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Towering above his enemies in both size and skill, Thorkell the Tall carved his name into Viking legend—rising from brutal raids to lead the feared Jomsvikings.
Vikings linebacker Brian Asamoah II was on a family trip to Ghana when he told some kids there he played football. They ...
EAGAN, Minn. -- The Wilf family closed its deal to buy the Minnesota Vikings 20 years ago this summer. On their first full day of ownership -- June 13, 2005 -- brothers Zygi and Mark Wilf, along with ...
Monroe Collins described his strength as conducting business planning and accounting for the store. His wife handles the grocery's sourcing, merchandising and product selection, he said. "She is the ...
The Vikings collected Slav captives, giving us the word ‘slave’ as a generic description of enslaved people, and they took them home to Scandinavia. No doubt their trading expeditions towards the ...
Like many other fields, the study of the Viking Age is undergoing a revisionist transformation, as we learn to be more cautious in our terminologies and wary of the assumptions that lie behind them.
Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means Shai Carmi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harald Ringbauer, Max Planck ...
LBCC hosted the first Pan-African flag raising ceremony at LAC on Feb. 6, a tradition that may carry on for years to come. As the flag made it to the top of the flagpole, an African drum group called ...
In this By Way of Africa series interview, Mary Omatiga sits down with Minnesota Vikings linebacker Brian Asamoah II to share his experiences living in Ghana for a year, the lessons he learned off ...
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