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: AP
October 5, 2010
A former commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia testified Tuesday that Radovan Karadzic directed Serb troops to terrorize civilians with sniping campaigns and reduce Muslim enclaves to near starvation throughout the country's devastating war.
British Gen. Michael Rose's testimony at Karadzic's genocide trial is expected to be key to proving the former Bosnian Serb leader had complete control over troops responsible for the 1992-95 conflict's most bloody atrocities.
Source: CNN
October 5, 2010
Members of the Tea Party movement tend to be Christian conservatives, not libertarians, and are more likely than even white evangelical Christians to say the United States is a Christian nation, a detailed new study has found.
More than half of self-identified Tea Party members say America is a Christian nation, while just over four out of 10 white evangelicals believe that - the same as the proportion of the general population that says so.
The details come from the
Source: Hurriyet (Turkey)
October 5, 2010
Turkey's Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul has been granted Italy's prestigious Rotondi Award to the Saviors of Art for the restorations carried out in the museum.
In a written statement Tuesday, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism said the Hagia Sophia was presented with the Rotondi Award by the Arca dell’Arte Museum in a ceremony held in Sassocorvaro in central Italy on Sept. 25.
The statement said the Rotondi Award had been presented to individuals or instituti
Source: The Art Newspaper
October 5, 2010
Lichen are eating away at the Moai, the 400 volcanic stone heads that dominate the skyline of Easter Island. Earlier treatments to preserve these ancient monoliths at this World Heritage Site called for filling some of the most deeply corroded stones with concrete. Unfortunately, experts think that this treatment might have worsened the damaging effects of the wind and saltwater that batter the Polynesian island. In fact, the lichen may even be feeding off the concrete used to save the Moai.
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
October 4, 2010
One of Hitler's most senior Nazis set his heart on a stylish retirement in Cornwall following Germany's invasion of Britain, new research reveals.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Fuhrer's foreign minister, planned to live in St Michael's Mount, one of the most beautiful locations in the country.
He had served as the Nazi ambassador to Britain in the late 30s and had his eye on the picturesque tidal island, which is 400 yards offshore, after spending a week in Cornwall in 19
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
October 5, 2010
Organisers of a village museum's Second World War exhibition have covered up a swastika on a flag in case it offends visitors.
The banner, taken from the Olympic stadium in Berlin in 1945 by a local soldier, was one of the most eye-catching exhibits.
But 'one or two people' at a preview of the display complained that it showed a lack of respect to villagers who died in the war.
Not wishing to upset anyone, the museum committee decided to hide the swastika from view by
Source: CNN
October 5, 2010
A judge in Manhattan sentenced Faisal Shahzad to life in prison for the botched Times Square car bombing as the 31-year-old Pakistani-American defiantly warned in court to "brace yourself, the war with Muslims has just begun."
"The defeat of the U.S. is imminent, inshallah, " Shahzad said on Tuesday during the sentencing..
Speaking in a 14th-floor courtroom where a clear view of the World Trade Center site can be seen through a window, Shahzad said Muslims have
Source: BBC News
October 4, 2010
A "relative lack of experience" played a role in the death of the Georgian luger who died during a training run before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a coroner's report says.
The document says Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, died immediately when he smashed into a steel pole after flipping his sled at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
The report, issued 235 days after the crash, calls the death accidental.
Mr Kumaritashvili hit the unpadded pillar at 90mph (14
Source: BBC News
October 5, 2010
Giant carnivorous dinosaur skeletons rarely go on sale, so this week is a particularly exciting one for avid fossil collectors, with the auctioning in Paris of an Allosaurus skeleton.
The Sothebys sale is the second large auction of fossils in less than six months, after Bonhams sold more than 400 dinosaur items in New York in May.
The Allosaurus - an older, smaller cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex - walked the earth 155 to 145 million years ago, and weighed up to three
Source: bbc News
October 5, 2010
A life-size bronze sculpture by Henri Matisse could fetch up to $35m (£22m) when it goes up for auction next month.
The work, titled Back IV (Nu de Dos, 4eme etat), will be on offer at Christie's in New York on 3 November.
Owned by an anonymous private collector, it has never been sold at auction before.
Conor Jordan, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie's America, said it was a "milestone in the evolution of modernist style".
Source: BBC News
October 5, 2010
Serbia's leader has said the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic 10 years ago marked the establishment of the Balkan country's democracy.
Marking the 10th anniversary at a conference in the capital Belgrade, President Boris Tadic said Serbia was closer to joining the European Union.
But commemorations of the event, in which crowds backed by a bulldozer stormed parliament, were muted.
There was little sign of any public gathering in Belgrade.
Both the
Source: Columbus Dispatch
October 3, 2010
Two more flags that flew as Ohioans fought and died during the Civil War are being repaired and restored to their former glory thanks to private donations.
Although flags from the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry and the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry will be saved, hundreds of others are falling to pieces at the Ohio Historical Society because of lack of funds to preserve them. Nearly 150 years later, the smell of gunpowder still clings to some.
The small "flank" flag f
Source: Vermount Public Radio
October 4, 2010
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. A special Vermont commission has been created to commemorate the state's involvement in the War.
The panel is planning an ambitious five year effort to highlight Vermont's participation in the war effort and to discuss how the Civil War still shapes who we are as a state, and a country.
VPR's Bob Kinzel has more.
(Kinzel) In the fall of 1860, the United States had a critical presidential
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 3, 2010
Archaeologists have unearthed the upper part of a statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, Egypt's Ministry of Culture has announced.
A ministry statement said the team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered the 4-foot by 3-foot statue of Amenhotep III in Kom el-Hittan, the site of the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor.
The temple is one of the largest on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor....
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
October 4, 2010
As the leaves start to turn to gold, there's no better time for a walk in Britain's most scenic forests.
And this year there's even more for tree-lovers to celebrate after it emerged that the nation's woodlands are more extensive today than they have been for centuries.
Not since before the Industrial Revolution has so much of our countryside been carpeted in trees, a new report found yesterday.
As the leaves start to turn to gold, there's no better time fo
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
October 4, 2010
Bronze age cities built by the Aryans that date back to the beginning of Western civilisation in Europe have been discovered in a remote part of Russia.
Archaeologists have identified 20 of the spiral-shaped settlements that were built some 4,000 years ago shortly after the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
It is believed that the buildings were used by the original Aryan race whose swastika symbol was later adopted by the Nazis in the 1930s.
TV historian Bettany Hug
Source: Sify News (India)
September 30, 2010
A collection of 16 watercolours attributed to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler sold for 104,800 pounds ($164,800) at an auction in Britain Thursday, and were snapped up by buyers from emerging economies.
Richard Westwood-Brookes of Mullock's Auctioneers in Shropshire, northwest of London, said it was an 'interesting trend' that the works had been bought exclusively by overseas buyers from China, India and Russia.
'This shows that it has nothing to do with an obsession with the
Source: France24
October 3, 2010
AFP - A French Nazi hunter announced on Sunday the discovery of the original document establishing WWII restrictions for Jews showing that Vichy leader Philippe Petain made stringent measures even harsher.
"The discovery of this plan is fundamental. This document establishes Petain's decisive role in drawing up this position in the most aggressive way, revealing (Petain's) deep anti-Semitism," Serge Klarsfeld told AFP....
The pencilled-in changes to the docume
Source: Fox News
October 2, 2010
Justin Taylan boots up his laptop computer in the climate-controlled comfort of a cafe and clicks on photographs of a World War II airplane lying in pieces amid a steamy jungle on the other side of the world.
He browses through a series of digital images of the vine-entangled wreckage of the American C-47B Dakota, which slammed into a mountain in Malaysia during a supply mission in November 1945. The cockpit, believed to still contain the remains of the three-member crew, lies embed
Source: AP
October 2, 2010
ISTANBUL – About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
To many people in the West, the statement was ludicrous, almost laughable if it weren't so incendiary. And surveys show that a majority of the world does not in fact believe that the U.S. orchestrated the attacks.
However, the belief persists strongly among a minority
