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: NYT
June 12, 2011
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday honored those killed in the bombings in 1998 of the American Embassies here and in Kenya, a day after the authorities confirmed the death of the feared operative from
Source: Salon
June 13, 2011
Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday.
Source: Canadian Press
June 8, 2011
Police in northern Greece say they have arrested six men accused of using dynamite to search for buried ancient gold at a protected archaeological area.Authorities said Thursday that the four Greek and two Albanian men were arrested Wednesday after police discovered a 12-meter (40-foot) tunnel blasted into the side of a mountain near the city of Kavala, 700 kilometres (435 miles) north of Athens.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 6, 2011
A dictionary of a dead language not used for two millenia has finally been completed after academics spent 90 years painstakingly deciphering ancient words scrawled on clay and stone tablets.As decades came and went generations of scholars travelled from across the world to the University of Chicago to work on the monumental Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project.
Source: Yahoo News
June 9, 2011
A 65-year-old murder mystery has been solved, with the confession of a 96-year-old woman in Holland.
Source: AP
June 10, 2011
The plane that made a miraculous landing on the Hudson River two years ago is finally due to arrive Friday at its intended destination of Charlotte, where it will be displayed in a museum.
Source: BBC News
June 10, 2011
Archaeologists are beginning the most detailed ever study of a Western Front battlefield, an untouched site where 28 British tunnellers lie entombed after dying during brutal underground warfare. For WWI historians, it's the "holy grail".When military historian Jeremy Banning stepped on to a patch of rough scrubland in northern France four months ago, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
Source: BBC News
June 9, 2011
Humankind's most distant emissaries are flying through a turbulent sea of magnetism as they seek to break free of our Solar System.Nasa's Voyager probes, which were launched in 1977, are now approaching the very edge of our Sun's influence, more than 14 billion km from Earth; and they are still returning data.That information has allowed scientists to build a better picture of what conditions are like in the zone where matter blown out from our star pushes up against interstellar space.
Source: WaPo
June 9, 2011
“We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of ‘detente,’ and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn’t work out that way. The Kremlin took Western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program.”--Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a Facebook posting titled “Another ‘WTF’ Obama Foreign Policy Moment,” June 9, 2011
Source: NYT
June 9, 2011
LONDON — In a rare move by a man who appears to despise few activities more than speaking to the news media, Prince Philip recently agreed to cooperate in the making of a television documentary about his life. Although “cooperate” might be too strong a word.
Source: NYT
October 9, 2011
[F]or the better part of five decades, the most notable tombstones at Mormon Island were those without names: 36 anonymous decedents whose grave markers shared a single, shocking label: “Moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery.”
Source: BBC
June 8, 2011
A Stone Age site in a field beside Guernsey airport is being excavated for the last time by archaeologists.
Evidence of neolithic settlement has already been found at a depth of 60cm (24in) but the site is due to be buried under an extended runway safety area.
If plans are approved, the site at La Mare Road will become permanently inaccessible for any further study.
Hearths, post-holes and ditches have been found and dated to about 3,000BC, which equates to what archaeo
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 8, 2011
A dictionary of a dead language not used for two millenia has finally been completed after academics spent 90 years painstakingly deciphering ancient words scrawled on clay and stone tablets. As decades came and went generations of scholars travelled from across the world to the University of Chicago to work on the monumental Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project.
Source: BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-ea
A 6ft cannon, weighing a ton, and a ship's anchor have been unearthed in an overgrown flower bed at a Fife aquarium.
The cannon and anchor were found by a gardener in the grounds of Deep Sea World in North Queensferry, near the attraction's entrance.
North Queensferry Heritage Trust has been drafted in to identify the items' ages and where they came from.
They are covered in rust and will be displayed at the aquarium....
Source: BBC
June 8, 2011
A new television series is the latest dramatisation of the Camelot myth.
Source: CNN
June 8, 2011
Staff Sgt. Marvin Steinford was 22 years old when he climbed into the nose of a B-17 "Flying Fortress" in Amendola, Italy, and left on a mission bound for Berlin during World War II.
His job description: togglier -- an enlisted man doing a job similar to a bombardier's, but less complicated.
The plane was hit by Nazi antiaircraft fire and he bailed out over Hungary. That was March 24, 1945, less than two months before Germany's surrender ended the war in Europe. "Steiney" as he was known, was never seen again.
Source: AP
June 5, 2011
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – University of Florida archaeologists have uncovered the foundation of what they say is a more than 330-year-old stone church in St. Augustine.
Source: Jewish Telegraph Agency
June 6, 2011
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- An Australia-based online vendor has withdrawn T-shirts that satirized Hitler and the Holocaust following complaints by the Jewish community.Red Bubble, a Melbourne-based company that markets the works of more than 150,000 artists worldwide, this week stopped selling the “Hipster Hitler” line of T-shirts that parody the Holocaust with slogans such as “Eastside Westside Genocide,” “Back to the Fuhrer” and “Three Reichs And You’re Out.”In a statement Monday, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission praised the decision by Red Bubble.
Source: AP
June 8, 2011
AMSTERDAM – A murder mystery has been solved — 65 years later — with the confession of a 96-year-old woman.The 1946 killing of Felix Gulje, the head of a construction company who at the time was being considered for a high political post, roiled the Netherlands, and the failure to find the assassin became a point of contention among political parties.On Wednesday, the mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, said a woman has confessed to the killing, saying it happened in the mistaken belief that Gulje had collaborated with the Nazis.
Source: The Destin Log (FLA)
June 8, 2011
An Air Force legend and founding air commando died Monday morning in Washington, D.C.Retired Gen. John Alison, former deputy commander for the 1st Air Commando Group (1ACG) and World War II Flying Tiger, was 98 years old.In 1943, Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold, head of the Army Air Forces, hand-picked then-Lt. Col. Alison and Col. Philip Cochran as co-commanders of the 1 ACG, according to a press release issued by Hurlburt Field.The longtime friends had ideas of their own. Cochran and Alison decided Cochran should be commander and Alison deputy commander.
