This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
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: Fox News
May 2, 2011
Years of intelligence gathering, including details gleaned from controversial interrogations of Al Qaeda members during the Bush administration, ultimately led the Navy SEALs who killed Usama bin Laden to his compound in
Source: National Journal
May 2, 2011
Osama bin Laden’s body had barely hit the water before people were predicting the impact his death would have on the war in Afghanistan, U.S. relations with the Islamic world and President Obama’s reelection campaign. The only problem with these immediate statements is that events are unlikely to work out the way anybody expects right now.
That has been the historic pattern. With events like this, unforeseen consequences have been the norm.
Source: Newsweek
May 1, 2011
The postrevolution elation has masked a disturbing uptick in archeological plunder.The euphoria with which Egyptians greeted the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February was quickly tempered by the news—at first denied by officials, but later confirmed—that thieves had stolen several priceless objects from the Egyptian Museum, including pieces from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, among them a gilded wooden statuette of the king and a silver trumpet.
Source: BBC News
May 1, 2011
German experts are carefully taking apart a complete Celtic grave in the hope of finding out more about the Celts' way of life, 2,600 years ago, in their Danube heartland.It wasn't the most glorious final journey for an aristocratic Celtic lady who, in life, clearly had a bit of style.She died just over 2,600 years ago and rested in peace until a few months ago when her grave was dug up in its entirety - all 80 tonnes of it - and transported on the back of a truck through countless German towns.
Source: Jerusalem Post
May 1, 2011
For Yad Vashem campaign described as "race against time," thousands of survivors' personal relics are collected and preserved.For 80-year-old David Ariel, a survivor of the Holocaust, parting with cherished letters from his mother, killed at Auschwitz, was a painful but necessary duty.
Source: BB
May 1, 2011
Israel is marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Samuel Willenberg, who is now 87 years old, is one of the last two known survivors of the Treblinka extermination camp.Treblinka was one of the most notorious Nazi death camps.Part of the Nazis' "final solution", the camp in occupied Poland was dedicated to extermination, designed for efficient mass murder.
Source: BBC
May 1, 2011
The site of one of Scotland's most important mainland broch settlements may have been home to early people for up to 1,000 years, evidence suggests.Archaeologists and volunteers have uncovered what could be the remains of walls dating back to 700 to 500 BC at Nybster in Caithness.Andy Heald, of AOC Archaeology, said further investigations would need to be made to confirm the structure's age.Evidence of possible Pictish and medieval occupation has been recorded.
Source: NYT
May 1, 2011
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden has been killed, two United States
officials said. President Obama was expected to make an announcement on
Sunday night, almost ten years after the September 11 attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon....
Source: Time
May 1, 2011
If the research is true, we all know who won.
The first humans may have had to battle the beasts to claim their living space. The study to be published in the Journal of Archaeological Science sheds light on how cavemen conquered the bears, leading to their extinction.
Source: BBC
May 1, 2011
German experts are carefully taking apart a
complete Celtic grave in the hope of finding out more about the Celt's
way of life, 2,600 years ago, in their Danube heartland.
It wasn't the most glorious final journey for an aristocratic Celtic lady who, in life, clearly had a bit of style. She died just over 2,600 years ago and rested in peace until a few
months ago when her grave was dug up in its entirety - all 80 tonnes of
it - and transported on the back of a truck through countless German
towns.
Source: BBC
May 1, 2011
The late Pope, John Paul
II, has been beatified at a ceremony at the Vatican in front of hundreds
of thousands of Catholic faithful.
Among those at St Peter's Square is French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, who says she was cured of Parkinson's Disease.
Her apparently miraculous cure is part of the case for the beatification, the last stage before sainthood.
It comes amid criticism of the Church for the speed of the beatification and the clerical child sex abuse scandal.
Source: The Atlantic
May 1, 2011
In late 1976, Pink
Floyd arranged to have a pig-shaped helium balloon the size of a
double-decker bus raised above the hulking Battersea Power Station on
the Thames in London for a photo shoot. The balloon escaped its tether
and the pig floated away, eventually landing in a distant pasture and
badly frightening some cows. But the image of pig and brooding power
plant was committed to film, and later graced the cover of the group’s
album Animals.
Source: NYT
Apr 29, 2011
This land is still your land, pretty much the way it was for most Americans in 1940 when Woody Guthrie immortalized the gamut of the United States, from California to the New York Island and all the redwood forests, diamond deserts, wheat fields and golden valleys in between.Except for one thing: There’s less of it. Officially, the nation’s land mass has been shrinking almost steadily ever since 1940.
Source: Discovery News
Apr 29, 2011
A 2,000-year-old Roman ship in the middle of a plain near the ancient port of Rome has been unearthed by Italian archaeologists.
The wooden vessel was found at a depth of 13 feet during repair work on a bridge that links the modern town of Ostia with Fiumicino, where Rome's main airport is located.
Measuring 36 feet in length, the ship is the largest ever excavated near the ruins of Ostia Antica, a port city near the mouth of the Tiber River that rivals the riches of Pompeii....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Apr 29, 2011
The man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 was brainwashed into shooting him by a mysterious girl in a polka dot dress, his lawyers have claimed.
In a bizarre twist more than forty years after the high-profile killing, lawyers for Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian man convicted of the shooting, have submitted new evidence which they say shows their client was manipulated by the mystery girl and had no sense of what he was doing.
Source: AP
Apr 29, 2011
An Army soldier who went missing on a mission in Laos during the Vietnam Warwill be buried this weekend in North
Source: NYT
Apr 28, 2011
The beatification is widely seen as a way not just to honor John Paul but to energize the Roman Catholic Church. Yet, like John Paul’s 26-year papacy itself, it has become intensely polarizing.
For one thing, Benedict waived the traditional five-year wait and began the process weeks after John Paul’s death, and critics across the Catholic spectrum have questioned the alacrity. Others say that the sex abuse crisis that emerged under John Paul is grounds against sainthood. On Saturday, at least one victims’ group plans a worldwide protest.
Source: CNN
Apr 28, 2011
More than one million people are expected in Rome this weekend for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, the biggest event in Vatican City since his death six years ago.
Hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful will gather in St. Peter's Square to witness the ceremony, the penultimate step towards John Paul II's sainthood.
Beatification means the candidate can be referred to as "blessed," and that one miracle has been confirmed in his or her name, according to CNN's John L. Allen, Jr.
Source: BBC
Apr 28, 2011
The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers has been discovered in north Kent.
Archaeologists working on the site of a Roman settlement near the A2 uncovered the girl who died almost 2,000 years ago.
Dr Wilkinson said that she had been between 16 and 20 years old when she was killed, and her bones suggested that she had been in good health.
He also believes the body had then been dumped in what looked like a hastily dug grave....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Apr 28, 2011
Up to a million Catholics are expected to descend on Rome to celebrate the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II, a ceremony that will move him one step closer to sainthood. While the Vatican has said that it expects around 400,000 pilgrims to converge on the Italian capital for the three-day event, other estimates predict double that number.
