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Source: http://www.breckenridgeamerican.com
Mar 3, 2009
March is designated as Women’s History Month in the United States and March 8 is specifically celebrated as International Women’s Day around the world.
By 1978, women historians had begun to take on the task of integrating the accomplishments of women into the study of history by promoting the celebration of a “Women’s History Week.” That week was chosen to coincide with the already established International Women’s Day on March 8.
By 1981 Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Barbara Milulski c
Source: WaPo
Mar 3, 2009
As part of her continued campaign to focus on military families, first lady Michelle Obama visited the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery today, where she thanked women for their years of service in the U.S. military and said she was honored and "deeply moved" by her meetings with military families in recent years.
"Military families have done their duty, and we as a grateful nation must do ours. We must do everything in our power to honor them by suppor
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2009
British intelligence had been running a number of double agents who were telling the Germans that the Allies were planning to invade both France and Norway, diverting attention from the looming battle in North Africa.
"Operation Torch" followed closely on the heels on the battle of el-Alamein which allowed Churchill to declare that he had seen the "end of the beginning" of the war, as the Allies took control of the Mediterranean.
But the invasion a
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2009
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Debbie Harris knew the military dog tag and small metal emblem of a Navy fighter squadron she recently found in the sand near her home on an Alabama beach belonged to a Blue Angels pilot who was killed when his jet crashed there a half-century ago.
But she wanted to find out more about Cmdr. Robert Nicholls Glasgow and what happened , so she turned to her aunt and uncle, who live in Pensacola, home of the National Museum of Naval Aviation. Their search led them to the mu
Source: AFP
Mar 3, 2009
Japanese archaeologists have unearthed an Egyptian noblewoman's 3,000 year-old tomb in the necropolis of Saqqara south of Cairo, the antiquities department said on Tuesday.
The Japanese team believes the tomb belongs to Isisnofret, a granddaughter of Ramses II, the famed 19th Dynasty pharaoh who reigned over Egypt for about 68 years from 1304 to 1237 BC, and who is said to have lived to the age of 90.
Source: CNN
Mar 3, 2009
President Obama on Tuesday overturned a last-minute Bush administration regulation that many environmentalists claim weakened the Endangered Species Act.
The regulation, issued a few weeks before George W. Bush left office, made it easier for federal agencies to skip consultations with government scientists before launching projects that could effect endangered wildlife.
By doing overturning the regulation, Obama said during an enthusiastic reception at the Interior Dep
Source: The Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg)
Mar 3, 2009
The exact location of the house in southern Stafford County where George Washington grew up was long a mystery. The building itself disappeared nearly two centuries ago. Successive occupiers of the former plantation, known as Ferry Farm, found little evidence of Washington's boyhood home, and many of them muddied the record.
George's mother, Mary Ball Washington, stayed at Ferry Farm until 1772, when she moved across the Rappahannock River to 1200 Charles St. in Fredericksburg, whe
Source: Daily Times (New Mexico)
Mar 3, 2009
Archaeologists are excavating ancient human remains of at least seven people discovered during construction of the Aztec wastewater treatment plant.
Studying pottery and other artifacts found near the graves, scientists estimate the skeletons are at least 700 years old, and potentially older.
Further research likely will confirm the genders and ages of the dead and potentially a cause of death for some. Following the archaeological assessment, the remains and artifacts
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2009
The German government is in the embarrassing position of having to decide whether or not to bail out an industrial giant accused of using the hair from Jews murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz to make textiles at its factories in Nazi occupied Poland during World War II.
The Schaeffler group is lumbered with close to £14bn worth of debt after buying out the major European auto parts and tyre maker Continental last year in a hostile takeover.
When the global crunc
Source: BBC
Mar 3, 2009
The Vatican is sponsoring a five day conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.
The subject is the compatibility of evolution and creation.
It is one of two separate international academic conferences being sponsored by the Vatican this year.
They aim to re-examine the work of scientific thinkers whose revolutionary ideas challenged religious belief: Galileo and Charles Darwin.
Scienti
Source: BBC
Mar 3, 2009
Cuban leader Raul Castro has announced a major cabinet reshuffle that includes the removal of two of the country's most prominent politicians.
State television said Cabinet Secretary Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque are among 10 officials who are stepping down.
It said the move was in line with the president's plan to improve efficiency.
It is the first big reshuffle since Mr Castro took over as president from his ailing older brother,
Source: Times Online (UK)
Mar 3, 2009
For José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, it might bring some bittersweet revenge for the loss of the grandfather he never knew.
A road named after the man who betrayed Captain Juan Rodríguez Lozano, who was shot by a Francoist firing squad in the Spanish Civil War, is to be changed.
Captain Lozano’s fate was sealed by General Vincente Lafuente, who denounced him as a Socialist.
For his service to the Franco regime, Lafuente was promo
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2009
Radovan Karadzic refused Tuesday to enter pleas to a new streamlined indictment containing two genocide charges and nine other counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The former Bosnian Serb leader told a hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal that the U.N. court "does not have the right to try me."
Karadzic, 62, claims he was promised immunity from prosecution by U.S. peace envoy Richard Holbrooke in return for stepping down from power and disa
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2009
Indonesia has opened a $5.6 million museum to commemorate the 230,000 people who died in the 2004 Asian tsunami.
The four-level building in hardest-hit Aceh province exhibits photographs of victims, stories of survivors and an electronic simulation of the massive undersea earthquake that triggered the 30-foot-high waves.
It also describes the tremendous outpouring of support from governments, companies and individuals in the aftermath of the Dec. 26, 2004 disaster, whic
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2009
Debbie Harris knew the military dog tag and small metal emblem of a Navy fighter squadron she recently found in the sand near her home on an Alabama beach belonged to a Blue Angels pilot who was killed when his jet crashed there a half-century ago.
But she wanted to find out more about Cmdr. Robert Nicholls Glasgow and what happened , so she turned to her aunt and uncle, who live in Pensacola, home of the National Museum of Naval Aviation. Their search led them to the museum's direc
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2009
A 300-million-year-old fossilized brain has been discovered by researchers studying a type of fish that once lived in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma.
"Fossilized brains are unusual, and this is by far the oldest known example," said John Maisey, curator in the division of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Maisey and co-authors report in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that the brain was di
Source: CNN
Mar 3, 2009
Hundreds of German rescue workers are searching the ruins of a collapsed building in Cologne for nine people who may be trapped beneath the rubble.
The main building which collapsed is the Historic Archive of the city of Cologne, which houses documents up to 1,000 years old.
The building itself was an unremarkable 20th-century structure, but the archives it contained were very valuable, said Brumfield, who has done research in the building.
Source: Tehran Times
Mar 3, 2009
Last month, scientists from around the world partied into the small hours on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin.
But as we celebrate the work of one of the most influential scientists ever, let's take a moment or two to remember others who contributed ideas in the history of evolutionary thought. Many came from Britain as well as other countries in Europe. Others came from further afield, and their writings are increasingly coming to light thanks to the painstaking work o
Source: Times (UK)
Mar 3, 2009
A Nazi spy came within days of uncovering one of the Allies' most important missions and possibly changing the direction of the Second World War.
The story of a Portuguese wireless operator and the dramatic decision to pluck him from his vessel on the high seas to prevent him from betraying the position of a huge convoy bound for North Africa is revealed for the first time in a declassified MI5 file released by the National Archives.
Gastao de Freitas Ferraz was being
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 3, 2009
The Obama administration has thrown open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets, revealing nine memos written by the Justice Department to justify controversial techniques in the fight against terrorism. The opinions showed that after the September 11, 2001 attacks former President George W Bush's administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were discussing ways to wiretap US conversations without
