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: CNN.com
Oct 20, 2010
Eleven Tucson, Arizona, educators sued the state board of education and superintendent this week for what the teachers consider an "anti-Hispanic" ban looming on Mexican-American studies.
The suit comes in a state already roiled by a controversial immigration law that is being challenged in court.
On Tuesday, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne defended the new law, which will go into effect December 31. The law authorizes the superintendent t
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 20, 2010
A site which may house Britain's earliest known hospital has been uncovered by archaeologists.
Radio carbon analysis at the former Leper Hospital at St Mary Magdalen in Winchester, Hampshire, has provided a date range of AD 960-1030 for a series of burials, many exhibiting evidence of leprosy, on the site.
A number of other artefacts, pits, and postholes also relate to the same time including what appears to be a large sunken structure underneath a medieval infirmary..
Source: AOL News
Oct 20, 2010
(Oct. 20) -- In a striking admission sure to stoke the imaginations of conspiracy theorists everywhere, a former Secret Service agent reveals how he came "chillingly close" to shooting President Lyndon B. Johnson right outside his home just hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
So reads "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence," a new book co-authored by the former agent himself, Gerald "Jerry" Blaine, and writer Lisa
Source: NYT
Oct 20, 2010
The British economist John Maynard Keynes may live on in popular legend as the world’s most influential economist. But in much of Europe, and most acutely here in the land of his birth, his view that deficit spending by governments is crucial to avoiding a long recession has lately been willfully ignored....
“Everything Keynes established about the primacy of maintaining demand at a steady pace is gone,” Brad DeLong, a liberal economist and blogger at the University of California, B
Source: Reuters
Oct 20, 2010
"Hitler and the Germans," an exhibition in Berlin's German Historical Museum which investigates the society that created Hitler, has seen more than 10,000 visitors walk through its doors since opening Friday.
Rudolf Trabold, a spokesman for the museum, said there were 4,000 visitors to the exhibition on the first day alone.
People visiting the exhibition said they had waited as long as 1-1/2 hours to get in....
Source: TPM
Oct 20, 2010
Jon Runyan, a former pro football player and now the Republ
Source: BigPondNews
Oct 20, 2010
Egypt's top archaeologist has shown off the newly discovered tomb of a pharaonic priest, a find he says could point the way to a new necropolis to be excavated near the famed Giza pyramids.
Standing inside the 4,300-year-old structure on Tuesday, Zahi Hawass said hieroglyphics on the tomb's walls indicate it belonged to Rudj-ka, a priest inspector in the mortuary cult of the pharaoh Khafre, who built the second largest of Giza's pyramids.
The tomb - about the size of a
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 20, 2010
Ayrton Senna's Lotus 99T Formula One car will be among the star attractions at November's MPH motor show.
The famous Camel-liveried Lotus 99T was raced by Senna in 1987. The Brazilian scored victories in Monaco and Detroit in what was his last season for Team Lotus before switching to McLaren for the following year.
The Lotus was also quick enough in the hands of Senna to secure one pole position (San Marino). He backed this up with the two wins, four second places, two
Source: AP
Oct 20, 2010
Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe.
The ancient poplar wood door is "solid and elegant" with well-preserved hinges and a "remarkable" design for holding the boards together, chief archaeologist Niels Bleicher said Wednesday.
Using tree rings to determine its age, Bleicher believes the door could have been made in the year 3,063 B.C. -- around the time that
Source: Fox News
Oct 20, 2010
More than 400 of Bernard Madoff's possessions are heading for the auction block in New York City.
The items include Madoff's black velveteen slippers, embroidered in gold with "BLM," a Steinway piano and his wife Ruth's 10.5-carat diamond ring.
The U.S. Marshals Service will be selling the disgraced financier's personal items on Nov. 13 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. They are the last items taken from Madoff's Manhattan and Montauk, Long Island,
Source: NYT
Oct 19, 2010
Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric humans may have dined on an early form of flatbread, contrary to their popular image as primarily meat eaters.
The findings, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday, indicate that Paleolithic Europeans ground down plant roots similar to potatoes to make flour, which was later whisked into dough.
“It’s like a flatbread, like a pancake with just water
Source: Discovery News
Oct 19, 2010
Neanderthal youngsters that made it to the "terrible two's" were large, sturdy and toothy, suggests a newly discovered Neanderthal infant. The child almost survived to such an age, but instead died when it was just one and a half years old.
The remains of this infant -- a lower jaw and teeth unearthed in a Belgian cave -- are the youngest Neanderthal ever found in northwest Europe, according to a study that will appear in the Journal of Human Evolution.
Since
Source: BBC News
Oct 19, 2010
Dozens of prehistoric sites on Dartmoor have been restored in a five-year project.
More than 30 Bronze Age cairns have now been taken off the English Heritage 'at risk' register as a result of the work.
Some 49 of the summit cairns, dating back to 2,000 BC, were surveyed and 31 needed restoration.
"These are scheduled ancient monuments so are very important," said Andy Crabb, archaeologist at Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA)....
Source: TheNews.pl
Oct 19, 2010
Archeologists from Poland’s southern city of Rzeszow have discovered the tomb of a young prince dating back to 6,000 BC at the A4 motorway.
The scientists who were carrying out excavations on the route of the future A4 motorway near Szczytna hoped to find traces of Neolithic settlements but the discovery exceeded their expectations....
Source: Fox News
Oct 19, 2010
SAO PAULO – A city in southern Brazil that has suffered a series of neo-Nazi incidents is requiring all public schools to teach about the Holocaust.
The new law, the first of its kind in Brazil, will go into effect next year in all of Porto Alegre's 96 public schools, where some 60,000 students study, the city government's website said Tuesday.
The author of the law, Alderman Valter Nagelstein said Tuesday that including the Holocaust in the school curriculum will help
Source: KSDK
Oct 19, 2010
With rising anti-Muslim sentiment across the country, an untold story is raising greater awareness about the Muslim faith and the teachings of the Quran. That awareness comes from an unlikely source: a small Jewish congregation in Creve Coeur.
Temple Emanuel is premiering a groundbreaking exhibit of photos that reveals Albanian Muslims who saved 2,000 Jews during World War II.
It's a story you've likely never heard. It is a story told through the faces of Albanian Mus
Source: Tenessean
Oct 19, 2010
State prehistoric archaeologist hopes location will be a resource site on National Register of Historic Places
Since last week, a team of archaeologists and Middle Tennessee State University students has hewn a trench about 10 feet deep into the cool clay of a suburban Williamson County backyard, bringing out bags of bone fragments and stones once used perhaps as axes or other implements.
Those bits and pieces — some no bigger than a coffee cup, others smaller than coin
Source: CNN.com
Oct 19, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- The government will provide $680 million in compensation to settle a class-action lawsuit by Native American farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to a proposed agreement announced Tuesday.
Under the agreement, which requires federal court approval, Native Americans can file claims for discrimination involving farm loans that occurred in the period from 1981-1999, said statements by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Er
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 19, 2010
A mysterious ghostly image has been taken at the execution site where hundreds of criminals were tried and put to death.
The Galleries of Justice in Nottingham claims to be one of the most haunted locations in Great Britain.
Scores of highwayman, murderers and thieves were subjected to public hangings from within its walls.
Many modern visitors to the site in Nottingham, now a museum, claim to have witnessed spooky goings-on from flying orbs to strange sme
Source: WaPo
Oct 19, 2010
Captain Ahab had Moby Dick. Bob Neyland's white whale is the Bonhomme Richard.
For decades, thrillseekers, archaeologists and professional treasure hunters have searched for the wreckage of the Bonhomme Richard, a Continental Navy ship from the Revolutionary War that sank on Sept. 25, 1779, off the coast of Yorkshire, England, in the choppy waters of the North Sea.
But the ship is legally the property of the U.S. Navy, which is responsible for preserving whatever may be
