Sports
When Art Shell was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last summer, he said that he hoped that someday a National Football League team would have the guts to hire a black head coach.
Oct. 6, 1989
Travel & Experiences
If there is a First Sunday festival on the first block of West Street in downtown Annapolis, Eric H.
Jan. 2, 2018
Science & Medicine
Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor.
Dec. 4, 2014
Old Raiders love Art Shell. “A fascinating fact is that Art is on the same par with Gen.
Nov. 9, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
In 1968, Steve Turre was playing trombone in San Francisco with the great reed player Rahsaan Roland Kirk when Kirk suddenly blew a note on a sea shell.
Nov. 11, 1993
Coach of the year in the National Football League, man of the hour in the Coliseum, may we introduce to you the act you’ve known for all these years, Arthur Shell Jr., the papa bear of a younger generation who somehow has seemed incapable of losing much of anything in Los Angeles this season, except maybe a pound or two here or there (mostly there).
Dec. 31, 1990
Art Shell, the new coach of the Raiders, was walking off the field after the Raiders had defeated the New York Jets, 14-7, Monday night at Giants Stadium in Shell’s debut.
Oct. 10, 1989
The development of art, culture, and advanced cognitive ability that define modern humans may not have evolved until 50,000 years ago, according to a new study published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
June 18, 2013
Lester Hayes was watching “Nightline” one April night two years ago, not paying especially close attention, when he heard Al Campanis say blacks “may lack some of the necessities” to be coaches and managers.
Nov. 15, 1989
World & Nation
In 1940, as the German armies poured across France, the French general, Maxime Weygand, who had just been made commander-in-chief over the deposed General Maurice Gamelin, flew over the battlefield, then held his head in his hands.
Oct. 8, 1989