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August 2, 2010
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Brian May, Guitarist for Queen, Discovers 150-Year-Old Photos Of An English Village -- In Stereo Vision
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Source: Telegraph (UK)
August 3, 2010
Australia's cultural heritage has been "whitewashed", Aborigines have claimed, after all 11 sites given Unesco World Heritage status this year relate to the country's colonial past.
Among the sites added to the World Heritage List this year are Sydney's 19th century Hyde Park Barracks and Tasmania's Port Arthur penal settlement, which Unesco deemed of "outstanding universal value".
The listing will ensure protection for the buildings, but the move ha
Source: Telegraph (UK)
August 3, 2010
Fidel Castro has unveiled a new book with a much-anticipated autobiographical section and the story of a major military victory that sped the former Cuban leader's rise to power in 1959.
"The Strategic Victory" has yet to be released to the general public, but organisers of the unveiling ceremony said 3,500 copies would be made available in coming days and 50,000 copies would eventually be published.
State television showed images of Castro's appearance at t
Source: Telegraph (UK)
August 3, 2010
Joe DiMaggio was celebrated as one of baseball's biggest stars and the one-time husband of Marilyn Monroe but he made a very poor soldier, newly-revealed military records show.
US army records obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request portray the sports hero as deeply selfish and desperate to obtain a discharge despite the fact that the USA was at war.
The New York Yankees player served for two and a half years in the US army, enlisting in February 1943.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
August 3, 2010
Archaeologists in the Philippines have unearthed a 67,000-year-old human bone in a discovery they claim proves the area was settled by man 20,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The foot bone - found during a four-year excavation project of a network of caves - predates the 47,000-year-old Tabon Man that was previously known as the first human to have lived in the Philippines.
The discovery was made at the Callao caves near Penablanca, 210 miles north of Manila
Source: BBC News
August 2, 2010
A website showcasing the social history of Wales is being unveiled at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
People's Collection Wales is a bilingual gathering of experiences, pictures and video of life in Wales.
Archive material from museums has been used, but the developers are now looking for contributions from the public.
The website uses GPS technology allowing the viewer to travel a map of Wales and view artefacts in 3D....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
August 3, 2010
A 113-year-old woman listed as Tokyo's oldest person has gone missing, officials said on Tuesday, days after the city's oldest man was found dead and mummified.
Fusa Furuya, born in July, 1897, does not live at the address in Japan's capital where she is registered and her whereabouts are unknown, officials said.
News of her disappearance surfaced days after the discovery that Tokyo's oldest man, who would have been 111 years old, had actually been dead for three decad
Source: NY Daily News
August 3, 2010
The grandson of Chairman Mao Zedong, the first leader of the People’s Republic of China, has become the country's youngest army general, state-run media reported.
Photographs of the portly Mao Xinyu wearing the insignia of a major general, the lowest of three general ranks in the People's Liberation Army, were published on the Web site of China News Service. Mao is the youngest person to hold that rank, the Global Times reported Monday, citing Bao Guojun, a spokesman at the Academy
Source: CBS News
August 2, 2010
The Teutonic Knights have long been reviled in Poland, where the Germanic warriors swept in during the Middle Ages and converted pagans to Christianity at the point of a sword. Many here see them as an early incarnation of a Germany that has attacked Poland over the centuries, most recently in World War II.
But now one Polish town is putting all grudges aside and celebrating the memory of the Teutonic Knights in an attempt to highlight the rich history of this once-German municipali
Source: AP
August 3, 2010
It's been almost two decades since U.S troops were forced out of Somalia after the "Black Hawk Down" battle. Troops from neighboring Ethiopia spent more than two years trying to restore order before withdrawing last year. Now, the U.S. is backing a push by African states to add troops to combat Somali militants.
But Somalia experts who have watched violence spin in circles for nearly 20 years are warning that more troops will not bring peace, and will encounter fierce resi
Source: WSJ
August 3, 2010
It's Friday and the weekly congregational prayer has just ended at the Umayyad Mosque, Syria's most famous monument. As the faithful exit, they walk past an unassuming bit of masonry on the mosque's southern wall: a Greek inscription above a blocked doorway, with a most unlikely message: "Thy Kingdom, O Christ, is an everlasting Kingdom, and Thy dominion endureth throughout all generations." How did Psalm 145 end up on the outside of one of Islam's holiest sites? The answer provides a
Source: Medievalists.net
August 3, 2010
Electronic Arts (EA) has announced that they will be releasing The Sims: Medieval in the spring of 2011. The developers say it will allow players to create heroes, venture on quests, and build and control a kingdom, all in setting that will be full of drama, romance, conflict, and comedy.
“The Middle Ages is a time of intrigue, legend, and excitement. It offers a perfect backdrop for a brand new series from The Sims studio due to the limitless stories that can be told,” said Scott E
Source: Medievalist.net
August 2, 2010
The Medieval Academy of America announced today that its 2011 annual meeting will still be held in Arizona. The academic organization was under pressure to move the conference because of the recent immigration law adopted by the state.
An email was sent out to its membership and posted the Medieval Academy of America’s (MAA) website, which stated the MAA’s Executive Committee took into account a number of issues when making their decision, including the “fiduciary responsibility for
Source: CNN
August 3, 2010
New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status Tuesday for a building at the site of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero.
The commissioners voted unanimously against landmark status for 45-47 Park Place. It and an adjoining building are owned by real estate developer Soho Properties, which intends to build an Islamic center two blocks north of the former site of the World Trade Center.
While the public vote was the focus of
Source: AP
August 1, 2010
An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning Inc.
The 159-year-old glass pioneer is ramping up production of what it calls Gorilla glass, expecting it to be the hot new face of touch-screen tablets and high-end TVs.
Gorilla showed early promise in the '60s, but failed to find a commercial use, so it's been biding its time in a hilltop research lab for almost a half-cen
Source: AP
August 1, 2010
In 1632, John Tuttle arrived from England to a settlement near the Maine-New Hampshire border, using a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm.
Eleven generations and 378 years later, his field-weary descendants — arthritic from picking fruits and vegetables and battered by competition from supermarkets and pick-it-yourself farms — are selling their spread, which is among the oldest continuously operated family farms in America....
Source: AP
August 2, 2010
An unemployed book dealer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for possessing a stolen first edition of Shakespeare's plays, described by the judge as a "quintessentially English treasure."
Raymond Scott was cleared last month of stealing the rare First Folio but found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property from Britain....
Source: Time
August 3, 2010
Two years ago, TIME met Ali Ahsan Mojaheed at the headquarters of his far-right Islamist party, nestled amid a warren of religious bookshops and seminaries in Dhaka. He welcomed this reporter by peeling a clutch of ripe lychees. "Our fruit is the sweetest," said the secretary general of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami, proffering a sticky hand. But the conversation soon soured. Asked about the traumatic legacy of Bangladesh's 1971 independence — when the territory then known as East Pakis
Source: Iceland Review
July 30, 2010
A skeleton from a person who suffered from the Paget’s disease of bone was unearthed this week during an archeological excavation project at Skriduklaustur in east Iceland, where a monastery was once operated.
Archeologist Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, who is responsible for the project, told Fréttabladid that many curious things have come to light during the excavation, which is taking place for the ninth summer in a row.
“We know now that a hospital was operated in the mo
Source: Radio Free Europe
August 2, 2010
A senior Iraqi official says that international cooperation has resulted in the recovery of thousands of ancient artifacts stolen from the country's national museum and historical sites since 2003, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.
Tourism and Antiquities Minister Qahtan al-Juburi told RFE/RL that more than 36,000 various artifacts have been recovered in the past seven years.
Juburi said that figure includes roughly 8,000 items that were stolen from the national museum
