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Source: Ceske Noviny
Nov 24, 2010
Prague - The crimes the Nazis committed against Czechs during wartime occupation cannot be compared with what happened in Czechoslovakia after Word War Two, German President Christian Wulff said during his visit to the Czech Republic today.
He said he welcomes the debate on the post-war situation and that he wishes that it be held in peace.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus said after the meeting with Wulff that relations between the two countries are their historical best.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 23, 2010
Genetic testing of villagers in a remote part of China has shown that nearly two thirds of their DNA is of Caucasian origin, lending support to the theory that they may be descended from a 'lost legion' of Roman soldiers.
Tests found that the DNA of some villagers in Liqian, on the fringes of the Gobi Desert in north-western China, was 56 per cent Caucasian in origin.
Many of the villagers have blue or green eyes, long noses and even fair hair, prompting speculation th
Source: East Anglian Daily Times (UK)
Nov 23, 2010
t’s like stepping back in time. The Sutton Hoo Visitors Centre has unearthed a host of new, historically important treasures.
Like the original ship burial, this remarkable find has laid unseen and forgotten for a long time. Tucked away in a dusty storeroom were a couple of fairly nondescript cardboard boxes.
Inside these unprepossessing packages were a photographic treasure trove which sheds new light on the discovery and the excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
Source: IANS
Nov 23, 2010
Two Chinese government agencies have signed an agreement to protect the country's underwater cultural heritage, a media report said Tuesday.
The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) and the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) will work closely in the fields such as underwater archaeology and management of underwater relics, China Daily reported.
The agencies will strengthen cooperation in surveys of underwater relics and in preventing damage to the relics.
Source: Ozaukee Press
Nov 23, 2010
Former Marine from Port has made it his mission to collect the signatures of those who witnessed historic World War II battle
John Beele is on a mission.
Everywhere he goes, he seeks out servicemen who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. When he finds them, he asks them for a favor — to sign a flag that bears the iconic image of Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi.
The flag’s already been signed by a multitude of soldiers, man
Source: BBC News
Nov 23, 2010
One of the first batch of Apple personal computers has sold at auction in London for £133,250 ($210,000).
The Apple I came with its original packaging and a signed sales letter from Apple co-founder and current chief executive Steve Jobs.
The computer, one of only 200 of the model ever made, originally sold for $666.66 when it was introduced in 1976.
It was bought over the phone at Christie's by Italian businessman and private collector Marco Boglione.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 23, 2010
The director of one of Britain’s largest pottery firms has compared parts of Stoke-On-Trent to Afghanistan’s Helmand Province and has demanded the local council stop the demolition of historic buildings.
Matthew Rice, director of Emma Bridgewater, said that areas of the city, known for its ceramics industry, resemble a wasteland and “disaster zone” comparable to London in the 1950s following World War II.
Referring to city planning as “feckless”, he called on the local
Source: Albany Times-Union
Nov 23, 2010
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Nearly 50 years ago, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller threw the full weight of New York's government behind commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nation's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War.
Ceremonies, historical discussions, even Emancipation dinners were held. The governor wanted New York to lead all other states in honoring the nation's most defining conflict, which kept America united, ended slavery and resulted in the assassination of a president.
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Source: NYT
Nov 23, 2010
Over the last four years, the streets of New York City have undergone a transformation: More than 250 miles of traffic lanes dedicated for bicycles have been created, and several laws intended to promote cycling have been passed.
The efforts by the Bloomberg administration have placed the city at the forefront of a national trend to make bicycling viable and safe even in the most urban of settings. Yet over the last year, a backlash has taken hold....
New York has a lon
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 23, 2010
The developers of an Islamic community centre and mosque near Ground Zero in New York have applied for millions of dollars in public money from a post-September 11 reconstruction fund.
The Park 51 group has risked reigniting a debate over its project by requesting the grant, which is reported to total $5 million (£3.1 million), from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Its plan to build a base for local Muslims two blocks away from the World Trade Centre site
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Nov 22, 2010
Some 1,652 German mortar shells have been found in a small French village in the Hinterland between France and Germany - a flash point in the First World War.
The village Coucy-lès-Eppes, where the shells were unearthed after a house was being constructed, is very near to the site of the Battle of Verdun, one of the major battles on the Western Front.
Locals have been evacuated until Friday for safety reasons and the shells, which are almost 100 years old, will be destr
Source: MonsterCritic
Nov 22, 2010
Jerusalem - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre announced Monday it was close to identifying the names of some two- thirds of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.
The number of names known to the centre has doubled in the last ten years, from two million to four million, Archives Director Haim Gertner told journalists.
'The digitilisation process helped very much,' he said....
Source: Discovery News
Nov 22, 2010
Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid's hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used these trumpets 3,000 years ago. The well-preserved, ornately decorated shells found at a pre-Inca religious site in Peru offered researchers a rare opportunity to jam on primeval instruments.
The music, powerfully haunting and droning, could have been used in religious ceremonies, the scie
Source: Anniston Star (Alabama)
Nov 22, 2010
It is hard to notice until you are literally standing on top of it.
But a grass-covered, centuries-old manmade mound does indeed exist at Davis Farm in Oxford – its slope plainly visible by anyone standing at the site looking south.
It and other American Indian artifacts on the property have withstood the test of time, and though Oxford is trying to build a multi-million dollar sports complex nearby, the city is ensuring that history will be preserved.
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Source: WaPo
Nov 22, 2010
VATICAN CITY -- A Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust is facing expulsion from his traditionalist order for hiring a lawyer linked to the neo-Nazi movement.
The Society of St. Pius X said it ordered Bishop Richard Williamson to fire the lawyer, who was to represent him in an appeal next week of a German incitement conviction for saying in a TV interview that he didn't believe Jews were gassed during World War II.
The interview aired the same day Pope Benedict XVI l
Source: GPB News
Nov 22, 2010
The Georgia Historical Society Monday installed a new Civil War marker in the southwest Georgia town of Quitman.
The plaque commemorates a failed slave revolt in the town near the Florida border.
Three slaves and their white ringleader named John Vickery were hanged in Brooks County in August 1864....
Source: CNN.com
Nov 22, 2010
Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- After mostly avoiding the spotlight for decades, many of the former U.S. Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy are now offering their accounts of the day he was assassinated, 47 years ago Monday.
After the first shot hit the president, former agent Clint Hill says, "I saw him grab at his throat and lean to his left. So I jumped and ran." Hill is the man seen running toward the limousine in the famous film
Source: AP
Nov 22, 2010
NEW YORK – An 1814 first edition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is heading for the auction block in New York City. It's estimated to go for $200,000 to $300,000 at the sale early next month....
Source: Fox News
Nov 22, 2010
In another stunning lack of conscience on the part of bureaucrats the City of Gettysburg has issued an order for a replica of an historic chapel to be vacated with the intention of it being torn down. The City has given no good reason to the organization who spearheaded and reconstructed the chapel which stands as a reminder to the service it gave to soldiers during the Civil War: namely food, medical care, fellowship and God....
Source: Guardian (UK)
Nov 22, 2010
The world's third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial, a German court said today. Samuel Kunz, the 89-year old former Nazi death camp guard accused of participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews, died on 18 November Bonn's state court said in a statement.
Kunz was indicted on charges he was involved in the entire chain of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp, including taking victims from trains, leading them into gas chambers to throwing corpses i
