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: BBC
Nov 11, 2008
President Lech Kaczynski has not invited the 1980s Solidarity leader and former president to a Warsaw gala ball, due to be attended by some 800 guests.
Mr Kaczynski said he had been insulted by Mr Walesa so often that he did not want subject himself to more.
Mr Kaczynski's slight has angered government and church officials.
Lech Walesa is an icon in his homeland for his role in toppling communism in 1989, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw says.
Source: BBC
Nov 11, 2008
Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, represented the RAF, Army and Royal Navy respectively at a ceremony at London's Cenotaph.
They led the country in observing two minutes' silence from 1100 GMT.
Among other Armistice Day events across Europe, Prince Charles laid a wreath at a battle site in France.
The three veterans did the same at the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, as part of the service which is the centrepiece of the 90th anniversa
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2008
Archaeologists have discovered an “astonishingly well-preserved” 2,000-year-old gold earring under a car park next to the walls of the old city, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said. “It must have belonged to someone of the elite,” Doron Ben-Ami, director of excavation, said. “Such a precious item, it couldn’t be one of just ordinary people.” Finds from the Roman period are rare in Jerusalem because the city was destroyed in the 1st century AD. Shimon Gibson, an archaeologist, said the discove
Source: http://www.poligazette.com
Nov 10, 2008
Jules Crittenden reports that federal agents are investigating whether CBS correspondent Lara Logan
smuggled mementoes to the U.S.
Agents found out that Logan had items in her possession which belong back in Iraq, after a video
profile on the beautiful reporter was aired called “Lara Logan’s Spoils of War.”
In the video, Logan shows off mementoes from Iraq and Afghanistan which she keeps in her Washington
office. She explained she found the pieces in the ruins of the Olympic com
Source: NYT
Nov 10, 2008
Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday’s vote in this rural red swatch where buck heads and rifles hang on the wall. This corner of the Deep South still resonates with negative feelings about the race of President-elect Barack Obama.
What may have ended on Election Day, though, is the centrality of the South to national politics. By voting so emphatically for Senator John McCain over Mr. Obama — supporting him in some areas in even greate
Source: AP
Nov 10, 2008
The chairman of an Indiana University committee says the panel will recommend adding a black basketball player’s name to a gymnasium named after a longtime trustee who advocated racial segregation in the 1940s.
The committee will recommend renaming the Ora Wildermuth Intramural Center the William L. Garrett/Ora L. Wildermuth Fieldhouse, IU vice president Terry Clapacs told the Indiana Daily Student.
Garrett, who died in 1974, was the first black basketball player at IU
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Nov 10, 2008
Two days after Barack Obama became the first African-American to be voted into the White House, the percentage of black voters who view American society as fair and decent jumped 18 points to 42% (see crosstabs).
Just a month earlier, only 24% of black voters viewed American society as fair and decent.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Nov 10, 2008
The file on Demjanjuk, who was nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible," was compiled by the German national office for solving Nazi crimes.
The head of the office, Kurt Schrimm, said he hopes the prosecutors in Munich will seek extradition of 88-year-old Demjanjuk from the United States, where he immigrated in the 1950s and worked in the car industry.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk is accused of having having participated in the murder in 1943 of at least 29,000 European Jew
Source: National Security Archive
Nov 10, 2008
A court ruled today that the National Security Archive may proceed with its effort to force the White House to recover millions of Bush Administration Executive Office of the President (EOP) e-mail records before the presidential transition. Rejecting the government's motion to dismiss the Archive's lawsuit, the Court ruled that the Federal Records Act permits a private plaintiff to bring suit to require the head of the EOP or the Archivist of the United States to notify Congress or ask the Atto
Source: Time
Nov 10, 2008
Americans like to think they perfected the peaceful transfer of power from old regime to new: no crimes, no coups, no blood in the streets. But that doesn't mean the future Former Leader of the Free World has an easy time handing over the keys to the White House. It's not just ego that has a way of fouling up this transition; both parties have one eye on the history books, as the outgoing President airbrushes the epilogue and the arriving one prepares the prologue.
This election, g
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 10, 2008
Hundreds of Palestinians marched throught the streets of Jerusalem to protest against a Jewish group's plans to build a Museum of Tolerance atop a centuries-old Muslim cemetery.
Last week Israel's Supreme Court ruled the project could go ahead after two years of delay over the fate of the cemetery's 400-year-old graves, saying a parking lot built in the area more than 40 years ago had then raised no objections.
Source: International Herald Tribune
Nov 10, 2008
In a library deep in the western Indian countryside, in an academy surrounded by farms on all sides, five students are writing briskly in their ruled notebooks.
They are in their early 20s and newly enrolled, pimples dotting their faces and polish peeling from their nails.
But there is no discounting the gravity of their assignment: When they complete it, the world will have five more documented languages at its disposal.
One word at a time, they are making
Source: Times (UK)
Nov 10, 2008
The remains of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's government-in-exile during the Second World War, will be exhumed to determine whether his death in 1943 was the result of foul play.
Source: FoxNews.com
Nov 10, 2008
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database to make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite
Source: FoxNews.com
Nov 10, 2008
Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergymen after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.
The clash broke out between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
It began as Armenian clergymen marched in an annual procession commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross belie
Source: CNN
Nov 10, 2008
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that he stayed quiet about his support for Barack Obama for the past few months.
Farrakhan said he feared his support would hurt Obama's campaign.
At the call to prayer Sunday at Mosque Maryam, Farrakhan praised President-elect Barack Obama.
"President-elect Obama's rise has not only given hope to us, but it has given hope to the world," Farrakhan said.
The fiery, and at times cont
Source: CNN
Nov 10, 2008
A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday -- days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade.
Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse's uniform like the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of "South Pacific" and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on stage by five of the ac
Source: BBC
Nov 10, 2008
In the run-up to the 90th anniversary of the ending of World War I, students in London and Dumfries have been researching family history to find out how their relatives were involved.
Source: http://www.voicesnewspaper.com
Nov 10, 2008
AMBITIOUS plans have been unveiled for the rebuilding of the Temple of Artemis - one of the original seven wonders of the world at Selçuk, near Izmir.
The Temple of Artemis, or Artemision in Greek, recalled in both Greek and Byzantine anthologies for its magnificence, was once one of the Seven Wonders of the World. After decades of vandalism, religious conflict and decay it is finally to be rebuilt.
Dr. Atılay İleri, the founder of the Selçuk Artemis
Source: http://www.advance.uconn.edu
Nov 10, 2008
The Pequot War, a conflict between English settlers and the Pequot tribe, is the focus of a new comprehensive study by a team of UConn researchers.
Kevin McBride, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), says the war, which took place from 1636 to 1638 in southern New England, remains one of the most misinterpreted and least understood events in the history of early America.
McBride is working on the project with Connecticu
