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: Telegraph (UK)
June 16, 2010
Italian archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the artist Caravaggio, 400 years after his death as they hope to finally solve the mystery of how he died.
After a year-long investigation, researchers are 85 per cent sure that bones found in a church crypt in Tuscany are those of the artist.
Scientists from four Italian universities sifted through around 200 sets of human remains they found in the ossuary of the crypt near Porto Ercole, on the Tuscan coast
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 16, 2010
To his adoring public, Jacques Tati was the delightful clown whose charming films put a smile back on the face of France after the Second World War.
But away from the screen, the actor and director was tormented by the guilt and shame he felt for abandoning his illegitimate daughter.
It was one of the darkest episodes in his life and it led to him being shunned by friends and colleagues.
He never spoke publicly about the daughter he had following an affa
Source: ABC News
June 15, 2010
An angry tourist, sun hat on head and camera dangling from neck, stood in the middle of the open-top double-decker tour bus, hands outstretched in a 'thumbs down' sign.
In this photo taken Thursday June 10, 2010 a Japanese child is seen in front of the ancient...
(AP)
About two dozen striking Greeks were blocking a main avenue in front of parliament, forcing the driver to maneuver awkwardly and deprive visitors of their drive-by photos.
It's scenes
Source: Haaretz (Israel)
June 15, 2010
Vandals defaced a late Ottoman-era archaeological site in Jaffa overnight Sunday that authorities had begun excavating earlier this month.
Yoav Arbel, the archaeologist heading the dig, said that underneath 19th-century structures such as buildings and a city wall, he expects to find relics from earlier periods such as the Crusader era or even the Iron Age.
"The site was significantly damaged. Several of the old stone walls were pushed over and are simply des
Source: BBC News
June 15, 2010
Slowly but steadily, a decade-old business around the dead and universally despised dictator Adolf Hitler is emerging as a small-scale industry in India.
Books and memorabilia on the German leader's life have found a steady market in some sections of Indian society where he is idolised and admired, mostly by the young.
The numbers are small but seem to be growing.
It's hard to narrow down what makes the dictator popular, but some young Indians say they are
Source: BBC News
June 14, 2010
Earthquakes have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the last 100 years and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll.
14 April 2010:
At least 400 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes western China's Qinghai province.
27 February 2010:
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits central Chile north-east of the second city, Concepcion. Official figures put the number of people killed at 452, but many are still
Source: Charlotte Observer
June 16, 2010
A historian and a collector are defending the authenticity of a photo found in Charlotte that appears to depict slave children, even as critics say copies of the image exist at the New York Public Library and have been sold on eBay.
A story about the photo was written by The Associated Press and ran in the Observer on Friday. The image in question shows two African-American children, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes.
New York collector Keya Morgan paid $30,000 for t
Source: National Geographic
June 15, 2010
Sacrificial remains of humans and animals, believed to be at least 2,700 years old, have been found in central China's Luoyang city (map), Chinese archaeologists say.
The bones are part of a recently discovered burial complex covering nearly a quarter acre (945 square meters) and containing 14 tombs, a water channel, and 59 pits from the Western Zhou dynasty....
Source: Boston Globe
June 15, 2010
Top aides to President Richard M. Nixon asked the FBI to “discreetly’’ look into the background of the young political aide Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned in 1969 when Edward M. Kennedy’s car careened off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, newly released FBI documents show.
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Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 11, 2010
Absinthe, the mind-bending green spirit said to have inspired Vincent van Gogh, could be legalised in France almost a century after being deemed a public menace.
The drink's powers were notorious in late 19th-Century Paris among bohemian artists and writers. Many swore it expanded consciousness and enhanced creativity, dubbing it the Green Fairy.
Van Gogh is said to have created Starry Night under its influence and it has been suggested it played a part in him cutting
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 13, 2010
Victorian censors painted over a beautiful Renaissance picture of a girl to make her look less sultry, experts have discovered.
Scientists working at the National Gallery found that Woman at a Window, a painting of a girl with neat dark hair and a steady gaze, contained a secret.
Hidden under layers of varnish and paint was the original painting of the same woman, only this time she has a suggestive sideways glance and was dressed in a more revealing bodice.
Source: BBC
June 11, 2010
A Finnish court has sentenced a Rwandan preacher to life in jail for his participation in Rwanda's genocide.
Francois Bazaramba, 59, moved in 2003 to the Nordic country, which allows prosecutions for crimes against humanity wherever they are committed.
His lawyers told Reuters news agency that he would appeal against the sentence.
Mr Bazaramba has been held in detention in Finland since 2007, four years after seeking asylum there....
Source: Mirror (UK)
June 14, 2010
A mass grave has been unearthed by Russian motorway builders.
Experts believe the estimated 500 victims - including children - were shot in the back of the head by dictator Josef Stalin's secret police in the 1930s.
Instead of being taken to work camps, victims were executed at the tree-shrouded site near Vladivostok....
Source: Fox News
June 10, 2010
Army Secretary John McHugh has fired the top two officials overseeing Arlington National Cemetery over allegations of mismanagement, including burying a service member's body on top of another, Fox News has confirmed.
Army Secretary John McHugh has fired the top two officials overseeing Arlington National Cemetery over allegations of mismanagement, including burying a service member's body on top of another, Fox News has confirmed.
McHugh will announce Thursday that he
Source: ABC News
June 10, 2010
beneath the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt's ancient capital Alexandria lies a wealth of archaeological artifacts. It's a treasure trove of 20,000 objects and counting, thousands of years old providing archaeologists the key to unlocking the mystery of ancient Egypt and its rulers.
One of them is the last Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. Legend has it that when the Romans entered Egypt in 30 BC and after losing the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra and her lover Mark Anthony took their own lives i
Source: The Boston Globe
June 10, 2010
...Such small victories are occurring nearly every day on the grounds of the Fairbanks House, the oldest wood-frame home in North America, where the day-to-day life of one of the country’s original families is being illuminated with every artifact plucked from the soil off East Street.
The work is dirty and tiring. But the efforts of Boston University archeology students and their volunteer crew are paying off with thousands of artifacts tossed aside by eight generations of a family
Source: 6-10-10
December 31, 2069
The Yukon government has designated the A.J. Goddard, a Gold Rush-era steamboat found on the bottom of a lake last year, a historic site.
This means the shipwrecked sternwheeler, which remains almost intact at the bottom of Lake Laberge, will be protected from damage or harm by people, according to Yukon government officials.
Launched during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 to carry miners and supplies, the A.J. Goddard vanished in Lake Laberge, north of Whitehorse, in a
Source: BBC Earth News
June 14, 2010
Palaeontologists have discovered two mammal hairs encased in 100 million-year-old amber.
While older 2D fossilised hairs are known, those preserved in the amber are the oldest 3D specimens known.
The hairs, found alongside a fly pupa in amber uncovered in southwest France, are remarkably similar to hair found on modern mammals.
That implies that the shape and structure of mammal hair has remained unchanged over a vast period of time....
Source: BBC News
June 14, 2010
Jimmy Dean, the country singer who had a big hit with Big Bad John, has died at the age of 81.
His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband passed away at their home in Virginia in the US.
"He was amazing. He had a lot of talents," she said of the singer, who starred in The Jimmy Dean Show in the 1950s.
In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the successful Jimmy Dean Meat Company.
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Source: CNN
June 14, 2010
There haven't been many times when I have been at a loss for words when conducting an interview as a medical reporter. This was one of those moments.
The man cleared his throat, after ignoring the question I just asked him. "You want to know what I think?" he said loudly.
"I do," I replied.
"Is that what this is about -- you want to know how I really feel, what makes me tick?" he said even louder.
I nodded as calml
