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When Mabel O. Wilson surveys the architecture of Ghana, she sees the complex history of the former British colony.

The first-hand testimonies of thousands of people who witnessed the bloody rebellion that paved the way for centuries of sectarian conflict in Ireland have been released online.

Cathy Horyn began as an AP copy girl in Chicago; now she's one of the world's leading fashion critics.

By Sara LaJeunesse Research/Penn State "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!" Each year on Oct.

October 20, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas — A project to discover the nature of dark energy, a mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, has received an $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This artist's concept of the upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope shows green tubing containing fiber-optic cables running information from the new top end of the telescope down to the new VIRUS spectrograph (the gray "saddlebags" on either side of the telescope).

University 20 Oct 10 Oxford University is to launch a new centre to study the archaeological and cultural heritage of Asia.

David Freyberg, who studies dams - particularly Searsville Dam - recently took members of the Historical Society on a slide-show tour of Stanford's elaborate water system.

19 Oct 10 The archaeology and history of East Oxford, including Roman settlements, a medieval leper hospital and the growth of the modern town, will be the subject of collaboration between Oxford aca

Endowment funding from ACTEW is helping one researcher extend his tree-ring study in Australia's alpine regions.

Arts 14 Oct 10 Submissions from the public have helped put together the world's largest online archive of material concerning the Anglo-Saxons, Oxford University academics have said.

Stanford feels a million miles from America's wars - and that may be part of the problem. A yearlong series of events will explore the troubling questions of war today.

Science 12 Oct 10 The public are being asked to revisit the voyages of World War One Royal Navy warships to help scientists understand the climate of the past and unearth new historical information.

For the vast majority of Germans, the 20th anniversary of political reunification is cause to celebrate - but there remain strains below the surface, rooted in Germany's fractured past.

October 5, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas — A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their competitors.

4 Oct 2010 Parents who delay giving their babies allergenic foods could be doing more harm than good, with a new Australian study showing the rate of egg allergy significantly increases among toddlers who are introduced to the food after 12 months of age. The world-first study by the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute found babies given egg after 12 months of age were up to five times more likely to develop egg allergy as they grew older than infants introduced to egg at four to six months of age.

First-known visit by descendants of the Irish philospher who gave the campus and city their name BERKELEY — The esteemed Irish philosopher George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne, never had a chance to see the campus and city that bear his name.

Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.

As one of the nation's most prominent historians, Eric Foner has fulfilled a Columbia tradition of making history relevant to our own time, especially for audiences beyond the academy.

In his new book Gabriel García Márquez , Professor Stephen Hart (UCL Film Studies) provides a new insight into the novelist's life, work and political influences. This book provides a new perspective on García Márquez's use of 'creative false memory? and magical realism.

When it comes to use of the word "genocide," public opinion has been kinder to Stalin than Hitler. But one historian looks at Stalin's mass killings and urges that the definition of genocide be widened.

King's College London has appointed Professor Sunil Khilnani as Director of the King's India Institute.

Anthropologist Laurie Wilkie finds parallels between an early 20th-century fraternity and Peter Pan BERKELEY — When Berkeley anthropologist Laurie Wilkie began studying excavated debris from a