Nov. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated a hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" ...
Syria Palaestina - it was the name given by the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, to the Jewish homeland of Judaea after he had successfully crushed the third and final of the three Jewish revolts - the Bar ...