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://media.www.collegian.com
March 5, 2008
Zev Kedem spent much of his childhood seeing sights.
He saw the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, the factory of Oskar Schindler and, eventually, the downfall of the Nazi regime.
Looking back over 60 years, Kedem, 73, is amazed that he came out alive.
"The most amazing thought is that the Holocaust overtook me when I was five," Kedem said in a telephone interview on Monday. "That's amazing for a child."
Kedem will speak a
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 5, 2008
One of Britain's most controversial politicians, the Rev Ian Paisley, has announced he is to quit as Northern Ireland's First Minister following concerns within his party over his close relationship with Sinn Fein.
Mr Paisley - previously one of the most outspoken critics of Irish republicanism - steered his Democratic Unionist Party from the fringes of Northern Irish politics to become the biggest party in a power-sharing executive last year with Martin McGuinness as his deputy.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com
May 3, 2008
Little Saigon loses again.
After a six-and-a-half hour meeting, the San Jose City Council early this morning rescinded its controversial decision to call a Vietnamese retail area "Saigon Business District." But council members stopped short of renaming it "Little Saigon," as hundreds of speakers had implored.
The vote, which came at 1:30 a.m., was 7-4 to set up a process for naming business districts in the future and give business owners and other stakeho
Source: Voice of America
March 2, 2008
The presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador have ordered troops to their countries' respective borders with Colombia, after Colombian forces bombed a rebel camp in Ecuador's territory. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, the surge in tensions are the latest chapter in a period of frosty relations between Colombia's U.S.-backed leader and Venezuela socialist-firebrand president.
Colombia and Venezuela both trace the origins of their nationhood to the independence movement led b
Source: BBC
March 2, 2008
Political conventions have played a unique role in American political history.
In theory, the convention is a conference where party activists come together to choose a presidential nominee.
But in recent years, the parties have managed to narrow down their choice to just one candidate long before the convention begins.
Consequently, they have become stage-managed events, marking the official launch of the presidential campaign of a candidate already select
Source: CNN
March 2, 2008
March is Women's History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration that encourages all Americans to reflect on the ways in which women have shaped U.S. history. But how did this celebration come to be, and why is it held in March?
"I long to hear that you have declared an independency, and by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies..."-- Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776
Source: http://www.seacoastonline.com
February 28, 2008
When Jeff Marple began construction of the "Eastwood" development off Lang Rd., he was mandated by the state to hire a pair of archeologists to dig a series of holes across the property and sift the soil in search of Native American remains or artifacts. The process stalled Marple’s construction for two months, cost him $5,000 and the University of New Hampshire archeologists didn’t find a single artifact.
"They did find two round stones next to each other, and that c
Source: http://www.khnl.com
March 3, 2008
It was a dark chapter in Hawaii's history. Island residents were removed from their homes and put into internment camps during World War II.
Sixty-five years later, former captives remember the day when the gates to their camp opened.
Approximately 300 Hawaii residents, most of them American citizens, were sent to the Honouliuli internment camp in 1943. Now, more than 6 decades after their release, the area could soon become a national historic site.
Being
Source: Christian Science Monitor
March 3, 2008
Back in the summer of 1965, a few months before he would start his first year of college at the University of Nebraska, Bill Costen was thrilled about his new summer job. On his first day, he put on the uniform that had been a symbol of status and pride for African-American men for more than a century: a pressed white jacket, a black tie, and the visored hat of the Pullman porter....
Last month, Amtrak teamed with the Chicago-based A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum to honor t
Source: AP
March 3, 2008
Officials now know who wrote a 50-year-old postcard that has intrigued Stratford residents, but they may never solve the mystery of how it arrived at town hall earlier this year.
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The cellophane-wrapped postcard, postmarked Aug. 14, 1957, showed up in January, more than 50 years after it was sent from East Sumner, Maine, to Stratford Town Manager Harry Flood, who died in 1966.
"Hi, Enjoying this rather fallish weather. It was 44 degrees y
Source: http://www.vicksburgpost.com
February 28, 2008
Beginning today, visitors to the Vicksburg National Military Park will have a more complete picture of how the 1863 campaign of Vicksburg unfolded, thanks to a new fiber-optic map unveiled in the Visitor Center Wednesday.
"The only audio/visual presentation we've had up until this point has been the 18-minute video we show, and there are no maps included in it whatsoever," said park historian Terry Winschel. "That's the biggest complaint we've received over the years.
Source: Daily Mail
March 3, 2008
An underground city where thousands of British soldiers were housed in the First World War has been partly rebuilt and opened to visitors.
Situated deep beneath the town of Arras in the Artois region of France, it was used to protect up to 24,000 troops from constant German artillery bombardment.
Ten miles of tunnels linked a command centre, dormitories, kitchens and even a hospital.
Source: BBC
March 2, 2008
Victims of the Bethnal Green Tube disaster in London have been remembered at a special service marking its 65th anniversary. Survivor Alf Morris spoke to the BBC about his memories of the deadly crush.
It was one of Britain's worst civilian disasters during World War II.
On the evening of 3 March, 1943, a crowd of people were descending the steps into Bethnal Green underground station to take shelter from an impending air-raid.
Suddenly, they surged forward and i
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 4, 2008
Nazi tanks that have lain neglected in Bulgarian fields for decades are to be put up for auction - and one can be yours for as little as £77,000 (€100,000).
The Second World War relics have provided a rudimentary first line of defence against a Nato invasion of the former Eastern Bloc country since the 1950s.
Dug into the ground along the Turkish border, the Panzer tanks, Jagdpanzer tank destroyers and Sturmgeschuetz assault guns have been largely forgotten since the en
Source: Reuters
March 3, 2008
The body of the mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the Roman Catholic world's most revered saints who died 40 years ago, has been exhumed to be prepared for display to his many devotees.
The body of the Capuchin friar, who was said to have had the stigmata -- the wounds of Christ's crucifixion -- on his hands and feet -- is to be conserved and put in a part-glass coffin for at least several months from April 24.
A Church statement said the body was in "fair condition,&
Source: LAT
March 4, 2008
The gravity-defying price of oil shot through another barrier Monday by briefly touching $103.95 a barrel in New York trading, the highest cost ever for black gold even after adjusting for inflation.
Before Monday, the April 1980 price of $38 was the pinnacle, fueled by dramatic Mideast events including the failed rescue of American hostages in Iran. Adjusted for inflation, that $38 is now more than $103. This time, rather than a political crisis, the main culprit is decidedly less
Source: Jeffrey R. Young in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
March 3, 2008
For Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program, who is emerging as a well-known public intellectual on topics of media and society, the medium is not the message. He is far less interested in the specific medium than he is in how people interact with the popular culture they consume. Which is lucky for me, since I recently managed to accidentally break a collector’s item in his personal media collection.
I got to know
Source: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com
March 3, 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez labeled Colombia the "Israel of Latin America" on his Sunday talk show Aló Presidente yesterday. Responding to events on Saturday in which the Colombian military made an illegal attack across the border in Ecuadorian territory, the Venezuelan leader called Colombia a "terrorist state," and gave orders to mobilize troops on the Venezuelan-Colombian border.
"The Colombian government has turned into the Israel of Latin America,&
Source: BBC
March 4, 2008
British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler's plans by studying his horoscope, according to files released by the National Archives.
Hungarian Ludwig von Wohl persuaded senior intelligence figures that he could replicate the forecasts of the Nazi leader's personal astrologer.
He claimed that if London knew what astrological advice Hitler was getting, then they would know his next move.
But the security service MI5 had warned that von Wohl was a "
Source: CNN
March 3, 2008
Nearly 26 years after his death, Army Master Sgt. Woodrow "Woody" Keeble was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Monday for his efforts during the Korean War.
Keeble is the first full-blooded Sioux Indian to receive the honor, and the 10th person to receive the medal from President Bush.
Keeble's stepson, Russell Hawkins, accepted the medal at a ceremony held in the East Room of the White House.
"The Sioux have a saying: 'The life of a m
