Mystifying ‘Nazca Lines’ Discovered in Mideast
Sep 16, 2011 No Comments ››They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public. They are the Middle East's own version of the Nazca Lines — ancient "geolyphs," or drawings, that span deserts in southern Peru — and now, thanks to new satellite-mapping technologies, and an ...
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National Constitution Day Resources
Sep 13, 2011 No Comments ››The National Constitution Center (NCC) is hosting Constitution Day on September 16th, 2011. AIHE has provided free Constitution Day resources for teachers nationwide. What is Constitution Day? A celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the Founding Fathers on September 17, 1787 September 17th, 2011 (Observed Sept. 16th, 2011) In honor of Constitution Day, all educational institutions receiving ...
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AL Gov. changes policy, sends state flag to soldier in Afghanistan
Sep 1, 2011 No Comments ››MONTGOMERY -- Gov. Robert Bentley on Wednesday said he changed a "stupid" and "terrible" policy under which his office had refused to send a state flag requested by a soldier from Alabama who is stationed in Afghanistan. "It's a stupid policy. It's a terrible policy. And we changed it today," Bentley told reporters Wednesday afternoon. His office's ...
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Former AL Gov. to lead constitutional revision commission
Sep 1, 2011 No Comments ››MONTGOMERY -- Gov. Robert Bentley, top-ranking legislators and other people serving on a constitutional revision commission on Wednesday elected former Gov. Albert Brewer to chair the group, which is supposed to propose piece-by-piece changes to Alabama's supreme state law. The 16-member commission was created by a joint resolution proposed by the top-ranking state senator, Sen. Del ...
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Rally Against AL Immigration Law Evokes Memory of Civil Rights Era
Sep 1, 2011 No Comments ››BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A crowd has gathered in Linn Park this evening to protest Alabama's new immigration law, filling the lawn in front of Birmingham City Hall and surrounding the park's fountain. Speakers at times evoked the memory of Birmingham's civil rights movement as they called for a repeal of the law that was set to ...
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When mastodons roamed in Alabama
Aug 21, 2011 No Comments ››MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Two ivory-colored tusks, each about five feet long, soar over the entry to a new exhibit opening later this week at the state archives building. The tusks sprout from the skull of a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal that roamed Alabama and much of North America as recently as about 13,000 years ago. The ...
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Birmingham Egyptologist Sarah Parcak featured in BBC show
May 27, 2011 No Comments ››Published: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 4:25 PM By William Thornton -- The Birmingham News BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- University of Alabama at Birmingham Egyptologist Sarah Parcak is using 21st century technology to uncover ancient half sunken treasures beneath the sands of ...
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Satellite survey unearths lost Egyptian pyramids
May 27, 2011 No Comments ››The satellite spotted two previously undiscovered pyramids in the area near the Sakkara pyramid (pictured), 25 kilometres south of Cairo. (AFP: Khaled Desouki) A new satellite survey of Egypt has identified 17 lost pyramids and more than 1,000 un-excavated tombs. The team from the University of Alabama analysed images from satellites orbiting the earth that have infrared ...
Continue ReadingSpecialists Weigh Common Social Studies Standards
May 18, 2011 No Comments ››By Catherine Gewertz Feeling that social studies has been sidelined by a test-driven focus on math and English/language arts, subject-matter specialists from more than a dozen states are meeting this week with representatives of content-area groups to brainstorm ways to improve academic standards in that subject. The two-day gathering in Charlotte, N.C., ...
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Archaeology Heist Revealed In Alabama – CBS News
May 13, 2011 No Comments ››University of Alabama Hopes Publicity Will Warm A Very Cold Trail By Francie Grace (AP) Hoping to solve an archaeological crime after more than two decades, the University of Alabama has revealed a major 1980 theft of Indian artifacts. Jim Knight, chairman of anthropology at the Tuscaloosa campus, said Monday that the disappearance of 264 ...
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Brooks Etheredge
Congratulations to Mr. Brooks Etheredge of Stanhope Elmore High School. Mr. Etheredge has been chosen as Alabama’s 2011 recipient of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship’s full grant/scholarship....
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