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Source: Telegraph
Apr 4, 2007
STANLEY, Falkland Islands -- William Hague, the [Conservative] Shadow Foreign Secretary, warned Argentina that any future British government would have the patience to defend the Falkland Islands and he said Britain should not be "goaded" by increased rhetoric from Buenos Aires...
Speaking on the 25th anniversary of the [Falklands invasion], he said her resolve had "set the standard" for future British governments and increased international respect for the count
Source: Telegraph
Apr 4, 2007
A three-bedroom church tower designed by Sir Christopher Wren has gone on sale for £4 million, it emerged last night.
Christchurch Tower, which has views over the City of London and St Paul's Cathedral, has been transformed into an 11-storey home by a former Goldman Sachs investment banker.
Kate Renwick, who has now put the property on the market because she has found another Wren tower in need of restoration, bought the tower soon after her husband died and she gave up
Source: Moscow Times
Apr 4, 2007
The [Russian] Foreign Ministry on Tuesday criticized the Polish curators of the Auschwitz museum for delaying the opening of an exhibit over the identity of the camp's victims.
The directors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum near Oswiecim, Poland, are insisting that those killed at the Nazi death camp be referred to as Polish, not Soviet, citizens in the exhibit, which is dedicated to Soviet liberation of thousands of the camp's prisoners...
The ministry called the
Source: Daily Star (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Apr 4, 2007
Education Adviser Ayub Quadri yesterday said the interim government has already taken initiatives to correct all sorts of history distortion from primary and secondary level textbooks to be distributed among students next year.
"I also directed my colleagues to identify all types of distortion of history, especially that of liberation war and contribution of liberation war heroes including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman. I hope we will be able to amend or re
Source: Preservation Online
Apr 3, 2007
Closed for more than half a century, a 73-year-old building on Ellis Island's long-abandoned south side opened to the public [April 2] after a seven-year restoration.
Twelve million immigrants passed through the art deco Ferry Building, built in 1934 by the Public Works Administration before the Ellis Island Immigration Station shut down in 1954. Now, after a $6.4 million project funded by a 1999 Save America's Treasures matching grant of $1,145,975, the restored Ferry Building is a
Source: International Herald Tribune
Apr 3, 2007
AARSCHOT, Belgium -- During the week, Ivonne Janssens, 57, is a hospital cleaner. But come the weekend, she climbs the narrow steps of a three-story medieval tower and turns into a 14th-century duchess with a faux-emerald necklace, a linen headdress, a leather satchel full of fake gold coins, and a retinue of mercenaries to fend off invading French knights...
Across this country of 10 million, a growing number of Belgians are trading in their jeans for suits of armor. They are rubbi
Source: NYT
Apr 3, 2007
Geneticists have added an edge to a 2,500-year-old debate over the origin of the Etruscans, a people whose brilliant and mysterious civilization dominated northwestern Italy for centuries until the rise of the Roman republic in 510 B.C. Several new findings support a view held by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus —- but unpopular among archaeologists —- that the Etruscans originally migrated to Italy from the Near East.
Source: DPA (German Press Agency)
Apr 3, 2007
CAIRO -- Al-Ahram daily reported on Tuesday a new archaeological discovery by an Egyptian excavation mission in northern Sinai.
Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawwas was quoted as saying that an old military fort dating back to the 18th Dynasty (1347-1337 BC) was discovered after 10 years of excavating the area situated on the route linking Egypt to Israel.
Hawwas also said that the fort found was constructed on the ruins of a mili
Source: Reuters
Apr 3, 2007
ATHENS -- After almost 20 centuries of quietly flowing underground, the ancient Athenian river Eridanos openly and loudly gushes through a subway station in the heart of the capital, to the delight of visitors.
Since its opening to the public last week, the small river has instantly become Athens' version of Rome's Trevi fountain, with visitors dropping thousands of coins to its bottom.
When archaeologists started excavations under the central Monastiraki square to buil
Source: Reuters
Apr 3, 2007
BRUSSELS -- European countries should put on trial 37 suspects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide who are living in Europe, human rights groups said on Tuesday.
They accused major European governments including France and Belgium of giving the suspects safe haven.
Speaking ahead of the 13th anniversary of the genocide, when 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were butchered in 100 days of state-sponsored killings, rights group REDRESS and the International Federation f
Source: Reuters
Apr 3, 2007
LONDON -- Shifting sands and a poorly defined maritime border could give Britain and Iran enough room to save face in their 12-day stand-off over a group of detained British sailors and marines, border experts say.
Because the maritime boundaries off the Shatt al-Arab waterway, drawn up in 1975 but not updated since, are open to a certain degree of interpretation, Britain and Iran could "agree to disagree" over exactly who crossed into whose territory...
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Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 3, 2007
Norman G. Finkelstein has been more controversial off his campus than on it. On his frequent speaking tours to colleges, where he typically discusses Israel in highly critical ways, Finkelstein draws protests and debates. When the University of California Press published Finkelstein’s critique of Alan Dershowitz and other defenders of Israel in 2005, a huge uproar ensued — with charges and countercharges about hypocrisy, tolerance, fairness and censorship. But at DePaul University, Finkelstein h
Source: New York Times
Apr 3, 2007
Humans are born time travelers. We may not be able to send our bodies into the past or the future, at least not yet, but we can send our minds. We can relive events that happened long ago or envision ourselves in the future.
New studies suggest that the two directions of temporal travel are intimately entwined in the human brain. A number of psychologists argue that re-experiencing the past evolved in our ancestors as a way to plan for the future and that the rise of mental time tra
Source: Reuters
Apr 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The United States on Tuesday announced the arrests of three former South American military officers suspected of war crimes, including the accused chief interrogator of Argentina's former military government.
The three suspects, who also include two former Peruvian Army officers accused in the 1985 killing of 69 villagers known as the Accomarca massacre, were arrested during the past week by agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE.
Source: Xinhua/China View
Apr 3, 2007
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday lashed out at Japan for distortion of history textbooks, calling Japan's moves an open mockery and challenge to its neighbors and the world at large.
The Japanese authorities had become "all the more undisguised in their moves to distort history despite unanimous censure and condemnation by the public at home and abroad" the official KCNA news agency reported, quoting a Foreign Ministry s
Source: New York Times
Apr 3, 2007
MONSEY, N.Y. -— The bitterness felt toward the Neturei Karta congregation had been evident since December, when members of the congregation, an anti-Zionist Jewish group, traveled to Tehran and shook hands with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a conference on the Holocaust.
In the months that followed, the ultra-Orthodox group with the unorthodox beliefs received threatening phone calls at its synagogue. A protest was held outside its doors. Rocks were thrown at its windows.
Source: New York Times
Apr 3, 2007
NORTH SINAI, Egypt -— On the eve of Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the story of Moses leading the Israelites through this wilderness out of slavery, Egypt’s chief archaeologist took a bus full of journalists into the North Sinai to showcase his agency’s latest discovery.
It didn’t look like much —- some ancient buried walls of a military fort and a few pieces of volcanic lava. The archaeologist, Dr. Zahi Hawass, often promotes mummies and tombs and pharaonic antiquitie
Source: New York Times
Apr 3, 2007
Holly Yasui was far away when a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled last June that the government had wide latitude to detain noncitizens indefinitely on the basis of race, religion or national origin. The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit by Muslim immigrants held after 9/11. But Ms. Yasui, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, had reason to take it personally.
Her grandparents were among thousands of Japanese immigrants in the United States who were wrongfully detained as enem
Source: New York Times
Apr 3, 2007
An announcement two years ago of the discovery of a trove of small drip paintings thought to be the work of Jackson Pollock set off an uproar in the world of art scholarship that has yet to die down. The paintings have been scrutinized by connoisseurs, been subjected to computerized pattern tests, undergone chemical analysis at Harvard and elsewhere, and deeply divided a group of once-united Pollock experts.
Now questions about their authenticity may begin reverberating in the art m
Source: BBC News
Apr 3, 2007
The remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit eastern Asia have been unearthed in a cave in China.
The find could shed light on how our ancestors colonised the East, a movement that is only poorly understood by anthropologists.
Researchers found 34 bone fragments belonging to a single individual at the Tianyuan Cave, near Beijing.
Details of the discovery appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
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