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Source: Armenian News Network
October 13, 2006
As the French Parliament is preparing to vote on a bill to penalize the rejection of the purported Armenian genocide Thursday, the Armenian Parliament passed a similar bill this week.The parliament made a series of amendments to the Armenian Penal Code, Armenia's Yerkir News Agency said.
"Penalizing the genocide" is also among the amendments.
Terming the 1915 incidents as genocide, Yerevan set the penalty for those who "deny the genoc
Source: Philadelphia Daily News
October 13, 2006
Anti-homosexual slurs flew through the air, as did the gay-pride rainbow flag, during an emotionally charged meeting of the School Reform Commission yesterday. High school students, teachers and activists, some with emotion-filled voices, spoke out in support of the school district's decision to recognize October as Gay and Lesbian History Month on school calendars for the first time.Opponents said recognizing the month was an attempt by the district to indoctrinate students
Source: USA Today
October 13, 2006
Documents from newly opened Vatican archives indicate a hardening stance by the Holy See on European fascism years before World War II began and a push for formal U.S.-Vatican relations after a break of decades, scholars say.Historians who have studied just a fraction of the 30,000 files that were opened last month say the material also strengthens views that the future wartime pontiff, Pius XII, was a sometimes indecisive diplomat.
The files span the 1922-39 po
Source: BBC
October 5, 2006
Learning how to live off the sea may have played a key role in the expansion of early humans around the globe. After leaving Africa, human groups probably followed coastal routes to the Americas and South-East Asia. Professor Jon Erlandson says the maritime capabilities of ancient humans have been greatly underestimated. He has found evidence that early peoples in California pursued a sophisticated seafaring lifestyle 10,000 years ago.
Source: Guardian
October 7, 2006
After over 20 years of argument and countless millions spent on consultants and planning inquiries over the state of Stonehenge, a leading expert last night proposed a radical solution: do nothing. The government's long overdue decision on the roads which strangle the world's most famous prehistoric monument is ardently awaited by archaeologists and local residents alike, after two public inquiries and last summer's lengthy public consultation.
Last night Professor Peter Fowler
Source: Press Release -- NYHS
October 13, 2006
How did New York City of the mid-19th century capitalize on the slave-based cotton trade to emerge as the financial epicenter of America? How did New York become a veritable Confederate city, with hotels catering to Southern tastes and blackface minstrel shows playing to sold-out theaters? Who was America’s first black doctor and politician, and how did this little-known hero help inspire the abolitionist movement that was critical to bringing slavery to an end?
The New-York Hist
Source: Wa Po
October 10, 2006
The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.
When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of U.S. students who no longer get much handwriting instruction in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or
Source: Reuters
October 12, 2006
Yahoo has dropped plans to use Mexico's Teotihuacan archaeological site for its much-hyped "time capsule" project after authorities fearing damage to the ancient ruins denied them permission.
Yahoo launched the project this week aimed at gathering text, images, video and sounds submitted by visitors from all over the world through 20 of the company's multiple-language sites.
The information was to be beamed by laser into space on Oct. 25 from the Pyramid of
Source: Times Online (UK)
October 12, 2006
French MPs have today approved a Bill that makes it a criminal offence to deny that Turkish massacres of Armenians in 1915-17 constituted genocide, causing embarrassment to the French Government and outrage in Turkey.
Deputies in the National Assembly voted 106-19 for the bill, which if signed into law, would punish denial with a maximum one-year prison term and a fine of up to €45,000 (£30,000).
After the vote, the French government stressed that it valued close ties
Source: Discovery.com
October 10, 2006
New evidence shows that people have been slurping up yogurt since at least as far back as the Neolithic Age.
Food particles found embedded in ancient cooking pots reveal that Britain’s first farmers boiled milk and processed it to make foods such as cheese, butter and yogurt, according to a report in the latest British Archaeology.
Source: AP
October 12, 2006
GREENFIELD, Ohio — Clad in a brown, animal-hide cover spider-webbed with cracks, the Bible gives off a musty smell as Earlene Scott gently leafs through its fragile pages yellowed with age.
The 178-year-old book gives clues about its original owners — not only names and dates of births, deaths and marriages, but also two locks of hair, a handwritten poem and several pressed leaves, possibly from a funeral floral arrangement.
Scott bought the Bible at an auction in this
Source: Cybercast News Service
October 11, 2006
A former resident of Orange County, Calif., has become the first person to be charged with treason against the United States since the World War II era, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Adam Gadahn, 28 - also known as Azzam al-Amriki or Azzam the American - "gave al Qaeda aid and comfort ... with intent to betray the United States," according to the treason count in the indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana, Calif....
Source: Independent (UK)
October 12, 2006
Few films in the history of cinema can claim to have had a direct impact on the real world. A movie showing in France has managed to repair a half-century of injustice even before it appeared on general release.
Indigènes tells the largely concealed story of the 300,000 Arab and north African soldiers who helped to liberate France in 1944.
In one respect, the film has already succeeded where years of complaints have failed. Last week, just before it reached the cinema,
Source: The Australian
October 10, 2006
TAIWAN'S politics is in the grip of a rather bitter feud over identity. The ''pan-blues'' view themselves mainly as Chinese, the ''pan-greens'' as Taiwanese. The split concerns whether people view themselves as belonging chiefly to Taiwan, because their families were established here before Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the island in 1949 after losing the civil war to the communists -- or whether they see themselves principally as Chinese, linked by ancestry or birth to mainlan
Source: AP
October 11, 2006
DRESDEN, Germany -- An exhibition on Nazi racial policies created for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened Thursday in a building where posters were once produced trumpeting the theories that led to the murder of Europe's Jews.
The exhibition, titled "Deadly Medicine -- Racial Madness in National Socialism," opened Thursday evening in the 1930s-era Hygiene Museum in the eastern city of Dresden.
Many of the swastika-stamped posters promoting Nazi theorie
Source: Reuters
October 12, 2006
A land bridge between Alaska and Siberia flooded to make
the Bering Strait 11,000 years ago, more than 1,000 years earlier than
previously thought, US researchers reported on Wednesday.
This would have closed off human migration by foot across the bridge
1,000 years earlier, too, the researchers said.
A team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and the University of
Massachusetts found places on t
Source: The Globe and Mail
October 12, 2006
French politicians are galloping into diplomatic quicksand with a proposal to imprison anyone who publicly denies that the Turkish massacre of Armenians a century ago constituted genocide. The draft law, to be debated by the National Assembly today, was submitted by the opposition Socialist Party and has strong support among those on the political right who hope to derail Turkey's candidacy for European Union membership.
Members of France's 400,000-strong Armenian diaspora, whose vo
Source: NYT
October 12, 2006
Argentines simply will not let Gen. Juan Domingo Perón rest in peace. He died in 1974 and is buried at a family crypt here, but a battle over his remains has broken out between his ideological heirs, who want to move his body to a mausoleum, and a woman who claims to be his daughter and wants a DNA test conducted first.The leaders of the Peronist movement and the labor unions affiliated with it have announced two days of ceremonies to transfer the general’s remains, ending O
Source: NYT
October 11, 2006
DUBLIN With a cornucopia of sex, politics and religious conflict, the life of Henry VIII seems well suited to dramatization on screen. After all, even in the rollicking 16th century, it is impossible to find another king who had six wives, executed nobles and prelates at a whim and provoked the Vatican into ordering his excommunication.Yet if high drama seems assured, casting the right actor to play the lead is trickier because, unlike the case with most English
Source: The Independent (London)
October 12, 2006
Few films in the history of cinema can claim to have had a direct impact on the real world. A movie showing in France has managed to repair a half-century of injustice even before it appeared on general release. Indigènes tells the largely concealed story of the 300,000 Arab and north African soldiers who helped to liberate France in 1944.
In one respect, the film has already succeeded where years of complaints have failed. Last week, just before it reached the cinema, the French go
