low for them and the Americans who went along and used these women a sex objects.

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Anyone see this mass of blood and distortion of history? After searching for historians' and anthropologists' viewpoints, I have not read a single review that says the film is historically accurate. Film critics tend to like the fictional story, which I found completely unrealistic. Gibson manages to paint the Mayan Civilization as an extremely violent lot without any cultural achievements. Mel should stick to making slash and torture films and stay out of history. Aparently, he skipped class too many times. But hey $40 million of his own money can buy him films whether they are accurate or not!

On Sunday June 25, 1876 Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and 212 officers and troopers under his command of 5 troops of the US 7th Cavalry were killed in action against Lakota/Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors under the leadership of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gall, and Rain In The Face in Montana along the Little Big Horn/Greasy Grass River. In all 264 of the 600 plus 7th and 100 of the 1,500 Native Americans were killed in two days of fighting. This battle marked the end of the plains tribes as the government in Washington used this defeat of the US Army as a rallying point to destroy the plains tribes and their Buffalo culture. Before the winter of 1876-1877 ended the plains tribes had been either destroyed or moved on to reservations. This was not one of our finest achievements!