News tagged with slave trade
Web site links African-Americans to ancestors' voyage
Jan 06, 2009 |
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In a major advance in genealogical research, African-Americans will be able to trace the routes of slave ships that transported 12.5 million of their ancestors from Africa as early as the 16th century.
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Mysterious sailor unearthed by Cranfield archaeologists
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mystery surrounds a sailor who was unearthed as part of Cranfield University's dig at Royal Hospital Haslar this summer.
Decline in Russian tigers renews calls to end all trade
Oct 19, 2009 |
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A shocking decline in the Russian Federation's wild tiger population highlights the importance of eliminating trade in and demand for tiger parts, the International Tiger Coalition (ITC) said today. The alliance of 40 organizations ...
Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists ...
Wikileaks releases pager intercepts from 9/11
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Rare economic espionage case ends in jury deadlock
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two men accused of the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. have been acquitted on two counts, but they could face a retrial on three other counts on which a jury deadlocked.
Tourists to the Caribbean should pay 1 dollar each to help fight tropical diseases of poverty
May 28, 2008 |
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Away from the beaches, resorts, and cruise ships of the Caribbean, there lies a hidden underbelly of poverty and with this poverty comes endemic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In an editorial in this month's PLoS Ne ...
The entwined destinies of mankind and leprosy bacteria
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient Egypt to today and in ...
The path to history is through the stomach
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers and cancers. Over half of the world’s inhabitants carrys this bacterium, but different variants are present on different continents. Up to now, ...
Outreach van makes sex trade workers safer: research
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A van that circled Vancouver streets frequented by sex trade workers made them feel safer and reduced their likelihood of being attacked, according to a University of British Columbia study.
Men doing field research on women are limited to certain subjects
Jun 26, 2008 |
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From the Petri dish in the controlled environment of a sterile laboratory to the faraway fields of another country, virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study. However, a University of Missouri religion professor ...
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