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 News
September 15, 2010
A benefit concert to mark the year that John Lennon would have turned 70 is to be held in New York, it has been announced.
Music stars lined-up to pay tribute to the former Beatle include Jackson Browne, Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper and Aimee Mann.
The concert will be held on 12 November at the Beacon Theatre.
Proceeds will go to the Playing for Change Foundation, which promotes peace with music.
The show is one of several events being held around
Source: BBC News
September 14, 2010
A picture of life on board Britain's 19th Century prison ships has emerged with the publication online of details of some of the 200,000 inmates.
The records outline the disease-ridden conditions on the "prison hulks", created to ease overcrowding elsewhere.
The prisoners included eight-year-old Francis Creed, who was jailed for seven years on HMS Bellerophon for stealing three shillings worth of copper.
The records, held by National Archives, are
Source: USA Today
September 15, 2010
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The Khmer Rouge shot and killed his wife and child. They tortured him with electric shocks and yanked out his toenails. They turned rice paddies into "killing fields," where the corpses of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were left to rot.
So for all that, jailing one old man for 19 years doesn't feel like justice to Chum Mey.
"It's a shame we don't have the death penalty anymore," says Chum, 79, inside S-21, a former Khmer
Source: News 3
September 14, 2010
Greek scientists and archaeologists have given an ancient Athenian girl from the 5th century BC a face by using her skeleton, found in an ancient grave. 'Myrtis' has been brought back to life through facial reconstruction from her intact skull and teeth.
The 11-year-old Athenian girl died of typhoid fever in 430 BC during a plague, and her bones were found in a mass grave near the ancient Athenian cemetery of Keramikos when the Athens subway was being dug up in 1995. The mass grave
Source: Digital Journal
September 13, 2010
Archaeologist Michel Guyot had a dream to build a real Medieval castle with Medieval building techniques, and finally his dream is being realized.
Just south of Paris, France, in the rolling countryside a Medieval castle is being built. Techniques from the 13th century are being used (under the supervision of working regulations) which have not been used in more than 700 years, claims the AOL News article.
Michel Guyot was inspired when he discovered 13th century archit
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
September 14, 2010
Widow says she'll continue lawsuit against Ohio Historical Society over Adena tablet
Edward Low will be buried today, but his fight to regain a cherished childhood treasure will live on.
Low, 77, of Reynoldsburg, died Thursday, before his lawsuit against the Ohio Historical Society reached court.
His widow, Dorothy Low, has vowed to carry on the fight her husband began three years ago when he first asked the historical society to return his "Indian ro
Source: BBC
September 13, 2010
Archaeologists digging at a site in south Wales have uncovered an entire suit of Roman armour and some weapons.
The rare discovery was made during an excavation at the fortress of Caerleon in south Wales, one of Britain's best known Roman sites.
Dr Guest, senior lecturer in Roman archaeology at Cardiff's school of history, archaeology and religion, explained that a number of objects were first spotted last week on top of a floor in one room of a warehouse on the Priory
Source: Reuters
September 14, 2010
Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings' ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains.
Specialized hunting sticks, bows and arrows and even a 3,400-year-old leather shoe have been among finds since 2006 from a melt in the Jotunheimen mountains, the home of the "Ice Giants" of Norse mythology.
As water streams off the Juvfonna ice field, Piloe and two other archaeologist
Source: AP
September 14, 2010
The dilapidated factory that helped make Seattle a high-tech town is being demolished after 75 years, a casualty of time, technology and tails that grew too tall.
Boeing Co.'s Plant 2, a sprawling but long outdated building between Boeing Field and south Seattle's Duwamish River, gave birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft. It was the site of Seattle's biggest disappearing act and a home to "Rosie the Riveter," women who built thousands of World War II plan
Source: BBC
September 14, 2010
US senate officials investigating the release of the Lockerbie bomber are to hold talks with the Scottish government in Edinburgh on Thursday.
The team, representing Senator Robert Menendez, will meet Scottish justice officials.
They will not meet Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who freed Abdelbasset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds in August 2009....
Source: BBC
September 14, 2010
wartime heroine who was captured three times by the Germans and endured spells in concentration and labour camps is to be buried by a council because no friends or family can be traced.
Eileen Nearne, 89, who died in her Devon home on 2 September, was one of 39 female agents sent to occupied France in her capacity as a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.
Miss Nearne, who was fluent in French, was captured by the Germans just four month
Source: AP
September 14, 2010
Turkey must pay about $170,000 (euro133,000) to the family of a slain ethnic Armenian journalist, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday, saying the state failed to protect him despite threats against his life.
The verdict also awarded the compensation to Hrant Dink's family because of a lack of respect for freedom of expression, and for failure to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder, the court said.
The journalist had sought to encourage reconcil
Source: Fox News
September 14, 2010
A famous civil rights photographer who covered everything from the Emmett Till murder to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. reportedly was also an informant who spied on the civil rights movement for the FBI.
Numerous FBI reports portray Ernest Withers -- a veteran freelancer for America's black press known as "the original civil rights photographer" -- as a prolific informant who, from at least 1968 until 1970, used his access to civil rights events and meetings
Source: AP
September 14, 2010
...A New York attorney went on trial Tuesday on criminal charges that accuse him of adopting electronic aliases to discredit one of his professor-father's academic rivals. The debate is over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Prosecutors say Raphael Golb turned commentary into crime with e-mails and blog posts that accused his father's adversary of plagiarism. The rival academic denies it.
Golb does not acknowledge crafting the messages. His lawyers say the online mus
Source: Daily World (LA)
September 12, 2010
For Lt. Col Francis Lowe, this was no ordinary Mass.
In the pulpit of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Lowe, a priest and Air Force chaplain, celebrated the life of a man he'd never met, but who would affect his life, his family and the lives of multitudes across more than 70 years.
Father Verbis Lafleur, a native of Opelousas, died about 66 years ago, a Japanese prisoner of war. Lafleur died in the hull of a "hell ship" stuffed with 750 of his fellow
Source: San Jose Mercury-News
September 12, 2010
A few decades ago, when America celebrated its 200th birthday, the world was invited. And what a yearlong patriotic party it was, stretching from small towns to the National Mall.
Now it's Mexico's turn, with a cross-border, double spin.
The first of many local events celebrating and reflecting on Mexico's bicentennial kicked off Sunday with a parade in downtown San Jose commemorating the country's 1810 war of independence with Spain and social revolution of 1910 over l
Source: Independent (UK)
September 14, 2010
German state prosecutors are investigating nine crematorium workers and an accomplice who are suspected of having routinely sold off gold tooth fillings sifted from the ashes of hundreds of corpses in a case that has evoked disturbing memories of the Nazi Holocaust.
The nine stokers employed at Hamburg's Öjendorf crematorium have all been suspended from duty while prosecutors conduct their investigation. The probe follows a police raid on their homes in late August which netted €146
Source: Annapolis Capital
September 13, 2010
Four Naval Academy midshipmen and a professor, along with Navy scientists, head to the North Sea on Wednesday to search for the remains of Capt. John Paul Jones' ship, Bonhomme Richard.
This search for one of the most famous ships of the American Revolution will combine oceanography, historical analysis and naval engineering and employ cutting-edge technology. A multibeam sonar, for example, will give researchers three-dimensional pictures of objects on the ocean floor, and a gradio
Source: Fox News
September 13, 2010
Ukrainian guards risked being killed by their SS supervisors if they tried to flee Nazi death camps where they served, according to evidence presented Monday at the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio autoworker accused of being a death camp guard.
The 90-year-old, Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk has denied ever having served as a guard. However, the historical evidence could bolster his defense's separate argument that any Ukrainians who agreed to serve the Nazis did so to escape de
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 14, 2010
With obscure technical diagrams and notes scrawled over its pages of faded colour maps, this book might appear as nothing more than an uninspiring aerial survey.
But these pictures are taken from Adolf Hitler's original war dossier of the planned Nazi invasion of Britain.
Unveiled for the first time 70 years to the day of Hitler's planned onslaught on England's south coast, the blueprints offer a chilling insight into what might have been on the morning of September 15,
