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: The Seattle Times
October 23, 2010
Bob Neyland, chief archaeologist for the Navy's Underwater Archaeology Branch, is searching for the wreckage of the USS Bonhomme Richard, a Continental Navy ship captained by John Paul Jones during the Revolutionary War that sank on Sept. 25, 1779, off the coast of Yorkshire, England. He has lots of competition.
For decades, thrill-seekers, archaeologists and professional treasure hunters have searched for the wreckage of the USS Bonhomme Richard, a Continental Navy ship captained b
Source: Guardian (UK)
October 24, 2010
The Ognissanti Crucifix was a neglected Italian treasure which a team of experts have now repaired and identified.
For a young art conservator with a love of Italian painting there could be no bigger thrill than the chance to work on a genuine Florentine masterpiece. But to be allowed to spend every day for more than five years repairing one of Italy's greatest neglected cultural treasures is the opportunity of a lifetime.
Anna-Marie Hilling, 33, from Cumbria, has not o
Source: BBC
October 23, 2010
The bloody history of the Catholic uprising of 1641 has been brought back to life on the internet.
Testimonies from thousands of eye-witnesses to one of the most significant events in Irish history have been transcribed and made available for free online.
The three-year project, led by researchers at the Universities of University of Cambridge and The University of Aberdeen and Trinity College Dublin, involved transcribing all 19,000 pages of the original depositions, m
Source: BBC
October 23, 2010
Yoko Ono, the widow of the Beatles star John Lennon, has unveiled an English Heritage blue plaque at the first home the couple shared in London.
The pair occupied the basement and ground floor of the property at 34 Montagu Square in Marylebone in 1968.
During their stay a nude photograph of the couple was taken which formed the cover of the Two Virgins album.
The property was first bought by Ringo Starr in 1965, before being rented out to Paul McCartney and
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 22, 2010
A Chinese actor who is playing Chairman Mao in a forthcoming Chinese television drama has been accused of "blaspheming" the memory of the late dictator because he had taken British citizenship.
Zhang Tielin, 53, who studied for a master's degree at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire in the late 1980s, was attacked on several Chinese internet forums as an inappropriate choice to play a revolutionary 'hero' like Mao Tse-tung.
The attack
Source: KSDK
October 19, 2010
With rising anti-Muslim sentiment across the country, an untold story is raising greater awareness about the Muslim faith and the teachings of the Quran. That awareness comes from an unlikely source: a small Jewish congregation in Creve Coeur.
Temple Emanuel is premiering a groundbreaking exhibit of photos that reveals Albanian Muslims who saved 2,000 Jews during World War II.
It's a story you've likely never heard. It is a story told through the faces of Albanian Mus
Source: AP
October 23, 2010
She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor.
Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as "Pride and Prejudice." She said Saturday that they contradicted the claim by Austen's brother Henry that "everything came finished from her pen
Source: Yahoo News
October 22, 2010
Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was even more prolific than we thought. The beloved author of "Cat in the Hat," "Green Eggs and Ham," and "Oh, the Places You'll Go" (a required gift for every college graduate) also penned the beginning of another book that never saw the light of day. The unfinished manuscript for "All Sorts of Sports" recently went up for auction and fetched an impressive sum.
The 19-page manuscript, in which a wis
Source: The Huffington Post
October 21, 2010
A Secret Service agent came close to shooting President Lyndon Johnson just hours after Kennedy's assassination, according to "The Kennedy Detail", a new book that claims to be the first account of the tragedy by members of Kennedy's security detail.
Though Kennedy assassination buffs already have their bookcases full with countless accounts of the assassination, the book by retired agent Gerald Blaine does contain some new revelations.
The book also includes
Source: AP
October 22, 2010
Peruvian archaeologists have unearthed four perfectly preserved mummies at an ancient burial site in the capital city, Lima.
The mummies are more than 1000 years old and were found at the Huaca Pucllana - a pre Inca temple.
Due to its central location, tomb looters have been stealing all sorts of archaeological treasures from the temple for centuries....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 20, 2010
A senior member of the Australian trade union movement has come under fire after he claimed that the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001 were part of an American conspiracy.
His call was prompted by an ongoing debate in the Australian parliament over the war in Afghanistan.
Mr Bracken told ABC Radio 774 that Australia should instead hold an inquiry into the events of 9/11, claiming that elements of the former Bush administration, US military and security services were
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 22, 2010
Mike Gardner, a council leader from Harrogate, has been photographed at a party dressed up as Adolf Hitler and performing the Nazi salute.
Tory councillor Mr Gardner has now been deselected after pictures of him at the fancy dress birthday bash were leaked onto the Internet via the social networking site, Facebook.
His colleagues in the Conservative party said his behaviour was "unacceptable" while Cllr Gardner claims he was the victim of a smear campaign...
Source: AOL News
January 22, 2010
The bullhorn President George W. Bush used to speak to rescue workers three days after the Sept. 11 attacks and the pistol taken from Saddam Hussein when he was captured in Iraq two years later are among the artifacts featured in a new exhibit opening Saturday at a museum in Dallas.
The collection at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University amounts to a preview of what will become the Bush presidential library center on the campus. Groundbreaking for the center is schedul
Source: Irish Times
October 22, 2010
VOTING LINES will close at 10.30 tonight in RTÉ’s search to find the greatest person in the history of Ireland. The winner will be announced on the Late Late Show . The five figures in the running are Michael Collins, James Connolly, Bono, Mary Robinson and John Hume. They were selected in a public vote from a shortlist of 40 people whose names topped a survey by Ipsos/MRBI.
Over the past five weeks the figures have been profiled in TV documentaries. Former PD leader Michael McDowel
Source: Tenessean
October 19, 2010
State prehistoric archaeologist hopes location will be a resource site on National Register of Historic Places
Since last week, a team of archaeologists and Middle Tennessee State University students has hewn a trench about 10 feet deep into the cool clay of a suburban Williamson County backyard, bringing out bags of bone fragments and stones once used perhaps as axes or other implements.
Those bits and pieces — some no bigger than a coffee cup, others smaller than coin
Source: AP
October 21, 2010
A fossil collector may have found a prehistoric bone with art work on it in Florida.
Last year, James Kennedy cleaned off a 15-inch bone he had found two years earlier. The lines on it looked like a four-inch etching of a walking mammoth with tusks.
University of Florida researchers examined the etching with an electron microscope. Their tests showed it was genuine....
Source: NPR
October 21, 2010
Descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers who fought in one of history's most important battles can now find their American ancestors in a computer database, and some day they might be guided by GPS to the exact spots where their relatives faced musket fire, cannon barrages and bayonet charges.
History buffs spent 12 years gleaning information from 200-year-old military documents to assemble the list of thousands who participated in the Battles of Saratoga. The database, recently un
Source: Irish Times
October 22, 2010
VOTING LINES will close at 10.30 tonight in RTÉ’s search to find the greatest person in the history of Ireland. The winner will be announced on the Late Late Show . The five figures in the running are Michael Collins, James Connolly, Bono, Mary Robinson and John Hume. They were selected in a public vote from a shortlist of 40 people whose names topped a survey by Ipsos/MRBI.
Over the past five weeks the figures have been profiled in TV documentaries. Former PD leader Michael McDowel
Source: The Canadian Press
October 22, 2010
Ancient stone projectiles created miles from where the original rock was quarried highlight the intent of a monumental new exhibition on Native American Indians: to offer a hemispheric survey of tribes as dynamic interconnected societies.
"Infinity of Nations," opening Saturday, features 700 objects from South, Central and North America from ancient to modern times at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York.
The museum worked with 60 native histor
Source: AP
December 22, 2010
American writer and historian Robert Katz, best known for his reconstruction of an infamous Nazi massacre in Rome, has died in Italy. He was 77.
Katz's wife Beverly Gerstel told the AP on Thursday that the author had died in the hospital in Tuscany from complications from cancer surgery the day before. Katz had been a longtime resident of Tuscany.
His works looked at some crucial events in modern Italian history, including the Nazi massacre of 335 Italians at the Ardeat
