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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: Toledo Blade
Oct 14, 2009
MONROE - A former industrial site near East Elm Avenue and North Dixie Highway has produced hard evidence about fighting that occurred in 1813 at the Battle of the River Raisin.
Musket balls, metal buttons from military uniforms, and other artifacts have been unearthed in archaeological digs on the War of 1812 battlefield, which has been identified for development into a national park.
Not much research has been done south of the Raisin River in Monroe, where U.S. troop
Source: Fox News
Oct 14, 2009
BAGHDAD — At least 85,000 people lost their lives from 2004 to 2008 in Iraq's violence, according to the first official report by the Iraqi government on the death toll since the war begun.
The report, released by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry late Tuesday as part of a larger study on the country's human rights situation, said 85,694 people were killed from 2004-08, and 147,195 were wounded during the same period.
The Associated Press reported in April that just over
Source: CNN
Oct 14, 2009
Scientists say a very rare find of some 20 fossilized pterodactyls has produced the first clear evidence of a controversial theory of evolution.
The fossils were found in north-east China earlier this year, embedded in rock dating back 160 million years, and have been called "Darwinopterus" after the renowned naturalist Charles Darwin.
The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls --
Source: CNN
Oct 14, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The National Republican Congressional Committee has removed a tweet Tuesday that linked to a video comparing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Adolf Hilter.
The tweet, sent out Tuesday morning on their official Twitter account, read: "Funny Video: Moonbattery: Hitler Reacts to ObamaCare Maneuvers http://bit.ly/2mOvZ7 #Pelosi". It comes the same day the NRCC released a petition on their site to "Fire Nancy Pelosi.&qu
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
After almost a century of hostility, Turkey and Armenia celebrate their new era of co-operation – over a football match.
Armenian president Serzh Sarkisian is scheduled to attend a World Cup qualifying game between the two countries in the Turkish city of Bursa, days after they signed an agreement establishing diplomatic relations for the first time.
The trip, which has been described as an act of “football diplomacy”, follows a visit by Abdullah Gul, the Turkish pres
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
Italy, France, Portugal and even Scotland are among those who have claimed Christopher Columbus as their own over the years, citing a range of spurious links.
But American researchers say the mystery over the explorer's true origins has finally been solved after a thorough investigation of his writings.
A study of the language used in the official records and letters of the Great Navigator apparently proves he hailed from the Kingdom of Aragon in northeastern Spain and
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
Over 1,000 black garden gnomes with their right arms raised in a Heil Hitler salute have invaded a German town - all in the name of art.
The sculptures, displayed in a military formation in the centre of Straubing, in Lower Bavaria, are designed, according to the artist Ottmar Hoerl, "to get people to think, to react".
Nazi salutes and symbols relating to the Third Reich have been illegal in Germany since the end of the Second World War, but Mr Hoerl argued s
Source: Megan Stephenson, former HNN intern, and now a freelance writer.
Oct 14, 2009
Father Damien de Veuster was awarded the highest honor a Catholic priest can attain last Sunday, when Pope Benedict XVI declared him Saint Damien, the patron saint of Hansen’s disease, and a voice for “rejected people of all kinds: the incurably ill (victims of AIDS or other diseases), abandoned children, disoriented youths, exploited women, neglected elderly people and oppressed minorities,” as translated from Latin from the Catholic News Service.
Father Damien came from humble beg
Source: Independent (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
The sister of Margaret Hassan, the aid worker who was kidnapped and murdered in Iraq, yesterday accused Tony Blair of risking the lives of British forces to help the former US President George Bush.
Deidre Manchanda asked the Chilcot panel, which will hold an inquiry into the Iraq war, to investigate why 650 British troops were deployed to Baghdad in 2004, a place far more dangerous than their base in Basra, just before the US elections. "I want the committee to ask for what po
Source: Guardian (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
One judge noted with surprise that Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel peace laureate. Another marvelled at how critics could be so patronising.
In a rare public defence of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel peace prize jury's five judges have spoken about a selection they said was both merited and unanimous.
To those who say a Nobel is too much too soon in Obama's young presidency, "we simply disa
Source: Guardian (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
Pint-sized, plastic and the height of kitsch they may be, but no one in Germany would usually think twice about seeing a garden gnome, given there are 25 million of them across the country.
But a battery of 1,250 of them that appeared on a square in a Bavarian town has caused an outcry, not least because their arms are in a Nazi salute.
The artist Ottmar Hörl placed the gnomes in the town of Straubing, close to Munich, in an installation called Dance With the Devil.
Source: BBC
Oct 14, 2009
The former South African president's archive shows him chiding himself over a "grave error of judgement" when he proposed lowering the voting age to 14.
He also talks about how he was "not a very bright student" at university.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) is selling the rights to the 100,000-word archive of notes, diaries and letters at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Source: BBC
Oct 14, 2009
A spokesman said the move was aimed at reaching the younger generation and educating them about the Holocaust.
It follows the launch by Auschwitz - now a state museum - of a YouTube channel earlier this year.
More than a million people - 90% of them Jews - were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World War II.
Source: BBC
Oct 14, 2009
More than 65,000 people went to see the UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure during the two-and-a-half weeks it was on display in Birmingham.
The 1,500 pieces were put on display at the city's Museum and Art Gallery on 25 September after being found in a Staffordshire field in July.
The hoard is now being sent to the British Museum in London to be valued by experts.
Source: BBC
Oct 14, 2009
India has rejected a demand by the Albanian government for the return of the remains of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, buried in the city of Calcutta.
A spokeswoman for the nun's Missionaries of Charity described the Albanian request as "absurd".
Correspondents say that the row over her resting place could develop into an ugly three-way squabble between India, where she worked most of her life, Albania where her parents came from and Macedonia where she lived
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
Albania has demanded that India return the remains of Mother Teresea to her ethnic homeland.
The Catholic nun spent most of her life in India and is buried there.
She was also an Indian citizen when she died.
However, Sali Berisha, the Albanian Prime Minister, has said that his government was seeking repatriation of Mother Teresa's remains before the 100th anniversary of her birth in August next year. He said that talks with the Indian Government had begun
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
A 2,000-year-old Roman vase has been hailed as the most important of its kind in existence with experts from auctioneer's Bonhams describing it as "virtually priceless".
It has been called "magnificent" by historians as it is the only complete cameo vase in existence and has distinct design properties that set it aside from any other vessel.
The vase dates from between late 1st century BC to early 1st Century AD and stands 13 inches high.
Source: Fox News
Oct 14, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency document specifically cites global warming's effects on air quality, agriculture, forestry, water resources and coastal areas as endangering public welfare.
A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened.
The e-mail and the 28-page document attached to it, released Tuesday by th
Source: CNN
Oct 14, 2009
An impassioned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking to students at Moscow State University on Wednesday, admonished those in the U.S. and Russian governments who haven't moved beyond a Cold War mentality.
Clinton said such people are "living in the past" and aren't able to cooperate on issues such as missile defense because they "don't trust each other." She also called on the nations to find common ground, saying they "shouldn't end all coopera
Source: Times (UK)
Oct 14, 2009
He reimagined Elizabeth I as a flirtatious young princess and upset David Starkey with a hedonistic Henry VIII who looks more like a male model than Holbein’s florid monarch.
Now the creator of the hit television series The Tudors is training his gaze on another English ruler: Henry V.
Michael Hirst, who also wrote Elizabeth, the film that made a star of Cate Blanchett, has signed up to write the screenplay for Agincourt.
This €30 million (£28 million) Brit
