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: http://www.ekathimerini.com
Mar 4, 2008
Exciting new finds at the archaeological site of Pella have opened a new chapter in Macedonian history. Beneath the ruins of the ancient capital of the Macedonian kingdom is a large prehistoric burial ground that has yielded the first evidence of organized life in Pella during the third millennium BC.
It was while they were engaged in conservation, repairs and other work to highlight the site that the excavation team from Aristotle University came across more than 100 Early Bronze A
Source: http://www.journalnow.com
Mar 4, 2008
OLD FORT - It has been a curiosity for decades: a town named for something that’s just not there.
Old Fort has been lacking one - new or old - since 1916. But that’s about to change.
A devoted group of volunteers is erecting a replica of the Revolutionary War-era fort that once stood as a gateway to the western frontier, an endeavor that organizers and local leaders say should give a boost to regional tourism and the small town’s sense of history.
“It could
Source: MCT News Service
Mar 4, 2008
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - For more than a century, the bodies of more than 300 black soldiers who died in the Civil War have lain in unmarked graves on the bank of Skull Creek harbor.
These former slaves who fled the plantations to fight for freedom on the side of the Union Army are unknown heroes that few people know about.
The small plot of land where they are buried is overshadowed by multimillion-dollar condos and a private marina - symbols of the transformation th
Source: BBC
Mar 4, 2008
The last surviving Scot who fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War has died.
Stevie Fullarton, who was born in Glasgow, died in a nursing home in Edinburgh. He was 87.
Mr Fullarton went to Spain in 1938 with the democratically elected government forces facing defeat by the fascists of Francisco Franco.
He was wounded during the Battle of the Ebro, the last-ditch offensive by the government forces, but recovered.
Source: Reuters
Mar 4, 2008
The German town of Brandenburg plans to open a new centre to commemorate more than 9,000 mentally ill people murdered there by the Nazis.
Historians estimate that more than 100,000 people were killed between 1940 and 1945 as part of a euthanasia policy outlined by Adolf Hitler in the 1920s in his book "Mein Kampf."
Hitler prepared the ground for his campaign, called Operation T4, with propaganda films which portrayed the mentally handicapped and the incurably
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Mar 4, 2008
Nazi tanks that have lain neglected in Bulgarian fields for decades are to be put up for auction - and one can be yours for as little as £77,000 (€100,000).
The Second World War relics have provided a rudimentary first line of defence against a Nato invasion of the former Eastern Bloc country since the 1950s.
Dug into the ground along the Turkish border, the Panzer tanks, Jagdpanzer tank destroyers and Sturmgeschuetz assault guns have been largely forgotten since the en
Source: LAT
Mar 4, 2008
The gravity-defying price of oil shot through another barrier Monday by briefly touching $103.95 a barrel in New York trading, the highest cost ever for black gold even after adjusting for inflation.
Before Monday, the April 1980 price of $38 was the pinnacle, fueled by dramatic Mideast events including the failed rescue of American hostages in Iran. Adjusted for inflation, that $38 is now more than $103. This time, rather than a political crisis, the main culprit is decidedly less
Source: BBC
Mar 4, 2008
British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler's plans by studying his horoscope, according to files released by the National Archives.
Hungarian Ludwig von Wohl persuaded senior intelligence figures that he could replicate the forecasts of the Nazi leader's personal astrologer.
He claimed that if London knew what astrological advice Hitler was getting, then they would know his next move.
But the security service MI5 had warned that von Wohl was a "
Source: Leo Rechter at the website of TheCuttingEdge News.com
Mar 3, 2008
Editor’s note: This summary and analysis of the Bad Arolsen archive transfer controversy was written by Leo Rechter, elected president of the National Organization of Child Holocaust Survivors, following the January 17, 2008 ICRC-USHMM joint briefing about the Bad Arolsen files. This was the second such controversial closed-door on federal Museum property and was marked by the exclusion of mainstream press.
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On January 17th, the National Organization of Child Holocaust Survivors t
Source: CBC
Mar 3, 2008
An exhibit at a Vienna museum displaying art alleged to have been looted by the Nazis has added fuel to the debate over the restitution of stolen art.
Clemens Jabloner, the president of the Administrative Court, one of the three highest courts of the Austrian judiciary, believes they should be returned to their rightful owners.
"On principle, everything of dubious origin should be returned," Jabloner told the Agence France Presse.
The alleged stol
Source: http://news-record.com
Mar 3, 2008
GREENSBORO - The NAACP is requesting the federal government launch an investigation into allegations that records of the 1979 Klan Nazi shootings were thrown out.
The organization sent out two two-page letters on Thursday and Friday requesting a federal investigation of the Greensboro Police Department with full witness protection for officers that have and will come forward with information pertaining to the destruction of the files.
The letters were sent to the office
Source: http://www.khnl.com
Mar 3, 2008
It was a dark chapter in Hawaii's history. Island residents were removed from their homes and put into internment camps during World War II.
Sixty-five years later, former captives remember the day when the gates to their camp opened.
Approximately 300 Hawaii residents, most of them American citizens, were sent to the Honouliuli internment camp in 1943. Now, more than 6 decades after their release, the area could soon become a national historic site.
Being
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Mar 3, 2008
Back in the summer of 1965, a few months before he would start his first year of college at the University of Nebraska, Bill Costen was thrilled about his new summer job. On his first day, he put on the uniform that had been a symbol of status and pride for African-American men for more than a century: a pressed white jacket, a black tie, and the visored hat of the Pullman porter....
Last month, Amtrak teamed with the Chicago-based A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum to honor t
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2008
Officials now know who wrote a 50-year-old postcard that has intrigued Stratford residents, but they may never solve the mystery of how it arrived at town hall earlier this year.
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The cellophane-wrapped postcard, postmarked Aug. 14, 1957, showed up in January, more than 50 years after it was sent from East Sumner, Maine, to Stratford Town Manager Harry Flood, who died in 1966.
"Hi, Enjoying this rather fallish weather. It was 44 degrees y
Source: Daily Mail
Mar 3, 2008
An underground city where thousands of British soldiers were housed in the First World War has been partly rebuilt and opened to visitors.
Situated deep beneath the town of Arras in the Artois region of France, it was used to protect up to 24,000 troops from constant German artillery bombardment.
Ten miles of tunnels linked a command centre, dormitories, kitchens and even a hospital.
Source: Reuters
Mar 3, 2008
The body of the mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the Roman Catholic world's most revered saints who died 40 years ago, has been exhumed to be prepared for display to his many devotees.
The body of the Capuchin friar, who was said to have had the stigmata -- the wounds of Christ's crucifixion -- on his hands and feet -- is to be conserved and put in a part-glass coffin for at least several months from April 24.
A Church statement said the body was in "fair condition,&
Source: Jeffrey R. Young in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Mar 3, 2008
For Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program, who is emerging as a well-known public intellectual on topics of media and society, the medium is not the message. He is far less interested in the specific medium than he is in how people interact with the popular culture they consume. Which is lucky for me, since I recently managed to accidentally break a collector’s item in his personal media collection.
I got to know
Source: CNN
Mar 3, 2008
Nearly 26 years after his death, Army Master Sgt. Woodrow "Woody" Keeble was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Monday for his efforts during the Korean War.
Keeble is the first full-blooded Sioux Indian to receive the honor, and the 10th person to receive the medal from President Bush.
Keeble's stepson, Russell Hawkins, accepted the medal at a ceremony held in the East Room of the White House.
"The Sioux have a saying: 'The life of a m
Source: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com
Mar 3, 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez labeled Colombia the "Israel of Latin America" on his Sunday talk show Aló Presidente yesterday. Responding to events on Saturday in which the Colombian military made an illegal attack across the border in Ecuadorian territory, the Venezuelan leader called Colombia a "terrorist state," and gave orders to mobilize troops on the Venezuelan-Colombian border.
"The Colombian government has turned into the Israel of Latin America,&
Source: Seattle Times
Mar 3, 2008
GOLD BEACH, ORE. | It was the amber luminescent glow of an egg-shaped object in the winter sun that grabbed Loretta LeGuee's attention on the beach she had combed for years.
Experts say it almost certainly is a chunk of beeswax from a Spanish trading vessel that sank off the coast more than 300 years ago.
The wax has been turning up on Oregon's north coast in the Nehalem and Manzanita areas for centuries. A find this far south is rare.
