CAROLINA NATURALLY: Apr 4, 2015

Saturday, April 4, 2015

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Today in History

527		In Constantinople, Justin, seriously ill, crowns his nephew Justinian as his co-emperor.
1581		Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world.
1812		The territory of Orleans becomes the 18th state and will become known as Louisiana.
1818		The United States flag is declared to have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars.
1841		President William Henry Harrison, aged 68, becomes the first president to die in office, just a month after being sworn in.
1862		The Battle of Yorktown begins as Union gen. George B. McClellan closes in on Richmond, Va.
1917		The U.S. Senate votes 90-6 to enter World War I on Allied side.
1918		The Battle of the Somme ends.
1941		Field Marshal Erwin Rommel captures the British held town of Benghazi in North Africa.
1949		The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty is signed.
1968		Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
1974		Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record.
1979		Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the president of Pakistan is executed.
1985		A coup in Sudan ousts President Nimeiry and replaces him with General Dahab.

The Death Of Anne Frank

Anne Frank Died Earlier Than Thought: Study

Jewish teenager Anne Frank died in a Nazi concentration camp at least a month earlier than her official date of death.

Tracking Down Nazis

How the U.S. Tracked Down Hundreds of Former Nazis

Simon Wiesenthal started tracking Nazi's war criminals in 1964. Subsequently, the U.S. created a special investigative unit, with broad powers, devoted to Nazi hunting.

Health News

Bizarre Condition Makes Tongue Resemble a Map

Known as geographic tongue, the condition causes red, patchy shapes to appear on the tongue.

Guess Your Age? 3D Facial Scan Beats Doctor's Exam

A 3D analysis of wrinkles and other signs of aging could reveal a person's age based on only an image of his or her face.

Swimming or Running: Which Keeps You in Better Shape?

Would you rather run or splash around in water to keep yourself in tip-top shape? Opinion is likely to be divided, and highly subjective, as devotees of each weigh in. Luckily, though, science has an opinion too.

Egypt's 'Mona Lisa'

Egypt's 'Mona Lisa' May Be a Fake

An ancient Egyptian masterpiece is in fact a fake created in the 19th century, a researcher says.

Meet 'Little Foot'

Human Ancestor Lucy Wasn't Alone: Meet 'Little Foot'

The findings focus on a skeleton which represents a species in the same group as Lucy, known as Australopithecus.

“The Red Lady” of Spain

The 18,700-year-old bones of a woman whose remains were found in northern Spain’s El Mirón Cave is the first Magdalenian burial to be found in the Iberian Peninsula, according to Lawrence Straus of the University of New Mexico and Manuel González Morales of the University of Cantabria. They discovered the grave behind a block of engraved limestone that had fallen from the ceiling of the cave. “The lines seem to be sort of random, but there is a motif that is a triangle—repeated lines that make a V-shape. What is being represented, at least by some of these lines, might be a female person. Conceivably, this block serves as some kind of marker,” Straus told New Scientist. They first glimpsed a jaw and a tibia covered in ochre, and later recovered more than 100 of the woman’s bones, which had been placed in the small space after her body had decomposed. A carnivore’s teeth marks on the tibia may account for the missing skull and long bones. Dubbed “The Red Lady,” the woman was between 35 and 40 years old at the time of death, and she ate ibex, red deer, fish, mushrooms, fungi, and seeds. The ochre on her bones “is a color that in their lives must have been very spectacular,” Straus added. To read about a spectacular piece of Paleolithic art, see "A New Life for Lion Man."