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: Homer Tribune (AK)
Mar 3, 2010
Seldovia’s St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, sitting atop its hill as it has for more than a century, is currently in transition because its members are so few in Seldovia that services are seldom held there.
However, contrary to speculation, the church is not for sale, said Russian Orthodox priest, Father Michael Oleksa. Apparently the rumor started because land around the church is listed for sale, after a trailer court nearby has overflowed onto church property, creating a “squatt
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
A best-selling book about atom bomb survivors in Japan has been pulled from shops following claims sections of it may have been based on false accounts made up by an imposter.
Charles Pellegrino's Last Train from Hiroshima has been dropped by its US publisher, Henry Holt and Company, which said it had doubts over facts in the book.
After publication in January, it emerged that a source who claimed to have been on the US bombing mission over Hiroshima had invented his st
Source: ANI
Mar 3, 2010
Washington, March 3 (ANI): Reports indicate that a collection of Hellenistic coins dating back to the era of Alexander the Great in northern Syria have been found by a local man.
Buzz up!
According to a report in Global Arab Network, a local man found the coins near Najm Castle in the Manbej area in Aleppo governorate, as he was preparing his land for construction
, uncovering a bronze box that contained around 250 coins.
He promptly delivered the co
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2010
French archaeologists announced Wednesday the discovery outside Cairo of the burial chamber of a mysterious queen from Egypt's Old Kingdom more than 4,000 years ago.
The necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo has yielded a string of new discoveries as 10 different teams excavate a previously untouched area of these burial grounds were used continuously for more than 2,000 years until Roman times.
French mission head Philippe Collombert said the mummy of Queen Behenu was d
Source: BBC News
Mar 3, 2010
A large space rock may have exploded over Antarctica thousands of years ago, showering a large area with debris, according to new research.
The evidence comes from accumulations of tiny meteoritic particles and a layer of extraterrestrial dust found in Antarctic ice cores.
Details of the work were presented at a major science conference in Texas.
The event would have been similar to the Tunguska event, which flattened a large area of Siberian forest in 1908
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
A war veteran who thought he had arthritis only to discover his discomfort had actually been caused by a German bullet which had been lodged in his hip for the last 66 years.
Fred Gough was told by doctors told that he had been unwittingly been carrying the memento since his time battling on the front line in World War II.
The 83-year-old pensioner, from Darlaston, West Midlands, had been referred to hospital for an x-ray after suffering from an ache in his right leg.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
Irish president Mary McAleese is reported to be hopeful the first state visit would take place during her term in office, which ends next year.
It would be the first time a British monarch has set foot in the Irish Republic.
A visit has been mooted for several years as the Ulster peace process brings closer ties between London and Dublin, lowering the hurdles.
Such an event would have been inconceivable prior to the IRA pledging to hand over its weapons; th
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
Mar 3, 2010
The first train whistled into Flagstaff on Aug. 1, 1882, touching off a "noisy and rough celebration," according to an account by the late historian Platt Cline. All the men in town were armed, and many shot off their firearms to mark the event.
On Tuesday, more than a century later, there was another celebration at the train station in Flagstaff, and in keeping with the theme, it turned out to be even quieter than planned.
Mayor Sara Presler picked up one of
Source: Radio Free Europe
Mar 3, 2010
Belarusian officials, foreign diplomats, and former inmates of Nazi concentration camps gathered in Minsk to mark the 68th anniversary of a massacre of Jews, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
The ceremony was held March 2 near Minsk's Yama (the Ditch) memorial to commemorate the more than 5,000 people from the city's Jewish ghetto who were killed by Nazis on March 2, 1942.
Leanid Levin, the chairman of the Jewish Organizations' Association in Belarus, told RFE/RL that d
Source: Montreal Gazette
Mar 3, 2010
With Canadians basking in the glow of Olympic hockey glory - and still savouring Nova Scotia-born Sidney Crosby's overtime winner in Sunday's gold-medal match against the U.S. - two sports historians from Sweden have made a discovery that could cement the Maritime province's controversial claim to being the game's birthplace.
Researchers Patrick Houda and Carl Giden, members of the Canada-based Society for International Hockey Research, have unearthed a brief reference to an 1811 ic
Source: Independent (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
The criminal record of one of Britain's most notorious villains has been discovered gathering dust in a police headquarters.
More than 40 years after he was jailed Ronnie Kray's police record has been uncovered during an office move at Durham Police HQ.
In the document, which dates back to the 1950s, the murderous twin is described as a dog breeder, wardrobe dealer and club owner who will kill in any circumstances.
Source: Guardian (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
Michael Foot, Labour leader during one of the most tumultuous periods in the party's history has died, it was announced today.
Foot led the party from 1980 to 1983, presiding over the party during the formation of the breakaway Social Democratic party. He quit after Labour slumped to a stunning defeat in the 1983 election. A distinguished writer and journalist, as well as a cabinet minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments, he was an MP from 1945 to 1992.
Tony Be
Source: Times (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
Like everything to do with the celebrated murder trial, O.J. Simpson’s courtroom clothing is a part of American history — or is it?
The suit that the former American football star was wearing in court when he was acquitted on October 3, 1995, is now to be donated to a museum.
A bitter legal battle over the tan suit, patterned tie and white shirt ended in Los Angeles on Tuesday with a deal to preserve the clothes for posterity.
Fred Goldman had been tryin
Source: Times (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
A co-producer of the low-budget Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has been barred from this weekend's Oscar ceremony for denigrating the film's main rival for the Best Picture award.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Nicolas Chartier was being banned from Sunday’s awards show for "violating Academy campaigning standards" by sending e-mails to voters disparaging the 3D blockbuster Avatar.
The decision means that if, as widely expecte
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
The Prince, who hosted a reception a his London home to celebrate the work of the country's only national stammering centre, was joined by Michael Palin and Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary.
Before the event Mr Balls pledged £500,000 to a national appeal for a new institution in the north of England to assess and treat youngsters with the speech problem.
His department has already made half a million pounds available to the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Mar 3, 2010
Germans have been able to watch the war that changed their world forever in full colour, thanks to a revolutionary new film.
Previously unseen film footage and photographs restored and colourised using the latest computer technology were shown as part of a major three-part series simply called Der Krieg (The War).
The series was originally a film made by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle and was premiered in France last year under the title of Apocalypse.
Source: SPACE.com
Mar 2, 2010
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"Perhaps more impressive is how much the
Source: BBC News
Mar 2, 2010
So who was Scotland's first female MP?...
Katharine (Kitty) Murray, the Duchess of Atholl and the MP for Kinross and West Perthshire from 1923 to 1938.
She certainly seems to be a woman of contradictions at first sight.
She maintained a woman's place was in the home, even speaking against votes for women - but ended up in the most prestigious boys' club of them all, becoming our first MP....
When she first entered Westminster she was one of onl
Source: Armenian Weekly
Mar 2, 2010
Like swallows returning to Capistrano, Congress’s annual determination to debate the history of the Ottoman Empire is a sign of spring. The Turkish government’s approach to the American Jewish community to help sink the proposed congressional resolution officially recognizing the horrific killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early 20th century as genocide is a similar ritual. Unlike the swallows, however, both Congress and the Turks are out of their habitat.
During the flowe
Source: AP
Mar 2, 2010
A Utah businessman who worked a two-year sting operation for federal officials investigating looting of American Indian relics across the Southwest has died, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot.
It appears to be the third suicide connected to the case.
Ted Dan Gardiner, an antiquities dealer and former grocery store CEO, shot himself Monday at a home in the Salt Lake City suburb of Holladay, police said.
