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Source: Yorkshire Post
Jun 28, 2007
The Americans will be taking to the high seas off the Yorkshire coast this summer in search of their nautical "Holy Grail". Martin Hickes reports on an expensive obsession.
THIS August, a flotilla of American scientists will mount a £175,000 expedition off Flamborough Head in search of a wreck, more than 200 years after it sank.
Two US teams will plunge into the North Sea in search of the flagship of a Scottish captain, known to the Brits as little more than
Source: BBC
Jun 28, 2007
On Sunday, 65 men and women will embark on one of the most ambitious, dangerous and important experimental archaeology projects ever undertaken.
They will attempt to sail a reconstructed Viking warship from Roskilde, Denmark, to Dublin, across some of the roughest seas in the world.
The ship, The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, is the most authentic Viking warship built in nine centuries. It's based on the largest of five ships that were excavated from the bottom of Rosk
Source: BBC
Jun 28, 2007
The Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Red Fort in India have been added to a list of the world's most valuable cultural treasures.
A silver mine in Japan and an ancient fortress in Turkmenistan are also now on the Unesco World Heritage list.
Archaeological remains in Iraqi city of Samarra were inscribed and immediately registered as being in danger.
The organisation also agreed to change the official name of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland.
Source: NYT
Jun 28, 2007
Speculation has been rife in political circles recently that Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, may not survive his wrangle with the chief justice and hold on to power, but a great silence emanates from the one place that may count the most: the barracks and the mess halls of the armed forces, the other great part of Pakistan’s ruling equation....Historians and columnists have been outlining the precedents, recalling how Pakistan’s three previous milita
Source: AP
Jun 28, 2007
Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady, was released from the hospital Thursday and was resting comfortably at her home, a family spokesman said.
Johnson, 94, was admitted to Seton Medical Center a week ago and treated for a low-grade fever. She remained at the hospital for observation after the fever subsided.
"After a week of observation and tests, the doctors released Mrs. Johnson to go home," said family spokesman Neal Spelce. "Because of her stroke
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jun 28, 2007
The caller on the phone did not identify himself, but Augusta historians call him "Deep Throat."
Have a van outside the courthouse at a certain hour, the caller said. Be prepared to load up several garbage bags full of documents.
In fact, the cache of historic records would eventually fill 40 to 50 boxes, and would include pre-Revolutionary War papers, some of them autographed by signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Because someone with co
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jun 28, 2007
On June 28, 2007, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced that the legal transfer of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace from the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation to the National Archives will take place on July 11, 2007.
Concurrently with the transfer, the new Nixon Library will open approximately 78,000 pages of previously withheld materials.
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jun 28, 2007
On June 28, 2007, the House of Representatives approved (240-179) the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill (H.R. 2829).
The bill includes $10 million for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), for grants to states, local governments, universities, local historical societies, and others to help preserve and archive materials of historic significance. The Administration had sought to eliminate the NHPRC. The Committee Report (H. R
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jun 28, 2007
On June 28, 2007, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 240-179, approved the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill (H.R. 2829) . The bill includes $315 million ($2.1 million above the President’s request, and $35.7 million above fiscal year 2007) for operating expenses of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The Committee Report (H. Rept. 110-207) accompanying the bill directs that the $2.1 million in additional funding be designated
Source: http://www.rediff.com
Jun 28, 2007
The Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi has stepped up efforts through official channels to acquire the letters and manuscript written and signed by Mahatma Gandhi [Images] just before his assassination and which are coming up for auction in London [Images] on July 3.
Christie's has fixed the opening bid for the draft at 12,000 pounds (app Rs 9,80,000). The issue came up when Satya Paul, senior member of Servants of the People Society drew the government's attention to the sale.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Jun 28, 2007
Few people know it's there -- fewer know where it leads.
In the floor behind the bar at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, a century-old jazz club in Uptown, lies a door. Beneath it: a musty labyrinth of gangster and Uptown history.
The World Below -- a series of tunnels branching underground from the Green Mill to the bookstore Shake, Rattle & Read a few doors away -- mixes myth and fable, dusty boilers and blood-splattered urinals (more on this in a moment).
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 28, 2007
Germany is poised to pardon the very last soldiers who were executed during the Second World War for betraying the Nazi regime.
But the move, which follows a decades-long national debate, has revived bitter differences of opinion over what remains an acutely sensitive subject.
The handful of men were among 30,000 German soldiers who were sentenced to death during the war for a variety of "crimes" from desertion to espionage.
Of those, 16,000 were
Source: NYT
Jun 28, 2007
In a decision of sweeping importance to educators, parents and schoolchildren across the country, the Supreme Court today sharply limited the ability of school districts to manage the racial makeup of the student bodies in their schools.
The court voted, 5 to 4, to reject diversity plans from Seattle and Louisville, Ky., declaring that the districts had failed to meet “their heavy burden” of justifying “the extreme means they have chosen — discriminating among individual students ba
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 28, 2007
The Central Intelligence Agency's release on Tuesday of more than 700 documents detailing some of its most closely guarded secrets was a reminder of some of the agency's most notorious excesses -- including political assassinations and eavesdropping on American journalists. But the document dump also shed a bit more light on the CIA's early interest in student dissenters, in the United States and elsewhere.
The fact that the agency tracked student dissent was previously detailed in
Source: NYT
Jun 28, 2007
The White House has dropped the argument that Vice President Dick Cheney’s dual role as president of the Senate meant that he could deny access to national archivists who oversee the handling of classified data in the executive branch.
Mr. Cheney’s office had said that his dual role meant that he was technically not part of the executive branch.
In interviews over the last two days, officials have said that while the vice president does, in fact, have the right of refus
Source: NYT
Jun 28, 2007
The White House announced today that it was invoking executive privilege to reject subpoenas for internal documents that Congress is seeking in its investigation into the firings of nine federal prosecutors last year.
The White House counsel, Fred F. Fielding, made clear that the Bush administration would not release documents from two senior officials — Harriet E. Miers, the former counsel to the president, and Sara M. Taylor, the director of political affairs — and that it would n
Source: The People's Voice
Jun 28, 2007
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pushed for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and allowed arms to be moved to Ankara for an attack on that island in reaction to a coup sponsored by the Greek junta, according to documents and intelligence officers with close knowledge of the event.Nearly 700 pages of highly classified Central Intelligence Agency reports from the 1970's, known collectively as the "Family Jewels," are slated for public release today. Howeve
Source: Buffalo News
Jun 28, 2007
Documents in secret police files show that about a dozen bishops still alive had ties to Poland’s communist-era secret services, a Catholic Church commission said Wednesday.But a top bishop warned that the documents may not be an accurate guide on how much the bishops cooperated.
Poland’s Catholic bishops asked the special church commission to review their communist- era files in January, after a scandal in which Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus of Warsaw resigned j
Source: Washington Post
Jun 28, 2007
Dick Cheney is the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office of vice president. This series examines Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment. Sunday: Part 1Working in the BackgroundA master of bureaucracy and detail, Cheney exerts most of his influence out of public view. Monday: Part 2
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 27, 2007
Schools are perpetuating damaging stereotypes of Germans because of their "obsession" with Hitler and the Second World War, it was claimed yesterday.
The vast numbers of pupils who choose to study the Nazi period in history is fuelling anti-German feeling, the Church of England said.
This undercurrent is reinforced by the large number of war films shown on television and the "drip feed" of anti-German comments in the media, a report said.
