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: BBC News
Nov 11, 2010
Dino De Laurentiis, legendary producer of such cult films as Flash Gordon and Dune, has died in Los Angeles aged 91, his family has said.
He began his career in Italy working with Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini, winning an Oscar for producing the latter's 1954 film La Strada.
After moving to the US in the 1970s, he oversaw films such as Serpico, Death Wish and the 1976 remake of King Kong.
He also produced four films featuring the serial killer Han
Source: CBC News
Nov 10, 2010
Today, there is a dentist office, a day spa and, nearby, a gas station.
Cars whiz by on busy King Street in the former town of Stoney Creek, now a suburb of Hamilton, Ont.
But almost 200 years ago, this was the site of one of the most significant victories in the War of 1812, which pitted American invaders against British soldiers.
About 3,500 American troops marched over the border into what was then Upper Canada on June 5, 1813. They took over a homestead
Source: AFP
Nov 10, 2010
Peruvian archaeologists have discovered six mummified dogs, all dating from the 15th century and apparently presented as religious offerings at a major pre-Columbian site just south of Lima.
The mummified remains of four children were also found at the site, archaeologists said.
The experts believe the dogs are neither Hairless Peruvian Dogs -- an ancient native breed -- nor sheepdogs found at gravesites of the Chiribaya culture, which flourished in southern Peru betwee
Source: Fox News
Nov 10, 2010
Today, many Londoners are participating in a unique archaeological dig. But in lieu of shovels and pickaxes, all they will need is a computer with Internet access.
The event is called Digital Archaeology -- and it's the first ever archaeological dig of the Internet. The exhibition, held in London as part of Internet Week Europe, showcases 15 websites that were once considered groundbreaking in their prime but have since been lost to time and technological evolution.
The
Source: Jerusalem Post
Nov 10, 2010
FRANKFURT - A row over the choice of a guest speaker clouded Tuesday Germany's main event to commemorate ‘Kristallnacht’, the anniversary of the beginning of deadly pogroms against Jews across Nazi Germany.
"Kristallnacht," or Night of Broken Glass on November 9, 1938, was the first openly violent Nazi-sanctioned targeting of Jews, when mobs torched synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish shops and private homes around the country....
Key speaker at the m
Source: Novinite
Nov 10, 2010
Mehmet Ali Agca, who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, putting the blame afterwards on the Bulgarian secret service, has now alleged that the Vatican government has masterminded the move.
"The Vatican government decided on the Pope's assassination," Agca told Turkey's state-run television in his first interview in his native country since his release.
"They planned and organised it. The order to shoot the Pope was given by Vatican secret
Source: AP
Nov 10, 2010
DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's human rights watchdog has appealed to the government to investigate the abuse of women and girls in prison-style Catholic laundries, a long-unresolved issue of Irish abuse scandals in church-run institutions....
Source: Fox News LiveShots Blog
Nov 10, 2010
Major Ginnette Ruth studied the Holocaust in school but this Puerto Rican native never thought she would see Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with her own eyes.
“Walking through the actual grounds of this mass atrocity was overwhelming," she said.
It is estimated that around 1.1 million people were killed at Poland's Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp -- more commonly known as Auschwitz.
"I am a mother myself
Source: Smithsonian Blog
Nov 10, 2010
My uncle Jay is a teddy bear of a man, with a fluffy beard, gentle eyes and a corny joke for every situation. He and my aunt even collect teddy bears. It’s always been hard for me to reconcile this cuddly image with the one of him carrying a grenade launcher during the year he spent in the U.S. Army as a combat infantry soldier in Vietnam.
Jay was drafted in 1966. He arrived in Vietnam on December 25, a few weeks after his 21st birthday. “The first thing I said was, ‘Even for a Jew,
Source: BBC
Nov 10, 2010
A private collection of work by Salford-born artist LS Lowry has reached more than £5m at auction.
Bookmaking tycoon Selwyn Demmy put up the collection of 21 paintings and drawings for auction.
Christie's, which held the auction in London, said the collection was "the most extensive overview of Lowry's work ever to come to auction".
An oil painting - The Steps, Irk Place, 1928 - raised the highest amount at £713,250.
The painting, sho
Source: BBC
Nov 10, 2010
Cuba has condemned the release of a new video game in which United States special forces try to kill a young Fidel Castro.
State-run media said the game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, attempted to legitimise murder and assassination in the name of entertainment.
The Cubadebate website said it would also turn American children into sociopaths.
It is expected to be one of the biggest selling video games of the year
The BBC correspondent in Havana, Mic
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 10, 2010
Archaeologists have uncovered a World War I trench system in a Scottish city park.
The trenches, used to train recruits of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, were found in Stirling's Kings Park after a tip-off from a retired park keeper....
Source: AP
Nov 10, 2010
CAIRO – The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will return 19 artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egypt's antiquities authority and the museum said Wednesday.
The trove is made up of small figurines and jewelry, including a miniature bronze dog, a sphinx-shaped bracelet ornament and a necklace, said antiquities chief Zahi Hawass.
"Thanks to the generosity and ethical behavior of the Met, these 19 objects from the tomb of Tutankha
Source: The Age (AU)
Nov 10, 2010
EHUD Netzer, one of Israel's best-known archaeologists, who unearthed King Herod's tomb near Bethlehem three years ago, has died after being injured in a fall at the site. He was 76.
Netzer was leaning on a wooden safety rail when it gave way, sending him tumbling six metres. He was taken to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem with critical injuries and died there three days later.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his death as ''a loss for his family, for scholars
Source: CNN.com
Nov 10, 2010
The vicious, swirling storm that battered the Great Lakes region in late October inspired talk of a similar gale that brought about one of the great mysteries of the 20th century.
The mighty ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the largest ships on America's inland seas, seemed invincible in its bulk and mass, but it was no match for a howling Lake Superior gale on November 10, 1975.
A day earlier, the 729-foot behemoth, operated by mineral company Oglebay Norton, had
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Nov 10, 2010
Philip Malins, 91, from Birmingham, is to receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, for his initiatives to reconcile British and Japanese troops in the aftermath of the war.
Mr Malins, who fought the Japanese in Burma, will be bestowed the top Japanese honour at a special reception lunch at the ambassador's London residence later this month.
Confirming the award to Kyodo News, he said: "My reaction on getting the award is one of amazement. It has c
Source: AP
Nov 10, 2010
The first robotic exploration of a pre-Hispanic ruin in Mexico has revealed that a 2,000-year-old tunnel under a temple at the famed Teotihuacan ruins has a perfectly carved arch roof and appears stable enough to enter, archaeologists announced Wednesday.
Archaeologists lowered the remote-controlled, camera-equipped vehicle into the 12-foot-wide (4-meter) corridor and sent wheeling through it to see if it was safe for researchers to enter. The one-foot (30-cm) wide robot was called
Source: BBC News
Nov 10, 2010
A close ally of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is under pressure to resign after a building collapsed at the 2,000-year-old Pompeii site.
Culture Minister Sandro Bondi faces a vote of no confidence in parliament over the collapse of the "House of the Gladiators" on Saturday in heavy rain.
The opposition accuses the government of letting Pompeii fall into neglect.
Staff at museums, libraries and other institutions plan to strike on Friday
Source: AP
Nov 10, 2010
The father of a black student has sued a Detroit-area school district claiming that his daughter was racially harassed by a fifth-grade teacher's reading aloud from a book about slavery.
The suit claims Jala Petree's teacher at Margaret Black Elementary School in Sterling Heights read excerpts from Julius Lester's "From Slave Ship to Freedom Road" that contain racial epithets and racist characterizations, The Macomb Daily reported.
The suit against Warren Cons
Source: BBC News
Nov 10, 2010
The unknown warrior was carried from a French battlefield 90 years ago, to be laid to rest among kings and statesmen in Westminster Abbey. But how did this symbol of the sacrifice of war come to be chosen?
In 1916, a Church of England clergyman serving at the Western Front in World War I spotted an inscription on an anonymous war grave which gave him an idea.
That moment of inspiration would blossom into a worldwide ceremony that is still being replicated in the 21st Ce
