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: http://www.tallahassee.com
April 27, 2008
The Natural Bridge Battlefield may be endangered, but the cavalry is on the way.
State officials have tentatively agreed to buy 55 privately owned acres of the battlefield — but they must exercise their option by August. If they don't, the Civil War Preservation Trust is interested.
In March, the trust listed Natural Bridge as one of this year's 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit purchases endangered battlefields with private
Source: http://www.eveningsun.com
April 25, 2008
Disabilities-rights activist Marilynn Phillips is prepared to file a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission regarding the newly opened Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center - which she alleges does not "reasonably" accommodate disabled patrons.
Phillips' main gripes are with the center's 500-foot sloped sidewalk from the parking lot to the entrance, the low number of handicap parking spaces, a lack of automatic and power-assist doo
Source: UPI
April 27, 2008
Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," whose publication is barred in Germany, could be released again in the former Nazi leader's nation.
Historians, among other academics, argue that the book ought to be reproduced with editorial annotations before 2015, when it enters the public domain and neo-Nazi groups will be able to publish it freely, Haaretz reported Sunday.
Hitler wrote the first part of the 720-page book in 1923, while in prison for his part in the attempted
Source: http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
April 28, 2008
A TOP North Yorkshire police officer has come under fire for keeping a Nazi clock on his office wall.
Deputy Chief Constable, Adam Briggs, pictured, was criticised by MPs and Holocaust historians for keeping the clock in such a prominent position at the force's HQ near Northallerton.
The timepiece was bequeathed to him by his father, who served in the Royal Navy,
Mr Briggs has said that if the force or North Yorkshire Police Authority felt it was causing o
Source: AP
April 27, 2008
CLEVELAND—A former autoworker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an order by the nation's chief immigration judge that he be deported, a newspaper reported Friday.
John Demjanjuk, 88, filed the appeal this week, The Plain Dealer reported on its Web site. The deportation order would send Demjanjuk to Germany, Poland or his native Ukraine.
The Associated Press left a message seeking comment with Demjanjuk's attorney, John B
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 28, 2008
Unseen files from some of the most sensational criminal trials in history are to be made available to the public today.
Transcripts from Old Bailey cases, including Oscar Wilde's trial for gross indecency and the infamous case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who killed his wife, form part of 110,000 pages of records made available online, free of charge. The London court's records include details of more than 210,000 criminal trials from 1674 to 1913.
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Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 28, 2008
A family who once ruled a princely state of the Raj want a neglected British monument to be moved 200 miles to their mountain kingdom for safekeeping.
The memorial, standing on a hillock beside the Kabul River outside Nowshera in Pakistan, commemorates one of Britain's most famous military feats - the race to lift the siege of Chitral in 1895.
Daubed with graffiti and defaced by some who are offended by its proximity to a Muslim graveyard, it is in danger of collapsing.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
April 28, 2008
Unseen files from some of the most sensational criminal trials in history are to be made available to the public today.
Transcripts from Old Bailey cases, including Oscar Wilde's trial for gross indecency and the infamous case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who killed his wife, form part of 110,000 pages of records made available online, free of charge. The London court's records include details of more than 210,000 criminal trials from 1674 to 1913.
Source: AFP
April 18, 2008
France has returned to Burkina Faso a haul of stolen archaeological treasures discovered in a northern French port, the Burkinabe culture minister told AFP Friday.
Filippe Sawadogo said 262 items of "national archaeological and cultural significance" to the landlocked west African nation were returned via the French embassy in Ouagadougou on Wednesday.
He praised the "perspicacity" of French customs officers at the French city of Rouen, on the River
Source: National Geographic News
April 23, 2008
Hundreds of prehistoric dogs found buried throughout the southwestern United States show that canines played a key role in the spiritual beliefs of ancient Americans, new research suggests.
Throughout the region, dogs have been found buried with jewelry, alongside adults and children, carefully stacked in groups, or in positions that relate to important structures, said Dody Fugate, an assistant curator at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
F
Source: http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk
April 24, 2008
BIGGAR Archaeology Group have discovered the location of an ancient 5000-6000-year-old settlement site in a ploughed field at Carwood Farm near the town.
After only two days walking ploughed fields to look for evidence of the past, an annual Spring event for the group, the ancient site was located.
Tam Ward, group leader, explained: “Last year we found a few flints at this location, and this time the first thing we noticed on the ground were carbonised hazel nut shells
Source: Janet Maslin in the NYT
April 28, 2008
[Carol Felsenthal's] “Clinton in Exile” represents a largely missed opportunity to evaluate these years in light of its subject’s overall stature. “People who know Clinton say he’s still the smartest guy in the room,” Ms. Felsenthal acknowledges, referring to the diminished state of less fortunate bypass-surgery patients.
But even at its most mean-spirited, the book makes a few stingingly substantial claims. “It is surprising how many people who know and like Bill Clinton come to th
Source: NYT
April 28, 2008
In its old, mustily glorious quarters in the British Museum, the British Library’s main reading room was as exclusive as it was glamorous, a club rich with tradition whose distinguished alumni included Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw.
But in 1998 the library moved to a modern red-brick building on Euston Road, and four years ago it liberalized its admission policy. It opened its new reading rooms not only to writers and academics who depend on material
Source: AP
April 25, 2008
It can be hard to find what remains of the Berlin Wall, a divisive landmark that for 28 years split the German capital and an entire generation.
But history buffs wanting to see the last vestiges of the iconic symbol of east versus west no longer have to consult old maps or seek out guidebooks. A new multimedia guide offers individualized walking tours connecting the key points where the 103-mile-long wall once stood.
The hand-sized minicomputer, commissioned by the cit
Source: http://www.thejc.com
April 27, 2008
A long-held taboo on using Nazi imagery to sell products appears to be weakening. Is it just ad-land’s love of shock value — or something bigger?
In a South Korean television commercial, a young woman in a military trenchcoat holds a soldier’s cap bearing a motif of what looks like an eagle gripping a swastika. The voiceover says: “Even Hitler could not take over the East and West at the same time.” The cosmetics manufacturer Coreana was later forced to withdraw this advertisement f
Source: AP
April 27, 2008
Berlin residents wanting to save the city's historic Tempelhof airport from being closed later this year have failed, initial official results showed.
Not enough people cast ballots in a referendum, the city's first, to make it valid.
Preliminary results released by the Berlin state election authority showed that the majority of the 530,231 ballots cast were in favor of keeping the airport open. But they accounted for only 21.7 percent of the 2.4 million eligible voters
Source: AP
April 27, 2008
Asle Helgelien didn't believe Belle Gunness' claims that his brother, missing for months after answering the widow's lonely hearts ad, had left her northern Indiana farm for Chicago or maybe their native Norway.
Suspicious after a bank said his brother, Andrew, had cashed a $3,000 check — a large sum in 1908 — the South Dakota farmer came to LaPorte and discovered his brother's remains in a pit of household waste.
A century later, modern forensic scientists hope to solv
Source: AP
April 27, 2008
Iraq's National Museum on Sunday welcomed the return of more than 700 antiquities stolen during the chaos that followed the U.S.-led invasion five years ago.
Golden necklaces, daggers, clay statues, pots and other artifacts were displayed briefly during a ceremony attended by Syrian and Iraqi officials. Syrian authorities seized the items from traffickers over the years and handed custody last week to an Iraqi delegation in Damascus.
Mohammad Abbas al-Oreibi, Iraq's ac
Source: WaPo
April 27, 2008
Relations between Russia and Ukraine, bedeviled by disputes over natural gas supplies and NATO expansion, have lately been roiled by one of the great tragedies of Soviet history: the famine of 1932-33, which left millions dead from starvation and related diseases.
Ukraine is seeking international recognition of the famine, which Ukrainians call Holodomor -- or death by hunger -- as an act of genocide.
When Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin forced peasants off their homestea
Source: Colbert I. King in the WaPo
April 26, 2008
Among all of the top Democrats intimately involved in the Pennsylvania primary, which would you say has had the coziest relationship with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam?
It's not Barack Obama.
The individual who has shared a podium with Farrakhan and has publicly praised the Nation of Islam the loudest is the person most responsible for organizing, mobilizing and delivering the Pennsylvania vote to Hillary Clinton: her close friend and trusted political counsel
