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: Device Magazine
Oct 19, 2010
The Google R&D Center in Israel has partnered with the Israel Antiquities Authority in an effort to make Dead Sea scrolls available online for free.
The amazing project aims at creating the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, which will include hi-resolution and multi spectra images of the entire collection — 900 manuscripts that have some 30,000 Dead Sea Scrolls fragments.
The imaging technology will be supplied by MegaVision, a U.S. based company, while Go
Source: ksdk (MO)
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: BBC News
Oct 19, 2010
Two German radar satellites flying in tight formation above the Earth have returned their first combined images.
TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X are circling the globe just 350m apart as they get set to make the most detailed 3D map of the Earth's surface ever acquired.
Their close proximity allows them to view the same patch of ground simultaneously but from slightly different angles.
This remarkable stereo vision has been demonstrated in an image of Mount Etna.
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
Oct 19, 2010
HYDE PARK — In honor of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Roosevelt Institute on Sunday will present "1935 and the Enduring New Deal: The Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration."...
This program will examine the historical impact of the WPA and REA's infrastructure programs, current
Source: BBC
Oct 19, 2010
Glasgow has won the right to act as one of the official starting points for the Monte Carlo rally, to mark its centenary year.
The decision re-establishes the city as one of several starting points around Europe for the world famous race, which first began in 1911.
Glasgow had served as a starting venue for racers from 1949 until 1973.
Other cities that will feature in the event, due to start on 27 January, will be Marrakech and Warsaw.
The ral
Source: BBC
Oct 19, 2010
A life-size sculpture of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is due to be unveiled at a gallery in Tel Aviv.
The installation, by Israeli artist Noam Braslavsky, portrays Mr Sharon lying in a hospital bed in the coma he has been in since 2006.
Mr Sharon was one of Israel's most influential leaders. He has never recovered from a massive stroke.
The 82-year-old remains in hospital in Tel Aviv, having never regained consciousness after suffering the str
Source: Sofia News Agency (Bulgaria)
Oct 19, 2010
Leading Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov has presented the latest finds of his team from the Ancient Thrace and Rome fortress of Perperikon in the Rhodope Mountain.
One of the finds is a miniature model of a stone grinder dated back to 7000 years ago. Ovcharov believes the model might have been an actual children's toy.
Another unique find is a figure of a Thracian warrior from the 3rd-2nd century BC. The Thracian warrior used to hold a spear. The figure is mode
Source: Eurekalert
Oct 19, 2010
The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized. Together with Brazilian colleagues, archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have found the remains of approximately 90 settlements in an area South of the city of Santarém, in the Brazilian part of the Amazon.
"The most surprising thing is that many of these settlements are a long way from rivers, and are located
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 19, 2010
A previously unpublished short story by Anthony Burgess indicating the author’s obsession with tarot cards is to be broadcast for the first time.
The original hand-annotated draft of Chance Would Be A Fine Thing was found among the writer’s personal papers having languished unread in archives for more than a decade.
However, the work is now to be aired on BBC Radio 3 after it was discovered by Dr Andrew Biswell, director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation (
Source: National Parks Traveler
Oct 19, 2010
In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory—a place we now call Oklahoma. Both the route they followed and the experience itself are known as the Trail of Tears, and they are commemorated by The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail.
The Trail covers thousands of miles of land and water routes in parts of nine states (Alabama,
Source: Fox News
Oct 19, 2010
Glacier National Park's centennial year is winding down, so the Traveler thought it might be both fun and enlightening to take a peek at a pair of park brochures from the early years of the park. It's pretty clear from these excerpts that life in the park was just a bit different in 1912 and 1920 than it is today.
Private auto travel has long since become the norm for Americans, but back in 1912 it was still being viewed with caution. The park regulations noted,No automobiles will b
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Oct 19, 2010
The art collection includes work by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali and Claude Monet.
But, for once, the names on the canvases are less remarkable than the story of the paintings’ ownership.
For they are artworks that were stolen from Jews by the Nazis, many of which were never returned to their rightful owners.
From today, Holocaust survivors and their relatives can search for the stolen artwork on a new online database cataloguing more tha
Source: Art Daily
Oct 19, 2010
An iconographic analysis conducted regarding different Maya murals created in Prehispanic times, between 600 and 1000 of the Common Era, have allowed the hypothetical reconstruction of the way the milita was integrated in this culture; scenes studied refer to aspects like the command and armaments systems, as well as communications and tactics used at the height of this ancient civilization.
Until now, Bonampak frescoes, in Chiapas, and San Bartolo, in El Peten, Guatemala, were the
Source: Reuters
Oct 18, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - A new online database recording more than 20,000 works of art looted by the Nazis from Jews in France and Belgium during World War Two shows that at least half have yet to be returned to their original owners.
The database, a joint project between the U.S.-based Claims Conference and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is based on records the Nazis produced in Paris, and is designed to help families search for art they believe may have been seized.
Source: Live Science
Oct 18, 2010
t's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will — or if it has already.
A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the
Source: Guardian (UK)
Oct 18, 2010
Pakistan's powerful intelligence services were heavily involved in preparations for the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, according to classified Indian government documents obtained by the Guardian.
A 109-page report into the interrogation of key suspect David Headley, a Pakistani-American militant arrested last year and detained in the US, makes detailed claims of ISI support for the bombings.
Under questioning, Headley described dozens of meetings between of
Source: Reuters
Oct 18, 2010
Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have dined on an early form of flat bread, contrary to his popular image as primarily a meat-eater.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal on Monday, indicate that Palaeolithic Europeans ground down plant roots similar to potatoes to make flour, which was later whisked into dough.
The grinding stones, each of which fit comfortabl
Source: Boston Globe
Oct 18, 2010
A North End privy sealed for more than a century has yielded thousands of artifacts that are giving archeologists an unprecedented look at how the world’s oldest profession was practiced by improper Bostonians of the 19th century.
From toothbrushes to jewelry to cosmetics, and parts of 19 syringes used for hygiene, the treasure trove plucked from a now-buried site near Haymarket is evidence of a thriving, racy economy that the city’s prim Victorian image never acknowledges.
Source: BBC
Oct 18, 2010
Fiji has admitted losing the legal document confirming its independence from the United Kingdom. But does that threaten its existence as a state?
However, as Fiji celebrated the 40th anniversary of winning independence from the UK, its government admitted it had lost the legal Independence Order presented to ministers by Prince Charles in 1970.
And after five years of scouring files in government departments, it was forced to take the embarrassing step of asking its for
Source: BBC News
Oct 18, 2010
Roman, Bronze and Iron Age remains have been unearthed at the site of a new bypass in Powys.
Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust (CPAT) said a number of interesting finds had been made, but nothing unusual at Four Crosses, near Welshpool.
Among the earliest sites found is a ringed ditch representing an early prehistoric burial mound.
Roman metalworking and farming activity was also discovered by archaeologists in the village.
CPAT said it would an
