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Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance. 2006-11-11 From Hitler's globe to Berlin's wall: German history show opens Roman artifacts, a bullet-pierced globe from Hitler's office, chunks of the Berlin Wall -- all part of a sprawling permanent exhibition opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel that attempts to explain what it has meant over the last 2,000 years to be German. 2006-06-02 People: [Angela Merkel] Celebrated Winchester rifle may have fired last shot The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week. 2006-04-03 People: [James Stewart] [Steve McQueen] Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really born? And where the devil are his bones? 2006-03-10 Schools Pushed on Diverse History Courses ALBANY, N.Y. - State legislators across the country are increasingly directing their schools to teach students more about the struggles and triumphs of different races and ethnic groups - a move critics say amounts to politically correct meddling. 2005-09-28 Headlines Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past 2006-11-11 From Hitler's globe to Berlin's wall: German history show opens 2006-06-02 Celebrated Winchester rifle may have fired last shot 2006-04-03 Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death 2006-03-10 Schools Pushed on Diverse History Courses 2005-09-28 Taiwan to re-write history textbooks, drop China 2004-11-10 France, Spain, U.S. Mark La. Purchase 2003-12-21 Guide Points to Lewis-Clark Fishing Spots 2003-06-28 'Long March' Participant Dies in China 2003-06-10 Chinese Scholars Debate Explorer Theory 2003-01-26 China's reformers fear showing true colours 2002-10-31 Germany Marks 11th Anniversary of Reunification 2001-10-04 Divided, Russia Marks Failed 1991 Soviet Coup 2001-08-20 Germany Marks 40th Anniversary of Berlin Wall 2001-08-13 Indian family challenges Calcutta's British origins 2001-07-05 Historic U.S.-China letter sells at auction 2001-06-06 Column: Massacres of Chinese by the West horrendous and culpable 2000-07-21 Most-viewed Taiwan to re-write history textbooks, drop China 2004-11-10 France, Spain, U.S. Mark La. Purchase 2003-12-21 Guide Points to Lewis-Clark Fishing Spots 2003-06-28 From Hitler's globe to Berlin's wall: German history show opens 2006-06-02 Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death 2006-03-10 Schools Pushed on Diverse History Courses 2005-09-28 'Long March' Participant Dies in China 2003-06-10 Celebrated Winchester rifle may have fired last shot 2006-04-03 Chinese Scholars Debate Explorer Theory 2003-01-26 Germany Marks 11th Anniversary of Reunification 2001-10-04 Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past 2006-11-11 China's reformers fear showing true colours 2002-10-31 Column: Massacres of Chinese by the West horrendous and culpable 2000-07-21

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