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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: UPI
Jan 25, 2007
NEW YORK -- Fox News plans to air scenes cut from the ABC miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," over doubts about their historical accuracy, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The footage is scheduled to air Sunday as part of "Hannity's America," the Los Angeles Times reported. It depicts former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger refusing to approve a CIA request to attack Osama bib Laden, an episode that Berger and the Sept. 11 Commission both didn't happen.
Source: AP
Jan 25, 2007
LONDON -- Heirlooms once owned by the former Greek royal family sold for $18.4 million, Christie's said Thursday at the end of a two-day auction.
The sale took place despite protests from the Greek government in Athens, which at the last minute urged the London-based auction house not to sell the artifacts -- more than 850 items that originally belonged to King George I of Greece -- saying they may have been illegally exported.
However, Christie's said it saw no reason
Source: Gay City News (NYC)
Jan 25, 2007
In the area that runs up from Bleecker to West Third, from Sixth Avenue to as far east as Broadway, histories as well as tales passed down from one generation to the next document a vibrant outcropping of establishments that served men and women who enjoyed same-sex desire--including cheap restaurants, saloons, and tea rooms--and sat close by brothels of a more traditional kind as well as Catholic churches that served the neighborhood's emerging working class Italian-American community.
Source: AP
Jan 25, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) -- A rare late work by Rembrandt depicting the Apostle James in prayer was sold Thursday for $25.8 million, the auction house said.
''Saint James the Greater,'' painted by the artist in 1661, was described by the vice chairman of Sotheby's Old Master paintings, George Wachter, as one of the most important Rembrandt works ever handled by Sotheby's.
''Over the past 20 years, the vast majority of pictures by the artist that have appeared on the market have da
Source: CNN
Jan 25, 2007
A U.S. senator has introduced a bill to investigate the relocation, internment and deportation of Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II and the late 1940s.
"They were taken from their homes in countries such as Brazil, Panama and Peru, stripped of their passports, involuntarily brought to the United States and interned in American camps," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, in a news release Wednesday.
"They apparently had only one purpo
Source: Guardian
Jan 25, 2007
A collection of heirlooms including silverware and paintings that belonged to the Greek royal family has raised more than £7m in a controversial auction which went ahead despite appeals from the Greek government.
The authorities in Athens are concerned about how the treasures, once owned by the Duke of Edinburgh's grandfather, King George I of Greece, came to auction in London and have warned that action would be taken if the artefacts were illegally imported.
Source: Reuters
Jan 25, 2007
Children in England are to be taught "core British values" amid fears the country risks becoming divided into ghettos of different ethnic and religious groups, the government said on Thursday.
Education Secretary Alan Johnson said he was accepting the recommendations of a report into schools commissioned in the wake of the 2005 London suicide bombings by four British Islamists who killed themselves and 52 others.
The government hopes to reverse a growth in ext
Source: AFP at Yahoo News
Jan 25, 2007
Desperate letters written by the father of Anne Frank, the teenager whose diary of hiding from Nazis documented the horror of Jews during World War II, have surfaced in the United States and will be released next month.
Otto Frank wrote the letters in 1941 in a despairing effort to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, before finally hiding the family, including Anne, in secret rooms in an Amsterdam office building for two years until they were betrayed, Time magazine said
Source: NYT
Jan 25, 2007
A 71-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in Mississippi on federal kidnapping charges stemming from the 1964 killing of two black teenagers who were tied to trees, whipped and drowned.
The suspect, James F. Seale, a former crop-duster, was indicted in Jackson and taken into custody in the southwestern Mississippi town of Roxie, not far from where the two young men were seized.
The charges against Mr. Seale, some seven years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation reo
Source: NYT
Jan 25, 2007
ISTANBUL, Jan. 24 — Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul called Wednesday for changes in a controversial law that penalizes insults against Turkish identity.
Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor who was assassinated last week, had been convicted under the law late last year. Many Turks say the conviction labeled Mr. Dink a traitor in the eyes of ultranationalist groups and made him a target.
“We see that in its present version, it causes some problems,” the foreig
Source: HNN news story based on Press Release issued by Assemblyman DeVore
Jan 24, 2007
California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) has introduced a bill in the state legislature that would prohibit teachers "from teaching untruths about extremist terror networks." Teachers found in violation of the act could be fired.
Assembly Bill 137 would also authorize the firing of any public employee who belongs to an "extremist terrorist network" or donates money to one.
The bill would amend an existing statute passed in the 1950s that pr
Source: Daily Press
Jan 24, 2007
YORKTOWN -- Six feet beneath the grassy lawn outside the circa 1720 Custom House, archaeologists have stumbled upon one of this old colonial port's most deeply buried secrets.
Tracing the path for a new drain line, the scientists knew they might encounter the foundations of the historic Ambler House, which was constructed in the 1740s and destroyed during the Civil War. But no one expected to find the kind of complex structure that has emerged since the first brick foundations began
Source: AP
Jan 24, 2007
DAYTON, Ohio -- A film repository at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that for decades has stored and preserved original copies of some of the nation's most famous movies is heading to a new home.
The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center, which has the original negatives of such classics as ''The Maltese Falcon'' and ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,'' is moving to a new facility being built in Culpeper, Va., about 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
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Source: Live Science
Jan 24, 2007
A recently unearthed human skull believed to have been used as a ceremonial trophy by the people of an ancient Peruvian empire gives new insights into the nature of warfare in the society, archaeologists say.
The Wari Empire, a society that predated the Incas, ruled over parts of Peru 1,500 to 1,000 years ago.
While exploring a Wari cemetery last summer in Peru’s Huaro Valley, archaeologists discovered what they consider to be an elite section of the graveyard when they
Source: AP
Jan 24, 2007
Italian police have unearthed the hidden cache of a group of grave robbers, recovering ancient Roman marble reliefs depicting stunningly lifelike gladiators locked in mortal combat, officials said Wednesday.
The 12 panels were found buried in the garden of a private home near Fiano Romano, some 25 miles north of Rome, and officials hailed the find as a major archaeological discovery and a blow to the illegal antiquities market.
Archaeologists said the work offers a glim
Source: WaPo
Jan 24, 2007
Members of the Southern Methodist University faculty again raised concerns that the building of the George W. Bush presidential library on campus might damage the school's reputation, said a participant at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday.
At the tightly guarded meeting, several members of the faculty questioned school president R. Gerald Turner about the political institute that will accompany the library. The institute will conduct research on issues that will be determined by B
Source: AP
Jan 24, 2007
SANTIAGO, Chile -- The family of former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva filed a court complaint on Wednesday, claiming the former leader was assassinated by poisoning in 1982.
It named unspecified "groups of individuals related to military intelligence" under the dictatorship of the Gen. Augusto Pinochet, of whom Frei was a leading opponent.
The complaint filed by Frei's son, also named Eduardo and also a former president.
The elder Fre
Source: AP
Jan 24, 2007
BELGRADE, Serbia -- A Nazi hunter criticized Serbian authorities on Wednesday for failing to seek the extradition of three men with suspected links to atrocities against Jews, Serbs and Gypsies during World War II.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center's office in Israel, said Serbian authorities have done little to bring to justice Croats Ivo Rojnica and Milivoj Asner, and Hungarian Sandor Kepiro.
"Sadly, we have heard a lot of
Source: AP
Jan 24, 2007
The Smithsonian Institution and Corbis Corp. announced a deal Wednesday to begin selling images from the Smithsonian's collections for editorial and commercial use through the digital media company.
Under the licensing agreement, Corbis will provide hundreds of images from the Smithsonian museums, including archival photos and images of cultural objects, paintings, sculptures, aircraft and space vehicles. A photograph of the 45.52 carat Hope Diamond is among the first images being
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Jan 24, 2007
Museum of the Confederacy officials are considering moving the world's largest collection of Civil War artifacts to Lexington.
"I don't know if the conversations will go anywhere," said Waite Rawls, the museum's president and CEO, who visited Lexington this month. "But they have started."
Lexington, about 140 miles west of downtown Richmond in Rockbridge County, could be a good fit for the museum's collection of Confederate artifacts, manuscripts and
