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: BBC
Mar 4, 2010
A cordon remains in place in Southampton after an unexploded German World War II bomb was found at a building site.
Hampshire police said the 45kg (100lb) device was found by construction workers in London Road at 1005 GMT.
A 200m (220yd) area was cordoned off and buildings evacuated.
Some people are now being allowed back in but the device is still being inspected by a team from the Royal Engineers who hope to move it soon.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 4, 2010
A letter hinting that Diana, Princess of Wales, believed in feng shui's healing powers after her divorce has sold for £640 at auction.
The letter was written by the Princess in June 1994, the same month that the Prince of Wales spoke about his private life in a television interview with Jonathan Dimbleby.
The letter was bought by an anonymous bidder at the Dominic Winter auction in Cirencester, Glos, on Wednesday.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 4, 2010
Tony Blair is to publish his memoirs later this year, in a move which will make public his version of his often tempestuous relationship with Gordon Brown.
By releasing the book, The Journey, in September he will invite suggestions that he believes Mr Brown is unlikely to still be Prime Minister.
The book’s release has been delayed until after the likely May poll date, in what most believe is part of Mr Blair's desire not to destablise Mr Brown before polling day.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 4, 2010
The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid that struck the earth with the force of a billion Hiroshimas, according to leading scientists.
The asteroid, the size of the Isle of Wight, slammed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico at 20 times the speed of a bullet causing earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis and wildfires.
The destruction, 65 million years ago, was so great it left most of the world a wasteland, shrouded in dust, perpetually cold and virtually devoid of al
Source: CNN
Mar 4, 2010
After scathing criticism from the son of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, police in Los Angeles, California, have apologized for including the clothes the senator was wearing when killed in an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases.
The clothing -- a shirt, tie and jacket, with what appears to be bloodstains on the shirt -- was removed from the exhibit, "Behind-The-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience," at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In addition
Source: WaPo
Mar 4, 2010
A congressional committee voted Thursday to label as "genocide" the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians, shrugging off a last-minute warning from Obama administration officials worried about alienating Turkey, a key ally in the Middle East.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the eve of the hearing to express concern, administration officials said. In addition to straining U.S
Source: Culpepper Star-Exponent
Mar 4, 2010
In a public gesture of thanks for its preservation efforts, Orange County’s Friends of Wilderness Battlefield will receive recognition today for its advocacy in protecting and restoring historic Ellwood Manor.
John L. Nau III, chairman of the Civil War Preservation Trust, will present the Chairman’s Awards for achievement in historic preservation at 10:30 a.m. during the board of trustees meeting at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C. There are three award categories: educat
Source: BBC News
Mar 4, 2010
A US Congressional committee is set to vote later on a resolution to label as genocide the killing of Armenians by Turkish forces during World War I.
The resolution is not binding, but if it is passed, it can go forward for a vote in the House of Representatives.
In 2007, a similar resolution passed the committee stage, but was shelved before a House vote after pressure from the Bush administration.
Turkey has warned of consequences for US-Turkey ties if it
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Mar 4, 2010
Fifty years ago in Houston, John F. Kennedy declared in a famous speech to Protestant ministers that his Catholic faith would not influence the public policy decisions he made as President. But Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput told an audience at Houston Baptist University on Monday that Americans of all faiths are still “paying for the damage” from a speech that was “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.”
“Real Christian faith is always personal, but it’s never private,” sai
Source: AP
Mar 4, 2010
The son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy said he was "horrified" when he learned earlier this week that clothing that his father was wearing when he was assassinated in 1968 was being displayed at an exhibit in Las Vegas.
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy criticized the Los Angeles Police Department in a commentary prepared for Friday's Op-Ed page in the Los Angeles Times.
Maxwell Kennedy, a former assistant district attorney who lives in Los Angeles, called the displa
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (AU)
Mar 4, 2010
Thirty-odd little strands of hair, one big mystery.
Nobody knows how a tawny-coloured lock of hair, apparently snipped from the head of Napoleon Bonaparte on his deathbed, found its way into the bowels of Sydney Town Hall.
Attached to a letter claiming it was a cut from the ''illustrious dead'', the tuft has sat in underground storage for decades among the kitsch international gifts and relics accumulated by the City of Sydney, while councillors debated suburban develop
Source: Belfast Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
Thousands of years ago our Neolithic forebears were hunting wild game with flint arrows in the hills overlooking what is now Ballymena. Now they’re still making their presence felt, delaying a road dualling scheme that was aimed at easing congestion between the town and the M2.
The A26 Ballee Road East to M2 Ballymena bypass dualling scheme was due to be completed by the end of this month. But bad weather and the discovery of rare Neolithic remains have pushed that deadline back to
Source: Discovery News
Mar 3, 2010
Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur relative that could completely rewrite the history of these animals, according to a new study which appears in tomorrow's issue of Nature.
Fossil remains of the new species, Asilisaurus kongwe, date back to about 240 million years ago -- around 10 million years before the oldest known dinosaurs first emerged.
Aside from reshaping the dino timeline, Asilisaurus has shed new light on the evolution of dinosaurs. Researchers be
Source: Living Lake Country (WI)
Mar 3, 2010
Alonzo Cushing - one of four brothers for which an elementary school and city park are named for - will be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Battle of Gettysburg in which he was killed on July 3, 1863, according to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin).
Secretary of Army John McHugh notified Feingold's office last week that Cushing would receive the country's highest military honor, according to Matt Nikolay, veterans' affairs case worker
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
Charles Bonnet, 76, is the doyen of Sudan archaeologists who helped rewrite an ancient chapter of Africa's largest country.
Bonnet helped show that Sudan was not merely a satellite to Egypt's wealth of ancient relics. He unearthed statues of Sudan's "black pharaohs", the overlords of the Kingdom of Kush, suggesting that Sudan was a trove itself.
Bonnet peeled away at the old kingdom of Kerma (2500 to 1500 BC) and discovered seven granite statues of the Nubia
Source: BBC
Mar 3, 2010
A group of academics has been tasked to reinvestigate a centuries-old massacre of Protestants in Ireland.
University language experts have been given a grant of £334,000 to pore over thousands of witness accounts of massacres following the 1641 rebellion.
The Protestant death toll was most recently put at between 4,000 and 12,000, mainly in Ulster.
However, there have been allegations that accounts of the killings were exaggerated for propaganda purposes.
Source: San Diego Examiner
Mar 3, 2010
Until now, paleontologists have generally believed that the closest relatives of dinosaurs possibly looked a little smaller in size, walked on two legs and were carnivorous. However, a research team including Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History and assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah has made a recent discovery to dispel this hypothesis.
The team announced the discovery of a proto-dinosaur
Source: National Museum of the US Air Force
Mar 3, 2010
A new exhibit focused on flight nurses during World War II opened March 3 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
The Winged Angels: U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Nurses in World War II exhibit, located in the museum's Air Power Gallery, tells the story of the 500 Army nurses who served as members of 31 medical air evacuation transport squadrons during the war. It highlights such women as 2nd Lt. Elsie S. Ott, 1st Lt. Suella Bernard, 1st Lt. Aleda E. Lutz and 1st Lt. Mary L. Haw
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2010
The 97-year-old American’s memories of comrades blown away on either side of him on Iwo Jima are a world away from his vision of the island after returning to commemorate one of World War II’s fiercest battles.
“It’s a paradise,” former Marine commander Richard Rothwell said Wednesday as he sat in a wheelchair overlooking Invasion Beach. “I see no resemblance at all. Even the beach seems different.”
Rothwell was among nearly a dozen aging veterans able to make the 65th
Source: Gettsyburg Times (PA)
Mar 3, 2010
Two local municipalities have agreed to support a Journey Through Hallowed Ground project that aims to plant one tree along Old U.S. 15 for every soldier killed in the American Civil War.
The proposal has generated unanimous support from the Cumberland Township Board of Supervisors and Gettysburg Borough Council’s Community Development Committee.
“They’re not looking for any money, so it’s at no cost to taxpayers,” explained Cumberland Township Supervisor Randy Phiel.
