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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: NYT
Nov 11, 2010
AT a glance it looked like any small-town fair, with smoke wafting from the barbecue, families gathering around picnic tables, music percolating over loudspeakers and doting parents trailing after happy toddlers in front of white tents hawking brightly colored T-shirts and knickknacks.
But the Ghjurnate Internaziunale di Corti (the International Days of Corte) were hardly fun and games. It turns out that militant separatists, like baseball owners, car salesmen and trade unionists, a
Source: Arkansas Times
Nov 11, 2010
It's very clear by now that a lot of Arkansans walked into the voting booth Nov. 2 and simply filled in the bubble next to anyone's name that didn't have a "D" beside it. The reasons for that will be worried over well beyond this election season.
But there are Republicans and there is Republican Loy Mauch, elected to represent House District 26 near Hot Springs. A former head of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans post in Hot Springs, Mauch calls the Confederate flag &qu
Source: USA Today
Nov 11, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — After 34 years in cramped quarters but with big dreams, a new museum opening in the heart of the city's historic district aims to tell for the first time the complete story of the Jewish experience in America.
Plans to expand the National Museum of American Jewish History were a decade in the making. A grand opening weekend kicks off with a Friday night gala featuring Bette Midler and Jerry Seinfeld, and a Sunday dedication with Vice President Joe Biden as keynote spe
Source: Fox News
Nov 11, 2010
MUNICH – John Demjanjuk's lawyer argued Thursday that transcripts of interrogations by Soviet authorities of former Nazi death camp guards shouldn't be used as evidence because the suspects could have been tortured for their confessions.
The argument appeared aimed at excluding statements by a now-deceased former Sobibor guard who told Soviet interrogators he remembered Demjanjuk from the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 90, a retired Ohio autowo
Source: GlobalPost
Nov 11, 2010
ROME, Italy — Tourists in Italy today were out of luck as workers at hundreds of museums, archaeological monuments, libraries and cultural sites went on strike.
But the Ministry of Culture hoped the massive labor action in protest of drastic budget cuts would do something to preserve those sites for generations to come.
“The meaning of this strike, which has very large participation, is to say to Italians, ‘Listen, people, wake up. This is our identity,’” said Ilaria B
Source: BBC
Nov 11, 2010
The family of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is preparing to bring him home from hospital "within days", Israeli sources say.
The 82-year-old has been in a coma since 2006, when he suffered a massive stroke.
Sources told the BBC he could be moved to his farm in the Negev "as early as Friday" from his hospital in Tel Aviv.
Nicknamed "the bulldozer", the former general was seen as a strong leader by Israelis, but rev
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2010
The last surviving British veteran of the First World War will not mark Remembrance Day today because he wants to forget the horrors of war, his family has said.
Since leaving the Navy in 1956 Claude Choules, now aged 109, has refused to march in Anzac Day parades in his adopted home of Australia and has become increasingly pacifist.
Daphne Edinger, his daughter, said that her father did not believe in war and did not want to celebrate the anniversary of the end of the
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2010
Military forensic experts are trying to identify the bodies of six British soldiers found in a Flanders field 96 years after they fell in battle during the First World War.
They were uncovered last month after a farmer's plough snagged on human remains in a potato field near the town of Comines-Warneton.
The men had been buried in their greatcoats, probably after being killed in action during fierce fighting near Ploegsteert forest in November 1914, during the First B
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2010
A Chinese vase discovered during a house clearance sold for a world record-breaking £53.1 million last night.
The 18th century Qianlong porcelain vase had been estimated to fetch between £800,000 and £1.2 million by Bainbridges, the provincial auction house handling the sale....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2010
Nelson Mandela condemned former US President George W Bush as a "small man" who was seeking to dominate the world over his decision to invade Iraq, it has emerged.
The South African freedom fighter-turned-world leader is said to believed strongly in the West as a force for good and felt betrayed by Mr Bush's unilateral grandstanding, and Tony Blair's support for it.
When the decision was taken in 2003 to invade without the backing of the UN, Mr Mandela, a Nob
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 11, 2010
Millions fell silent across Britain today to mark the anniversary of the day peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War.
The agreement between Germany and the Allies took effect at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 after four years of fighting.
As the nation stopped to remember those who died in battle, the Archbishop of Canterbury, defence ministers, representatives of military associations, veterans and s
Source: AP
Nov 11, 2010
A solemn ceremony at Paris' Grand Mosque has been held to honor the memory of Muslims who fought for France in World War I.
Defense Minister Herve Morin and Veterans Affairs Minister Hubert Falco took part in Thursday's ceremony, one of several official events marking the 92nd anniversary of the end of World War I.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy also revived the eternal flame on the tomb of the unknown soldier, beneath the Paris' Arc de Triomphe. Some 3,000 people tur
Source: AP
Nov 11, 2010
John Demjanjuk's lawyer says former Nazi death camp guards were tortured for confessions by the Soviets after the war and their statements shouldn't be used as evidence.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk served in the Red Army and is on trial, accused of becoming a guard at Sobibor after he was captured by the Germans. He denies the charges.
In statements read in court Thursday, two ex-guards told Soviet authorities years after the war they had admitted to things in the immediat
Source: CNN
Nov 11, 2010
Togo is conducting its first census in 29 years, and some of the trained enumerators who have fanned out across the West African nation say complacency and suspicion among the people are making the task more difficult.
The census, which began Saturday, is expected to close on November 19. Togo's last census was in 1981, a lapse that violates United Nations Development Program directives for countries to hold a national count every 10 years.
In all, 7,000 trained census-
Source: CNN
Nov 11, 2010
There is only one living U.S. veteran of World War I: 109-year-old Frank Buckles, who was an Army corporal who drove a troop ambulance in Europe.
On Veterans Day in recent years, Buckles would stop by Arlington National Cemetery to visit the grave of Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, the commander of American troops in that conflict.
He would also visit Washington's World War I memorial, a tall marble gazebo on the National Mall. The monument, dedicated in the
Source: Montreal Gazette
Nov 11, 2010
Historians who say Prime Minister Stephen Harper got a one-sided perspective on Second World War atrocities when he visited a museum in Ukraine last month jumped the gun, according to the museum's former director.
Volodymyr Viatrovych, a historian popular with Ukrainian nationalists in both his own country and in Canada, was ousted from his job at the Prison at Lonsky museum after Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's pro-Moscow president, took office this year.
Viatrovych was r
Source: AOL News
Nov 11, 2010
(Nov. 11) -- In a dilapidated hangar in a faraway corner of Brooklyn, N.Y., veterans -- some of whom served before the age of jet propulsion -- assemble model airplanes.
Very big model airplanes.
The Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, dubbed HARP by its members, is a program that allows former servicemen and aircraft lovers of all ages to spend their days rebuilding and refurbishing antique airplanes, from propeller-powered trainers to Vietnam War-era jets....
Source: BBC News
Nov 11, 2010
Oxygen levels on Earth reached a critical threshold to enable the evolution of complex life much earlier than thought, say scientists.
The evidence is found in 1.2-billion-year-old rocks from Scotland.
These rocks retain signatures of bacterial activity known to occur when there is copious atmospheric oxygen.
The microbes' behaviour is seen 400 million years further back in time than any previous discovery, the researchers tell the journal Nature.
Source: BBC News
Nov 11, 2010
German playwright Bertolt Brecht may have died due to an undiagnosed childhood illness, new research claims.
After looking through medical records, University of Manchester professor Stephen Parker found Brecht suffered from rheumatic fever as a child.
Documents showed the illness attacked his heart and motorneural system, triggering chronic heart failure.
There has long been speculation about Brecht's sudden 1956 death, officially attributed to a heart att
Source: BBC News
Nov 11, 2010
A painting by Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction for $42.6m (£26.4m) - a new record for the US 'pop artist'.
The cartoon-style painting, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's in New York, features a woman on the phone with a speech bubble containing the title.
The sale of contemporary and post-war works fetched $272.8m (£169.1m) in all.
Yet an Andy Warhol piece expected to fetch up to $50m (£31m) went for less than half that amount.
