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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Apr 28, 2008
Unseen files from some of the most sensational criminal trials in history are to be made available to the public today.
Transcripts from Old Bailey cases, including Oscar Wilde's trial for gross indecency and the infamous case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who killed his wife, form part of 110,000 pages of records made available online, free of charge. The London court's records include details of more than 210,000 criminal trials from 1674 to 1913.
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Source: Janet Maslin in the NYT
Apr 28, 2008
[Carol Felsenthal's] “Clinton in Exile” represents a largely missed opportunity to evaluate these years in light of its subject’s overall stature. “People who know Clinton say he’s still the smartest guy in the room,” Ms. Felsenthal acknowledges, referring to the diminished state of less fortunate bypass-surgery patients.
But even at its most mean-spirited, the book makes a few stingingly substantial claims. “It is surprising how many people who know and like Bill Clinton come to th
Source: NYT
Apr 28, 2008
In its old, mustily glorious quarters in the British Museum, the British Library’s main reading room was as exclusive as it was glamorous, a club rich with tradition whose distinguished alumni included Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw.
But in 1998 the library moved to a modern red-brick building on Euston Road, and four years ago it liberalized its admission policy. It opened its new reading rooms not only to writers and academics who depend on material
Source: Haaretz
Apr 28, 2008
Historians and other academics say it is essential to publish the notorious book with editorial annotations and critique before 2015, when it enters the public domain and may be reprinted freely by neo-Nazis. "We must be prepared that neo-Nazis will print many copies of the book and use it for propaganda," Dr. Oscar Schneider, who runs the Nuremburg Documentation Center, says.
"The legislators should have taken this into consideration,"
Source: Physorg
Apr 28, 2008
Oil-based paint likely was used in Afghanistan up to 800 years before it first appeared in European art, a study of cave paintings has found. A study of cave murals found in Afghanistan's Bamian caves showed that oil-based paints were used hundreds of years before their first credited appearance in Europe in the 15th century, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
"This is the earliest clear example of oil paintings in the world," historian Yoko Tan
Source: The Age (Australia)
Apr 28, 2008
Four decades on, France is still torn over the legacy of May 1968. That month saw students set up barricades to demand a say in a stifling post-war society, soon joined by downtrodden factory workers and their artist brothers-in-arms.It was a fast-forward cultural, political and sexual revolution that still fuels passionate debate, with a flood of books, films and nostalgic magazine specials to mark the 40th anniversary next month.For a majority of French -
Source: Newsweek
Apr 28, 2008
Darnah's militants do have one other thing in common [beside desperate lives]: an almost obsessive devotion to their town's place in history. Greek and Roman ruins, the detritus of occupations in the ancient past, dot the wheat and barley fields along Libya's coastal plain. The United States left its own lasting mark on the town's collective memory during the Barbary Wars of the early 1800s. Darnah became a key battlefield in America's first overseas military expedition, when 500 American Marine
Source: AFP
Apr 27, 2008
NAM NEUN, Laos (AFP) — A man shapes a ball of C4 plastic explosive like a child with playdough, carefully inserts it into a hole at the side of the road, attaches an electric detonator, and walks away.
It's all in the name of saving lives.
He's not a soldier -- the war here in Laos ended more than 30 years ago -- but an explosives disposal expert trying to rid his country of the conflict's deadly legacy, which still kills and maims.
During the Vietnam war,
Source: Dallas Morning News
Apr 27, 2008
For its 1999 graduation address, Southern Methodist University tapped a Texas governor riding bipartisan goodwill to record popularity.
"His growing national stature will enable our students to be a part of history in the making," school President R. Gerald Turner said.
Two terms of rough-hewn history later, SMU's recent agreement to house the George W. Bush Presidential Library and policy institute has thrust the school into a national spotlight not seen sinc
Source: http://www.mynews.in
Apr 27, 2008
They feel ignored, 'unwanted by their own country' and kith and kin. "We do not have money even to buy medicines," one of them said. The war veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, said they were not considered for pension as their service period fell short of the requisite 20 years.
To provide a helping hand to them, the Ex-servicemen Welfare Association has established a 'Sainik Ashram' and the war veterans are staying there now, Col (retd) K B P Pillai, who was instrumental
Source: JTA
Apr 27, 2008
Czech auction Web sites are offering thousands of Nazi-related items that have been growing in popularity.
For instance, Aukro.cz had 1,335 items in its "Germany 1933-1945" section on Wednesday.
"We have recently sold a knife of the National Socialist Motor Corps for 80,000 crowns," or $3,188, auction operator Oto Obdrzalek told the daily newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes Thursday.
Klara Kalibova, from the nongovernmental organization Toleranc
Source: Daily Mail
Apr 27, 2008
Seeing the world captured in colour is something most of us take for granted.
But at the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited - to black and white images, with various shades of grey in between.
It was not until 1907 that autochrome - the process through which colour photographs were first produced - was invented in Paris.
Source: http://canadafreepress.com
Apr 27, 2008
Warsaw, Poland: New, sensational documents concerning the attempt against the late pope, John Paul II, have been revealed in a new book by John O. Kohler, an American journalist and writer. The book, entitled ”It’s About the Pope. Spies in the Vatican”, will be released in Poland on Monday, April 28, 2008 by ZNAK Publishing House, known for its publications about the late pope.
The author unearthed a Kremlin document, which listed Soviet Politbureau members, who had signed an “inf
Source: LAT
Apr 27, 2008
After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal client -- a longtime political supporter.
Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer to give legal advice to his growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange. It allowed Obama to suppl
Source: Haaretz
Apr 27, 2008
The Commander of the Israel Air Force, Major General Eliezer Shkedi, said in a television interview that "in Nazi Germany, people didn't believe that Hitler meant what he was saying. I suggest that we refrain from repeating that line of reasoning and prepare ourselves for anything."
Shkedi made these remarks in a special interview with "60 Minutes" in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary, excerpts of which aired on Channel 2 television Sunday.
Shkedi
Source: http://www.tallahassee.com
Apr 27, 2008
The Natural Bridge Battlefield may be endangered, but the cavalry is on the way.
State officials have tentatively agreed to buy 55 privately owned acres of the battlefield — but they must exercise their option by August. If they don't, the Civil War Preservation Trust is interested.
In March, the trust listed Natural Bridge as one of this year's 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit purchases endangered battlefields with private
Source: UPI
Apr 27, 2008
Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," whose publication is barred in Germany, could be released again in the former Nazi leader's nation.
Historians, among other academics, argue that the book ought to be reproduced with editorial annotations before 2015, when it enters the public domain and neo-Nazi groups will be able to publish it freely, Haaretz reported Sunday.
Hitler wrote the first part of the 720-page book in 1923, while in prison for his part in the attempted
Source: AP
Apr 27, 2008
CLEVELAND—A former autoworker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an order by the nation's chief immigration judge that he be deported, a newspaper reported Friday.
John Demjanjuk, 88, filed the appeal this week, The Plain Dealer reported on its Web site. The deportation order would send Demjanjuk to Germany, Poland or his native Ukraine.
The Associated Press left a message seeking comment with Demjanjuk's attorney, John B
Source: http://www.thejc.com
Apr 27, 2008
A long-held taboo on using Nazi imagery to sell products appears to be weakening. Is it just ad-land’s love of shock value — or something bigger?
In a South Korean television commercial, a young woman in a military trenchcoat holds a soldier’s cap bearing a motif of what looks like an eagle gripping a swastika. The voiceover says: “Even Hitler could not take over the East and West at the same time.” The cosmetics manufacturer Coreana was later forced to withdraw this advertisement f
Source: AP
Apr 27, 2008
Berlin residents wanting to save the city's historic Tempelhof airport from being closed later this year have failed, initial official results showed.
Not enough people cast ballots in a referendum, the city's first, to make it valid.
Preliminary results released by the Berlin state election authority showed that the majority of the 530,231 ballots cast were in favor of keeping the airport open. But they accounted for only 21.7 percent of the 2.4 million eligible voters
