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Source: AP
December 31, 2069
PARIS -- Mongolian dragons, Persian peacocks and radiating Arabic stars are just some of the foreign motifs that embellish Armenia's sacred Christian relics — showing how the oft-invaded nation has drawn on outside influences to strengthen its own identity.
A new exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris showcases the resilience of Armenian culture. "Armenia Sacra," which runs through May 21, brings together more than 200 of the country's most spectacular religious objects,
Source: by Nicholas Dujmovic, Studies in Intelligence (Unclassified Edition)
December 31, 2069
[CIA editorial note:] This article draws extensively on operational files and other internal CIA records that of necessity remain classified. Because the true story of these two CIA officers is compelling and has been distorted in many public accounts, it is retold here in as much detail as possible, despite minimal source citations. Whenever possible, references to open sources are made in the footnotes.
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Beijing’s capture, imprisonment, and eventual release of CI
Source: Washington Times
December 31, 2069
Despite threats of retaliatory action and national anger, Turkey appears to be stepping back from a prolonged clash with France over a French parliamentary bill on the 90-year-old Armenian massacres.
"The focus is on limiting the damage" after the French National Assembly voted on Thursday to make any denial of the Ottoman mass killings of Armenians a punishable offense, according to one diplomatic report.
France's leading politicians, including President Jacque
Source: AP
December 31, 2069
Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire — the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.
The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage.
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Source: Cliopatria
December 31, 2069
The History Carnival is a twice-monthly roundup of blogging about history and historians. Caleb McDaniel hosts this edition.
Source: The Washington Post
December 31, 2069
The trend was clear and consistent. Since the end of World War II and stretching to the start of the current millennium, the percentage of American women entering the labor force rose steadily, at a rate so fast that it offset the steady decline in participation by men.
The influx of fresh workers buoyed economic growth. As companies expanded and demand rose, there were plenty of hands to get the job done.
But women's rush to employment stopped in 2000 and started to de
Source: Oregonian
December 31, 2069
JOHN DAY -- The lone key, clad in rust, grabs the attention of sharp-eyed scientists as they sift through a freshly dug pit in a city playground.
"Wow, what a great find," says archaeologist Julie Schablitsky as she turns it over in her hand. "This is the kind of thing we're looking for."
The key and thousands of other artifacts being discovered in a dig here are beginning to unlock details about the daily lives of hundreds of Chinese miners who ca
December 31, 2069
The Organization of American Historians has decided to stop funding Talking History at the end of June. The decision apparently will kill the eight year old show that featured interviews with historians. The OAH is dealing with a large deficit as a result of last year's decision to switch its annual convention to San Jose after a hotel labor dispute in San Francisco. The show's host, Bryan LeBeau, has recently been the subject of unfavorable headlines after he was charged with plagiarism. La
Source: AP
December 31, 2069
Rudy Abramson wanted to publish a reference book about Appalachia that went beyond the stereotypical images of hillbillies and poverty and presented a more realistic picture of the area's history and natural diversity."The place has this reputation of being just a different nation of poor people and strip mines and that sort of thing," said Abramson, co-editor of the newly released Encyclopedia of Appalachia, a 1,832-page volume that weighs nearly 3.6 kilograms.
Source: Smithsonian Institution
December 31, 2069
The 2006 National Conference on Cultural Property Protection will be conducted at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA, from February 26 to March 1, 2006. Included: presentations by Bonnie Magness-Gardiner and Matthew Bogdanos.
Source: NYT
December 31, 2069
AT day's end, it was perhaps one of the few things over which he held no sway, the relentless logic of aging, that made Tsuneo Watanabe, Japan's most powerful media baron, decide to step out of the shadows.
He has recently granted long, soul-baring interviews in which he has questioned the rising nationalism he has cultivated so assiduously in the pages of his newspaper, the conservative Yomiuri — the world's largest, with a circulation of 14 million. Now, he talks about the need to
Source: NYT
December 31, 2069
The first intact tomb discovered in 84 years at the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt, was formally opened Friday. The tomb, discovered by a team of American archaeologists a few days ago, is just a few feet from King Tutankhamen's tomb.The discovery of the tomb, a rectangular chamber cut from the rock, was announced this week by Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The tomb contains five mummies from the 18th dynasty era (abo
Source: BBC
December 31, 2069
The chairman of Iran's Jewish Council has strongly criticised the country's hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying the Holocaust was a myth. In a letter to the president, Haroun Yashayaei said the leader's remarks had shocked the international community and caused fear in Iran's Jewish community.
Mr Yashayaei described the Holocaust as one of the most obvious and sad events in the 20th Century.
Six million Jews were killed in Nazi perse
Source: Los Angeles Times
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In a closely watched ruling over ownership of artworks looted by the Nazis, an Austrian arbitration court has ordered its government to turn over five multimillion-dollar paintings by Gustav Klimt to a Jewish woman whose family fled Vienna in 1939.Maria Altmann, who now lives in Los Angeles, fought a seven-year legal battle for the paintings, which have an estimated value of $150 million. The most valuable is the renowned 1907 portrait of Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, w
Source: Fox News
1--6-06
Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62.
Thompson, whose role in the 1968 massacre did not become widely known until decades later, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Alexandria, hospital spokesman Jay DeWorth said.
Trent Angers, Thompson's biographer and family friend, said Thompson died of cancer.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
12-22--05
The Department of Homeland Security adamantly denied Wednesday that its officials had interrogated a senior at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth because he tried to borrow from acampus library an unabridged version of The Little Red Book. The alleged incident has prompted a controversy, but Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for the department, said, “We investigate violations of the law, not individuals’ reading habits.” She said that department officials have “serious questions about the
Source: NYT
11-26-05`
They have the awkwardness of amateur home videos: background noise, long silences, people looking away from the camera. But inside a booth at the New-York Historical Society, visitors to the exhibition "Slavery in New York" are recording their reactions, creating snapshot reflections on race and history in the nation's largest city.
"It allows our young people to understand, really, how this city was born and who carried the brunt of the prosperity that we see in New
Source: Mother Jones
Nov.-Dec. 2005
Mother Jones has published a long analysis by Mark Hertsgaard of the 2004 presidential election. Hertsgaard, a well-known liberal investigative reporter, concludes that the 2004 election was not stolen from John Kerry. His article debunks the work of Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, and Steve Rosenfeld, authors of Did George W. Bush Steal America’s 2004 Election? and Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too (Unle
Source: Guardian (UK)
10-15=-05
In a lovely spot in Bavaria, surrounded by majestic mountains with snowy peaks, speckled with alpine roses and edelweiss, quaint white houses and onion-domed churches, stands a lovely hotel. Opened last March, the five-star Intercontinental Resort Berchtesgaden features a golf course, a superb wine cellar and first-class restaurant, an excellent sauna and fitness centre, and panoramic views from every room.
The fact that the view from the great window is almost identical to what Hitler s
Source: The Korea Times
8-16--05
School textbooks have changed tremendously since 1956 when the nation established a modern educational system after its liberation from Japanese colonial rule. The depiction of South Korea’s modern history has been revised with successive administrations and the nation’s political evolution toward democracy to include changes in orthography, new songs, scientific discoveries and the arts.In particular, history textbooks have been subject to frequent changes, as they carry ``
