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: AP
Jul 13, 2007
One was a concentration camp doctor who purportedly injected poison into the hearts of Jews. The other was once an aide to Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann. Austria wants to find Alois Brunner and Aribert Heim, both in their 90s if still alive, and bring them to justice.
A notice posted on the Justice Ministry's Web site this week features photos and descriptions of Brunner and Heim and offers rewards for information leading to their capture. Brunner, the most-wanted Nazi war cri
Source: http://www.hamhigh.co.uk
Jul 13, 2007
A HOLOCAUST survivor has hit out at the insensitivity of traders selling a Hitler T-shirt in Camden Town.
George Clare is furious the £5 T-shirt, which displays the dictator making a Nazi salute and a map of Europe with the heading Hitler's European Tour 1939-1945, is being sold at the area's markets.
The 86-year-old, who lives in College Crescent, Swiss Cottage, escaped the Holocaust but lost both his parents in the atrocity.
He said: "The T-shirt
Source: Cronaca.com
Jul 13, 2007
The Brown University Library has acquired the library of the late David E. Pingree, an internationally renowned historian of the exact sciences in antiquity and a member of the Brown faculty from 1971 to 2005. Pingree was chair of Brown’s Department of History of Mathematics and a University Professor.
Source: CNN
Jul 13, 2007
All of Egypt's royal mummies will get identity checks after scientists found one was wrongly identified as a pharaoh, Egypt's chief archaeologist said.
Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said on Thursday he would use computed tomography, or CT, scanning and DNA to test more than 40 royal mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
In June, the mummy long thought to have been King Tuthmosis I was found to be a young man who died from a
Source: National Security Archive
Jul 13, 2007
Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, while the U.S. government conducted its space reconnaissance program under a veil of absolute secrecy, officials debated whether information about the program (including the "fact of" its existence and certain photographs) should be disclosed to other elements of the government, public, allies, and even the Soviet Union, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and archival research and posted today by the Nation
Source: http://thinkprogress.org
Jul 13, 2007
Yesterday in an interview with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) praised President Bush’s policies in Iraq and predicted that Bush will be remembered by historians as a great President:
HEWITT: Oh, that’s fascinating. Last question, how do you think history’s going to evaluate George W. Bush?
LIEBERMAN: Well, I personally believe look, mistakes were made, and I know the polls are down, but I think on the largest issue of our time, which is the
Source: CNN
Jul 13, 2007
Shaded by a massive 400-year-old oak tree and perched above the rippling waters of the Pedernales River, it was known as the "Texas White House."
President Lyndon Johnson served barbecue to world dignitaries at the ranch in the rolling hill country 70 miles west of Austin, and first lady Lady Bird Johnson lived there for three decades after her husband died.
With her death Wednesday at the age of 94, the National Park Service will soon take over the 4,000 squ
Source: AP
Jul 13, 2007
Jerusalem's mayor has asked the Turkish government to return a 2,700-year-old tablet uncovered in an ancient subterranean passage in the city, suggesting that it could be a "gesture of goodwill" between allies.
Known as the Siloam inscription, the tablet was found in a tunnel hewed to channel water from a spring outside Jerusalem's walls into the city around 700 B.C. — a project mentioned in the Old Testament's Book of Chronicles. It was discovered in 1880 and taken by th
Source: Reuters
Jul 13, 2007
MASYAF, Syria (Reuters) - Nestled at the foot of Syria's coastal mountains, an ancient citadel has been put on the tourist map by restoration and excavation that revealed mysteries of the medieval Assassins sect, once based here.
Saladin, the great Muslim leader, laid siege to Masyaf castle in the 12th century. But he thought twice before launching an assault on the Assassins, who had a reputation for mounting daring operations to slay their foes.
"Anyone who tried
Source: NYT
Jul 13, 2007
Britain’s most senior judge, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, announced on Thursday that, starting Jan. 1, the wigs would no longer be worn in most trial courts; neither would gowns. Ending (at least for now) a long, hot debate over whether and how to modernize and simplify the elaborate standards of formal court dress, Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, decided to dispense with the wigs and with court robes entirely in all civil and family cases, and to simplify them in criminal court.
Source: WaPo
Jul 13, 2007
Even as the Nixon administration was plotting in 1971 to destroy John F. Kerry, then the young, charismatic leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the president's top political strategist apparently didn't get the memo.
Instead, the operative, Murray Chotiner, wrote his own note advocating that the Republican Party recruit Kerry. Kerry did go to Yale University, after all; he must be one of them, Chotiner surmised. "He is a Yale graduate and is inclined toward the 'establi
Source: Guardian
Jul 13, 2007
A hot wind stirred up the desert sand. Fida ag Muhammad, a wispy man with a blue-grey turban, hurried across the street. Reaching a mud-brick building, he quickly unlocked its corrugated iron door and pushed it open. A beam of soft early-morning light pierced the darkness. On a metal table covered with a red bath towel sat half a dozen leather-bound manuscripts. Carefully untying the string around a small, weathered pouch, Muhammad pulled back its flaps to reveal a sheaf of yellowed papers. Thei
Source: Guardian
Jul 13, 2007
Files on millions of victims of Stalinist repression, including those who perished in the Soviet Union's infamous gulags, have been declassified, Russia's federal security service announced yesterday.
The documents, dating from 1920 to 1950, are expected to shed new light on some of the most notorious excesses of the post-revolutionary and Stalinist eras, including Stalin's forced collectivisation of agriculture in the early 1930s, in which up to 10 million people died.
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jul 13, 2007
On July 12, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved its version of the fiscal year ‘08 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. The bill included $10 million for the NHPRC, the same amount passed by the House. Unlike the House, the Senate Committee Report language does not direct how the funding should be allocated between grants and administrative costs. The House bill allocated $8 million for grants and $2 million for administrative costs.
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jul 13, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the award of $116 million for 122 new grants to improve the quality of American history education. The grants are being awarded to school districts in 40 states nationwide.
The Teaching American History (TAH) grant program supports three-year projects to improve teachers’ knowledge and understanding of traditional American history through intensive, on-going professional development.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 13, 2007
Spain risked a diplomatic incident yesterday when police boarded an American treasure hunter's ship as it sailed from Gibraltar in a tug of war over who profits from the discovery of 250 million pounds of sunken treasure.
The Ocean Alert, a survey vessel, was boarded in international waters as the Spanish civil guard searched for information on the origin of 500,000 silver coins and bars of gold found by Odyssey Marine Exploration. Spain claims that the treasure comes from a Spanish
Source: AP
Jul 13, 2007
A Hindu clergyman made history by offering the Senate’s morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three shouting protesters from the visitors’ gallery. The clergyman, Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nev., gave the brief prayer that opens each day’s Senate session. As he stood at the lectern, two women and a man began shouting “this is an abomination” from the gallery. They were arrested and were charged with disrupting Congress. The man told a
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 12, 2007
Germany will be asked to explain why Bavarian courts failed to hand over a former SS/Obersturmfuehrer , indicted as a Nazi war criminal, to the Danish authorities at a meeting of European Union justice ministers.
Last week The Daily Telegraph reported that Germany continues to shelter Søren Kam, a Dane who is accused of murder and is wanting for questioning for his alleged role in the deportation of hundreds of Danish Jews to Nazi concentration camps.
Source: NYT
Jul 12, 2007
For centuries, there was only one bridge across the Grand Canal, perhaps the world’s most magical stretch of water. The third and last one went up 73 years ago. Those facts alone would have been enough to draw a crowd as the center span of a new bridge, a sleek red steel spine nearly 190 feet long, was carefully fitted into place on Saturday.
But this crucial moment in the construction of the new bridge drew a vocal little pack of Venetians for other reasons: It cost a lot. It was d
Source: CBS
Jul 12, 2007
Preparing a story for The Evening News, we played some of the [new Nixon] tapes for Senator George McGovern. He was in Washington to celebrate his 85th birthday this weekend in a reunion with friends and former staff members.
"I do think it's kind of sad that the president of the United States in the moment of his greatest triumph was so angry, so peevish about the whole situation," he said. "I have no malice towards him. I didn't then, and I don't today."
