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: http://www.pittsburghlive.com
July 15, 2008
James Adovasio's latest archaeological expedition to find the first
Americans will require little digging.
Still, the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute director will have to reach
depths of several hundred feet.
Adovasio plans to co-lead a two-week expedition in the Gulf of Mexico at
the end of the month to look for evidence of early American Indians along
the ancient coast of Florida, now about 300 feet underwater, Mercyhurst
College in Erie announced Monday.
"We have t
Source: AFP
July 15, 2008
Tensions flared Tuesday on Cambodia's border with
Thailand, as a Thai soldier was injured by a landmine and about 100 Thai
troops were held near an ancient temple in a territorial dispute.
Officials in both countries called the incident a misunderstanding that
occurred after the soldiers went to fetch three Thai protesters arrested
earlier in the day for jumping an immigration checkpoint to reach the
Preah Vihear temple.
But later a Cambodian government spokesman said the Thai
Source: Science Daily
July 14, 2008
The site of the ancient hippodrome course
in Olympia, where the emperor Nero competed for Olympian laurels, has been
discovered. The hippodrome was discovered in Olympia by a research team
that included Professor Norbert Müller (a sports historian from Mainz), Dr
Christian Wacker (a sports archaeologist from Cologne) and PD Dr Reinhard
Senff (chief excavator of the German Archaeological Institute - DAI."This discovery is an archaeological sensation," commented Norbert Müller
of the Joha
Source: Deutsche Welle
July 15, 2008
Geneticists in Germany on Monday marked the 75th anniversary of the "Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases Act," by condemning the euthanization of thousands of handicapped people during the Third Reich.The forced sterilization and euthanasia program developed as a consequence of the "law to prevent hereditary diseased offspring," which was enacted on July 14, 1933 and was based on the controversial theory that one could improve the human race th
Source: Denver Post
July 14, 2008
The Rev. Jesse Jackson linked Sen. Barack Obama's viability as a presidential candidate to a civil-rights struggle that began with a fight to desegregate schools a half century ago.
In a half-hour talk during Sunday services at Denver's Friendship Baptist Church of Christ Jesus, Jackson walked attendees through 54 years of civil-rights history that made it possible for both Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., to mount serious presidential campaigns.
Jackson
Source: New Zealand Herald
July 7, 2008
The United States planned to gas Australian troops in experiments with two of the most lethal nerve gases ever devised, newly declassified files have revealed.
Previously top secret documents have shown that even as the world was outlawing chemical weapons at the height of the Cold War, Washington sought Canberra's permission to test sarin and VX gas on diggers in remote Queensland.
The documents, shown on Channel Nine's Sunday programme yesterday, indicate that US mili
Source: Reuters
July 11, 2008
The Austrian city of Linz has removed a statue of Aphrodite from a park after learning that it was a present from Hitler, officials said on Friday.
Authorities in Austria's third largest city said they checked the origins of the bronze statue after someone left an unsigned note on it stating that the statue of the Greek goddess of love was a gift from the Nazi leader.
Research in Linz's city archives determined that the claim was correct and the statue was immediately r
Source: NYT
July 14, 2008
For decades, the proud seal of New York City, with its depiction of a sailor and a Manhattan Indian, of beavers and flour barrels and the sails of a windmill, has celebrated 1625 as the year the city was founded.
There’s just one problem: Most historians say the year has hardly any historical significance.
The first settlers arrived in what would become part of New York City on a Dutch ship as early as 1623; some say 1624. The Dutch “purchased” Manhattan in 1626. The fi
Source: WaPo
July 5, 2008
[HNN Editor: This headline, from the Post, is misleading and contradicts the article itself, which makes no claim that Weaver was the "first" to literally run (perhaps walk is the better word) for the presidency. As Gil Troy notes in his estimable,
See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate, William Henry Harrison was the first candiate to actively campaign for president by venturing out on the hustings.]
In the early hours of July 5, 1892
Source: McClatchy
June 19, 2008
The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practice
Source: BBC
July 15, 2008
Former SS doctor Aribert Heim is still likely to be alive in Chile, a director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has said at the end of a five-day mission.
Efraim Zuroff said he was convinced people knowing the whereabouts of the 94-year-old Nazi could be found.
"A person this age cannot live on his own," said Mr Zuroff.
Heim tortured and killed prisoners in Mauthausen concentration camp in World War II, but fled Germany in 1962 before authorities were abl
Source: Chicago Tribune
July 13, 2008
Stephen Payne, a significant fundraiser for President Bush's election and reelection campaigns, certainly didn't know he was being videotaped when he suggested that he could arrange some meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush administration with a big donation to the Bush presidential library.
And Payne, a Houston-based lobbyist and longtime Bush-backer who has served as a volunteer travel-advance planner for White House trips abroad, later told the Sunday T
Source: The Times (UK)
July 15, 2008
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Source: NYT
July 14, 2008
Gaffes have commanded presidential campaign headlines lately, including Carleton S. Fiorina’s remarks on Viagra and health insurance, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s vulgar criticism of Senator Barack Obama. Peter G. Peterson wants people to focus on what he considers real news: the nation is going broke.
Because he wasn’t born yesterday, Mr. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group and a secretary of commerce under President Richard M. Nixon, will spend $1 billion in an effort to
Source: Moscow Times
July 15, 2008
The British chose Winston Churchill; the Americans chose Ronald Reagan; and the South Africans chose Nelson Mandela.
Now Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Tsar Nicholas II, the country's last monarch, are running neck and neck in a contest sponsored by state-run Rossia television called "Name of Russia," a Russian version of the BBC show "Great Britons" aimed at selecting the country's most significant historical figure.
As of 9 p.m. Monday, more tha
Source: http://dcist.com
July 11, 2008
Wednesday afternoon, the Smithsonian announced a call for architects to design the upcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture, to be erected in the five-acre space on Constitution Avenue between the Washington Monument and the Museum of American History. The building, which will occupy approximately 350,000 square feet, is expected to take three years to complete and cost $500 million. The full announcement is posted on FedBizOpps.gov.
Source: Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists
July 14, 2008
The"Foreign Relations of the United States" (FRUS) series, which is
the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy, remains
unlikely to meet the legal requirement that it be published no later
than 30 years after the events that it describes, an official advisory
committee has told the Secretary of State."Despite many and repeated assurances that this problem would be
addressed by 2010, the committee is now very skeptical that the Office
of the Historian will succeed in meeting
Source: AP
July 13, 2008
Nearly six and a half decades after a gunner's B-24 bomber was shot down over France during World War II, a twisted dog tag and a ring found last year at the crash site have been handed over to the his family in Vermont.
They are items Felix Shostak was believed to have been wearing when he flew his last mission on Aug. 18, 1944, to attack a German fighter base in northern France.
On July 5, a member of the Vermont Army National Guard delivered the artifacts to the fami
Source: Telegraph (UK)
July 14, 2008
Archaeologists are to open a long-sealed cave under a Mexican pyramid in the hope that it will unlock the mystery of one of ancient civilisation's greatest cities.
With its soaring stone pyramids and geometric temples, Teotihuacan was once the biggest city in the Americas and possibly the world.
However, experts have never been able to say with certainty who built it and why it was suddenly abandoned.
An international team of experts believes the answer may
Source: Politico.com
July 13, 2008
The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.
An American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us,
