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: Salt Lake Tribune
September 2, 2010
Mormon bomber Mark Hofmann’s calling card has popped up again, signaling that the forger’s handiwork may be more widespread than previously believed.
But this time, instead of bogus documents surrounding the origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an embarrassing affidavit on the Mountain Meadows Massacre has surfaced.
Just shy of the 25th anniversary of Hofmann’s deadly Salt Lake City-area bombing spree, a written record quoted by historians has bec
Source: New York Times
September 2, 2010
Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a new biography asserts.
The assertion, based on numerous documents and interviews with three people said to be Mr. Wiesenthal’s Mossad handlers, punctures not only a widely held belief about how he operated; it also suggests a need to re-evaluate the standard view that the Israeli government took
Source: Kansas City Star
August 16, 2010
irst, ballplayers plant a large square of broomstick stakes, instead of a diamond of bases, around a field.
Then, they divide randomly into halves. One team with an antique bat heads out for its first bout at bat.
“Huzzah, good strike,” screams Synthia Somerhalder, as striker Logan Nickels knocks a cotton-filled leather ball left and runs from broomstick to broomstick.
Two at-bats later, a ball skims the infield near another “stake-runner” who can’t avoid a
Source: New York Magazine
August 22, 2010
ean Wilentz, a Princeton history professor and author of Bob Dylan in America, has agreed to lead a tour of Dylan’s Greenwich Village, a place he knows better than any other. We visit the singer’s former apartment on West 4th Street, above what’s now a sex shop; the clubs he played along Macdougal Street; the building where he first encountered Allen Ginsberg. “This whole neighborhood has such a long history that there is a sense—for some of us, anyway—of revenants, of ghosts,” says Wilentz, bet
Source: ABC News
September 1, 2010
The Cardy family of Door County has a lot to be proud of -- not only because their property dates back generations but because on that property are artifacts older than the Egyptian pyramids.
On Wednesday, one of Wisconsin's most significant archeological finds came under new ownership.
Archaeologists call the Cardy Camp on the southeastern edge of Sturgeon Bay the most important archaeological site of its era in Wisconsin.
Scientists say it was a hunting c
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 3, 2010
rare German wartime bomber which was discovered on a sandbank 70 years after it was shot down during the Battle of Britain is to be raised, it was announced today.
The twin-engined Dornier 17 first emerged from Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile long sandbank off the coast of Deal, Kent, two years ago, a spokesman for the RAF Museum said.
Since then, the museum has worked with Wessex Archaeology to complete a full survey of the wreck site, usually associated with shipwrecks, before th
Source: Fox News
September 3, 2010
A history teacher has been suspended in France for spending too much time teaching students about the Holocaust.
Catherine Pederzoli, 58, a secondary school teacher who is Jewish, was accused of teaching the subject with insufficient neutrality for both her time dedicated to teaching about the Holocaust and trips she organized to former Nazi death camps, Pederzoli’s attorney Christine Tadic told Agence France-Presse.
"If this teacher had been a Christian, no one wo
Source: CNN
September 3, 2010
First there was the discovery of dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, but now salvage divers have recovered what they believe to be the world's oldest beer, taking advertisers' notion of 'drinkability' to another level.
Though the effort to lift the reserve of champagne had just ended, researchers uncovered a small collection of bottled beer on Wednesday from the same shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea.
"At the moment, we beli
Source: Fox News
September 1, 2010
The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.
The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.
A State Department s
Source: Telegraph (UK)
August 29, 2010
Battlelines are being drawn over plans to build a casino close to Gettysburg, the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, in what opponents say would be a desecration of sacred ground.
The American Legion veterans organisation called the plan a "national disgrace" but supporters said it would boost the local economy and help to halt a decline in visitors to the battlefield.
More than 160,000 men fought at Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. Aroun
Source: The Telegraph
August 29, 2010
Sales of the third edition of the vast tome have fallen due to the increasing popularity of online alternatives, according to its publisher.
A team of 80 lexicographers has been working on the third edition of the OED – known as OED3 – for the past 21 years.
The dictionary’s owner, Oxford University Press (OUP), said the impact of the internet means OED3 will probably appear only in electronic form.The most recent OED has existed online for more tha
Source: AP
August 31, 2010
A former Argentine military officer is going to have to wait a little longer to find out if he will be sent to Argentina to stand trial on charges that he was involved in a 1972 massacre of leftist guerrillas.
A federal judge in Miami said at a hearing Tuesday he would issue a written decision in a few weeks in the case of 68-year-old Roberto Guillermo Bravo.
Argentina wants Bravo to face 16 counts of murder and other charges in the 1972 killings. Bravo's attorney says
Source: International Business Times
August 30, 2010
The birth rate in US fell 2.6 percent in 2009 for the second year in a row to its lowest level in the country’s history, according to a latest study by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The number of babies born in the US dropped to 13.5 births for every 1,000 people in 2009 from 13.9 births in 2008 and 14.3 births in 2007, the report showed.
Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at John Hopkins University was quoted as saying that the decline in birth rate was
Source: AP
August 30, 2010
The Red Cross says nearly 15,000 people are still missing from the wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The figures were released Monday to commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared.
About 10,500 of those missing are from the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, while 2,392 are from the 1991-95 conflict in Croatia. Another 1,839 are from the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo.The International Committee of the Red Cross statement urges authoritie
Source: Telegraph (UK)
September 1, 2010
Fidel Castro has acknowledge discrimination against homosexuals during his rule in the 1960s and 70s, regretting that he did not pay enough attention to the “great injustice” suffered.
The former Cuban revolutionary leader said if someone was responsible, it was him, but he was primarily concerned with other matters.
Castro did not blame the ruling Communist Party for the discrimination, instead regretting that he himself did not pay enough attention to the plight of
Source: Washington Times
September 1, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Wednesday that history will judge whether the war in Iraq was worth it.
In Iraq to mark the formal close of the U.S. combat mission and the departure of the top U.S. war commander, Mr. Gates visited troops at Camp Ramadi in western Iraq.
Asked whether the U.S. was still at war in Iraq, Mr. Gates answered succinctly, "I would say we are not."
Fewer than 50,000 U.S. troops are still in Iraq, down from more than
Source: Salt Lake City Tribune
September 2, 2010
The LDS Church and Jewish leaders in New York are looking forward to working together on relief efforts and other endeavors after announcing Wednesday the resolution of a sticky dispute: posthumous proxy baptisms by Mormons of Jewish Holocaust victims.
But not everyone is convinced the problem is settled.
The Utah-based church reiterated its willingness to eliminate names of Holocaust victims from its massive genealogical database. The Jewish delegation, headed by Rober
Source: Associated Press
September 2, 2010
A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday.
Capt. Dale Goetz of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday.
Before Goetz, the last Army chaplain to die in action was Phillip Nichols, who was killed by a concealed enemy explosive in Vietnam in October of 1970, said Chaplain Carleton Birch, a spokesman for the
Source: Discovery News
September 1, 2010
Ultra millionaire sponsorship deals such as those signed by sprinter Usain Bolt, motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi and tennis player Maria Sharapova, are just peanuts compared to the personal fortune amassed by a second century A.D. Roman racer, according to an estimate published in the historical magazine Lapham's Quarterly.
According to Peter Struck, associate professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, an illiterate charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles ea
Source: BBC News
September 2, 2010
A metal detecting enthusiast has found what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.
Danny Mills, 21, made the find in a field near Sudbury in Suffolk.
The area was dotted with plush Roman villas and country estates in the second century.
The object, described as a rare example of Roman craftsmanship, has been donated to Ipswich Museum where it is now on display.
In the autumn of 2009, Mr Mi
