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: Reuters
October 20, 2010
"Hitler and the Germans," an exhibition in Berlin's German Historical Museum which investigates the society that created Hitler, has seen more than 10,000 visitors walk through its doors since opening Friday.
Rudolf Trabold, a spokesman for the museum, said there were 4,000 visitors to the exhibition on the first day alone.
People visiting the exhibition said they had waited as long as 1-1/2 hours to get in....
Source: TPM
October 20, 2010
Jon Runyan, a former pro football player and now the Republ
Source: WaPo
October 19, 2010
Captain Ahab had Moby Dick. Bob Neyland's white whale is the Bonhomme Richard.
For decades, thrillseekers, archaeologists and professional treasure hunters have searched for the wreckage of the Bonhomme Richard, a Continental Navy ship from the Revolutionary War that sank on Sept. 25, 1779, off the coast of Yorkshire, England, in the choppy waters of the North Sea.
But the ship is legally the property of the U.S. Navy, which is responsible for preserving whatever may be
Source: BigPondNews
October 20, 2010
Egypt's top archaeologist has shown off the newly discovered tomb of a pharaonic priest, a find he says could point the way to a new necropolis to be excavated near the famed Giza pyramids.
Standing inside the 4,300-year-old structure on Tuesday, Zahi Hawass said hieroglyphics on the tomb's walls indicate it belonged to Rudj-ka, a priest inspector in the mortuary cult of the pharaoh Khafre, who built the second largest of Giza's pyramids.
The tomb - about the size of a
Source: Device Magazine
October 19, 2010
The Google R&D Center in Israel has partnered with the Israel Antiquities Authority in an effort to make Dead Sea scrolls available online for free.
The amazing project aims at creating the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, which will include hi-resolution and multi spectra images of the entire collection — 900 manuscripts that have some 30,000 Dead Sea Scrolls fragments.
The imaging technology will be supplied by MegaVision, a U.S. based company, while Go
Source: Live Science
October 18, 2010
t's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will — or if it has already.
A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the
Source: ksdk (MO)
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: Telegraph (UK)
October 20, 2010
Ayrton Senna's Lotus 99T Formula One car will be among the star attractions at November's MPH motor show.
The famous Camel-liveried Lotus 99T was raced by Senna in 1987. The Brazilian scored victories in Monaco and Detroit in what was his last season for Team Lotus before switching to McLaren for the following year.
The Lotus was also quick enough in the hands of Senna to secure one pole position (San Marino). He backed this up with the two wins, four second places, two
Source: AP
October 20, 2010
Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe.
The ancient poplar wood door is "solid and elegant" with well-preserved hinges and a "remarkable" design for holding the boards together, chief archaeologist Niels Bleicher said Wednesday.
Using tree rings to determine its age, Bleicher believes the door could have been made in the year 3,063 B.C. -- around the time that
Source: Fox News
October 20, 2010
More than 400 of Bernard Madoff's possessions are heading for the auction block in New York City.
The items include Madoff's black velveteen slippers, embroidered in gold with "BLM," a Steinway piano and his wife Ruth's 10.5-carat diamond ring.
The U.S. Marshals Service will be selling the disgraced financier's personal items on Nov. 13 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. They are the last items taken from Madoff's Manhattan and Montauk, Long Island,
Source: BBC News
October 19, 2010
Two German radar satellites flying in tight formation above the Earth have returned their first combined images.
TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X are circling the globe just 350m apart as they get set to make the most detailed 3D map of the Earth's surface ever acquired.
Their close proximity allows them to view the same patch of ground simultaneously but from slightly different angles.
This remarkable stereo vision has been demonstrated in an image of Mount Etna.
Source: NYT
October 16, 2010
WASHINGTON — In some circles, President Obama’s veto of an obscure bill this month has proved more controversial than the legislation itself. The White House called it a “pocket veto.” Some constitutional experts beg to differ....
The distinction between a pocket veto and a regular veto goes to the fundamental Constitutional balance of powers zealously guarded by both branches. A pocket veto kills legislation outright, giving the president the final say; a regular veto allows Congre
Source: NYT
October 17, 2010
For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named.
The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that erupted after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant labor secretary in the Johnson administration, introduced the idea of a “culture of poverty” to the public in a startling 1965 report. Although Moynihan didn’t coin the phrase (that distinction belongs to
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
October 19, 2010
HYDE PARK — In honor of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Roosevelt Institute on Sunday will present "1935 and the Enduring New Deal: The Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration."...
This program will examine the historical impact of the WPA and REA's infrastructure programs, current
Source: Guardian (UK)
October 18, 2010
Pakistan's powerful intelligence services were heavily involved in preparations for the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, according to classified Indian government documents obtained by the Guardian.
A 109-page report into the interrogation of key suspect David Headley, a Pakistani-American militant arrested last year and detained in the US, makes detailed claims of ISI support for the bombings.
Under questioning, Headley described dozens of meetings between of
Source: Discovery News
January 19, 2010
A Neanderthal infant was discovered alongside two adults, potentially representing a prehistoric family.
Neanderthal youngsters that made it to the "terrible two's" were large, sturdy and toothy, suggests a newly discovered Neanderthal infant. The child almost survived to such an age, but instead died when it was just one and a half years old.
The remains of this infant -- a lower jaw and teeth unearthed in a Belgian cave -- are the youngest Neanderthal ever f
Source: Reuters
October 18, 2010
Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have dined on an early form of flat bread, contrary to his popular image as primarily a meat-eater.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal on Monday, indicate that Palaeolithic Europeans ground down plant roots similar to potatoes to make flour, which was later whisked into dough.
The grinding stones, each of which fit comfortabl
Source: Boston Globe
October 18, 2010
A North End privy sealed for more than a century has yielded thousands of artifacts that are giving archeologists an unprecedented look at how the world’s oldest profession was practiced by improper Bostonians of the 19th century.
From toothbrushes to jewelry to cosmetics, and parts of 19 syringes used for hygiene, the treasure trove plucked from a now-buried site near Haymarket is evidence of a thriving, racy economy that the city’s prim Victorian image never acknowledges.
Source: BBC
October 18, 2010
Fiji has admitted losing the legal document confirming its independence from the United Kingdom. But does that threaten its existence as a state?
However, as Fiji celebrated the 40th anniversary of winning independence from the UK, its government admitted it had lost the legal Independence Order presented to ministers by Prince Charles in 1970.
And after five years of scouring files in government departments, it was forced to take the embarrassing step of asking its for
Source: BBC
October 19, 2010
Glasgow has won the right to act as one of the official starting points for the Monte Carlo rally, to mark its centenary year.
The decision re-establishes the city as one of several starting points around Europe for the world famous race, which first began in 1911.
Glasgow had served as a starting venue for racers from 1949 until 1973.
Other cities that will feature in the event, due to start on 27 January, will be Marrakech and Warsaw.
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