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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Telegraph
January 26, 2007
In life, the only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge kept her light under a bushel, dying at 49 with her work largely unknown. Now, 150 years on, she is emerging as a considerable poet in her own right.
A British academic has discovered 120 unknown poems by Sara Coleridge at a university in Texas which, he says, rank her as a significant poet.
Though Dr Peter Swaab does not make extravagent claims for the Lake Poet's daughter – he ranks her as "an important minor
Source: International Herald Tribune
January 25, 2007
PHNOM PENH -- The Cambodian judges were on one side and the foreign judges on the other this week in a dispute that captures a decade of difficulties in bringing to trial the last surviving leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge.
If they cannot agree on procedural rules soon, analysts and officials at the tribunal say, some foreign judges could walk out, casting a further shadow over a process that some critics say is already so compromised as to be of doubtful value.
Sev
Source: International Herald Tribune
January 25, 2007
ROME -- From his window, as a boy in October 1943, Pacifico Disegni watched as two German trucks hauled people from the ghetto in Rome, a city where Jews have lived for 2,000 years.
Last year, in blessedly more peaceful times, a rich visitor from Boston took in the view from that same window. A magnificent front-row onto the Theater of Marcellus, first planned by Julius Caesar, somehow salves the stings of history. Disegni, now 78, said the visitor produced a blank check and offered
Source: UPI
January 26, 2007
TOKYO -- A Japanese director plans a documentary blaming Chinese propaganda for reports that 200,000 people were slaughtered in Nanking during World War II.
Satoru Mizushima, director and producer of "Nanking No Shinjitsu," or "The Truth About Nanking," announced his project Thursday at a news conference in Tokyo. About 40 people, including two members of parliament, academics and film critics, came to the announcement to give him their support, the Japan Times r
Source: UPI
January 25, 2007
NEW YORK -- Fox News plans to air scenes cut from the ABC miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," over doubts about their historical accuracy, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The footage is scheduled to air Sunday as part of "Hannity's America," the Los Angeles Times reported. It depicts former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger refusing to approve a CIA request to attack Osama bib Laden, an episode that Berger and the Sept. 11 Commission both didn't happen.
Source: Reuters
January 26, 2007
VIENNA -- The Congress of Vienna famously re-drew the map of the world in 1815 to suit the major powers bidding farewell to the Napoleonic era.
This Friday the Austrian capital will host the beginnings of a 21st century diplomatic carve-up, without swords and feathered hats and on a far more modest scale, to bury the disastrous era of Slobodan Milosevic and the last vestige of Yugoslavia.
The state created in 1918 is no more. Slovenia and Macedonia walked off in 1991. C
Source: AP
January 25, 2007
LONDON -- Heirlooms once owned by the former Greek royal family sold for $18.4 million, Christie's said Thursday at the end of a two-day auction.
The sale took place despite protests from the Greek government in Athens, which at the last minute urged the London-based auction house not to sell the artifacts -- more than 850 items that originally belonged to King George I of Greece -- saying they may have been illegally exported.
However, Christie's said it saw no reason
Source: Gay City News (NYC)
January 25, 2007
In the area that runs up from Bleecker to West Third, from Sixth Avenue to as far east as Broadway, histories as well as tales passed down from one generation to the next document a vibrant outcropping of establishments that served men and women who enjoyed same-sex desire--including cheap restaurants, saloons, and tea rooms--and sat close by brothels of a more traditional kind as well as Catholic churches that served the neighborhood's emerging working class Italian-American community.
Source: AP
January 24, 2007
DAYTON, Ohio -- A film repository at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that for decades has stored and preserved original copies of some of the nation's most famous movies is heading to a new home.
The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center, which has the original negatives of such classics as ''The Maltese Falcon'' and ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,'' is moving to a new facility being built in Culpeper, Va., about 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
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Source: Live Science
January 24, 2007
A recently unearthed human skull believed to have been used as a ceremonial trophy by the people of an ancient Peruvian empire gives new insights into the nature of warfare in the society, archaeologists say.
The Wari Empire, a society that predated the Incas, ruled over parts of Peru 1,500 to 1,000 years ago.
While exploring a Wari cemetery last summer in Peru’s Huaro Valley, archaeologists discovered what they consider to be an elite section of the graveyard when they
Source: AP
January 25, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) -- A rare late work by Rembrandt depicting the Apostle James in prayer was sold Thursday for $25.8 million, the auction house said.
''Saint James the Greater,'' painted by the artist in 1661, was described by the vice chairman of Sotheby's Old Master paintings, George Wachter, as one of the most important Rembrandt works ever handled by Sotheby's.
''Over the past 20 years, the vast majority of pictures by the artist that have appeared on the market have da
Source: AP
January 26, 2007
NEW YORK -- A rare Nazi-era race car hidden in a German mine shaft during World War II and said to be worth millions of dollars went on display Thursday.
The sleek silver D-Type from Audi forerunner Auto Union was to be on display for two days at the car company's fancy showroom on Park Avenue. It will be auctioned as part of Christie's Retromobile auto sale on Feb. 17 in Paris and is expected to fetch $12 million to $15 million.
While Adolph Hitler gave about 500,000 r
Source: AP
January 26, 2007
TOKYO -- Japan must overhaul its pacifist constitution, beef up its role in international security and free itself of the political remnants of World War II, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Parliament on Friday.
"Now is the time for us to boldly revise this postwar regime and make a new start," he told Parliament, which opened Thursday for a five-month session.
Abe's constitutional revision plan is focused on eliminating a clause in the current document, writte
Source: Times Education Supplement
January 26, 2007
Lessons on the two world wars, the Holocaust, slavery, and the British Empire will be compulsory under a new [UK] curriculum published next month, The [Times Education Supplement] can reveal.
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority officials have denied reports of a row with the Government over the content for 11 to 14-year-olds. But the extra emphasis given to the world wars and slavery in the latest drafts has followed public ministerial pressure.
The authority warned
Source: CNN
January 25, 2007
A U.S. senator has introduced a bill to investigate the relocation, internment and deportation of Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II and the late 1940s.
"They were taken from their homes in countries such as Brazil, Panama and Peru, stripped of their passports, involuntarily brought to the United States and interned in American camps," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, in a news release Wednesday.
"They apparently had only one purpo
Source: AP
January 24, 2007
Italian police have unearthed the hidden cache of a group of grave robbers, recovering ancient Roman marble reliefs depicting stunningly lifelike gladiators locked in mortal combat, officials said Wednesday.
The 12 panels were found buried in the garden of a private home near Fiano Romano, some 25 miles north of Rome, and officials hailed the find as a major archaeological discovery and a blow to the illegal antiquities market.
Archaeologists said the work offers a glim
Source: WaPo
January 24, 2007
Members of the Southern Methodist University faculty again raised concerns that the building of the George W. Bush presidential library on campus might damage the school's reputation, said a participant at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday.
At the tightly guarded meeting, several members of the faculty questioned school president R. Gerald Turner about the political institute that will accompany the library. The institute will conduct research on issues that will be determined by B
Source: AP
January 24, 2007
SANTIAGO, Chile -- The family of former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva filed a court complaint on Wednesday, claiming the former leader was assassinated by poisoning in 1982.
It named unspecified "groups of individuals related to military intelligence" under the dictatorship of the Gen. Augusto Pinochet, of whom Frei was a leading opponent.
The complaint filed by Frei's son, also named Eduardo and also a former president.
The elder Fre
Source: AP
January 24, 2007
BELGRADE, Serbia -- A Nazi hunter criticized Serbian authorities on Wednesday for failing to seek the extradition of three men with suspected links to atrocities against Jews, Serbs and Gypsies during World War II.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center's office in Israel, said Serbian authorities have done little to bring to justice Croats Ivo Rojnica and Milivoj Asner, and Hungarian Sandor Kepiro.
"Sadly, we have heard a lot of
Source: AP
January 23, 2007
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The former chief photographer at a torture center run by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge said Tuesday he intends to set up a museum with pictures of the leaders of the notorious communist group as his way of apologizing for the death and destruction they caused.
Ngem En, now 47, documented for the Khmer Rouge the thousands taken into Phnom Penh's S-21 prison for torture and eventual execution in the late 1970s. Haunting photos of the victims are the centerpiece of a g
