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
June 10, 2010
A report claiming the Bloody Sunday Inquiry will conclude some of the 14 fatal shootings were unlawful is "speculation", the government has said.
Thirteen people were shot dead by paratroops in Londonderry on 30 January 1972. A 14th person died later.
The Guardian says Lord Saville's report - which has taken 12 years to compile and is due to be published on Tuesday - will say some were unlawfully killed.
The government said such speculation add
Source: BBC
June 10, 2010
A schoolgirl has launched a campaign to create a memorial to Titanic hero Harold Lowe in his home town.
Maddie Matthews, 15, of Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd, was shocked to learn Barmouth has no plaque to mark the sailor's efforts to rescue survivors.
Fifth Officer Lowe, played by Hollywood actor Ioan Gruffudd in the 1997 film, rowed a lifeboat back to pull four people from the freezing water.
Maddie wants the memorial up in time for the tragedy's centenary
Source: NPR
June 10, 2010
A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.
Art historians believe it's an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.
The photo, which may have been taken in the early 1860s, was a testament to a dark part of American history, said Will Stapp, a photog
Source: Washington Post
June 10, 2010
When the historic Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness museum in Clinton closed Sept. 30 due to a funding shortage, museum director and longtime historian Bianca Floyd found herself out of a job.
Eight months later, Floyd is still looking for work but has volunteered to reopen the museum for tours several Sundays a month through the summer to make sure the 18th-century property and its history remain in the public eye.
Although museum President John Walton said in Se
Source: New York Daily News
June 10, 2010
A revolutionary war is brewing in Crown Heights.
Neighborhood activists hope an archaeological excavation will unearth Revolutionary War artifacts beneath Clove Road, a tiny, crumbling street.
The dig will be launched this summer - despite a study that was lukewarm on whether the street was an American outpost from the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn.The 2002 report by the RBA Group, a private engineering and architectural firm hired by the city, foun
Source: Reuters
June 8, 2010
London's party people are donning grandmother's floral dresses, World War Two uniforms and heading to the air raid shelters again for evenings of swing music, champagne cocktails and other Blitz nostalgia.
Held every four to five weeks at different venues around the capital, Blitz Party is billed as a 1940s evening with community spirit, where people have the chance to escape the drab safety of the modern world for a time when Londoners defied Hitler's Luftwaffe bombers from behind
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 10, 2010
In 3,500 BC people lived off the land and society was split into two – agricultural farmers and pastoralists.
The most advanced civilisations are believed to have centred around the near East.
They would rise early with the sun to tend their crops or feed their livestock.
Diets were healthy. Meals would consist of milk, fruit, fish and meat – usually lamb or goat. Barley and bread was also available....
Source: AP
June 9, 2010
State and federal officials worked Tuesday to decontaminate a clam boat anchored in isolation off Massachusetts after it dredged up old munitions containing mustard gas, severely sickening a crewman.
The Coast Guard was trying to locate the two military shells, which the crew tossed overboard in about 60 feet of water about 45 miles south of Long Island, said Coast Guard Petty Officer James Rhodes. He acknowledged finding the shells will be difficult.
The military used
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 9, 2010
New York City's Empire State Building has said "yes" to Mariah Carey, dog shows, cancer charities - and even the 60th anniversary of communist China.
But the landmark skyscraper's owners have declined to illuminate the building in honour of the late Mother Teresa, in a decision that has angered some Catholics.
The building's owners have not commented to the media.
In New York, Mother Teresa helped open a pioneering hospice for AIDS patients in M
Source: CNN
June 8, 2010
As Bill Shankly, the legendary former manager of English club Liverpool, pointed out shortly before he passed away in 1981, the significance of the beautiful game can never be underestimated -- and that doesn't just apply to fans of the sport, either.
Soccer can affect lives on a national and international scale, inspiring revolutions and causing wars as well as having the capability to create peace and lift entire nations.
The "Football War" between Hondura
Source: BBC News
June 10, 2010
Vujadin Popovic, 53, and Ljubisa Beara, 70, were among seven former high-ranking military and police officials to be sentenced.
The court jailed five other defendants for between five and 35 years.
The case is the largest yet at the tribunal, set up to deal with war crimes in the Balkans during the 1990s.
Up to 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were killed in one week in July 1995 around the town of Srebrenica, where a UN safe haven had been declared two yea
Source: ABC 7 News
June 7, 2010
If you like gambling you may not have to go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City to hit the casino. Four resorts across the state of Pennsylvania are vying for the right to have slots and table games.
But one proposed location just a half-mile from the historic Gettysburg Civil War battlefield is sparking an outcry from preservationists.
"It's incredibly disrespectful," says Susan Paddock, who lives within a mile of the park and opposes the casino being built at the
Source: FOX News
June 9, 2010
A small publishing company is under fire after putting warning labels on copies of the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and other historical documents.
Wilder Publications warns readers of its reprints of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federalist Papers, among others, that “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.”
T
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 9, 2010
Corporal Bob Roberts was overseeing the surrender of dozens of enemy soldiers during the Battle of Normandy when the 7ft 6ins German loomed into his view.
Cpl Roberts, who stood two feet below him at 5ft 6ins, had the daunting job of frisking the German lance corporal for weapons before taking him prisoner.
Out of shot of the photo, Cpl Robert's comrades and even the captured German soldiers sniggered together at the sight of the little and large encounter.
Source: AP
June 10, 2010
A Chilean museum said it was willing to pay a princely sum for one of Lady Diana Spencer's first official gowns because the dress is an important piece of fashion history.
The strapless, silk taffeta dress' revealing cut and striking black color caused a minor scandal when Diana was pictured wearing it to a charity event in 1981. But while some thought it too daring, it helped turn the 19-year-old royal bride-to-be into an overnight fashion icon....
The [Museo de la Mod
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
June 8, 2010
In the end, it was only time from which he could not escape.
Jack Harrison, one of the last of those involved in the 'Great Escape', has passed away, peacefully and quietly, at the age of 97.
It has been 66 years since the dark night when he waited with bated breath, preparing to crawl through ‘Harry’ and under the wire of Stalag Luft III.
Many years after the war the former RAF pilot, and his brave and resourceful comrades, would be immortalised by the
Source: Time.com
June 9, 2010
President Obama wants to kick some ass. During a June 8 interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, Obama said he had been talking to experts about the BP oil spill so he could learn enough information to find out "whose ass to kick." The comment wasn't particularly vulgar — we've heard worse from Vice President Joe Biden — but coarse language always seems shocking when it comes from the mouth of a President.
Most examples of political profanity come from the 20th century
Source: FOX News
June 9, 2010
While the Deepwater Explorer blowout and leak is expected to be the worst offshore oil catastrophe in U.S. history, the federal government documented 330 oil spills related to offshore drilling between 1964 and 2009. A total of 550,500 barrels of oil were spilled (23,121,000 gallons), mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, from a variety of causes including weather, equipment failure, human error and blowouts.
The information comes from a “Summary of OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) Spills” on
Source: Dig Triad
June 9, 2010
The finishing touches are being made to a rather special exhibition at the History of Science Museum in Florence this week.
Proudly on show in the Galileo room are the recently discovered two fingers and a tooth, belonging to the man considered to be the father of modern science. They are now reunited with a better preserved finger that has been on display for many years.
An art collector recently found the tooth, thumb and finger belonging to the Italian scientist Gali
Source: CNN
June 7, 2010
An Australian trekker said he has discovered the site of a significant World War II battle in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, complete with the remains of Japanese soldiers right where they fell almost 70 years ago.
Former army Capt. Brian Freeman, an expert on the Kokoda Trail – a 60-mile trek through rugged mountainous country and rainforest of the island – said Monday he was led to the Eora Creek battle site where he found the remains of the soldiers.
The site about
