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: CNN
April 14, 2009
Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk was granted an emergency stay late Tuesday to block what appeared to be his imminent deportation to Germany.
The ruling, handed down by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, came less than two hours after federal immigration officials took Demjanjuk into custody at his home near Cleveland, Ohio.
The deportation of Demjanjuk, who had been transported to an Ohio detention facility when the stay was issued, would set the stage for wh
Source: National Geographic News
April 13, 2009
Deep inside the tomb of Scorpion I (no relation to the Rock), scientists discovered Egypt's oldest wines.
And now it appears the 5,000-year-old wines were spiked with natural medicines—centuries before the practice was thought to exist in Egypt, researchers say.
Archaeochemist Patrick McGovern and colleagues found chemical residues of herbs, tree resins, and other natural substances inside wine jars from the tomb, the previously discovered resting place of one of Egypt
Source: AP
April 13, 2009
More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture rushed to repay that sacrifice in rural communities hard-hit by an earthquake last week.
A delegation of around 20 elderly Jews and their descendants — as well as community leaders — made their way to makeshift camps in the area around the mountain city of L'Aquila on Monday, peering into tents in a bid to find their saviors.
They offered every
Source: TheDailyBeast.com
April 13, 2009
Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the
Source: NYT
April 12, 2009
Ninety-six-year-old Goodsprings Elementary is a three-room schoolhouse with just six students: a fifth-grader, four fourth-graders and Briana, who is in first grade. If no one else moves to town, she will be the only student left at the start of the 2010-11 school year.
The board of the Clark County School District was poised to close Goodsprings Elementary in May, but protests from parents and residents persuaded the board to delay the decision a year.
The T-shaped, 1,
Source: eBay
March 30, 2009
Apartment 310 at Watergate West is an important landmark in the Watergate Scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s Presidency. The apartment is now for sale, with historical documentation, through an eBay auction. More information about the apartment can be found on our website at www.nixonwatergatehistory.com. Be sure to click on the "Secret Testimony" button to see how important this apartment was in the Watergate scandal.
Du
Source: http://www.thefranklinpress.com
April 13, 2009
The Macon County airport authority chairman said they are moving towards reaching a compromise with the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (EBCI) over archaeological recovery at the proposed runway extension site at the Macon County Airport.
Airport authority chairman Miles Gregory made the announcement during their March 31 meeting, which drew a large crowd of citizens who came to speak in public session.
Gregory said the compromise would entail conducting 100 percen
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
April 13, 2009
One hundred and forty-four years ago tomorrow, Abraham Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington when John Wilkes Booth slipped into the president's box and shot him.
Lincoln died the next morning, and now his blood and brain matter - on part of a pillowcase at a Philadelphia museum - are being sought for DNA testing that may definitely solve a medical mystery.
Was the 16th president dying of cancer at the time of the assassination?
John S
Source: BBC
April 9, 2009
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland.
The flints were unearthed in a ploughed field near Biggar in South Lanarkshire.
They are similar to tools known to have been used in the Netherlands and northern Germany 14,000 years ago, or 12,000 BC.
Source: AP
April 13, 2009
LEXINGTON, Ky. –- A young soldier who went missing in action nearly 60 years ago in the Korean War has been laid to rest in his native Kentucky after the military identified his remains.
Attended by relatives he never knew, Army Cpl. Lloyd Dale Stidham was buried Monday with military honors at Camp Nelson National Cemetery. His funeral service was held earlier that day in Lexington.
A half brother, Donald Stidham, said the Army was able to confirm that Lloyd and the sol
Source: Living in Peru
April 13, 2009
The National Institute of Culture (INC) is currently preparing a preservation project to prevent damaged caused by weather on the enigmatic Nazca Lines, (Ica region) reported Mario Olaechea, resident archaeologist of this organization in Nasca.
Heavy rains have affected the region during the first quarter, but without causing serious consequences. "The most important part of this project is the preventive stage", Olaechea said.
Source: BBC
April 11, 2009
Battles in castles will be re-enacted over the Easter weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the body which helps protect Welsh historic sites.
Cadw, the Welsh Assembly Government's heritage service, launches its programme of events to mark the milestone later.
It includes staging mock battles and military displays at some of Wales' most famous heritage locations.
Its sites include Caerphilly Castle, Castell Coch and Tintern Abbey in the south as w
Source: AFP
April 12, 2009
Archaeologists working in an Egyptian oasis have found a necropolis containing dozens of brightly painted mummies dating back as far as 4,000 years, the country's antiquities chief said on Sunday.
"The mission found dozens of mummies in 53 rock-hewn tombs dating to the Middle Kingdom" from 2061-1786 BC, Zahi Hawass told AFP.
The team also found 15 painted masks, along with amulets and clay pots, Hawass said.
Source: AFP
April 13, 2009
China's ancient capital of Xian is to build an underground line to the museum of the famed terracotta warriors, one of the nation's most prized tourist attractions, state press said Monday.
The 30-kilometre (18-mile) line will extend from Xian's city centre to the museum that houses the clay warriors that were buried more than 2,200 years ago near the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang, Xinhua news agency said.
The army of warriors and horses of the Qin emperor
Source: AP
April 13, 2009
More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture rushed to repay that sacrifice in rural communities hard-hit by an earthquake.
A delegation of around 20 elderly Jews and their descendants — as well as community leaders — made their way to makeshift camps in the area around the mountain city of L'Aquila on Monday, peering into tents in a bid to find their saviors.
They offered everything fro
Source: http://womensmediacenter.com
April 9, 2009
Spearheaded by New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter,
powerful chair of the House Rules Committee, legislation
was signed into law at the end of last month that will
help celebrate the not-so-ancient history of how women
won the vote in the United States.
Virtually unnoticed by the national news media, a Votes
for Women History Trail in western New York has been
authorized to recognize the suffragists who helped
transform this country. The trail will be operated by
the National
Source: AP
April 12, 2009
Archaeologists say they have found the buried remains of a Colonial tavern near the site of a planned highway bridge outside of Easton.
Household ceramics, tobacco pipes and bones from food have already found. The items date to the early 1700s when a town named Dover occupied the area.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
April 11, 2009
Archaeologists found human remains inside some of the caskets that surfaced this week because of erosion along the eastern bank of Alum Creek in Delaware County, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said yesterday.
Four of the five unearthed caskets contained bones, but their identities are a mystery because no headstones or markers were found at the excavation site, said Aaron Smith, an archaeologist with the Corps' Huntington District.
The remains were buried at least 50
Source: The Hindu (India)
April 12, 2009
A rare granite sculpture of Goddess Laxmi, believed to be 1,400 years old, has been found at Waghama village along the river Jehlum in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The sculpture, that was found by the farmers a few days ago, has been taken in possession by the state Archives and Archeology department and its antiquity and artistic details are being studied, its Deputy Director Peerzada Mohammad Ashraf said on Sunday.
He said the farmers stumbled upon the id
Source: NYT Lede blog
April 11, 2009
When video appeared online this week of a Turkish television anchor in blackface, reporting on President Barack Obama’s speech to the Turkish parliament, American bloggers leapt to comment on it — despite having little or no idea what the anchor was saying or what he could possibly have been thinking when he applied the makeup....
Here at The Lede, we were fortunate enough to be able to turn for help to Sebnem Arsu, a Turkish journalist who reports for The Times from Istanbul. Sebne
