All posts tagged: Rediscovered

MLK was teen agnostic who rediscovered faith on a tobacco farm, new book reveals

MLK was teen agnostic who rediscovered faith on a tobacco farm, new book reveals

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Child orator. Farmhand. Agnostic. Only one of those titles would be commonly guessed to describe the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But a new 420-page book by scholar Lerone Martin reveals those and other little-known pieces of King’s history. In “Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.” — which will be released Tuesday (May 5) — he describes the family, friends and educators who helped shape King into the man who would one day draw some 250,000 people to the 1963 March on Washington. Martin, 46, is the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. To write the book, he delved into resources such as King’s letters to his parents, hit tunes on the jukeboxes during his college days and a health examination to determine the future civil rights leader’s 5-foot-7 height. The interview with Martin was edited for length and clarity. Why did you decide to explore the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s early life? There were two reasons — the first was …

Palm-Killing Beetle Found on Molokaʻi for First Time, Rediscovered on Maui

Palm-Killing Beetle Found on Molokaʻi for First Time, Rediscovered on Maui

Published by Sam Flores

State officials are surveying parts of Maui and Molokaʻi for evidence of coconut rhinoceros beetles, and residents near detection sites are being asked to check palm trees for signs of damage after the highly invasive pest was discovered on both islands. The suspected detection Tuesday of a male beetle near Kaunakakai Harbor would mark the first time one has been found on Molokaʻi. Based on photographs of the specimen, the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity says it is likely a coconut rhinoceros beetle, and it is being sent to its Plant Pest Control Branch on Oʻahu for official confirmation. Residents on Molokaʻi petitioned the state Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity more than six months ago for better protections from the beetle, which led to the state’s strictest regulations for importing certain products such as mulch. The appearance of a beetle near Kahului Airport on April 1 marks the first official sighting since November 2023 on Maui. The Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity’s Dean Matsukawa said in a statement Wednesday that a single dead adult coconut …

How Nasa’s Artemis II mission rediscovered the majesty and mystery of the Moon

How Nasa’s Artemis II mission rediscovered the majesty and mystery of the Moon

Published by skeptic

On April 10, Artemis II – humanity’s first mission to the Moon in more than half a century – will draw to a close when the Orion capsule carrying four crew members detaches from its service module. The capsule will then make a fiery plunge towards Earth, travelling at a speed of 25,000 miles per hour. As it plummets through the atmosphere, Orion’s heat shield will encounter temperatures of more than 1,600°C as the spacecraft decelerates rapidly. A series of 11 parachutes will deploy in sequence to bring Orion to a relatively sedate 25mph splashdown off the coast of San Diego in California. Splashdown will round out a remarkable flight which took the astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen on a looping lunar flyby. Clockwise from left: Artemis II astronauts Christina Koch (mission specialist), Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist), Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot). Nasa Reaching a distance of 252,756 miles from Earth, they travelled further from our planet than humans have ever been – exceeding a record set by the …

Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting

Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance. Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the canvas’s lower-right portion. With the overpaint now gone, the painting has now been identified as Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist (1512/1513) by 16th-century painter Rosso Fiorentino. The painting’s attribution had previously been questioned, with some scholars assigning it to Rosso and others to a contemporary; it had also been dated to 1520 and titled Madonna and Child. Related Articles The Met has already put the work, which was believed to have been lost for centuries, on view in its European painting wing. In his foundational text Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari, often credited as the first art historian, describes Rosso as having secured his first major commission, a fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin (1513) at the Chiostrino dei Voti at …

35 Rembrandt Etchings Re-Discovered in the Netherlands

35 Rembrandt Etchings Re-Discovered in the Netherlands

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many people around the world were cooped up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few had the same good fortune as Charlotte Meyer, who spent some of her unexpected downtime after a house move going through a folder of works on paper that her late grandfather had handed down to her. She shared her findings with the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, who confirmed that the 35 etchings are in fact by the Dutch Old Master. According to Omroep, the Netherlands Public Broadcasting network, the folder had been stored in a drawer in the family home in Zutphen, a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands, for many years. Meyer’s grandfather acquired them between 1900 and 1920. Related Articles At the time, Meyer told Omroep, “nobody was interesting in etching … It was nothing special. For only a few guilders, my grandfather bought 35 different copies.” Meyer has not revealed the value of her collection. However, from 2023-25, Christie’s London sold a trove of Rembrandt prints collected by the late Sam Josefowitz. The top …

British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland

British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A long-lost second memoir penned by a famed 19th-century British soldier named Shadlock Byfield resurfaced in a rather unexpected place—Cleveland, Ohio. As explained in a study recently published in the Journal of British Studies, Byfield’s second book depicts a very different war veteran than the one described in his first autobiography written 11 years earlier. Who was Shadrack Byfield? Although he may not be a household name, many early American history buffs are well acquainted with Shadrack Byfield. The British soldier served at Fort George near the Niagara River during the War of 1812, fighting in multiple battles over the course of the roughly three year-long conflict.  At one point, a musket ball wound forced doctors to amputate Byfield’s left forearm—without anesthesia. After learning his limb had been tossed into a “dung-heap,” the recuperating soldier reportedly retrieved it himself so he could bury it in a makeshift coffin. Byfield returned to England after the war, but his disability prevented …

Lost Spanish Colonial Mission on Texas Frontier Is Rediscovered

Lost Spanish Colonial Mission on Texas Frontier Is Rediscovered

Published by José Betancourt

The long-lost mission of Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, one of the earliest outposts of Europe’s colonial frontier in Texas, has been rediscovered. An archaeology team from Texas Tech University, in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archaeologists, found the site in Jackson County, Texas, on a private ranch near the Presidio la Bahía and Fort St. Louis. The mission was established in the 1680s by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a French explorer and trader instrumental in the French colonization of North America and, by more incidental means, the United States’s claim to Texas. Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo was among the most highly successful efforts to convert the native Karankawa tribe. However, the venture ultimately was his undoing: He was killed during an expedition to locate the mouth of the Mississippi, while the Karankawa destroyed the colony, leaving its members dead, scattered, or abducted. Related Articles Spain occupied the site during its missionary campaign in North America. Still, the settlement was short-lived, and the entire mission was lost when Spain began withdrawing from …