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: Fox News
Oct 4, 2010
Archaeologists seeking ancient pirate booty are heading back to sea off North Carolina's coast -- a continuing effort to recover artifacts from the wreck believed to be Blackbeard's flagship.
The boat, called Queen Anne's Revenge, is believed to have sank in 1718 near Beaufort, N.C. Archaeologists in the state aim to save a dozen cannons -- up to 8 feet long and as much as a ton in weight -- and the ship's 1,800-pound anchors by preventing the process that corrodes iron in saltwater
Source: BBC
Oct 4, 2010
The bones of a Stone Age woman are to be returned to a museum in Bacup, Lancashire, after a summer on show at Llandudno.
Conwy council's museum service said it was disappointed as it had hoped they could keep the remains.
Blodwen, as the 5,500 year-old skeleton is known, was found by men quarrying on the Little Orme in 1891.
The skeleton was taken back to Lancashire, and put on show there....
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Oct 4, 2010
One of Hitler's most senior Nazis set his heart on a stylish retirement in Cornwall following Germany's invasion of Britain, new research reveals.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Fuhrer's foreign minister, planned to live in St Michael's Mount, one of the most beautiful locations in the country.
He had served as the Nazi ambassador to Britain in the late 30s and had his eye on the picturesque tidal island, which is 400 yards offshore, after spending a week in Cornwall in 19
Source: BBC News
Oct 4, 2010
A "relative lack of experience" played a role in the death of the Georgian luger who died during a training run before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a coroner's report says.
The document says Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, died immediately when he smashed into a steel pole after flipping his sled at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
The report, issued 235 days after the crash, calls the death accidental.
Mr Kumaritashvili hit the unpadded pillar at 90mph (14
Source: Vermount Public Radio
Oct 4, 2010
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. A special Vermont commission has been created to commemorate the state's involvement in the War.
The panel is planning an ambitious five year effort to highlight Vermont's participation in the war effort and to discuss how the Civil War still shapes who we are as a state, and a country.
VPR's Bob Kinzel has more.
(Kinzel) In the fall of 1860, the United States had a critical presidential
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Oct 4, 2010
As the leaves start to turn to gold, there's no better time for a walk in Britain's most scenic forests.
And this year there's even more for tree-lovers to celebrate after it emerged that the nation's woodlands are more extensive today than they have been for centuries.
Not since before the Industrial Revolution has so much of our countryside been carpeted in trees, a new report found yesterday.
As the leaves start to turn to gold, there's no better time fo
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Oct 4, 2010
Bronze age cities built by the Aryans that date back to the beginning of Western civilisation in Europe have been discovered in a remote part of Russia.
Archaeologists have identified 20 of the spiral-shaped settlements that were built some 4,000 years ago shortly after the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
It is believed that the buildings were used by the original Aryan race whose swastika symbol was later adopted by the Nazis in the 1930s.
TV historian Bettany Hug
Source: Fox News
Oct 4, 2010
Archaeologists seeking ancient pirate booty are heading back to sea off North Carolina's coast -- a continuing effort to recover artifacts from the wreck believed to be Blackbeard's flagship.
The boat, called Queen Anne's Revenge, is believed to have sank in 1718 near Beaufort, N.C. Archaeologists in the state aim to save a dozen cannons -- up to 8 feet long and as much as a ton in weight -- and the ship's 1,800-pound anchors by preventing the process that corrodes iron in saltwater
Source: MSNBC
Oct 4, 2010
32-foot-long timber structure was two-masted trade vessel, researchers say.
Since the remains of a wooden ship were unearthed at the World Trade Center construction site in mid-July, a horde of researchers has been putting the vessel under the microscope — sometimes literally — in a quest to piece together the true story of the resurrected ship, and save it from decay.
Three of the experts most intimately involved with the 18th-century mystery ship — Michael Pappalardo,
Source: AP
Oct 4, 2010
...Mount Hope, America's oldest municipal park-garden graveyard, is a refuge not only for the departed. Curious souls still tramp through the 196-acre arboretum by the tens of thousands each year, among them picnickers, bird watchers, joggers and history buffs.
In the Romantic era of Wordsworth and Beethoven, the Victorian vogue of mourning embraced a love of nature and artistry. So-called "rural cemeteries" a few miles out of town were a sublime departure from the austere
Source: Washington Post
Oct 4, 2010
in 2006, at the height of the housing bubble, Montgomery County paid $1 million to buy a two-story colonial in North Bethesda with a log cabin jutting out on one side. The house had been on the market only a couple of months, but county officials felt compelled to act quickly: This might be their only chance to save the real Uncle Tom's cabin - the former home of Josiah Henson, the model for the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal antislavery novel.
Since 2006, state
Source: BBC
Oct 4, 2010
Nottinghamshire Police are trying to trace the owner of a bag containing a number of documents and letters dating back to 1919.
The blue and yellow Nike bag was found at a bus stop outside the Ashfield District Council offices on the afternoon of 29 September.
Inside the bag was a tin containing a number of letters, Army payslips and a driver's licence from 1927.
The items are in the name of Bernard Webster from Ashbourne, Derbyshire....
Source: BBC
Oct 4, 2010
Winston Churchill has become the first prime minister to enter the album chart with a record marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Reach For The Skies, by the RAF's Central Band, featuring Churchill's rousing World War II speeches set to music, was a new entry at four.
But the highest new entry was Mark Ronson's Record Collection at two, with The Script leading the rundown.
Tinie Tempah topped the singles chart with Written In The Stars.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 4, 2010
Geert Wilders, the anti-Islam politician, told a Dutch court that he stood by his opinions that the Koran is a "fascist book" and Islam is as dangerous as Nazism, as he went on trial for inciting racial hatred.
The flamboyant, peroxide blond MP, who holds the balance of power in the Netherlands after coming third in recent national elections on an anti-Muslim platform, told judges that he had no regrets over the comments.
Mr Wilders is being prosecuted for de
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Oct 4, 2010
For 70 years the Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of what was inside.
Behind the door, under a thick layer of dusk lay a treasure trove of turn-of-the-century objects including a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini.
The woman who owned the flat had left for the south of France before the Second World War and never returned.
But when she died recently aged 91, ex
Source: Fox News
Oct 4, 2010
Hurry fast, flower children, you may not have much time before a psychedelic 1960s Volkswagen minibus becomes just another relic of the Age of Aquarius.
The Volkswagen -- smothered in psychedelic graffiti and dubbed “The Peace Mobile” -- is parked on the front lawn of the Kaplan-Allen home in The Palisades, a northwest neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Now the vehicle has stirred controversy after receiving critical fire from the local government’s Department of Public Works.
Source: CNN
Oct 4, 2010
The Supreme Court has rejected efforts by some families of 9/11 victims to ensure material from the fallen World Trade Towers is treated respectfully because it could contain ashes of those who perished in the terrorist attacks.
The justices opened their new term Monday, issuing orders in several thousands cases that had piled up over their three-month summer recess.
Among the cases was a lawsuit against New York City officials who were responsible for transporting an
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 4, 2010
...Research published on September 20 in Environmental Health Perspectives concludes that the potentially hazardous chemical can enter the human body via multiple routes and is far harder for our bodies to metabolize than previously believed. The new study examined both mice and rhesus monkeys, the latter selected because they are good predictors of how the human body absorbs this type of chemical. Eighteen hours after exposure, the monkeys' blood still contained active BPA—a finding that sugges
Source: TradingMarkets.com
Oct 3, 2010
Just more than a week ago, the SugarHouse Casino opened about two miles from Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.
And the opening has those behind plans for a gaming venue near Gettysburg pointing to other Pennsylvania casinos that have opened near historic locations -- a major criticism against the Adams County proposal.
"A lot of focus has been placed on our proximity to the national park," said Mason-Dixon spokesman David La Torre. "P
Source: UPI
Oct 3, 2010
A vandal defaced a remote rock wall containing ancient petroglyphs in Arizona which had stood unaltered for at least 1,000 years, a local archaeologist said.
The preserved cultural record in Keyhole Sink in northern Arizona's Kaibab National Forest contained etchings depicting people, animals and a blazing sun -- an archaeological treasure which was defaced when someone painted "ACE" on top of the glyphs in sloppy, dripping lettering, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday.
