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Source: Living in Peru
Sep 28, 2010
Peru's President Alan Garcia has asked Yale University to return the Inca artifacts found in Machu Picchu. More than 40,000 artifacts are currently in Yale's possession, reports El Comercio.
Peru filed a lawsuit in 2008 demanding Yale to return these pieces, taken from the ancient Inca citadel by Hiram Bingham III between 1911 and 1915.
The legal process is being carried out under U.S. laws.
President Garcia told the press that those ancient pieces should
Source: CBS News
Sep 28, 2010
A box unearthed in a Nunavut community along the Northwest Passage earlier this month contains nothing related to Arctic explorers Sir John Franklin or Roald Amundsen, government officials have announced.
The wooden box, which was believed to have been buried for decades in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, was opened by the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa on Friday.
The box was purported to contain either documents related to Franklin's ill-fated attempt to navigate the N
Source: The Baltic Course
Sep 28, 2010
Construction workers and archaeologists digging at the future site of Parnu's history museum have unearthed remnants of a city gate, expected to date from the 13th or 14th century, informs ERR/LETA.
The workers discovered the gate's oak foundations and pillars, as well as a wooden walkway, during drainage works at the location.
In medieval times the gate would have been a vital city feature as the main artery for goods transported between the port to the city, Pärnu M
Source: NYT
Sep 28, 2010
Mets first baseman Ike Davis is half Jewish and not religious. But he is acutely aware of the two distinct branches of his family history, which have a common thread in World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. Davis, whose father is Baptist and whose mother is Jewish, had many relatives on his mother’s side who died in the Holocaust, and one great aunt who survived it.
And his grandfather on his father’s side was a paratrooper in the United States Army who landed in France on
Source: BBC
Sep 28, 2010
If you've got a German helmet from World War I hanging around the house Dr Gethin Matthews would like to hear from you.
He's manager of the Welsh Voices of the Great War project that's been travelling round the country looking for memorabilia from 1914-18 and comes to Llanberis this week.
The project is creating an online archive of memorabilia from World War I to give an insight into what life was like for soldiers and their families.
Staff from Cardiff
Source: BBC
Sep 28, 2010
The commission responsible for finding the so called Disappeared are believed to be due to start a new search.
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) was established in 1999.
In June 2010 Mr McIlwaine led the forensic archaeology team which discovered the remains of Charlie Armstrong.
Mr Armstrong, 57, from south Armagh went missing on his way to Mass in 1981, he was believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by the IRA.
Source: BBC
Sep 28, 2010
A 'haunted' castle which was pulled from auction in 2006 is set to go back on the open market.
The crumbling ruins of the 16th Century Llantwit Major Castle, also known as Old Place, were put up for sale by the Vale of Glamorgan Council.
But the process was called off after Cadw which is responsible for listed buildings in Wales demanded more talks.
Now the council is planning to sell the monument once again.
The building has been unoccupied si
Source: BBC
Sep 28, 2010
A series of world-famous saucy seaside postcard images is being relaunched to mark their 100th anniversary.
Businessman Ian Wallace, of West Yorkshire, bought the firm Bamforth & Co nine years ago and now owns the rights to about 50,000 of the images.
But he has waited until the centenary to sign a licensing agreement, which will take place later with the Jane Evans Licensing Consultancy.
James Bamforth began his business in Holmfirth in 1870.
Source: WaPo
Sep 28, 2010
Martin Luther King Jr.: Preacher, civil rights icon, martyr -- and German luxury-car pitchman?
Well, yes. The modern champion of racial emancipation is one of the unlikely stars of a new ad for Mercedes Benz that uses some famous faces and evokes some historical moments, real and staged, on behalf of the automaker's most advanced, and most expensive, new model.
Grainy footage of King, arms raised in mid-oratory, appears briefly in the commercial followed by flashes of o
Source: BBC
Sep 28, 2010
A secret document has emerged in court, revealing Tony Blair's mounting concern in 2002 about claims of torture of terror suspects by US agents.
The former prime minister was briefed by Foreign Office staff as suspects were being moved to Guantanamo Bay.
The document concludes with a hand-written note, said by lawyers to have been written by the former PM.
His note expresses concern about torture claims and urges officials to establish that "it isn'
Source: BBC
Sep 28, 2010
A rare meeting of North Korea's ruling party has opened the way for Kim Jong-il to hand power to his youngest son.
The Workers' Party, which had not met for 30 years, convened hours after Kim Jong-un was appointed general - even though he has no military experience.
His father, who is thought to be in poor health, was re-elected as leader, state media reported.
North Korea's succession is being closely watched because of its nuclear programme and hostility
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 28, 2010
Peruvian President Alan Garcia has demanded that Yale University returns the archeological treasures its researchers "looted" from the country's Machu Picchu site in the early 1900s.
Peru says Yale took around 40,000 artefacts including pottery, jewellery and bones from the site in the Peruvian Andes.
The artefacts were sent out of Peru after a Yale alumnus, American explorer Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
The Andean country
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 28, 2010
Long-lost footage of Neil Armstrong descending the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module will be screened in public for the first time in Sydney next week, according to a prominent astronomer.
The video runs for a few minutes and is considered to be some of the best footage of the historic 1969 moonwalk, but the film was lost in archives for many years and was badly damaged when found, said John Sarkissian.
It depicts the first few minutes of Armstrong’s descent which
Source: BBC News
Sep 28, 2010
Chemical tests on teeth from an ancient burial near Stonehenge indicate that the person in the grave grew up around the Mediterranean Sea.
The bones belong to a teenager who died 3,550 years ago and was buried with a distinctive amber necklace.
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The conclusions come from analysis of different forms of the elements oxygen and strontium in his tooth enamel.
Analysis on a previous skeleton found near Stonehenge showed that
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Sep 28, 2010
David Cameron has chosen one of the best-known anti-war poems as his favourite piece of poetry.
The Prime Minister selected Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
Asked by the Radio Times about his favourite poem ahead of National Poetry Day next month, he said: ‘I still remember the first time I read Owen’s poems and the incredible power and anger about the First World War.
‘For me, they were literally an eye-opener and I still find them moving when I read
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 28, 2010
A 250-year-old antique pistol taken from an Italian museum as a souvenir from the Second World War by a British solider has finally been returned, fulfilling the last request he made on his deathbed.
Stanley Parry, who died last year, had served with the Eighth Army and had been involved in the Allied push up through Italy having also seen combat in North Africa.
At the end of the Second World War while on his way back to Britain across the English Channel he noticed a
Source: Bloomberg
Sep 28, 2010
The suffering experienced by Holocaust survivors still leaves psychological scars but appears to have little effect on their cognitive functioning and physical health, according to a new international study.
Researchers from Israel and the Netherlands also found that Holocaust survivors living in Israel have better psychological health than those living in other countries, which suggests that living in Israel may serve as a protective factor.
"Six decades after the
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 28, 2010
London's Natural History Museum suffered like the rest of the city in the Blitz. Karolyn Shindler reports on the efforts to preserve its treasures.
Seventy years ago, German bombs devastated cities across England. In September, it was London that was the focus of destruction, threatening people, homes – and the great museums. That month, the Natural History Museum in South Kensington was struck on successive nights by incendiary and high-explosive bombs. Fire caused grave damage to
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 28, 2010
The First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies.
The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.
Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies
Source: BBC News
Sep 28, 2010
Chemical tests on teeth from an ancient burial near Stonehenge indicate that the person in the grave grew up around the Mediterranean Sea.
The bones belong to a teenager who died 3,550 years ago and was buried with a distinctive amber necklace.
The conclusions come from analysis of different forms of the elements oxygen and strontium in his tooth enamel.
Analysis on a previous skeleton found near Stonehenge showed that that person was also a migrant to the
