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In the aftermath of fighting or repression, people are often told to forget things. But in free societies, selective memory cannot be imposed for ever THE 15 boxes of bones were wrapped in the red, yellow and purple flag of the Second Republic. Each held the remains of a man ...

The ex-communist states of eastern Europe are leaving their pasts behindWHERE would they be without their past, the ex-captive nations? (Or "ex-communist countries", "former Soviet satellite states", "the old Eastern block": so much history even in the category). The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea is so shaped ...

2010 marks the second year that eWEEK has commemorated Black History Month with a focus on contributions African Americans have made to the IT industry. Last year, we took a look at leaders in the world of corporate IT, such as Charles Phillips, president of Oracle Corp., as well as ...

The History Channel is teaming up with Blue Collar Comedy star Larry the Cable Guy for a new series. The comedian, known for his redneck alter ego, will host Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, a new 13-episode series premiering later this year, the network said Wednesday. In Only ...

Kylie and Dannii Minogue have discovered that their mum, a Brit, sailed to Australia on a 10-pound ticket in 1955 to start a new life. The Aussie singers have found out the secret following the release of passenger lists from a 1950s emigration scheme, which names their mother, Carol Jones. Jones ...

US President Barack Obama has made digital history as he became the first commander-in-chief to “tweet” a message on the social networking site, though with a little bit of help. When Obama stopped at the headquarters of the American Red Cross Monday to promote aid to Haiti, a member of the ...

MOS DEF DEBUTS VIDEO FOR "HISTORY" FEATURING TALIB KWELI Mos Def has debuted the new video for "History," the third single from his Grammy nominated album The Ecstatic. The track features a collaboration with Talib Kweli, who makes a special guest appearance in the video. Watch the video now: ...

The History Channel has greenlit an eight-hour mini-series on The Kennedy Dynasty that will premiere in 2011. The Kennedys — patterned after the 1972 film The Godfather – will tell the story of America’s most storied political family through personal family fables and iconic national events; including the Cuban Missile Crisis, ...

A leading advisor to the U.S. military, the Rand Corporation, released a study in 2008 called "How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida". The report confirms what experts have been saying for years: the war on terror is ...

The Philippine president has placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the nation’s history, pushing the death toll to 46. Chief Superintendent Josefino Cataluna of the Central

From 2003 through 2005, IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division. When obituaries were being written about the demise of the mainframe, Clementi and his team went off to rethink and redesign the old-fashioned Big Hunk ...

How come the Wall Street robber barons who brought on the financial crisis are still calling the shots and pillaging the economy?Congress is bought and paid for, and the fox is guarding the chicken coop in the Executive Branch, with Summers and Geithne...

Google launches Location History and Location Alerts, features that will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful, while inviting scrutiny from privacy critics. Despite the obvious privacy safeguards of not sharing location history with other users and allowing users to scrub their location history, the new Latitude features ...

Researchers at London’s Natural History Museum have created a social networking tool called ‘Scratchpads’ where natural historians can get together and share their data. Vincent Smith, Simon Rycroft, David Roberts and colleagues created the data-publishing framework for groups of people to create their own natural history-based social networks. Users create a ...

Michael Schumacher has welcomed Abu Dhabi to the Formula One calendar and sees the sport's newest race as further evidence of the East's pulling power. This weekend's inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix joins fellow-GCC member Bahrain, Malaysia, China, Singapore and Japan as Eastern representatives

Mickey Hart Discusses Sounds From Space "The Universe: Pulsars & Quasars" Scheduled to air on THE HISTORY CHANNEL Tuesday, October 27 at 09:00 P.M. Mickey Hart During The Dead's Spring Tour, Mickey Hart debuted the "UNIVERSE OF SOUND." Each night ...

I always get emotional when I visit Berlin. This is one of the most significant cities in modern history, as well as emerging as Continental Europe’s cool contemporary cultural capital. As you fly in you can see from the formations of the flatblocks below which was the East and which ...

Pitchfork writers regularly appear on ABC's World News Webcast to chat about notable albums they've recently reviewed. Previously, we saw Matthew Perpetua on Wilco's Wilco (The Album), editor-in-chief Scott Plagenhoef on Discovery's LP, Brian Howe on the Antlers' Hospice, Joe Tangari on ...

IDEMA, the International Disk Drive and Materials Association, hosted its annual DISKCON conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Sept. 23 and 24. Included as a bonus on the show floor was a literal walk down memory lane for older engineers. This was a display of history-making hard drives, staged by longtime ...

How east Europe can step over history's long shadowTWO of the five most-commented-on articles on The Economist’s website last week were about east European history. One concerned the icy relations between Slovakia and Hungary. The other was about Russia’s failure (in some eyes) to apologise properly for the Soviet past. ...