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: Mirror
April 29, 2008
Royal Navy divers admit they may never find a 1,100lb Second World War bomb which they lost on the seabed.
Experts towed the device two miles offshore after it was washed up on a beach. But they lost its position when a marker buoy broke free and it was moved by tides.
The Navy said: "We're still committed to looking for it.
"But it might get to the stage where we have to see if it comes ashore again."
The German bomb was scooped up eight days ago
Source: JTA
April 27, 2008
Czech auction Web sites are offering thousands of Nazi-related items that have been growing in popularity.
For instance, Aukro.cz had 1,335 items in its "Germany 1933-1945" section on Wednesday.
"We have recently sold a knife of the National Socialist Motor Corps for 80,000 crowns," or $3,188, auction operator Oto Obdrzalek told the daily newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes Thursday.
Klara Kalibova, from the nongovernmental organization Toleranc
Source: Daily Mail
April 27, 2008
Seeing the world captured in colour is something most of us take for granted.
But at the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited - to black and white images, with various shades of grey in between.
It was not until 1907 that autochrome - the process through which colour photographs were first produced - was invented in Paris.
Source: Times (UK)
April 26, 2008
Nurses inflicted pain upon wounded soldiers in the First World War to a scandalous degree, according to new research.
Military hospitals have traditionally been portrayed as havens run by caring, if overstretched, staff but fresh evidence suggests that the experience of patients was very different.
Diaries written by injured working-class soldiers from the Somme to Gallipoli have revealed how they silently endured brutal treatment by the female military nurses, surgeons
Source: http://www.thelocal.de
April 4, 2008
Bulgaria confirmed for the first time on Friday that East Germans and others trying to flee the Soviet bloc for the West were killed on its soil during the Cold War.
"We came upon two cases of East German citizens killed while attempting to escape via Bulgaria - one in 1974 and another in 1988," Ekaterina Boncheva, a member of an official committee looking into communist-era secret service archives, told journalists.
Border police officers were rewarded for ca
Source: Press Release--http://www.hallowedground.org
April 30, 2008
Today, the House of Representatives joined the United States Senate in passing legislation to designate the Journey Through Hallowed Ground a National Heritage Area (JTHG NHA). The legislation, S. 2739, passed the Senate on April 10, 2008, by a vote of 91 to 4 and in the House today by a vote of 291 to 117. This Act of Congress recognizes the unparalleled cultural, historic and scenic resources within the entire JTHG corridor—the region that generally follows the Old Carolina Road (Rt. 15/231)
Source: http://www.txcn.com
April 28, 2008
While to some the statue of a Confederate soldier that stands before the Denton County Courthouse represents a piece of history, others say they believe it just represents hypocrisy.
That stand has incited two University of North Texas students to start a petition for the removal of the historical landmark, a statue of a Confederate soldier holding his gun to represent the South in the Civil War.
"It's really very frustrating that so many people would look at this
Source: Bloomberg News
April 30, 2008
De Beers, the world's biggest undersea diamond miner, said its geologists in Namibia found the wreckage of an ancient sailing ship still laden with treasure, including six bronze cannons, thousands of Spanish and Portuguese gold coins and more than 50 elephant tusks.
The wreckage was discovered in the area behind a sea wall used to push back the Atlantic Ocean in order to search for diamonds in Namibia's Sperrgebiet or "Forbidden Zone."
"If the experts' a
Source: AP
April 30, 2008
Supreme Court Justice David Souter says it took a trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to change his perspective on handling difficult cases.
In a rare public address yesterday, the justice from New Hampshire admitted that at least one Supreme Court case prompted him to ask, "Why do I have to resolve that case?"
He said he found an answer last year while visiting the Pennsylvania battlefield where the Civil War changed course in 1863. Souter noted that the comma
Source: http://canadafreepress.com
April 27, 2008
Warsaw, Poland: New, sensational documents concerning the attempt against the late pope, John Paul II, have been revealed in a new book by John O. Kohler, an American journalist and writer. The book, entitled ”It’s About the Pope. Spies in the Vatican”, will be released in Poland on Monday, April 28, 2008 by ZNAK Publishing House, known for its publications about the late pope.
The author unearthed a Kremlin document, which listed Soviet Politbureau members, who had signed an “inf
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 30, 2008
Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos launched a legal action yesterday against a homosexual group, insisting that only islanders had the right to call themselves lesbians.
The inhabitants of the island said they were attempting to ban the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union (Olke) from bearing the name "lesbian".
Source: AP
April 29, 2008
Israel's official memorial day for the Holocaust, which begins at sundown Wednesday, finds many elderly survivors of the Nazi genocide turning their anger on a group that is meant to help them.
For more than five decades, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — better known as the Claims Conference — has been the central channel for billions of dollars in restitution and reparations payments from Germany to Jewish victims of the Third Reich.
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Source: Daily Mail
April 30, 2008
An SS concentration camp doctor accused of murdering hundreds of prisoners is to be named as the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal.
Aribert Heim tops the list of 10 suspects, to be published by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, today.
Heim managed to avoid prosecution, his American-held file in Germany mysteriously omitting his time at Mauthausen, and now he is the most-wanted suspected Nazi war criminal among hundreds who the Simon Wiesenthal Centre estimates are still
Source: Fox News
April 29, 2008
A Republican congressional candidate in Indiana is defending himself after speaking to a group that was celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
The Northwest Indiana Times published a photo of candidate Tony Zirkle last week speaking in Chicago to the American National Socialist Workers Party, a neo-Nazi group. He spoke in front of a portrait of Hitler and was flanked by large swastika banners.
Zirkle wrote on his Web site Tuesday that the criticism he’s received is undese
Source: Press Release--World Jewish Congress
April 28, 2008
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) strongly criticized the continued sale by the leading US online retailer Amazon.com of T-shirts praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. I love Hitler shirts for children and women were still being sold on the Amazon.com website as of Thursday, 24 April 2008, 16:00 GMT. In January 2008, Amazon had pledged to remove offensive shirts following an article in the Czech weekly Tyden.
We are shocked and disgusted that Amazon.com is seemingly unwilling to stop t
Source: WaPo
April 30, 2008
Senior Air Force officers proposed using 10-to-15-kiloton nuclear bombs against targets in Communist China in 1958, in the event that Beijing blockaded the Taiwan Strait, but President Dwight D. Eisenhower ruled out that option, according to a newly declassified Pentagon document.
At a Cabinet meeting in mid-August 1958, as the threat of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan was developing, Air Force Gen. Nathan F. Twining, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained "that at
Source: Newsweek
May 5, 2008
In 1931, when Franklin Roosevelt was considering whether he should, and could, run for the presidency, he called in three physicians to advise on his physical capability. They reported that the man who had contracted polio ten years earlier, losing all movement in his legs, was indeed in good health—and, furthermore, that he had "no symptoms of impotentia coeundi." "In plain English," writes historian Joseph E. Persico, "he could sustain an erection."
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Source: LAT
April 27, 2008
After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal client -- a longtime political supporter.
Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer to give legal advice to his growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange. It allowed Obama to suppl
Source: WaPo
April 27, 2008
Forty years ago, they launched a student protest at Columbia University that involved the occupation of five campus buildings, the hostage-taking of a dean, 712 arrests and injuries to scores of students, faculty members and police officers.
Now, they are lawyers, judges, playwrights, poets, professors and ministers. They gathered this weekend back on campus with former classmates to hear memories of those events and occasionally raise a revolutionary fist for old times' sake.
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
April 25, 2008
On March 27, 2008, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a memorandum, stating that it would not conduct a “harvest” of federal agency websites as they exist at the end of President Bush’s term as they did in 2001 and 2005. In response to concerns expressed by stakeholders, last week the National Archives issued further clarification stating “each agency is now responsible, in coordination with NARA, for determining how to manage its web records, including whether to pre
