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
September 8, 2010
A woman who was believed to have been the oldest person in Britain has died at the age of 111.
Annie Turnbull was born in Lanarkshire on 21 September 1898, when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
Brought up in West Lothian, Mrs Turnbull moved to Edinburgh when she was 16 to become a housekeeper. She retired in 1974 at the age of 76.
She died at Victoria Manor care home in Leith on Friday, two weeks short of her 112th birthday....
Source: AP
September 7, 2010
The bodies of about 700 people killed in the wake of World War II have been discovered in a mass grave in Slovenia, 65 years after they were herded into the woods and slain by antifascists seeking revenge on Nazi collaborators, an official said Tuesday.
Marko Strovs, who heads the government's commission for exhuming mass graves, told The Associated Press that researchers examined a pit in a forest near the town of Prevalje in the country's northeast last week and found the remains.
Source: Reuters
September 7, 2010
An Istanbul seminary closed in 1971 is hosting its first public event in 40 years, raising hopes it may shortly be reopened by Turkey and once again educate priests for the Greek Orthodox community.
The European Union and the United States have pressed EU membership hopeful Turkey to reopen the historic school, which occupies a beautiful and commanding site at the top of the island of Heybeliada, or Halki in Greek.
"Tracing Istanbul," an exhibition of works by
Source: AP
September 7, 2010
MARINA, Egypt – Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.
The ancient city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, was hidden for centuries after it was nearly wiped out by a fourth century tsunami that devastated the region.
More recently, it was nearly buried unde
Source: Politico
September 9, 2010
This year, September 11 is going to include something different — politics, and lots of it.
On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, all evidence suggests that the once-sacrosanct nature of a day when candidates used to clear their schedules except for the most solemn and intimate of events and take down their television ads has fundamentally changed....
In New York City, dueling rallies are planned by opponents and suppor
Source: National Geographic
September 8, 2010
Filled with other Cupid-like figures, intertwined vines and flowers, and brightly colored birds, the wall paintings provide important new insights into the mysterious culture of the builders of Petra, the Nabataeans, said art conservator Lisa Shekede. The artwork, she added, suggests the cave was a refuge for a cult focused on the ancient Greek god of wine, Dionysus.
The art is "remarkable in the extent of its palette and the intricacies of its painting," added Shekede, wh
Source: BBC News
September 8, 2010
Spanish palaeontologists have uncovered a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feather follicles.
The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, located the fossils near Cuenca, central Spain.
They named the reptile Concavenator corcovatus, meaning "meat eater from Cuenca with a hump". The type of dinosaur that was found is known as a theropod.
Theropods are mainly known from the ancient southern landmass, Gondwana.
Source: BBC News
September 8, 2010
Works by Joan Miro are to be displayed at the Tate Modern, the first time a major retrospective of the artist has been held in nearly 50 years.
The Ladder of Escape, which opens in April next year, will bring together over 150 of the Spanish surrealist's pieces from all over the world.
Miro's "dream" paintings and experimental techniques were an influence on abstract expressionism.
Tate Modern said his work was noted "for its serene, colourfu
Source: Time
September 9, 2010
The Holocaust is a crime that never seems to quit. Even as the ranks of survivors grow smaller each year, the impact of that dark passage in history continues to be to be felt. And it's not just the victims who feel the effects; it's their children too.
Psychologists have long been intrigued by the emotional profile of so-called second-generation Holocaust survivors. Parents who lived through the camps were forever changed by the horrors they witnessed. In the 21st century, many - p
Source: Statesville Record & Landmark
September 4, 2010
At a time when other historic sites around the country are shutting down, new site manager Doug Brown compares Fort Dobbs to a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Just two days after starting the job, Brown sat in a conference room in the small gray house that quarters the historical site’s offices and stared out the window, almost as though he could see the fort standing there.
Brown is no stranger to transormations -- Fort Dobbs will be the third large-scale historic site proje
Source: Fox News
September 8, 2010
Nine years after the heroes of Flight 93 rebelled against the terrorists who hijacked their plane -- crashing it into a field in Shanksville, Pa., instead of allowing it to smash into an unknown, high-profile target in Washington, D.C. -- the design of a memorial to honor the 40 passengers and crew who died remains a subject of bitter controversy.
Since 2005, when plans for the Flight 93 National Memorial were unveiled, a group of critics, including the father of one of the heroes w
Source: BBC News
September 8, 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad caused anger in 2006.
A depiction of Muhammad's turban as a fused bomb sparked global outrage when it was published in Denmark.
Presenting him with a press freedom award, Mrs Merkel said Mr Westergaard was entitled to draw his caricatures.
"Europe is a place where a cartoonist is allowed to draw something like this," she said.
Source: The Daily Progress (NC)
September 6, 2010
CULPEPER — The Journey Through Hallowed Ground wants to lay down roots — lots of them — in its remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Starting next year through 2015, the Waterford-based history organization will set out to plant 620,000 trees — about one for each soldier who died in the war — along the 180-mile route from Monticello to Gettysburg, Pa.
The National Heritage Area and national scenic byway on which JTHG focuses its preservation efforts has
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 7, 2010
Turning over the soil in his back garden, David Murray spotted something glinting in the sunlight.
When he realised it was a dog tag from a Second World War German prisoner, he asked his landlord if he could dig a little deeper - literally.
In the following months, Mr Murray unearthed a treasure trove of wartime memorabilia. The 2,000 items include coins featuring Nazi emblems, dog tags, buttons from uniforms and even a live grenade that had to be destroyed by an RAF bo
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 6, 2010
A new book published this week in Germany exposes the 'literary-lite' reading tastes of Hitler and his cronies during the Third Reich.
While all pretended to be intellectuals consuming weighty tomes about race, culture and war, the hierarchy of Nazism were often the equivalent of today’s consumer of books with racy covers bought at airport shops.
Hermann Goering, the fat architect of the Blitz on London, liked detective novels and sci-fi books by Jules Verne....
Source: Digital Journal
September 6, 2010
A German bomber is to be raised from a sandbank off Britain’s south eastern coast 70 years after it crash-landed there during the Battle of Britain.
The Daily Mail said the twin-engine Dornier Do-17 bomber first emerged from Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile stretch of coastline near Deal in Kent two years ago. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum and Wessex Archaeology have been working on a full survey of the crash site. Once the survey is complete, the bomber will be recovered and exhibited
Source: The News and Advance
September 6, 2010
The Museum of the Confederacy has unveiled drawings of its planned museum in Appomattox and announced plans for a Sept. 23 groundbreaking at the site after raising $6 million toward the $7.5 million project.
Construction is expected to end by spring 2012 on the 11,700-square-foot museum near the intersection of Virginia 24 and U.S. 460, housing Civil War artifacts where they were made famous.
“There’s nowhere better to do it than Appomattox,” said S. Waite Rawls III, CE
Source: Kent News
September 5, 2010
Two gold bracelets unearthed after almost 3,000 years were spotted by chance.
For around 2,700 years they were buried under the Kent soil, but after a leading archaeological expert visited an excavation site, he spotted them on top of earth already moved during the big road dig.
The bracelets join some 10,000 other important finds unearthed by volunteers and experts on the East Kent Access site between Ramsgate and Sandwich, the biggest archaeological excavation in the
Source: AP
September 7, 2010
Colonial Williamsburg is seeking the designation of the Historic Triangle as a World Heritage Site.
The historic area says it is partnering with Preservation Virginia and working with the National Park Service to seek the designation. The Historic Triangle is comprised of Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown....
Source: AP
September 8, 2010
John Demjanjuk attends most sessions of his trial in a hospital bed set up in the courtroom, wearing dark sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face.
The case of the retired Ohio autoworker accused of serving as a Nazi death camp guard — which resumes next week after a monthlong summer break — broke potentially precedent-setting ground when it opened last year.
But it has become increasingly dominated by the 90-year-old defendant's failing health.
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