This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: WaPo
April 15, 2010
The 120 veterans wore red, white and blue tags emblazoned with the word "Liberator" and crept along on walkers. Others could hardly hear as they toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. But the memories of the atrocities they witnessed in the waning months of World War II -- when soldiers from several armored and infantry divisions liberated concentration camps throughout Germany and Austria -- remained achingly clear.
Some attending what museum officials s
Source: FOX News
April 16, 2010
A German court convicted ultraconservative British Bishop Richard Williamson on Friday of denying the Holocaust in a television interview.
A court in the Bavarian city of Regensburg found Williamson guilty of incitement for saying in a 2008 interview with Swedish television that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during World War II.
The court ordered Williamson to pay a fine of €10,000 ($13,544).
The Roman Catholic bishop was barred by his
Source: FOX News
April 16, 2010
Russia's lower house of parliament has passed a bill giving amnesty for most crimes committed by World War II veterans, Nazi concentration camp prisoners and people who lived through the siege of Leningrad.
The bill was proposed as part of Russia's observance in May of the 65th anniversary of the end of European fighting in the war....
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 15, 2010
Missouri officials cannot bar a Ku Klux Klan splinter group from holding an event Saturday at the site of one of the state's biggest Civil War battles, a federal judge in St. Louis ruled Wednesday.
Frank Ancona, who identified himself as imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, filed suit Wednesday morning for an emergency order to overrule rejection of its application to rent a large pavilion at the Fort Davidson State Historic Site.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
December 31, 2069
Osama bin Laden tried and failed to set up a satellite TV link-up on the day of the September 11 attacks from his Afghan hideout to watch the strikes as they happened, according to his former bodyguard.
Nasser al Bahri, 37, who now preaches against the fanaticism of the Islamist network, said his former master had requested a satellite dish to be installed in his hideout in Kandahar. "He asked for satellite TV to be able to follow the bombing," he said.
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Source: AP
April 16, 2010
A year ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers thought chances of finding any more chemical weapons in the front yard of a home in the nation's capital were slim. So they removed an airtight protective structure from the World War I munitions cleanup site. Then, they uncovered a small arsenal.
The Corps discovered an open flask containing traces of the chemical agent mustard, another blistering agent called lewisite and munition shells with more digging near a one-time Army chemical w
Source: NYT
April 18, 2010
Few moments in modern British history are more iconic than the evacuation of the British expeditionary force of nearly 340,000 troops in the spring of 1940 from the beaches of Dunkirk, 22 miles across the Channel from the white chalk cliffs that overlook this ancient port town. At the time, Winston Churchill called it “a miracle of deliverance.”
Beneath azure blue skies on Sunday, an intrepid band of Englishmen tried to stage a scaled-down rerun of the “little ships,” hundreds of p
Source: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
April 18, 2010
By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days. A new Pew Research Center survey finds a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government -- a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials.
Rather than an activist government to deal with the nation's top problems, the public now wants government reformed and growing numbers want i
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 19, 2010
A team of 20 Sherpa mountaineers plans to remove bodies of climbers who died in Mount Everest's "death zone," a treacherous stretch that has claimed some 300 lives since 1953.
The team also aims to remove tons of garbage left behind on the slopes under a Nepalese government program to clean up the popular tourist destination.
The 20 Sherpas plan to begin the expedition May 1 and set up camp at the South Col, 26,240ft (8,000m) above sea level, team leader Namgy
Source: CNN
April 19, 2010
Fifteen years ago, a bomb ripped through a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the worst homegrown terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The April 19, 1995, attack killed 168 people, shattering the notion of many that America was largely immune to domestic terrorism.
Fifteen years later, its impact still reverberates with those who lived through it.
Don Gordon, 37, who was about seven miles away from the Alfred P. Murrah federal building at the time of
Source: BBC News
April 18, 2010
The mad heroines of classic Victorian fiction have long been objects of fascination.
The violent and feral Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre, the mysterious Woman in White whose escape from an asylum begins Wilkie Collins's gripping thriller, and the terminally delusional Emma in Madame Bovary.
But were they really mad? Would we today recognise them as mentally ill or were our heroines merely misunderstood, not to mention a tad inconvenient?
For Radio 4 documen
Source: The Olympian (seattle)
April 18, 2010
The Thurston County coroner's investigation of a death at a private home in Olympia on Feb. 5 turned up more than a few skeletons.
Not the metaphoric skeletons concealed in a closet, but literal collections of bones - human bones - that once supported flesh and blood.
The coroner is now storing three complete skeletons that were taken from the deceased 55-year-old man's home, including one inscribed with writing indicating that it belonged to a 6-year-old boy. Another h
Source: The Guardian
April 18, 2010
MI5 secretly planted bugs in 10 Downing Street despite repeated official denials and they remained in place for more than 10 years during the tenure of five prime ministers.
The disclosure was to have been included in the official history of MI5 by the Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, published last year to mark the agency's 100th anniversary. It is believed to have been suppressed by senior Whitehall officials to protect the "public interest".
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Source: BBC
April 18, 2010
Remains unearthed in Nottinghamshire could be an unknown Roman temple, archaeologists have claimed.
Excavations on the Minster C of E School site in Southwell between September 2008 and May 2009 revealed walls, ditches and ornate stones.
The team analysing the finds said the shape and quality of the remains suggest it could have been an important place of worship.
This could mean Southwell enjoyed a high status Roman Britain, they added.
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Source: BBC
April 18, 2010
The state funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria has been held in Krakow, with thousands gathering in the city to pay respects.
A funeral Mass was held in St Mary's Basilica and a procession later took the coffins to be buried in a crypt of the historic Wawel Cathedral.
Many world leaders could not attend due to volcanic ash grounding flights. The coffins were then taken in a gun-carriage procession through Krakow and o
Source: BBC
April 13, 2010
With a nod towards the public gallery, Radovan Karadzic looked distinctly businesslike as he entered courtroom one in The Hague.
His grey and white hair was longer than when he appeared here last year. It was more as he wore it during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s.
Mr Karadzic exchanged a few smiles with one of the security guards deployed to stand over him.
While the judges readied themselves for the appearance of the first prosecution witness, the
Source: BBC
April 18, 2010
A fleet of traditionally-designed Polynesian canoes has left New Zealand for a journey through the Pacific, re-living the epic migrations of the past.
Four double-hulled canoes set off from Auckland aiming to sail 4,000km (2,485 miles) to French Polynesia. The voyage is expected to take three months.
The route retraces the great Polynesian migration journeys of 1,000 years ago - albeit in the opposite direction.
It is part of an attempt to revive traditio
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 18, 2010
Zimbabwe's child cadets paraded with guns in Harare on Sunday as the country celebrated the 30th anniversary of its independence from Britain.
President Robert Mugabe joined thousands at the National Sports Stadium, where he inspected a guard of honour before giving a keynote speech.
Many people arrived in buses hired by government to ferry residents of poor suburbs to the festivities, while others walked to the Chinese-built stadium.
For the second year r
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 18, 2010
A letter from a first-class passenger on the Titanic has fetched £55,000 at auction – a record price for a piece of written correspondence from the ship.
The letter was written by Adolphe Saafeld, on three sides of stationary from the doomed vessel, to his "wifey".
His words give a rare glimpse into day to day life on the maiden voyage of the Titanic which sank on April 15 1912 taking 1,517 people with it. The letter was one of 350
Source: CNN
April 18, 2010
Seven senior Pakistani officials have been suspended from their positions and prohibited from leaving the country as a result of a United Nations commission report on the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's information minister told CNN Sunday.
The officials were senior police officers and senior administration officials who held different positions at the time of Bhutto's death, said Qamar Uz Zaman Kaira, federal information minister.
