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: The Independent (London)
June 1, 2006
The great grandson of the Apache leader Geronimo has appealed to the big chief in the White House to help recover the remains of his famous relative - purportedly stolen more than 90 years ago by a group of students - including the President's grandfather.
The story that members of Yale University's secret Skull and Bones society took the remains - including a skull and femur - from the burial site in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, has long been part of the university's lore. But a university
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
May 31, 2006
Four officials of a Connecticut library organization stepped forward on Tuesday to describe what they said was a harrowing experience -- receiving a secret order from the federal government that required them to turn over library patrons' records without telling anyone.
In a meeting with reporters at a news conference here, the four officials confirmed that it was their organization, Library Connection Inc., of Windsor, that was the target of the order, which was issued under expan
Source: AP
May 29, 2006
SITKA -- Signs of struggle lie buried under a grassy opening in a mist-shrouded forest of hemlock and spruce.
Archaeologists at the Sitka National Historical Park recently unearthed musket shot and cannonballs in this quiet glade where they believe a clan of Tlingit Indians, called the Kiks. Dadi, built a wooden palisade fort and held off Russian attackers for six days in October 1804 until their ammunition was spent.On the sixth night,
Source: Thanh Nien News
May 27, 2006
The project management unit in charge of building the new parliament house decided this week to halt construction of a new car park after unwittingly uncovering remnants of Hanoi’s 1000-year-old citadel. The citadel was discovered early in 2003 during excavations to rebuild the Ba Dinh Hall Complex, the seat of Vietnam’s legislature.
After conducting a thorough archeological search of the site, researchers discovered layers of structures built on top
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
May 28, 2006
ALEXANDRIA -- The Godspeed welcomed the public aboard yesterday, and a long birthday celebration for the nation began.
Thousands came to the Old Town Waterfront to kick off the Jamestown 2007 commemoration with music, exhibits and tours of a reproduction of one of the three ships that made the voyage leading to North America's first permanent English settlement.
Jamestown 2007 Inc. and the city of Alexandria held a Landing Party Festival to mark the beginning of the G
Source: BBC
May 30, 2006
Italian archaeologists digging in the Roman Forum have found a well-preserved skeleton of a woman who lived 3,000 years ago.
The astonishing fact about this discovery is that it dates back to at least 300 years before the traditional date of the founding of Rome, 753 BC.
It has long been known that Bronze Age people were living on the site where the ancient Romans founded their city.
But few traces of their society have ever been brought to light.
Source: BBC
May 31, 2006
The most important sea engagement of World War One - the Battle of Jutland - is being commemorated 90 years on. The Imperial War Museum is holding an exhibition on HMS Belfast, while wreaths have been laid at the scene of the confrontation, off Denmark's coast.
One of the last survivors, 109-year-old Henry Allingham, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was at the exhibition's launch.
Some 8,648 British and German sailors lost their lives in one day's fighting on 31 May into
Source: The Independent
May 31, 2006
The thirteenth-century warlord Genghis Khan is best known as one of history's most bloodthirsty rulers, and at first glance appears an unlikely subject for a Jesus Christ Superstar-type rock opera. But in his native Mongolia, a rock opera has opened that gives the medieval empire builder the Genghis Khan Superstar treatment, claiming he had a softer, more appealing side which was overlooked."He was a good husband, a good son, and a good friend and I wanted to show
Source: ABC
May 31, 2006
The globe Adolf Hitler gazed upon while contemplating world domination is in remarkably good condition but for one blemish the bullet hole directly through Berlin, inflicted by a Soviet soldier after the Nazi dictator's defeat in 1945. The oversized orb is just one highlight of the more than 8,000 artifacts in the German Historical Museum's new permanent display on the country's 2,000-year history, which seeks to help Germans rediscover their identity.
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Source: The Times (London)
May 31, 2006
World Cup soccer fans trooping into the Olympic Stadium in Berlin will be confronted with some of the most powerful ghosts of the Nazi era: broad-shouldered statues sculpted at the behest of Adolf Hitler to celebrate the Aryan master race.
Now, leading Jewish activists are calling for the bronze statues to be draped in canvas, or removed entirely, to shield fans from what they regard as Nazi propaganda.Lea Rosh, who led the campaign to build a Holocaust me
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 31, 2006
South Korea has requested more information from the U.S. government about a 1950 letter in which the U.S. ambassador to Seoul told the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.The letter was dated the day of the U.S. Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri during the 1950-53 Korean War. It is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that the
Source: NBC Nightly News (video)
May 30, 2006
It was a story in Newsweek 2 decades ago that sparked fear and fury among American women. Wait until 40 and you're more likely to get killed by a terrorist than to get married.
Source: Wa Po
May 30, 2006
Sixty-six years ago, Hiram Bingham IV, a blue-blood American diplomat in France, defied U.S. policy by helping Jews escape the Nazis in the early years of World War II.
Bingham's actions cost him his Foreign Service career but won him the undying gratitude of the more than 2,000 refugees he helped save by issuing them travel visas and false passports, and even at times sheltering them in his home. Only in recent years has his heroism been officially recognized by his own country.
Source: DW-World.de
May 29, 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dropped plans to attend the World Cup in Germany. This comes after he again denied the Holocaust in an interview with a German magazine on Monday.
Football-mad President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not be travelling to Germany to watch Iran's World Cup clashes, his spokesman told AFP Monday.
The news about the possibility of Ahmadinejad supporting the Iranian national team in person at the June 9-July 9 World Cup finals raised some
Source: AP
May 30, 2006
The FBI is wrapping up its two-week search of a suburban Detroit horse farm after finding no trace of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa's remains, a local prosecutor said Tuesday.
Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca told The Associated Press he was informed by Bloomfield Township police that the search was ending without any remains found at the Hidden Dreams Farm in Milford Township.
Source: NYT
May 30, 2006
The German Historical Museum in Berlin is to open its first permanent exhibition, "German History and Testimonials From Two Millennia," on June 3. About 8,000 objects will testify to 2,000 years of German politics, struggles and developments in the context of European history. The museum director, Hans Ottomeyer, in charge of the project since 2000, said in a recent interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel that the exhibition is "like an open book that wants to show all chapte
Source: Editorial in the NYT
May 29, 2006
You don't have to be an architectural historian or urban planner to know that something is wrong at Penn Station. Every commuter knows it, every day. How could this station, tucked away under the manhole cover of Madison Square Garden, have ever seemed like a plausible alternative to the glory of the McKim, Mead & White station that was torn down in the early 1960's? This was a question very much on the mind of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan before he died. He proposed creating a new statio
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
May 30, 2006
Picking beets, cherries and cotton and shoveling manure on farms across the United States as a Mexican guest worker in the 1940s and 1950s, Cecilio Santillana was glad to earn a few dollars a day.
He didn't complain about living in horse stalls without bathrooms or doing stoop work for 12 hours a day without breaks for fear he would be sent back to Chihuahua and lose the steady work that allowed him to support his family in Mexico.
But the 78-year-old San Jose man opp
Source: NYT
May 30, 2006
By some reckonings, the death of two journalists working for CBS News on Monday firmly secured the Iraq war as the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times.
Since the start of the war in 2003, 71 journalists have been killed in Iraq, a figure that does not even include the more than two dozen members of news media support staff who have also died, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That number is more than the 63 killed in Vietnam, the 17 killed in Korea, an
Source: Boston Globe
May 30, 2006
A cane rested in his lap and a baseball cap cast a shadow over a frown as World War I veteran Antonio Pierro recalled American artillery blasting away in the forest and enemy shells screaming overhead.``During the war everything was action," said Pierro, 110 years old, who lives in Swampscott with his brother and a nephew. ``You're at the front line, you duck the shells coming your way. It was no fun being out at the front lines, being shot at. You gotta duc
