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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
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Source: NYT
October 9, 2005
The latest chapter involved a funeral with full military honors inside the sacred Donskoi Monastery here on Monday, attended by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Aleksy II, and some of the country's leading politicians. The body of Gen. Anton Denikin, a czarist commander of the losing side in the Russian Civil War, was laid to rest again, this time in his motherland, 58 years after he died in the United States.
He was not the first. Several other outcasts of the
Source: Wa Po
October 9, 2005
They were Puerto Rican nationalists, animated by the dream of a free and independent island nation. They were also radical operatives, assassins on the hunt, and, in their own view, sacred warriors facing sure death. After an hour examining and interpreting the centerpiece of the American legislative system, they hailed a taxi and headed to the White House, where the president lived. It was the cabdriver who said to them, No, no, he don't live there. See, they're rebuilding the White House.
Source: NYT
October 9, 2005
It turns out that George Washington was one good-looking guy. The image of Washington as a young man is slowly becoming clearer, and it is not what first comes to mind when people think of the "father of our country." Instead of a white-haired old man, think of a rangy hunk who looks like a quarterback.
Researchers working to change perceptions of Washington by re-creating his image at earlier times in his life have produced three-dimensional computer images of what he mus
Source: American Heritage
October 5, 2005
Is the great Orson Welles possibly not all that great? Is there something coarse and generic about one of our most beloved war memorials? Which of our Founding Fathers deserves better of us? Which of our painters? For the eighth year in a row historians and journalists assess the ever-shifting reputations of people and events, and once again affirm that history is never history—that it is the most volatile, passionate, and living of pursuits.
Source: NYT
October 8, 2005
Harriet Miers's defenders have said she does not have to be a constitutional scholar to sit on the court, a sentiment that Dan Coats, the former Republican senator who has been asked by the White House to shepherd Ms. Miers through the Senate confirmation process, reiterated Friday, his first full day on the job.
"If great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interp
Source: Wa Po
October 8, 2005
They had waited 37 years for this moment, but family members of 12 U.S. servicemen honored yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery approached the grave site cautiously, under a shield of umbrellas. Behind them, 12 soldiers stood in the rain, each holding a flag folded just so, the blue stars just visible.
For years, relatives never knew exactly what happened that day in 1968 at Ngok Tavak, a remote hill in Vietnam, after the North Vietnamese closed in. Some got out, led by a wild A
Source: St. Petersburg Times
October 7, 2005
Beginning Monday, the Ybor City Museum Society will showcase 90 of these Spanish and Italian language publications for the first time in "Otras
Voces: The Radical and Alternative Press in Ybor City," an exhibit highlighting the "Other Voices" in the city's 100-year history.They rolled cigars for a living - all day, every day. But Ybor City and West Tampa cigar factory workers looked forward to something new and different each morn
Source: Siege of Yorktown
October 8, 2005
The Brigade of the American Revolution, Colonial National Historical Park and Endview Plantation will commemorate the 225th anniversary of the surrender of over eight thousand British, German, and loyal American troops to George Washington’s Continental Army and French allies on October 19, 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia.
Source: The Australian
October 7, 2005
The memory of the illustrious British admiral Horatio Nelson stirred bidders to pay $2million for just three items of his memorabilia yesterday.The memory of the illustrious British admiral Horatio Nelson stirred bidders to pay $2million for just three items of his memorabilia yesterday.
The gold pocket-watch carried by Nelson when he died on his ship during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 fetched pound stg. 400,000 ($964,400) at auction in London.
Source: The Australian
October 7, 2005
Logging will go ahead at a stunning bay in Tasmania that was once home to early French explorers despite a decision to include the site on Australia's National Heritage List.Logging will go ahead at a stunning bay in Tasmania that was once home to early French explorers despite a decision to include the site on Australia's National Heritage List.
The northeast peninsula of Recherche Bay, near the very southern tip of Australia, was yesterday granted heritage lis
Source: LA Times
October 8, 2005
Exit one political heavyweight: former California Gov. Jerry Brown.
Enter another: longtime Bay Area congressman and civil rights crusader Ron Dellums.Exit one political heavyweight: former California Gov. Jerry Brown.
Enter another: longtime Bay Area congressman and civil rights crusader Ron Dellums.
For a city plagued with failing schools, high crime and nagging poverty, Oakland has managed to attract two consecutive political icons w
Source: Wa Po
October 7, 2005
Former FBI director Louis J. Freeh has denounced Bill Clinton over the scandals that marred his presidency and for his record on terrorism, saying the level of distrust was so great that he stayed in his post so Clinton could not appoint his successor.
In a forthcoming book and "60 Minutes" interview, Freeh, whose strained relations with Clinton were no secret, says he was so determined to distance himself from Clinton that he sent back a White House pass so that all his v
Source: Japan Today
October 7, 2005
U.S. President George W Bush said Thursday that al-Qaida was bent on building a "totalitarian empire" grounded in radical Islam, and put its leader Osama bin Laden on a par with Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin.
In a speech on terrorism, Bush said it was a "dangerous illusion" that the United States would be better off pulling troops out of a conflict which has cost nearly 2,000 U.S. lives and hammered his personal opinion poll ratings.
Source: NYT
October 7, 2005
While "Slavery in New York" is marred by its tendency to slight the broader context and by its earnest attempts to pull in all age groups, its virtues are so considerable, and the information and objects on display so potent, that they are bound to transform the way any visitor thinks about slavery in New York City's past.
The $5 million exhibition inspired some concern from the start because of its aim to demonstrate the importance of slavery in New York City, from the D
Source: NYT
October 7, 2005
In a region that prizes showy monuments to wealth, the lone monument to the man who made it all possible has languished in isolation for decades. A soaring concrete obelisk dedicated to Henry Flagler, the oil tycoon who hastened South Florida's development by building a railroad all the way to Key West, it sits on a tiny man-made island in Biscayne Bay, reachable only by boat or, more typically, Jet Ski. It's neglected. Some want to improve it. "Flagler," says a p
Source: Christian Science Monitor
October 6, 2005
John Marshall is widely revered as "the great Chief Justice," but before joining the Supreme Court in 1801 he had never served a day in judicial robes and lost the only case he argued at the high court.
Earl Warren had worked for 18 years as a prosecutor and was three times elected governor of California. But he had no prior judicial experience. Nor did William Rehnquist, Felix Frankfurter, and Louis Brandeis. Who is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court is a determination made
Source: History Today
October 3, 2005
Files declassified by the National Archives in London reveal the Home Office decided not to ban a book on female sexuality in the 1930s because it would create too much publicity. Officials in 1935 did not prevent the publication of The Single Woman and Her Emotional Problems as a ban on a similar book in the 1920s made it so popular. Home Office official E H Tindal-Atkinson stated in 1935 papers:"If the object of suppression is to prevent women getting to know that these practices exist and ado
Source: BBC
October 7, 2005
A manuscript believed to have been written by a doctor who examined Napoleon Bonaparte's body could put an end to the theory he was murdered.
Many historians have claimed the French Emperor was poisoned with arsenic, although the official cause of his death in 1821 was stomach cancer. The document found in a Scottish cottage seems to confirm the official theory of his death while in exile. It will be auctioned by Thomson Roddick & Medcalf of Carlisle
Source: BBC
October 6, 2005
The White House has dismissed as "absurd" allegations made in a BBC TV series that President Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq.
"He's never made such comments," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The comments were attributed to Mr Bush by the Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath in the upcoming TV series Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs.
Mr Shaath said that in a 2003 meeting with Mr Bush, the US president said he was &q
Source: Newsletter of the National Coalition for History
October 6, 2005
The National History Center, an initiative of the American Historical Association, has appointed Miriam E. Hauss as its Administrative Officer effective 1 August 2005. Ms. Hauss, who hold a Master’s degree in Modern European History from the American University and a B.A. with honors in Modern European History from the University of Kentucky, has worked for the American Historical Association since October 1999, first as Special Projects Coordinator and more recently as Marketing and Development
