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: Ozaukee Press
November 23, 2010
Former Marine from Port has made it his mission to collect the signatures of those who witnessed historic World War II battle
John Beele is on a mission.
Everywhere he goes, he seeks out servicemen who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. When he finds them, he asks them for a favor — to sign a flag that bears the iconic image of Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi.
The flag’s already been signed by a multitude of soldiers, man
Source: BBC News
November 23, 2010
One of the first batch of Apple personal computers has sold at auction in London for £133,250 ($210,000).
The Apple I came with its original packaging and a signed sales letter from Apple co-founder and current chief executive Steve Jobs.
The computer, one of only 200 of the model ever made, originally sold for $666.66 when it was introduced in 1976.
It was bought over the phone at Christie's by Italian businessman and private collector Marco Boglione.
Source: BBC News
November 24, 2010
This week a Darth Vader costume dating from the era of Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980) is to be sold at auction at Christie's in London. We talk to actor Dave Prowse about his time as the man behind the mask.
"We were filming during the hot summer of 1976," says Dave Prowse, the man who was Darth Vader.
"The suit was made from quilted leather. I wore a t-shirt and a pair of swimming trunks underneath - and the heat would rise into the mask
Source: Telegraph (UK)
November 23, 2010
The developers of an Islamic community centre and mosque near Ground Zero in New York have applied for millions of dollars in public money from a post-September 11 reconstruction fund.
The Park 51 group has risked reigniting a debate over its project by requesting the grant, which is reported to total $5 million (£3.1 million), from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Its plan to build a base for local Muslims two blocks away from the World Trade Centre site
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
November 18, 2010
The Olympia - last surviving warship of the Spanish-American War of 1898 - may still be scrapped or face a watery grave as an artificial reef off Cape May without money for restoration.
But the Penn's Landing attraction will not close as originally planned Monday after the Independence Seaport Museum's decision, announced late Wednesday, to fund interim repairs.
The Olympia will continue its daily visiting hours through Dec. 31, then move to a three-day schedule throu
Source: BBC
November 22, 2010
The Court of Appeal's decision to deny ex-servicemen compensation for the injuries they say they suffered during Cold War nuclear tests more than 50 years ago, is a setback for the thousands who were watching the test cases anxiously.
More than 1,000 ex-servicemen say their lives were destroyed after the UK carried out a series of nuclear weapons tests in mainland Australia, the Montebello islands off the west Australian coast and on Christmas Island, in the South Pacific, between 1
Source: Guardian (UK)
November 22, 2010
The world's third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial, a German court said today. Samuel Kunz, the 89-year old former Nazi death camp guard accused of participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews, died on 18 November Bonn's state court said in a statement.
Kunz was indicted on charges he was involved in the entire chain of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp, including taking victims from trains, leading them into gas chambers to throwing corpses i
Source: CNN.com
November 22, 2010
Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- After mostly avoiding the spotlight for decades, many of the former U.S. Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy are now offering their accounts of the day he was assassinated, 47 years ago Monday.
After the first shot hit the president, former agent Clint Hill says, "I saw him grab at his throat and lean to his left. So I jumped and ran." Hill is the man seen running toward the limousine in the famous film
Source: Telegraph (UK)
November 23, 2010
The director of one of Britain’s largest pottery firms has compared parts of Stoke-On-Trent to Afghanistan’s Helmand Province and has demanded the local council stop the demolition of historic buildings.
Matthew Rice, director of Emma Bridgewater, said that areas of the city, known for its ceramics industry, resemble a wasteland and “disaster zone” comparable to London in the 1950s following World War II.
Referring to city planning as “feckless”, he called on the local
Source: Telegraph (UK)
November 21, 2010
One of Italy's most controversial wartime tragedies, involving the sinking of a British ship carrying hundreds of internees across the North Atlantic, has been turned into a play.
The Arandora Star sailed from Liverpool on 30 June 1940, bound for Canada with hundreds of German and Italian "enemy aliens" on board, but it was sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish coast within days of starting out.
Of the 1,600 men on board, around 800 lost their lives, includin
Source: The Atlantic
November 21, 2010
People of a certain age remember exactly where they were on November 22, 1963, when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. James Tague remembers the day better than most. At the moment of the shooting, Tague was standing in Dallas's Dealey Plaza, and was struck on the right cheek by fragments from a ricocheting bullet meant for Kennedy. Tague suffered only a superficial wound that day, but in a way, the injury is still fresh, 47 years later.
"I can't forget N
Source: WaPo
November 22, 2010
VATICAN CITY -- A Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust is facing expulsion from his traditionalist order for hiring a lawyer linked to the neo-Nazi movement.
The Society of St. Pius X said it ordered Bishop Richard Williamson to fire the lawyer, who was to represent him in an appeal next week of a German incitement conviction for saying in a TV interview that he didn't believe Jews were gassed during World War II.
The interview aired the same day Pope Benedict XVI l
Source: GPB News
November 22, 2010
The Georgia Historical Society Monday installed a new Civil War marker in the southwest Georgia town of Quitman.
The plaque commemorates a failed slave revolt in the town near the Florida border.
Three slaves and their white ringleader named John Vickery were hanged in Brooks County in August 1864....
Source: AP
November 22, 2010
NEW YORK – An 1814 first edition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is heading for the auction block in New York City. It's estimated to go for $200,000 to $300,000 at the sale early next month....
Source: Ceske Noviny
November 24, 2010
Prague - The crimes the Nazis committed against Czechs during wartime occupation cannot be compared with what happened in Czechoslovakia after Word War Two, German President Christian Wulff said during his visit to the Czech Republic today.
He said he welcomes the debate on the post-war situation and that he wishes that it be held in peace.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus said after the meeting with Wulff that relations between the two countries are their historical best.
Source: Guardian (UK)
November 20, 2010
In true Dickensian style, a magnificent gift has arrived at the doorstep of Charles Dickens's only surviving London home, just as volunteers were decking the walls with holly and ivy.
The tall, narrow house in Doughty Street, Clerkenwell, where Dickens lived for three years from 1837, has been awarded a £2m grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund, in time for a comprehensive renovation before the bicentenary of the author's birth in 2012.
The house is full of treasures, but
Source: Haaretz
November 20, 2010
"I am not even horrified anymore when I see swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans such as 'Hitler didn't finish the job' on walls near my synagogue," says a former Israeli who lives in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.
"This is an influence that trickles down from the top – from the government – against the Jews. I know that Chavez is exerting efforts not to appear anti-Semitic to the outside world, and that he welcomed the leaders of the Jewish community, but I haven't
Source: Albany Times-Union
November 23, 2010
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Nearly 50 years ago, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller threw the full weight of New York's government behind commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nation's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War.
Ceremonies, historical discussions, even Emancipation dinners were held. The governor wanted New York to lead all other states in honoring the nation's most defining conflict, which kept America united, ended slavery and resulted in the assassination of a president.
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Source: Fox News
November 22, 2010
In another stunning lack of conscience on the part of bureaucrats the City of Gettysburg has issued an order for a replica of an historic chapel to be vacated with the intention of it being torn down. The City has given no good reason to the organization who spearheaded and reconstructed the chapel which stands as a reminder to the service it gave to soldiers during the Civil War: namely food, medical care, fellowship and God....
Source: Civil War Interactive
November 22, 2010
Legislation authorizing the expansion of the Vicksburg National Military Park in Claiborne and Hinds counties has been introduced by U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, with U.S. Senator Roger Wicker as a primary cosponsor.
The Champion Hill, Port Gibson and Raymond Battlefield Addition Act (S.3952) would authorize the National Park Service (NPS) to acquire—through voluntary sale, donation or exchange—approximately 10,000 acres of property determined to be significant to the preservation of
