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: BBC
October 12, 2009
A Tudor fiddle and a leather "manbag" are just a few of the items The Mary Rose Trust has allowed to be filmed.
The move marks the launch of the Mary Rose 500 appeal to raise the remaining £4m needed to build the £35m museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
It also marks the 500th anniversary of the commissioning of the warship.
The Mary Rose sank on 19 July 1545 with the loss of more than 400 lives, after 34 years of service.
The
Source: BBC
October 9, 2009
A pair of Sir Winston Churchill's customised gloves reached nearly three times their expected value at auction in Gloucestershire.
The tiny gloves, made to fit Churchill's famously small hands, sold for £1,400 at Dominic Winter in Cirencester on Thursday.
They had a guide value of between £500 and £800.
But fierce bidding between a Lincolnshire Churchilliana fan and a US collector pushed the price up.
Source: Yahoo News
October 11, 2009
TAMPA, Fla. – Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.
Kolowith's students learn about the explorer's significance — though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend.
"I talk about the situation where he didn't even realize wh
Source: NYT
October 8, 2009
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Babe Ruth has struck out looking. Displeased, he leans on his bat, right hand on his hip, and looks back at the umpire. He utters something that can only be imagined. Lou Gehrig, on deck, leans on his bat, too, as if he has seen this act before. Ruth finally shuffles away, head turned to the umpire, dragging his bat through the dirt.
The scene, along with eight seconds of footage of Ruth playing the outfield, was found by a New Hampshire man in his grandfather’s hom
Source: NYT
October 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES — At the end of “Manhattan,” the celebrated movie romance from 1979, a teenager played by Mariel Hemingway delivers some good news to the 42-year-old television writer, portrayed by Woody Allen, with whom she has had a long-running sexual affair.
“Guess what, I turned 18 the other day,” said Ms. Hemingway, in what was framed as a poignant encounter. “I’m legal, but I’m still a kid.”
That was then.
Roman Polanski’s arrest on Sept. 26 to face a de
Source: NYT
October 10, 2009
WASHINGTON — In case you missed it — the Nobel Prize announcement may have been distracting — a momentous milestone occurred last week in the presidency of Barack Obama: He spent his first Leif Erikson Day in the White House.
The occasion fell during Fire Prevention Week and National Wilderness Month. It followed fast on the heels of Mr. Obama’s first National Hunting and Fishing Day declaration (Sept. 22) and a week before he gets to proclaim White Cane Safety Day (Oct. 15.)
Source: telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2009
Step forward Jean d'Orléans, the Duke of Vendôme – or so he claims in a new book seeking to undo the Revolution of 1789, restore the monarchy and place him on the throne.
While President Nicolas Sarkozy is often half-mockingly referred to as the republican monarch, the Duke wishes to go a giant step further by getting France to admit that the Revolution was a mistake.
In "Un prince français", which reads like a manifesto, the man who would be king contends th
Source: WSJ
October 10, 2009
SHARANA, Afghanistan -- U.S. commanders here are enlisting some unusual allies: former mujahedeen guerrillas who battled the Russians with tactics now used by the Taliban.
Gen. Dawlat Khan, who commands the 2,000 Afghan police in the eastern Paktika province, came of age during the war against the Soviets in the 1980s. His father was a leader of the local resistance efforts, and during his teenage years Gen. Khan helped to funnel American-donated machine guns and weaponry to the tri
Source: Waco Tribune-Herald
October 10, 2009
FLORENCE, Texas — In a big white tent pitched near Buttermilk Creek, archaeologists and volunteers are on their knees, scraping away sticky black clay a few tablespoons at a time. They wash the dirt and screen it for stone shards, spearpoints and flakes from some 13,000 years ago.
Little by little, those bits of stone are chipping away at long-held pictures of the earliest Americans, wiping away images that are still depicted in high school textbooks and museum dioramas.
Source: Balkan Travellers
September 22, 2009
A royal burial vault was discovered by archaeologists in the area of Pavla chuka, between the villages of Bonche and Podmol near the town of Prilep in southern Macedonia.
The circular vault dates to the fourth century BC, the Vecher newspaper reported today. It has a diameter of 30 metres and is made of monolithic stones, each of them weighting two tons, which are undamaged although they are nearly 2,500 years old.
The vault has an opening dug into a wall, and antique tombs w
Source: DNA
October 4, 2009
Hyderabad: We often talk and worry about brain drain, where the brightest Indians move out of the sub-continent, generally to the West, seeking better opportunities. However, it may turn out that this is hardly a new trend.
Geneticists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad released a study last week which suggested that the Indian population has its origin in migrants from Africa who arrived here 45,000 to 65,000 years ago. The next stage of the study, they s
Source: The Vancouver Courier
October 9, 2009
BALLYCASTLE, Ireland--It took 40 years, but Seamas Caulfield finally solved the puzzle of his father's peat bog, and in the process unearthed a 5,000-year-old Stone Age village.
Schoolteacher Patrick Caulfield was digging peat--long-decayed vegetation that has been used for domestic fuel in Ireland for centuries--in a bog near this western Ireland hamlet in the 1930s when his spade struck rocks two metres down.
He cleared the immediate area and discovered that the rocks
Source: Austrian Times
October 5, 2009
Archaeologists claim to have made a "sensational" find after they unearthed a 3,000-year-old wooden box used in central Europe’s biggest copper-mining operation at the Mitterberg mountain in Salzburg’s Pongau region.
They said the box from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, which was discovered using the latest high-tech research methods including laser scanning, dated to between 1,500 and 1,000 B.C...
... Groh said the objects found at the sites, which cover an
Source: EIRB.com
October 8, 2009
A group of archaeologists working in the Astigarraga cave in Deba have uncovered the oldest cave paintings discovered in Gipuzkoa to date. Dating back between 20,000 and 22,000 years, the markings represent a group of 16 "paired fragments" in red.
Doctor of History and expert in cave paintings, Marcos García Díez, speaking during a conference with press, stressed that this was one of the most important discoveries made in the Basque Country since the discovery of the Altxe
Source: TimesOf Malta.com
October 10, 2009
Studies are underway on two tombs believed to be 5000 years old, which have been discovered in an excavation site in Kercem, Gozo.
The tombs were unearthed during extension works at the parish priest's house, which lies adjacent to the parish church. Pottery recovered so far place the origins of tombs in the Tarxien phase of Maltese prehistory, currently dated to about 3000-2500 BC. The excavations are being carried out by the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage under the direction
Source: Archaeo News
October 11, 2009
The rescue operation of the Kolikho dolmen (located in the Tuapse region on the Black Sea coast, Russia) has been completed successfully. The dolmen was found by accident after the seasonal flood in 2008. It was buried beneath 3 m-thick river deposits and left untouched since the Bronze Age. This is the first case in Caucasian archaeology.
The burial chamber was full of partly disarticulated human remains. All of them were put in the chamber through the hole in the façade slab. Radio
Source: KITV.com
October 10, 2009
Hundreds of people from Hawaii journeyed to Rome for the ceremony.
St. Peter's Square was packed with thousands of people for the canonization and Sunday mass from via della Conciliazione at the entrance to the piazza to the dome.
More than 500 Hawaii people were in St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica for the canonization mass. The mass was moved into the basilica because off rain.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka also attended the ceremony as a representativ
Source: TVNZ
October 9, 2009
Lincoln University near Christchurch has reprimanded 15 students who dressed as Nazis and concentration camp inmates for a party, with penalties including visiting a Holocaust Museum and paying a $200 fine.
The university disciplinary committee met on Friday to consider the conduct of the students, who pleaded guilty to the charge of bringing discredit on the university.
Source: Fox News
October 11, 2009
NEW YORK — A man wanted for hijacking a flight out of New York 40 years ago was arrested Sunday after arriving on a flight from Cuba, federal authorities said.
Longtime fugitive Luis Armando Pena Soltren was wanted for his role in the Nov. 24, 1968, hijacking of a Pan Am flight bound for Puerto Rico. The 66-year-old Soltren was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said.
Soltren was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Manhattan on a 1968 indict
Source: CNSNews.com
October 9, 2009
Washington (AP) - Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for him.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former governor of Mississippi, planned to announce the honor during a speech at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. The nearly 700-foot-long vessel named for Evers will deliver food, ammunition and parts to other ships at sea.
During the civil rights movement Evers organized nonviolent protests, voter registration dri
