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Editor's Note: A pesticide known as "DDT's cousin" is still being used in the United States, despite evidence of its toxic effects. New America Media health editor Viji Sundaram reports from India, Alaska and California. Photo credit for the above picture...

We know at this point in time that many of the west believe it was a Symbol of Nazi Germany and there is little association with this symbol outside the nazi regime, especially in the west. This is an erroneous assumption as we shall see. The fourth...

1048 Al-Biruni Arabic royal astrologer, dies at age 74. 1048 Death of Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973) 1124 Callistus II [Guido di Borgogna] Italian Pope (1119-24), dies. 1124 Death of Pope Callixtus II 1126 Hendrik IX the Black, Duke of...

By Joseph Horowitz Fifty years ago an instantly iconic photograph was taken of Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Leonard Bernstein, music director of the New York Philharmonic, and George Balanchine, artistic director of New York...

To celebrate the 93rd birthday of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, here is a list of 93 facts about the Duke. 1. The Duke of Edinburgh was born as Prince Philip of Greece at his parents’ house ‘Mon Repos’ on the island...