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Source: http://www.myfoxphilly.com
Nov 11, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Another rare find, or not so significant history?
The debate is raging over the value of what's buried beneath the site of the half-billion-dollar Sugarhouse Casino project.
Sugarhouse officials said they've been cooperating with archeologists for over a year now but the latest dig is not much more than another hole in the ground.
However, local historians are more than excited. They believe the stone foundation in Fishtown dates back to d
Source: FoxNews.com
Nov 11, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama is only the third sitting senator to be elected directly to the White House.
With a potential lame-duck session looming next week, here is a little background on the activities of senators who move to the Executive Branch.
* Only two sitting senators before Obama moved right from the Senate to the White House: Warren Harding and John Kennedy. In late 1920, President-elect Harding came back to the Senate briefly for a speech and meetings, bu
Source: http://www.armytimes.com
Nov 11, 2008
For years, Johanna Arnoldy wondered about her brother’s wartime service. But she could never get any answers.
“When he came back, he wouldn’t talk about it. He said he had lost too many friends,” she said.
All the Wabasha woman knew was that her brother, Arden Gullickson, was drafted and served in the Army on Iwo Jima during World War II. Then came an unexpected discovery made just in time for this year’s Veterans Day — a forgotten letter.
“I am writing th
Source: Spiegel Online
Nov 11, 2008
What the public remembers, it remembers in pictures. Wars, even more than other events, tend to survive in the popular imagination not just as a chronology of events, but also as an archive of images.
When it comes to remembering the World War I, most of us have had to content ourselves with a visual inheritance almost exclusively limited to black and white photography. No longer.
In a new book edited by historian Peter Walther, an extraordinary set of color images fro
Source: CNN
Nov 11, 2008
President Bush said today he plans to return "straight home to Texas" after he leaves office on January 20 and "may write a book." Bush said he regrets some of his more blunt statements on terrorism over the years and said he wishes he had not spoen in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner only a month after U.S. troops in Iraq were deployed.
"I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said," Bush told CNN's Heidi Collins when asked to re
Source: WaPo
Nov 11, 2008
It ends today.
The last commander is tired. His old Army pals are worn out. They're sick, they're bent with age, they're disappearing from this Earth.
So Lester Tenney, the 88-year-old commander of a dwindling group of Bataan Death March and Japanese prison camp survivors, plans to commemorate Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery today for the last time, closing a 62-year tradition. The organization, American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, voted in May to of
Source: http://www.wdsu.com
Nov 11, 2008
COVINGTON, La. -- Eight people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the killing of a woman who apparently tried to back out of a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said Tuesday.The woman was slain Sunday morning, allegedly shot to death by a Klan leader from Bogalusa. Her body was found Monday in a ditch in the small St. Tammany community of Sun, about 60 miles north of New Orleans, the sheriff said.
Source: CNN
Nov 11, 2008
[Anthony Acevedo] was one of 350 U.S. soldiers held at Berga an der Elster, a satellite camp of the Nazis' notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. The soldiers, working 12-hour days, were used by the German army to dig tunnels and hide equipment in the final weeks of the war. Less than half of the soldiers survived their captivity and a subsequent death march, he says.
Acevedo shows few emotions as he scans the pages of his diary. But when he gets to one of his final entries, the d
Source: Irish Times
Nov 11, 2008
PEOPLE GUILTY of crimes linked to the Troubles will not be handed an automatic amnesty in any reconciliation process, the Eames-Bradley group - which is dealing with the legacy of violence - said yesterday.
Denis Bradley, who chairs the Consultative Group on the Past with Lord Eames, warned however that Northern Ireland society must face up to its history if it is to move on.
He said his group would publish its proposals on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles early
Source: Yahoo
Nov 11, 2008
A new figure in humanity's history emerged last week when archaeologists announced the discovery of what could be one of the world's oldest known spiritual figures. After years of meticulous excavation just miles from Israel's Mediterranean coast, scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unearthed a 12,000-year-old grave that held the remains of a diminutive "shaman" woman. Buried alongside the woman's small, huddled corpse were selected pieces
Source: WaPo
Nov 11, 2008
After trekking for five hours up steep Himalayan slopes, crossing numerous creeks and hacking a trail through bamboo forests, Clayton Kuhles and his guide reached the spot where a U.S. military plane had fallen more than six decades ago.
Out of breath and sweating, he rummaged through the forest-floor vegetation and excitedly pulled out rusted parts of an aircraft engine strewn atop a hill here in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. His eyes scanned for clues as he sift
Source: CNN
Nov 11, 2008
World War II didn't just divide the world. It also divided four brothers.
Not long after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Harry and Ken Akune were sent to live in an internment camp in Amache, Colorado. When the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service came to their camp to recruit Japanese-speaking volunteers as interpreters, they joined so they could prove their loyalty to their country.
Across the world in Japan, their father Ichiro was raising the rest of his l
Source: AP
Nov 11, 2008
Leaders of a united Europe on Tuesday marked the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, which tore the continent apart and cost millions of lives.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prince Charles attended the solemn ceremony near one of the conflict's bloodiest battlefields. It was held in the northeastern French town of Douaumont, near the site of the Battle of Verdun.
There, an estimated 300,000 soldiers lost their lives in 300 days of ferocious figh
Source: WaPo
Nov 11, 2008
A former Japanese air force chief, removed from his post last month for writing an essay that says Japan was not an aggressor in World War II, is refusing to quietly fade away.
Pugnaciously defending his version of Japan's role in a war that killed millions across Asia, Toshio Tamogami, 60, told parliament Tuesday that he does not see "anything wrong with what I wrote."
The ousted general's revisionism, together with revelations that 94 air force staff members
Source: AP
Nov 11, 2008
With just 70 days left as president, Bush is pretty much out of time to alter public perception of his performance. He cannot get a Middle East peace deal, or turn around a failing economy, or rekindle broad support for the war in Iraq. But leaving on good terms? Now that he can control.
So on Monday at the White House, Bush warmly welcomed Obama, whose dominant win last week was largely seen as a referendum on the Bush years.
The two leaders spent more than an hour dis
Source: AP
Nov 11, 2008
A 4,300-year-old pyramid has been discovered in Saqqara, Egypt, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis, Egypt's chief archaeologist said Tuesday.
The pyramid is said to belong to Queen Sesheshet, the mother of King Teti who was the founder of the 6th Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom. Click here for photos.
Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass made the announcement Tuesday a
Source: Times (UK)
Nov 11, 2008
Emperor Akihito of Japan should follow the example of Germany in making a genuine gesture of contrition for his country’s wartime aggression in Asia, Lee Myung Bak, the South Korean President, has said.
In an interview with The Times and two Asian newspapers, Mr Lee made a comparison with the late German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, whose genuflection before a monument to murdered Polish Jews became a symbol of postwar German contrition for the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2008
Kurt Schrimm, head of the special German prosecutors' office that has hunted Nazis since 1958, said he believes transport lists of prisoners that arrived at Sobibor during John Demjanjuk's seven-month tenure at the camp can be used as evidence of his alleged involvement in their deaths.
"We believe that it's enough," Mr Schrimm said. "We believe that we will get a trial."
Munich prosecutors were asked to file the extradition request because Mr Demjan
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2008
In the age of Oliver Cromwell, Francis Osborne's literary mix of pragmatism and cynicism went down well and was considered sound common sense by many of his educated male readers.
Osborne's views are contained in the publication 'Advice to a Son; or Directions For your Better Conduct Through the various and most important Encounters of this Life', which was printed in Oxford and published in 1656, four years before the restoration of the monarchy.
The chapter headings o
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Nov 11, 2008
A U.S. nuclear warhead was abandoned under the ice in northern Greenland after a B52 bomber crashed in 1968, an investigation has found.
The Pentagon believed the former Soviet Union would destroy the base as a prelude to a nuclear strike against the U.S. and began flying nuclear-armed B52s continuously over Thule in 1960 in order to retaliate.
Thule Air Base has been a major strategic asset to the U.S. since it was built in the early 1950s, as it allowed a radar to sca
