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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: NYT
Oct 12, 2006
Argentines simply will not let Gen. Juan Domingo Perón rest in peace. He died in 1974 and is buried at a family crypt here, but a battle over his remains has broken out between his ideological heirs, who want to move his body to a mausoleum, and a woman who claims to be his daughter and wants a DNA test conducted first.The leaders of the Peronist movement and the labor unions affiliated with it have announced two days of ceremonies to transfer the general’s remains, ending O
Source: The Independent (London)
Oct 12, 2006
Few films in the history of cinema can claim to have had a direct impact on the real world. A movie showing in France has managed to repair a half-century of injustice even before it appeared on general release. Indigènes tells the largely concealed story of the 300,000 Arab and north African soldiers who helped to liberate France in 1944.
In one respect, the film has already succeeded where years of complaints have failed. Last week, just before it reached the cinema, the French go
Source: The Globe and Mail
Oct 12, 2006
French politicians are galloping into diplomatic quicksand with a proposal to imprison anyone who publicly denies that the Turkish massacre of Armenians a century ago constituted genocide. The draft law, to be debated by the National Assembly today, was submitted by the opposition Socialist Party and has strong support among those on the political right who hope to derail Turkey's candidacy for European Union membership.
Members of France's 400,000-strong Armenian diaspora, whose vo
Source: Cybercast News Service
Oct 11, 2006
A former resident of Orange County, Calif., has become the first person to be charged with treason against the United States since the World War II era, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Adam Gadahn, 28 - also known as Azzam al-Amriki or Azzam the American - "gave al Qaeda aid and comfort ... with intent to betray the United States," according to the treason count in the indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana, Calif....
Source: AP
Oct 11, 2006
DRESDEN, Germany -- An exhibition on Nazi racial policies created for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened Thursday in a building where posters were once produced trumpeting the theories that led to the murder of Europe's Jews.
The exhibition, titled "Deadly Medicine -- Racial Madness in National Socialism," opened Thursday evening in the 1930s-era Hygiene Museum in the eastern city of Dresden.
Many of the swastika-stamped posters promoting Nazi theorie
Source: NYT
Oct 11, 2006
DUBLIN With a cornucopia of sex, politics and religious conflict, the life of Henry VIII seems well suited to dramatization on screen. After all, even in the rollicking 16th century, it is impossible to find another king who had six wives, executed nobles and prelates at a whim and provoked the Vatican into ordering his excommunication.Yet if high drama seems assured, casting the right actor to play the lead is trickier because, unlike the case with most English
Source: CBS Evening News
Oct 11, 2006
World War II must have seemed like ancient history to Caitlin Bitsco, a suburban teenager, before she discovered her link to it through two generations and a drawer full of secrets, CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. "There's a lot of papers here. I don't know how he carried them around and how he kept all of them," Caitlin says.
She’s referring to papers from cigarette packs. The packs were dropped in Red Cross packages over a
Source: Times Online (UK)
Oct 11, 2006
A COLD WAR relic was last night flying above North Korea trying to answer the question the world is asking: did Kim Jong Il tell the truth about his inaugural nuclear test? The last surviving Constant Phoenix, a nuclear-test sniffing aircraft commissioned by President Eisenhower, has so far failed to detect radioactive isotopes from the atmosphere.
There was still “no definitive proof” that a nuclear device had been detonated at an underground facility in northeast North Korea, acc
Source: BBC
Oct 11, 2006
A UK-led team is challenging cherished ideas on Greek mythology by proposing an alternative site for Ithaca.
The island was said to be the home of Odysseus, whose 10-year journey back from the Trojan War is chronicled in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location.
But geologists are this week sinking a borehole on nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of Paliki is
Source: National Security Archive
Oct 11, 2006
On September 26, 2006, the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Services duly released, as a result of an administrative appeal, unredacted versions of 1971 charts depicting U.S. strategic force levels first published in a public report by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. This was, as it should have been, a routine decision to correct a mistake. Pentagon reviewers had previously treated the charts, which included numbers of U.S. strategic missiles and bombers, among other weapons sy
Source: Washington Times
Oct 11, 2006
SANTA CRUZ, Boliva -- An emotional visit by Aleida Guevara to mark the 39th anniversary of the slaying of her legendary father, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, has revived bitter arguments over the revolutionary's legacy and Bolivia's current ties with Cuba.
"My father was brutally assassinated by the Bolivian army," said Miss Guevara during a weekend pilgrimage to the small village of La Higuera on the arid eastern foothills, where a sick and emaciated Guevara spen
Source: Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, VA)
Oct 11, 2006
In some parts of the country, the Civil War is still being fought. And perhaps nowhere are the aftershocks and viewpoints as evident as in Richmond, where a new museum is attempting to tell the history of the war from three angles. That would be: the Union, the African-American and the Confederate. The American Civil War Center argues in its inaugural 10,000-square-foot exhibition, "In the Cause of Liberty," that each of the three had distinct ideas about freedom.
Source: Discovery.com
Oct 10, 2006
New evidence shows that people have been slurping up yogurt since at least as far back as the Neolithic Age.
Food particles found embedded in ancient cooking pots reveal that Britain’s first farmers boiled milk and processed it to make foods such as cheese, butter and yogurt, according to a report in the latest British Archaeology.
Source: Newsday
Oct 10, 2006
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The remains of former Argentine political strongman Juan Domingo Peron are to be reburied in a new mausoleum during a ceremony next week, organizers said Tuesday.
Leaders of the Peronist movement the populist politician founded 61 years ago will attend the ceremony.
The move of Peron's remains from a Buenos Aires cemetery to suburban San Vicente comes amid the run-up to next year's presidential election -- a traditional time for reinvoking t
Source: Times Online (UK)
Oct 10, 2006
THE Pope is taking steps to revive the ancient tradition of the Latin Tridentine Mass in Catholic churches worldwide, according to sources in Rome.
Pope Benedict XVI is understood to have signed a universal indult — or permission — for priests to celebrate again the Mass used throughout the Church for nearly 1,500 years. The indult could be published in the next few weeks, sources told The Times.
Use of the Tridentine Mass, parts of which date from the time of S
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Oct 10, 2006
The first atlas ever printed sold for a record $3.9 million at auction on Tuesday.
The sale at Sotheby's of the 1477 edition of Claudius Ptolemy's landmark atlas established a new record for any atlas ever sold at auction.
Source: Wa Po
Oct 10, 2006
The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.
When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of U.S. students who no longer get much handwriting instruction in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or
Source: Press Release -- Total Assault LLC
Oct 10, 2006
In Iraq, Reagan did not want the horrors of Saddam Hussein’s massacre against the
Kurds to come out, because then he would have to do something to stop him. In Bosnia,
world television coverage of the genocide convinced the international community to
step in...but only after 200,000 had been murdered.
In Rwanda, Bill Clinton did not want the true horrors to come out ...because then he
would have to do something. And now, in Darfur, George Bush has finally declared the
desol
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Oct 10, 2006
Lovers of Roman-era art and archaeology can thank the Vatican's parking problem for the discovery of one of the ancient world's best preserved necropolises - right inside the tiny city-state's walls.
The necropolis was opened three years after it was unearthed by workers who were breaking ground for a new garage to ease the Vatican's dearth of parking space.
"We found the kind of things that have usually been lost in past excavations in Rome," said Giandomenic
Source: The Australian
Oct 10, 2006
TAIWAN'S politics is in the grip of a rather bitter feud over identity. The ''pan-blues'' view themselves mainly as Chinese, the ''pan-greens'' as Taiwanese. The split concerns whether people view themselves as belonging chiefly to Taiwan, because their families were established here before Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the island in 1949 after losing the civil war to the communists -- or whether they see themselves principally as Chinese, linked by ancestry or birth to mainlan
