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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
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Source: NYT
Dec 6, 2005
In a two-hour interview on Sunday, Mr. Clark, a tall, gaunt figure, still with a Texas drawl after decades living in New York, set out a rationale for defending Mr. Hussein that would face little contest in American law schools. All men, he said, deserved a fair trial, even history's worst criminals. "Suppose Hitler had survived," he said. "It seems to me that it would have been absolutely critical to give him a fair trial, to let him call witnesses and cross-examine the hell out
Source: Romanesko
Dec 6, 2005
"Particularly in the current atmosphere of war, a secretive administration ... those sources are our lifeline," Bob Woodward said at a Harvard forum. He told the audience he hasn't been fazed by CIA leak-related criticism. "I can deal with it. I am going about my business."
Source: History Today
Dec 6, 2005
Archaeologists believe they have found the royal burial tomb of Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey. The radar study unearthed the tomb of the British Saint 1,000 years after his birth, as well as unknown 13th and 14th century Royal crypts and burials hidden in the Abbey’s foundations. The research, using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology, had been focussed on the Abbey's 1268 Cosmati mosaic pavement next to the High Altar. Dr Warwick Rodwell, the Abbey's Consultant Archaeologist,
Source: CNN
Dec 6, 2005
YORK, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The children and sisters of a black woman who was killed during race riots in this central Pennsylvania city 36 years ago will share in a $2 million settlement announced Tuesday by York city officials.
The deal would settle the lawsuit that Lillie Belle Allen's family filed against the city and five former police officers. It also calls for the creation of a memorial to Allen and Henry Schaad, a white city policeman who als
Source: Baltimore Sun
Dec 6, 2005
At the end of their shift July 7, 1957, the women at the silk mill stopped winding the soft thread. They walked out as usual, leaving behind their aprons, face powder, even a few shoes. The superintendent hung up his straw hat.
None of them ever returned.
And nearly 50 years after the General Textile Mills factory closed overnight, it looks the same, stopped in time, a haunting archive of the industrial life that once flourished in remote mountain towns like this one in
Source: AP
Dec 6, 2005
Rare copies of a sports newspaper that was credited with uncovering the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal are missing from a University of Illinois library.
Librarians discovered that two bound volumes of Collyer's Eye from the 1920s were missing this fall, around the time the White Sox won their first World Series in 88 years, said associate university librarian Karen Schmidt."As there was more and more interest in what the White
Source: WP
Dec 6, 2005
Despite some reservations, engineers evaluating sites for the National Museum of African American History and Culture cited advantages of two spots, one near the Washington Monument and the other at Benjamin Banneker Overlook, a park on a hill above the municipal fish market.
The engineering study did not make an explicit recommendation. The Smithsonian Board of Regents and an advisory council of the African American museum discussed the 198-page Site Evaluation Study yesterday in a
Source: Wa Po
Dec 6, 2005
The glamour, the popping camera lights of the paparazzi, and an impressive lineup of movie stars such as Jim Carrey, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Chris Tucker gave a glitzy Hollywood feel to the grand opening of the Muhammad Ali Center in this horse-racing town.
Lonnie Ali, the boxing champ's wife, could barely hold back tears as she stood in the shadow of the $75 million center, with its soaring butterfly roof and its dozens of exhibits, replete with LeRoy Nieman paintings of &quo
Source: CNN
Dec 5, 2005
The discovery of two large pieces of the Titanic's hull on the ocean floor indicates the fabled luxury liner sank faster than previously thought, researchers said Monday.
The hull pieces were a crucial part of the ship's structure and make up a bottom section of the vessel missing when the wreck was first located in 1985, the researchers said.
After the bottom section of the hull broke free, the bow and stern split, said Roger Long, a naval architect who analyzed the fi
Source: Rocky Mountain News
Dec 5, 2005
The reputation of a man whose name still could bring conversations to an icy halt in this city 50 years after he wrote a book about Grand Junction's leading residents may finally be rehabilitated here.
Author Dalton Trumbo, a renowned novelist who won two Academy Awards for his screenwriting, will be honored by a festival celebrating his career and the reprinting of the book that created such a ruckus in this Western Slope city.Trumbo was born 100 years ag
Source: NYT
Dec 5, 2005
After admitting that his second marriage to a woman who, it turned out, had several ex-husbands, was a mistake, former NY Governor Hugh Carey said in an interview that failing to hire a historian to record details of the state's fiscal crisis and its successful resolution in the seventies was an even worse mistake. He hopes to rectify that lapse by writing his memoirs.Mr. Carey said that had his first wife not died in 1974, he would have challenged Jimmy Carter f
Source: Australian
Dec 5, 2005
AT the centre of Hungary's wartime history lies a gaping hole. Documentary evidence of the reign of terror by the notorious fascist Arrow Cross regime during World War II is missing and there are few surviving witnesses.
One building that should be a source of historical records is the Arrow Cross party headquarters at 60 Andrassy St, Budapest -- known as the House of Loyalty.
To Melbourne pensioner Lajos Polgar, it was the House of Fidelity. Now a war crimes investigat
Source: BBC News
Dec 5, 2005
The remains of a skeleton found underneath a medieval ship discovered buried in the banks of the River Usk in Newport are that of an Iron age man. Tests carried out on the bones which were found in December 2002, have shown that they date back to 170BC.
It makes the skeleton about 1,500 years older than the 15th century ship.
Source: AP
Dec 5, 2005
Undersea explorers said Monday that the discovery of more wreckage from the Titanic suggests that the luxury liner broke into three sections _ not two, as commonly thought _ and thus sank faster than previously believed."The breakup and sinking of the Titanic has never been accurately depicted," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic historian, said at a conference at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
The ocean liner that was billed as "unsinkable"
Source: White Lake Beacon
Dec 5, 2005
Dan Rypma, a history major at Colorado State University and formerly of Whitehall, found himself making history this summer after discovering at an ancient site in Israel what may be the earliest form of the Hebrew alphabet.
“The Tel Zayit Inscription,” now sparking discussion and controversy among biblical and language scholars around the world, is two lines of 24 inscribed letters. It’s an alphabet, resembling both Phoenician and Hebrew, on a 38-pound limestone boulder which dates
Source: Boston Globe
Dec 5, 2005
With eyes trained to recognize pyramids hidden in the hills of El Salvador, Mexico and Peru, Semir Osmanagic has been drawn to the mound overlooking this central Bosnian town.
"It has all the elements: four perfectly shaped slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, a flat top and an entrance complex," he said, gazing at the hill and wondering what lies beneath.
No pyramids are known in Europe, and there is no evidence any ancient civilization there ever atte
Source: Beta News
Dec 5, 2005
Following two fairly high profile incidents regarding the anonymous editing of articles on the popular open-source online reference tool Wikipedia, the site said that it would make changes to how it operates to prevent future problems.On November 29, an op-ed piece appeared in USA Today penned by John Seigenthaler, a former aide to Robert Kennedy. Seigenthaler said that for 132 days, the Wikipedia entry under his name falsely accused him of being a suspect in Ken
Source: Guardian
Dec 4, 2005
It was a summer publishing sensation, an 814-page biography of a man the authors depict as the worst mass murderer of the 20th century, with 111 pages of notes and bibliography. Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang, celebrated author of the world bestseller, Wild Swans, and her husband, historian Jon Halliday, was hailed by reviewers, most of whom were not specialists on China. The book was described as 'a triumph', 'stupendous' and 'awesome' when it was published in Britain. UK sales have reac
Source: scotsman.com
Dec 4, 2005
Veterans of the US boat that destroyed a Japanese submarine off the Oahu coast on December 7, 1941 met at Pearl Harbour this weekend to revisit the day when the first shot of the Pacific war was fired.
Almost an hour after the USS Ward attacked the midget sub, 40 Japanese torpedo bombers made their first successful and unhindered run on Pearl Harbour's Battleship Row.Veterans, their families and government and military officials are remembering the W
Source: NYT
Dec 4, 2005
According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true?
The question arises because Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."
