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Source: List for Discussion of History of Journalism and Mass Communication JHISTORY@H-NET.MSU.EDU
Oct 7, 2006
The H-Net forum for journalists is featuring a lively exchange about a publisher's decision not to pay for articles it commissioned for the Encyclopedia of American Journalism History.
The book is scheduled to be published in 2007 by Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis. James McGrath Morris reports that after he wrote several entries he was told that the publisher now is in need of fewer entries than anticipated after deciding to reduce the three-volume set to one volume.
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Source: Daily Yomiuri
Oct 7, 2006
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe clarified his position on Japan's wartime past ahead of summit talks with the presidents of China and South Korea, stating Thursday that his administration has no intention of distancing itself from previous government apologies.
During a House of Representatives Budget Committee session, Abe said he accepts a statement given in 1995 by then Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama in which he apologized and expressed remorse for Japanese aggression and the sufferi
Source: Press Release -- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Oct 6, 2006
Mrs. Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States and Honorary Chair of the Preserve America initiative, presented Gerry R. Kohler of Parkersburg, West Virginia, the 2006 “Preserve America History Teacher of the Year” Award during a ceremony held at Lincoln Hall in The Union League Club yesterday.
The “Preserve America History Teacher of the Year” Award, a project of the Preserve America White House initiative, is administered and funded by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Hi
Source: Witchita Eagle
Oct 6, 2006
The Confederate battle flag still stirs passions - reverence in some, fear and loathing in others. And it continues to intrude into politics, notably in U.S. Sen. George Allen's re-election campaign. Allen, R-Va., has been dogged by tales of how he wore a Confederate flag pin and hung the flag in his home and elsewhere in his earlier days. When Allen tried to distance himself last month from those Confederate sympathies, he was assailed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.Wh
Source: NYT Editor's Note in CORRECTIONS
Oct 6, 2006
An article on Sept. 21 about criticism of President Bush at the United Nations by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran reported that Mr. Chavez praised a book by Noam Chomsky, the linguist and social critic. It reported that later, at a news conference, Mr. Chavez said that he regretted not having met Mr. Chomsky before he died. The article noted that in fact, Mr. Chomsky is alive. The assertion that Mr. Chavez had made this misstatement was repeated in a
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 6, 2006
A Turkish author went on trial yesterday for the crime of having accused Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, of having dressed as a woman to escape an assassination attempt.
Ipek Calislar faces four and a half years in prison if found guilty of insulting Ataturk's reputation.
In her best-selling biography of Ataturk's wife, Latife Ussaki, she wrote that the then Turkish president once put on a chador to disguise himself as a woman to flee the presidenti
Source: Times Online (UK)
Oct 6, 2006
A WOMAN has been appointed as Scotland’s Lord Advocate, the country’s top law officer, for the first time in the post’s 500-year history.
Elish Angiolini, 46, the former Solicitor-General, is also the first person from the Procurator Fiscal service to hold the title.
Source: NYT
Oct 6, 2006
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 5— The old men stared at one another through squinted eyes on Thursday and began to remember the lives they once lived.
Slowed by age and bent with frailty, about 50 veterans of the Manhattan Project gathered at the Best Western Hilltop House Hotel here as part of three days of events to commemorate their work on the atomic bomb.
Source: BBC
Oct 5, 2006
Learning how to live off the sea may have played a key role in the expansion of early humans around the globe. After leaving Africa, human groups probably followed coastal routes to the Americas and South-East Asia. Professor Jon Erlandson says the maritime capabilities of ancient humans have been greatly underestimated. He has found evidence that early peoples in California pursued a sophisticated seafaring lifestyle 10,000 years ago.
Source: Yahoo
Oct 5, 2006
Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday.
After a tip-off from a farmer in Peru's northern Amazon jungle, archeologists from Peru's National Culture Institute last week found the 820-feet-(250-meter)deep cave that was used for burial and worship by the Chachapoyas tribe.
Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/10/05/international/i121208D63.DTL
Oct 5, 2006
Mongolia's legislature on Thursday began debating a law on regulating the use of Genghis Khan's name in a bid to prevent the memory of the legendary conqueror from being cheapened.
Since Mongolia emerged from the shadow of the Soviet Union in 1991, the isolated Asian nation has applied the moniker of its favorite son to more than half a dozen brands of vodka and beer and a variety of other commercial products.
The trend reflects the immense pride Mongolians feel about a
Source: AP
Oct 5, 2006
Kenyan independence veterans want Britain to apologize publicly for the beating, starvation and torture they say they suffered at the hands of British authorities when they fought against colonial rule over 50 years ago, their lawyer said Thursday.
The veterans next week will start a legal process in which they also want general compensation for the people affected, reparations to survivors and cancellation of Kenya's debt to Britain, Martyn Day said at a news conference in the Ken
Source: ABC.net.au
Oct 5, 2006
The public is being asked to comment on plans to protect what's been called the world's largest art gallery, a collection of ancient Aboriginal rock art on the Dampier Archipelago.
Federal environment and heritage minister Senator Ian Campbell has called for submissions on a proposal that would see most of the area, which is in northwestern Australia, placed on the National Heritage List.
The proposal would hinder the development of the A$50 billion Pluto Gas natural ga
Source: Reuters
Oct 5, 2006
German authorities have unearthed the remains of 51 people, many of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.Local officials said on Thursday that the skeletons of 22 children and 29 adults had been exhumed from the grave in a Catholic church cemetery in the village of Menden-Barge. The exhumation process was still underway.
"We assume that these were victims of the Nazi regime," state prosecutor Ulr
Source: Guardian
Oct 5, 2006
The slackers, the looters, the promiscuous and the just plain terrified men and women of the Blitz are finally being heard, more than 60 years after the last bombs fell. The voices often edited out of the patriotic official version of Britain's finest hour resurface in a new history of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, based on thousands of hours of recordings of survivors, held in the archives of the Imperial War Museum.
Joshua Levine, who spent almost a year listening to the m
Source: Independent (UK)
Oct 5, 2006
Some 450 years after it was given to an Elizabethan nobleman on the condition he keep it free of pirates, the Channel island of Sark has ceased to be the last feudal fiefdom in Europe.
The population of the tiny Crown dependency, 20 miles off the French coast, voted yesterday for a new system of government which will mean it is ruled entirely by elected representatives for the first time in its history.
The referendum ends the rule of the Seigneur of Sark - an inherited
Source: NYT
Oct 4, 2006
For more than two centuries, the Freemasons and their grandiose rituals have played a secretive, mysterious role in American life. One of the Masons’ symbols looks a lot like the all-seeing eye on the back of every $1 bill. And look whose picture is on the other side.
George Washington was not the first Mason, and not the only famous one. Mozart worked thinly disguised touches of Masonry into operas. Fourteen presidents and everyone from the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale to the comedian
Source: NYT
Oct 4, 2006
UPPER DEERFIELD, N.J., Sept. 28 — To assess what it meant for about 2,500 Japanese-Americans to live here in the 1940’s in cinder-block barracks and work seven days a week, 12 hours a day at a vegetable packaging and processing plant for 55 cents an hour, it is necessary to ask, “Compared with what?”
They came here during World War II to live and work at the Seabrook Farms complex from one of 10 internment camps for Japanese-Americans out West, where the routine was enforced idlenes
Source: International Herald Tribune
Oct 4, 2006
Indonesian authorities are investigating a history text book that re-examines the events that led to ex-dictator Suharto assuming power and may bring criminal charges against its authors, the attorney general's office said Wednesday.The book has already been withdrawn from schools across the country, said Muchtar Arifin, a junior attorney general.
Gen. Suharto rose to power after an attempted coup in 1965 that he blamed on the Communist party. During his brutal
Source: Ottowa Citizen
Oct 4, 2006
As part of its latest secrecy push, the Defence Department declared Tuesday that releasing information showing that Canadians fought valiantly with the famed Devil's Brigade during the Second World War could harm national security.The name of the First Special Service Force, better known as the Devil's Brigade, has been censored from all the records that outline which unit has the closest historical military links to Canada's existing commando unit, Joint Task Force 2.
