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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
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Source: Salon.com
Mar 12, 2010
Austrian government officials say they have identified at least two mass graves of Nazi victims on property used by the army.
Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia says talks will be sought with the owners of the site to discuss possible exhumation. He said Friday he did not know whether the army owns the property or rents it.
The mass graves are located underneath an army sports field in the southern city of Graz. Government officials say they contain about 70 bodi
Source: Tehran Times
Mar 11, 2010
Construction by local residents has imperiled an ancient structure, believed to be the tomb of Cyrus I, the Achaemenid king and son of Teispes and grandfather of Cyrus II the Great, near the village of Tang-e Eram in Bushehr Province.
Experts have demarcated a 100-meter perimeter for the site, which was registered on the National Heritage List in 1997, the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Any construction done on this perimeter is illegal
Source: BBC
Mar 11, 2010
A court in Stockholm has ruled that a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland to face trial over the theft of a sign from the Auschwitz death camp.
Investigators accuse Anders Hogstrom, 34, of instigating the theft of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the camp gates last December.
The sign was recovered shortly afterwards, cut into three pieces.
Mr Hogstrom, a former neo-Nazi leader, denies the claims and is likely to appeal, his lawyer said.
Source: BBC
Mar 11, 2010
Britain should apologise to a former Bosnian president for "mistreating" him in prison, the chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina said.
Former Bosnian President Ejup Ganic, 64, was arrested at Heathrow over war crimes allegations on 1 March at the request of Serbia. He was later bailed.
Haris Silajdzic, chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina, said Mr Ganic was denied basic rights. Mr Ganic is a
Source: BBC
Mar 11, 2010
The arrest of a former Bosnian president is still causing diplomatic fallout, even after the decision by the High Court in London on Thursday to release him on bail.
Ejup Ganic was arrested on 1 March on a Serbian extradition request alleging war crimes committed in 1992. His arrest sparked demonstrations outside the British embassy in Sarajevo and diplomatic protests.
But speaking in London after his release, the Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic said he had told the
Source: Medieval News
Mar 11, 2010
Archaeologists have found saxon pottery on the site of the new adventure playground for the town of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England
Further investigations will take place, but the find will not delay the start of work on the £800,000 project.
The adventure playground is an investment from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the facility for the Waterlees district, which was identified as an area of ‘play deprivation’.
An e
Source: BBC News
Mar 11, 2010
Parts of routes believed to have been followed by Jacobites attempting a night assault could be recreated in a new network of public footpaths.
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) said elements of the ill-fated night march of April 1746 could be a feature of the project at Culloden.
However, the trust stressed the paths idea was still in the early stages.
Supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie tried to march from Culloden to Nairn to attack Hanoverian troops
Source: Houston Chronicle
Mar 11, 2010
The State Board of Education's Hispanic and African-American members clashed with its Anglo majority for hours Thursday over how to present history to the state's 4.7 million public school children.
Much of the conflict centered on the racial balance of the historical figures to be included in textbooks starting in the 2011-2012 school year. Tempers boiled over when sex or religion were added to the mix.
Members grew increasingly distraught over the process as they move
Source: WaPo
Mar 11, 2010
When visitors walk into the lobby, they are greeted by the likenesses of Frederick Douglass and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. If they take a right at the statue of a shirtless President Abraham Lincoln, they will be flanked by four murals, one showing Gen. Andrew Jackson on a white horse at the Battle of New Orleans and another a dying Col. Robert Gould Shaw being held by a soldier of his Massachusetts 54th Regiment during the Civil War.
But this isn't a museum. It's a government
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 11, 2010
The only female crew member of The Mary Rose is to go on display after years of painstaking reconstruction - a two-year-old mongrel called Hatch.
The 16th century sea dog acquired the nickname after divers discovered her remains near the sliding hatch door of the ill-fated ship's carpenter's cabin, where she had lain since it sank in 1545.
Hatch's skeleton will be on display at this year's Crufts as the special guest of the Kennel Club, along with a selection of other
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 11, 2010
Guy Ritchie is to direct a Hollywood film version of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
The film is to be “reimagined for a modern audience” by the 41-year-old, who separated from Madonna last year, and John Hodge, the Trainspotter screenwriter.
Ritchie has been signed to the project by Warner Brothers, following the success of his latest film, Sherlock Holmes, according to Variety.
That film made $470 million (£314 million) worldwide and reinf
Source: FoxNews
Mar 11, 2010
If there was an award for despicable legacies Joseph Stalin would rank right up there with Hitler and Mao for the men with the most blood on their hands. By conservative estimates the man who led the Soviet Union for 30 years until his death in 1953, was responsible for killing some 30 million people, most of them his own citizens.
His penalty? In May of this year when Russia celebrates it's victory over Germany in World War 2 (victory with the help of all it's allies including Amer
Source: BBC News
Mar 11, 2010
A court in Stockholm has ruled that a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland to face trial over the theft of a sign from the Auschwitz death camp.
Investigators accuse Anders Hogstrom, 34, of instigating the theft of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the camp gates last December.
The sign was recovered shortly afterwards, cut into three pieces.
Mr Hogstrom, 34, a former neo-Nazi leader, is likely to appeal against his extradition, his lawyer said.
Source: Spiegel Online
Mar 10, 2010
Germany approved the requisite legislation back in 2002, but many of those who worked in Jewish ghettos during World War II are still waiting for their pensions. Indeed, up to 90 percent of applicants have been rejected. Now, though, a new reading of the law could break the logjam, and cost Berlin up to 2 billion euros.
Abraham Leibenson, born in 1925, was a construction worker from the Lithuanian city of Radviliskis who was imprisoned in the Stutthof and Dachau concentration camps
Source: The Mainichi Daily News
Mar 10, 2010
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which suffered U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, reacted fiercely Tuesday to a government-appointed panel's acknowledgement of the existence of Japan-U.S. secret pacts, including one allowing the introduction of nuclear weapons into the country.
"As the government of the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, I must say it is pathetic. The state must apologize to the people for lying to them," said Sunao Tsuboi, the head of t
Source: Discovery News
Mar 10, 2010
A long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago.
New research reveals just how bad an idea it was to colonize Greenland and Iceland more than a millennium ago: average temperatures in Iceland plummeted nearly 6 degrees Celsius in the century that followed the island's Norse settlement in about A.D. 870, a climate record gleaned from mollusk shells shows.
The record is the most precise year-by-year chronology yet of tempera
Source: Discovery News
Mar 10, 2010
The 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life.
Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday.
The site appears to have been the last place of refuge for Aboriginal tribes from the cannon fire of Australia's first white settlers, said Michael Mansell of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
Source: NYT
Mar 10, 2010
Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emphasize the role of Christianity in American history and include Republican political philosophies in textbooks.
The hearings are the latest round in a long-running cultural battle on the 15-member State Bo
Source: AP
Mar 10, 2010
Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum of African-American history opens on the National Mall.
On Wednesday, historian Charles L. Blockson donated about 40 objects from Tubman's life to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The museum is slated to open near the Washington Monument in 2015.
Once owned by the woman who led hundreds of slave
Source: Merco Press
Mar 10, 2010
During a brief visit to Montevideo, Westerwelle was asked about the ongoing diplomatic dispute over parts of what was once the pride of the Nazi navy, the “Admiral Graf Spee,” since they were salvaged in 2006.
“We want to prevent wreckage from the ship, in particular the Nazi symbols, from landing on the market for military insignia,” he told reporters after talks with his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro.
“We want the remains of the Graf Spee to be dealt with proper
