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: AP
June 29, 2010
John Demjanjuk's son accused a German court Tuesday of pushing ahead with a trial on allegations that his father served as a Nazi death camp guard despite what he said were indications the 90-year-old's health is deteriorating.
Tuesday's court session was canceled after Demjanjuk, a former Ohio autoworker deported from the U.S. to Germany in May 2009 to stand trial, was hospitalized with dangerously low blood hemoglobin levels.
Demjanjuk suffers from a number of ailment
Source: The Daily Caller (OH)
June 30, 2010
During a bipartisan education seminar for congressional interns last week, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown told a crowd of young people that those who opposed the Democrats’ health-care reform plan were on the wrong side of history, much like segregationists who opposed the Civil Rights movement.
While most speakers who participate in the summer lecture series discuss what it’s like working in Washington or use the time to motivate the internship class, some who were present duri
Source: Gulf Times (Qatar)
June 29, 2010
German archives said yesterday that they doubt they can afford to buy a major hoard of historic documents about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler which comes up for auction at the end of this week.
The seven binders of papers were accumulated by prison authorities when Hitler was serving 13 months in jail 1923-24 and writing his book Mein Kampf....
Source: WaPo
July 1, 2010
These days, when Melissa Tomlinson describes her fraught relationship with the United States, she speaks in English, the language she once rejected.
She grew up here on the island of Okinawa. Her mother was Japanese, and her father was an American who served in the U.S. Army, came to Okinawa, fell in love, fell out of love, then fell out of touch.
"I had plans to track him down, find him and punch him in the face," said Tomlinson, 22. "I just wanted to fi
Source: WaPo
June 30, 2010
Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago - and they've named it after the author of "Moby Dick."
The prehistoric sperm whale grew to between 13 and 18 meters (up to 60 feet) long, not unusual by today's standards. But unlike modern sperm whales, Leviathan melvillei, named for Herman Melville, sported vicious, tusk-like teeth some 36 centimeters (14 inches) long....
Source: ABC News
June 30, 2010
Egypt believes ancient tunnel part of secret unfinished tomb inside pharoah's grave.
Egyptian archaeologists who have completed excavations on an unfinished ancient tunnel believe it was meant to connect a 3,300-year-old pharaoh's tomb with a secret burial site, the antiquities department said Wednesday.
Egyptian chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said it has taken three years to excavate the 570-foot (174 meter) long tunnel in Pharaoh Seti I's ornate tomb in southern Egyp
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 30, 2010
DNA tests have shown that uman remains found at a grave in Cambodia are not those of Sean Flynn, the son of the Hollywood actor Errol Flynn.
In March two amateur archaeologists presented a jaw and a femur bone to US officials, unearthed at a site in eastern Kampong Cham province, saying they believed the parts belonged to the war photographer.
The remains from the site, which some researchers believe is a mass grave for up to a dozen foreign journalists killed by Khmer
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 30, 2010
Tony Blair, the former prime minister, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Liberty Medal, as well as a $100,000 cash prize.
The medal, previously awarded to rock singer and human rights activist Bono, Nelson Mandela and former US president Jimmy Carter will be presented to Mr Blair on September 13 in Philadelphia by former President Bill Clinton.
The National Constitution Center offers history-based exhibits focused on the U.S. Constitution and gives the annual a
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 30, 2010
The son of a Hamas founder who turned his back on his father's group to become a spy for Israel has been granted asylum in the US.
The ruling came after the federal government abruptly dropped concerns that Mosab Hassan Yousef was a terrorist threat.
Mr Yousef, 32, was greeted by a small group of cheering supporters as he left an immigration detention center where the 15-minute hearing was held under heavy security.
He had argued that he would be killed
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 30, 2010
Naomi Campbell, the model, will be called to appear before a war crimes trial after a court said reports she received a 'blood diamond' from Charles Taylor could be crucial evidence.
Prosecutors at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague argued that Miss Campbell's testimony could directly disprove claims made by ex-Liberia president Taylor during his two-year trial. Taylor is on trial for his alleged role in the civil war in Sierra Leone.
He is accused of arm
Source: AP
June 30, 2010
Archeologists have uncovered a mass grave with the complete skeletons of 51 horses buried side-by-side, probably the long-forgotten equine victims of a 17th century battle over a strategic Dutch river.
It was the largest known equine burial ground in Europe, although chief archaeologist Angela Simons said Wednesday that many such sites have probably existed and have been plowed up over the centuries by unwitting farmers.
The archaeological team had been looking for evid
Source: Fox News
June 30, 2010
Elian Gonzalez says he's not angry at his Miami relatives who fought to keep him in the United States during a nasty international custody battle a decade ago.
And he says he has "thanks to a large part of the American public" that he was reunited with his father in Cuba.
Now 16, Gonzalez's first comments to foreign reporters in years came after President Raul Castro attended a state celebration Wednesday night marking the 10th anniversary of the famous ex-cas
Source: CNN
June 30, 2010
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was hit with a blizzard of questions about politically thorny social and economic issues on the third and final day of her part in her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday.
In keeping with the tradition of other recent high court nominees, the 50-year-old solicitor general repeatedly declined to indicate how she might rule if confirmed, leading one senator to bemoan what many observers now characterize as a confirmation process devoid of substance
Source: Greenwich Times
June 30, 2010
Warren Platt and Brent Wagaman were taking a trip back in time.
One hundred years ago to the date, two lure manufacturers competed in the first bass tournament — a contest to see which of their surface plugs could catch the most fish.
Now, Platt and Wagaman — avid collectors of antique fishing equipment — were re-creating that piece of fishing history.
Fishing on a private lake in the Kansas City area, they used the same lures that William Jamison and Ans D
Source: CBC News (Canada)
June 29, 2010
Canadian officials will return to the Northwest Passage this summer in search of Sir John Franklin's long-lost ships, after efforts were postponed last year.
Federal searchers say they will take sonar equipment to the waters southwest of King William Island, in the Northwest Passage, in the hopes of finding the ships underwater.Federal searchers say they will take sonar equipment to the waters southwest of King William Island, in the Northwest Passage, in the hopes of finding the ships un
Source: Time.com
June 29, 2010
Did someone sabotage the Egyptian king's mummy to hide his less-than endowed genitalia? A new report from The New Scientist presents the possibility of a anatomical conspiracy.
Earlier this year, scientists speculated the cause of famed King Tutankhamen's death to be due to a bone disorder and a bad case of malaria, but just last week a group of German researchers overruled that diagnosis. Instead, they say the 19-year-old pharaoh suffered from sickle-cell anemia, a genetic abnormal
Source: Slate
June 29, 2010
Al-Qaida spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn released a video last Sunday in which he called President Obama a "treacherous, bloodthirsty, and narrow-minded American war president" of a "declining and besieged empire." Numerous reports suggest that Gadahn was born with the name Adam Pearlman, in California. Why do some converts to Islam change part of their name, but not the whole thing?
It varies....
Source: Press Release
June 21, 2010
The USA Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai today launched a virtual tour at http://pavilion.expo.cn/c5001/ssize/en/index.html, which gives a global audience a glimpse of the Pavilion and the exhibits that have already delighted more than a million guests. "World's Fairs are about creating enduring ties, and Expo 2010 is building a stronger
Source: Press Release
June 30, 2010
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds are now offering a $1000 reward for information that leads to the recovery of the six wagon wheels stolen from the Hornbek Homestead and the arrest and conviction of the thieves.
On the night of June 10, six wagon wheels were stolen from two historic wagons on display at the Hornbek Homestead at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Two additional wheels were destroyed when the thieves attempted to remove them from the wagons. Both wagons
Source: Sacramento Bee
June 30, 2010
A French railway company vowed to make "full disclosure" of its role in transporting Nazi victims to World War II death camps as part of a compromise reached Tuesday in legislation designed to pressure the company to make amends.
The Senate Transportation Committee approved the compromise that requires bidders in California's $45 billion high-speed rail project to reveal whether they transported Nazi victims to death or prison camps between 1942 and 1944.
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