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: Daily Mail (UK)
Apr 10, 2009
A respected archaeologist claims that pilgrims have been starting from the wrong end of Jerusalem and that the locations of two of the holiest sites on the route are 'completely wrong'.
Shimon Gibson, a Holy Land specialist, said the traditional start of the Via Dolorosa, north of the Old City, should be at the other end of the city.
Since medieval times, Christians have assumed that the Praetorium, the starting point of the route and the Roman headquarters mentioned
Source: MSNBC
Apr 10, 2009
Archaeologists have just identified the oldest evidence for humans in Scotland, a fairly sophisticated 14,000-year-old toolkit that may have been used to hunt and prepare big game from the region.
According to a report in the latest British Archaeology, the flint artifacts constitute the most northern evidence for the earliest people in Britain.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Apr 10, 2009
New evidence suggests the Turin Shroud could have been the cloth in which Jesus was buried, as experiments that concluded it was a medieval fake were flawed.
Radio carbon dating carried out in 1988 was performed on an area of the relic that was repaired in the 16th century, according to Ray Rogers, who helped lead the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STRP).
At the time he argued firmly that the shroud, which bears a Christlike image, was a clever forgery.
Source: AP
Apr 10, 2009
An immigration appeals board ruled Friday that retired autoworker John Demjanjuk can be deported to Germany to face charges that he served as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
Demjanjuk's son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said the family would appeal to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court closed Friday without receiving a filing of appeal.
Source: Foxnews
Apr 10, 2009
Scores if not hundreds of anti-spending tea parties are expected to be held across the country on Wednesday. But so far, FOXNews.com has found only two members of Congress -- both Republicans -- who have committed to attending the demonstrations on the day income taxes are due.
If members of Congress are planning to attend the Tax Day Tea Party protests on April 15, they're keeping awfully quiet about it.
The tea party movement has garnered nationwide attention since
Source: AP
Apr 10, 2009
An immigration appeals board has denied an emergency stay of deportation requested by John Demjanjuk, who faces charges in Germany that he served as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
The 89-year-old suburban Cleveland man had filed a motion to the board in Falls Church, Va., saying he is in poor health and that being forced to travel to Germany would amount to torture.
The board rejected that argument Friday. Demjanjuk's son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said his fath
Source: CNN
Apr 10, 2009
It's Good Friday, the day that Christians believe Jesus was crucified. Jerusalem's Old City is crowded with the faithful, retracing the steps of Jesus along the Via Dolorosa -- the Way of Suffering -- to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Christians believe he was crucified.
But they're all taking the wrong route, according to Israeli archaeologist Shimon Gibson. In a new book, titled "The Final Days of Jesus," Gibson says he has found the location of Jesus' trial, wh
Source: AP
Apr 10, 2009
Four hundred years after Henry Hudson sailed his ship Half Moon up a river that would one day bear his name, historians are marking his role in the evolution of a tiny Dutch trading post into a world capital called New York.
The activity includes exhibits by the Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society, a recreation of the Half Moon's voyage of discovery up the Hudson, and scores of events here and in the Netherlands.
In addition, the New-York
Source: BBC
Apr 9, 2009
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland.
The flints were unearthed in a ploughed field near Biggar in South Lanarkshire.
They are similar to tools known to have been used in the Netherlands and northern Germany 14,000 years ago, or 12,000 BC.
Source: http://womensmediacenter.com
Apr 9, 2009
Spearheaded by New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter,
powerful chair of the House Rules Committee, legislation
was signed into law at the end of last month that will
help celebrate the not-so-ancient history of how women
won the vote in the United States.
Virtually unnoticed by the national news media, a Votes
for Women History Trail in western New York has been
authorized to recognize the suffragists who helped
transform this country. The trail will be operated by
the National
Source: NYT
Apr 9, 2009
BOULDER, Colo. — A judge has yet to decide whether Ward L. Churchill, the controversial former University of Colorado professor, will get his job back, but on the campus here, some have already made up their minds.
“I don’t think he should come back,” said Marissa Jaross, a senior anthropology major. Though Ms. Jaross said she believed the university was looking for a way to get rid of him, she added: “I think he’s kind of a shoddy academic. I wouldn’t look at his work as great, or
Source: Deutsche Welle
Apr 9, 2009
A US judge has ruled that lawsuits seeking financial compensation can continue against five companies accused of aiding South Africa's former apartheid system of racial segregation.
US District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin rejected requests by several countries that the lawsuits should not go ahead to protect relations between the United States and South Africa.
The judge, who issued the decision in writing on Wednesday, allowed claims made by tens of thousands of South Af
Source: Daily Camera
Apr 9, 2009
The University of Colorado will “vigorously challenge” Ward Churchill’s effort to get his job back in the school’s ethnic studies department, a CU spokesman said Thursday.
Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for the CU system, said the university is relying on its findings that Churchill engaged in repeated and flagrant academic misconduct to support its stance that having the controversial former professor back on the Boulder campus is a “bad idea.”
“CU’s reputation for acade
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Apr 9, 2009
Twenty-first century technology is enabling visitors to Hampton Court to view one of Henry VIII's tapestries in its "dazzling" original colours.
Scientists have managed to "virtually restore" the faded hues of his 28ft long tapestry using coloured light beams.
The Manchester University researchers looked at the back of the heavy wool and silk tapestry, which has been less affected by sunlight, to gauge what the original colours might have been.
Source: BBC
Apr 9, 2009
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland.
The flints were unearthed in a ploughed field near Biggar in South Lanarkshire.
They are similar to tools known to have been used in the Netherlands and northern Germany 14,000 years ago, or 12,000 BC.
They were probably used by hunters to kill reindeer, mammoth and giant elk and to cut up prey and prepare their skins.
The discovery conjures up a pi
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Apr 9, 2009
The Valley Forge area, already bustling with hotels, conference centers, and traffic, learned yesterday that it will be home to Pennsylvania's 12th slots casino.
A group led by real estate titan Ira Lubert won approval for a casino of 500 slot machines in the Valley Forge Convention Center. The license was the first of two resort permits to be issued by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, which intends to issue 14 of them. The resort license limits the casino to 500 slot machine
Source: AP
Apr 9, 2009
President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for a war supplemental spending bill like the ones he sometimes opposed when he was senator and George W. Bush was president.
Obama's request, including money to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan, would push the costs of the two wars to almost $1 trillion since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to the Congressional Research Service. The additional money wou
Source: NYT
Apr 9, 2009
Johancy Torres had never heard of the Holocaust before last fall, but she will soon be tracing the footsteps of Jews at the Dachau concentration camp during a trip for fifth- and sixth-grade students at Public School 86 in the Bronx.
“I think I may cry when I see the ovens,” said Johancy, 11, adding that she planned to take a copy of “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” when she leaves later this month.
The Holocaust lessons are part of an unusual effort by P.S. 86’s
Source: AFP
Apr 9, 2009
South Korea Thursday protested to Japan's government over its approval of another history textbook seen by Seoul as whitewashing Tokyo's brutal wartime past.
"The government strongly protests that the Japanese government Thursday approved the history textbook which justifies and beautifies past wrongdoings based on false historical perception," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"The government calls for a fundamental correction to this."
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 9, 2009
[#1] Kidnapping Julius Caesar: 75 B.C.
The small inlets in Cilicia, now part of southern Turkey, were the lairs of pirates who terrorized the eastern Mediterranean in the two centuries before Christ. The abduction of their most famous victim, however, proved to be a miscalculation. A band of Cilician pirates kidnapped a 25-year old Roman nobleman on the way to Rhodes. He charmed them, telling his captors to double their ransom demand and joking about how he would punish them. When t
