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: Telegraph (UK)
April 6, 2006
It was another time, in the dying days of war, but thousands of football fans will soon be able to judge for themselves whether guidance to British soldiers in 1944 still holds true.
The Germans are brutal when they are winning and sorry for themselves when they are beaten, it said.
They have unbalanced minds and can fly into a rage if things go wrong, it continued. Germany: 1944, the British Soldier's Pocketbook, which was issued to tens of
Source: NYT
June 4, 2006
WILMINGTON, N.C., June 3 — Nobody will ever be certain how many people died the night of Nov. 10, 1898, on the streets, in the marshes where some ran for safety, or in the swift, wide current of the river that has always defined this port city.
"The Cape Fear River could be dammed up with black bodies, but we have no way of knowing just how many," said Lottie Clinton, a retired state port supervisor and 1 of 13 members of a state-appointed panel that studied the night's ev
Source: NYT
June 4, 2006
With Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi set to retire in September, the battle in the governing Liberal Democratic Party over who will succeed him as party leader and prime minister is well under way. So far, the race is turning into a referendum on what to do about Japan's troubled relations with its Asian neighbors, especially China. Japan's relations with China and South Korea have chilled, particularly in the last year, because of several disputes over history, territory a
Source: Christian Post
June 2, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The Episcopal Church is poised to apologize for failing to oppose slavery, but making up for its 19th century inaction won't come without 21st century controversy.
At its national convention beginning June 13, the church is expected to approve a resolution expressing regret for supporting slavery and segregation. But the debate will likely get more heated when a second resolution comes up, calling for a study of possible reparations for black Episcopalians.
Source: IHT
May 31, 2006
HANOI A lost wartime diary by a female doctor that tells of love, loneliness and death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail has become a best seller in Vietnam, bringing the war alive for a new generation of readers.
The journey of the diary itself has given it a special postwar symbolism for people here. It was returned to her family just last year by a former American soldier who recovered it after she died on the battlefield in 1970.
The writer, Dr. Dang Thuy Tram, was killed at
Source: BBC News
June 1, 2006
A memorial to 10 American airmen who died in a crash on Belfast's Cavehill during World War II has been unveiled. The B-17 bomber went down in heavy fog 62 years ago after losing its bearings on the way to Nutt's Corner airport.
A plinth was unveiled in Belfast Zoo, near the crash site, on Thursday as a decommissioned B-17 flew over.
A film of how one crewman's wedding ring was found at the site decades later and returned to his widow, Closing the Ring, is being made.
Source: MSNBC
June 4, 2006
HONG KONG - Tens of thousands of people waved candles, chanted slogans and sang songs in Hong Kong on Sunday evening to remember the victims of the crackdown in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 17 years ago.
“Reverse the verdict on June 4th. The people will not forget. Long live democracy,” chanted the crowd, which organizers estimated to be 44,000 strong but police put at about 19,000. Such gatherings have been held annually since 1989.
Hong Kong and the former
Source: The Times-Picayune
June 3, 2006
When fund-raisers for the National D-Day Museum try to squeeze donations out of World War II veterans, they sometimes get a polite brushoff from those who weren't part of the celebrated invasion of France: "When you get to my war, let me know."
Though the 6-year-old museum in the Warehouse District offers glimpses into a sweeping war experience, that fact wasn't readily understood. But that should no longer be a problem, officials said Friday as they officially changed the
Source: Newsday
June 3, 2006
It's been 16 years since the pistol Theodore Roosevelt used during the Spanish-American War was stolen from Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. And now, because of a tipster with a sense of history, the revolver is coming home.
After the caller told the site's chief curator that the gun belonged at TR's Cove Neck estate, the FBI was able to recover it in the South last fall. And while continuing to investigate the April 1990 theft from a display case at the Old Orchard Museum, the
Source: The Advertiser
June 3, 2006
A makeshift camp burrowed by shipwrecked whalers into cliffs on a remote West Coast island is hoped to provide new insight into the life of some of the first white settlers of South Australia.
The camp, made in caves atop cliffs on Flinders Island, was fashioned more than 160 years ago and accessed this week for the first time by archeologists.
The whaling vessel Vulcan was shipwrecked near Bryant Bay on the island's south coast in April, 1845. All 18 aboard swam to saf
Source: The Irish Times
June 3, 2006
Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened a landmark exhibition exploring 2,000 years of German history, calling it a chance to create "from a divided memory of the Germans a common one".
After 20 years of discussion and controversy, the new permanent exhibit at the German Historical Museum in Berlin goes on show today with 8,000 exhibits including the hat Napoleon lost at Waterloo and the huge globe Adolf Hitler used to plot world domination, memorably parodied by Charlie Chapl
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
June 2, 2006
In its final hearing on whether Pennsylvania's public colleges indoctrinate students in left-wing ideology and discriminate against conservatives, a committee of state lawmakers went somewhat off-topic on Thursday to discuss whether more emphasis on the traditions of Western civilization would serve as an antidote to any liberal bias in academe. David W. Saxe, an associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, testified that
Source: NYT
June 2, 2006
The Justice Department is probably correct in saying that it was legally entitled to search a congressman's office last month. But in ignoring history and established conventions in that case, some legal scholars say, the Bush administration has again unsettled widely shared understandings of constitutional relationships and freedoms that have existed for generations.As with the administration's assertions that it may ignore a law on domestic eavesdropping, reinterpret other
Source: Rolling Stone
June 2, 2006
In a long article in Rolling Stone Kennedy, son of 1968 presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, says that the evidence is overwhelming that the 2004 election in Ohio which gave Bush the White House was rigged.
Source: NYT
June 2, 2006
They have been warned, as always, not to rampage through the streets, destroying things and attacking people. But as England's soccer fans prepare to visit Germany for the World Cup this month, another item has been added to their long "verboten" list: Don't mention the war.
"It's not a joke," Charles Clarke, then the home secretary, warned at a pre-World Cup briefing earlier this spring. "It is not a comic thing to do. It is totally insulting and wrong.&qu
Source: BBC
June 2, 2006
Ancient figs found in an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley may represent one of the earliest forms of agriculture, scientists report.
The carbonised fruits date between 11,200 and 11,400 years old.
The US and Israeli researchers say the figs are a variety that could have only been grown with human intervention.
The team, writing in the journal Science, says the find marks the point when humans turned from hunting and gathering to food cultivation.
Source: AP
June 2, 2006
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A Timucuan village, dating back at least 700 years, was discovered equipped with cooking vessels and pits that still contained animal bones, in a lot being cleared for home development, the city's archaeologist said Thursday.
The remnants were found earlier this year and date from 1100 to 1300 A.D. They were unearthed in a lot that had been vacant for the past 440 years, said Carl Halbirt, the city's archaeologist.
"This is the most significa
Source: Guardian
May 31, 2006
Archaeologists fear 1,000 years of history may be shovelled into skips as time runs out on a key site in London. Harvey Sheldon, an officer of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, called the situation at the church of St George the Martyr, in Southwark, where substantial evidence of Roman buildings may be destroyed without being recorded, "a disgrace". Yesterday he made a last ditch appeal to church authorities to give more time for excavation, before heavy machinery moves
Source: King5.com
June 2, 2006
It has been a dream for 25 years. But Thursday the creation of a Northwest African-American museum came one big step closer to reality with a ceremonial groundbreaking for the museum that will be housed in the old Colman School in south Seattle.
Source: BBC
June 1, 2006
For the Germans, knowing the impact of the World Cup goes far beyond football is a lesson they have understood since a rainy day in the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne, Switzerland, in the summer of 1954.
An unheralded West German team, first timers in the tournament, caused the biggest sensation in world sport since World War II by defeating the apparently invincible Hungarians to win the trophy.
The victory led to an unprecedented outpouring of joy, not just in West but i
