This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
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Source: National Parks Traveler
Sep 10, 2010
Slightly more than a year after it was announced, National Park Service officials finalized a deal Friday to have the Museum of the American Revolution rise within the grounds of Independence National Historical Park, not within Valley Forge National Historical Park.
In a meeting in Philadelphia, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and American Revolution Center Chair H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest formalized the land exc
Source: AP
Sep 10, 2010
Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91.
June died of natural causes Wednesday night at a veterans hospital in Prescott, his wife, Virginia, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
His health had been failing since earlier this year when he was hospitalized for a urinary tract infection and kidney failure because he wasn't drinking en
Source: New York Daily News
Sep 10, 2010
...St. Paul's, where not one window broke that day nine years ago when the twin towers fell, protected by an old sycamore tree in the cemetery.
A recent discovery at St. Paul's serves as a reminder that the chapel, indeed the city, survived a disaster that took place - not on 9/11, but in 1776.
About six months ago, Omayra Rivera, a Trinity exec who was then St. Paul's program director, became curious about what was in the church steeple, as first reported in the Tribec
Source: Science Daily
Sep 10, 2010
Professor Marc Waelkens' archaeological team has discovered the oldest Roman baths in Asia Minor known to date in Sagalassos, Turkey. Sagalassos was inhabited as a city until the 7th century AD, when it was destroyed by earthquakes. Waelkens has directed excavations at the sight every summer for the past 21 years.
Until now, the Capito Baths in Miletus, built during the reign of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD), were considered the oldest known Roman bathing complex in Asia Minor. This s
Source: BBC
Sep 10, 2010
A celestial event seen by the ancient Greeks may be the earliest sighting of Halley's comet, new evidence suggests.
According to ancient writers, a large meteorite smacked into northern Greece between 466BC and 467BC.
The writers also described a comet in the sky at the time the meteorite fell to Earth, but this detail has received little attention, say the researchers.
Comet Halley would have been visible for about 80 days in 466BC, researchers write in th
Source: BBC
Sep 10, 2010
A plan of the Battle of Culloden drawn two years after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat to a government army in 1746 is to go on display in Inverness.
The National Library of Scotland (NLS) will bring the 1748 map to the city's Farraline Park as part of a road show.
Historic books and documents will also be on display from Monday to Wednesday.
As well as the battle plan, an engraving thought to date from 1797 showing a scene from the Battle of Culloden will b
Source: BBC
Sep 10, 2010
A photo of a little-known World War II spy who sang for Adolf Hitler while concealing secret documents in her knickers is to be sold at auction.
Wigan-born Margery Booth was a renowned singer with the Berlin Opera after moving to Germany before the war.
She was allowed to perform for British prisoners of war and, unknown to the Nazis, ferried secret information out.
The picture is one of a series taken at Stalag IIID PoW camp in Berlin that will be auctione
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 10, 2010
The terrorism chief who was running the White House situation room on September 11, 2001, has told for the first time how his staff tried to phone home after being told as many as 11 hijacked aircraft could be heading for the West Wing.
Richard Clarke, who was President Bush's Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, said he and around a dozen colleagues left in the White House thought they were going to die as unaccounted for aircraft – including one that was hijacked – flew towards the cap
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 10, 2010
Polish plans for children to take part in a re-enactment of the wartime extermination of Bedzin's Jewish ghetto have been shelved following criticism from Jewish groups.
Jewish community groups condemned the involvement of young children in role-play depictions of the 1943 destruction of the southern Polish city's ghetto saying they should have no place in the re-creation of the "mass murder" of thousands of people.
But Adam Szydlowski, the organiser of the e
Source: AP
Sep 10, 2010
More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday.
In August, the Justice Ministry ordered a review of records that found about 77,000 people who would be at least 120, and 884 people who would be 150 or older. The head count followed a flurry of reports about how elderly people are falling through the cracks in Japan as its population ages rapidly and
Source: AP
Sep 10, 2010
Fidel Castro said Friday his comments about the Cuban economic model no longer working were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist — taking back an admission that caused a stir around the globe.
The 84-year-old ex-president said he was not misquoted but meant "the opposite" of what he was reported as having said by The Atlantic magazine reporter Jeffrey Goldberg.
Since July 2006, when serious intestinal illness nearly killed Fidel Castro and forced h
Source: AP
Sep 10, 2010
Juan Mari Bras, an elder statesman of Puerto Rico's independence movement who gave up U.S. citizenship in an act that inspired hundreds of other activists, died Friday. He was 82.
Mari Bras died at his home in the San Juan suburb of Rio Piedras, said Elaine Mulet Hocking, a spokeswoman for his Hostosiano independence movement. He had lung cancer and had recently taken a fall, she said.
A writer and law professor, Mari Bras was deeply involved in the independence cause f
Source: AP
Sep 10, 2010
The lawyer for Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj says the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal rejected his provisional release during his retrial on murder and torture charges.
No date has been set for the retrial ordered by the tribunal after Haradinaj, a former rebel commander, was cleared of charges in 2008. The tribunal said the initial proceedings had been marred by witness intimidation.
Haradinaj is accused of killing and torturing prisoners during the 1998
Source: CNN
Sep 10, 2010
India plans to hold a full count of its citizens and their castes, the country's first since 1931.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet on Thursday approved proposals to hold the count separately next year after the ongoing general census is over, a government statement said.
The move largely aims to enumerate low-caste groups called Other Backward Classes (OBCs), which a government-appointed commission in 1980 reported makes up 52 percent of the population.
Source: CNN
Sep 10, 2010
Medals of Honor have been rare since the end of the Vietnam war. And not one of the recipients from the Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan deployments have been alive to have the iconic blue ribbon with the gold star draped around his neck. Until now.
The White House Friday announced that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, 25, of Hiawatha, Iowa, will be awarded the nation's highest medal for valor for his actions in Afghanistan, and he will come to the White House to receive the medal himself.
Source: AP
Sep 10, 2010
After a decade–long facelift, the ancient Greek temple of Athena Nike is back up, patched up and unfettered on the Acropolis.
The slender marble building first erected in the 5th century B.C. was unburdened of its scaffolding in recent days — 10 years after being completely dismantled for repairs.
Unlike other ancient monuments battered by war or natural disaster, the four–columned temple near the entrance of the world–renowned Athens citadel fell prey to the best of in
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Sep 10, 2010
Smiling enigmatically, this is the British opera singer-turned-spy who captivated Adolf Hitler.
Margery Booth led a double life inside Nazi Germany, where she performed for Hitler and his henchmen while smuggling the Third Reich's secrets to British intelligence.
She helped British prisoners of war to send coded messages back to spy chiefs in London, and even performed for the Fuehrer with cyphers hidden inside her costume.
A British Army officer shoved the secre
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 10, 2010
A new show pays tribute in art and music to the influential and controversial Black Panthers. Tom Horan reports.
To anyone with an interest in the upheavals of the late Sixties, to anyone who lived through the era itself, one of its most indelible images must be that of the Black Panthers. It’s no accident that their memory endures. The defiant afros, the black quasi-military outfits, the droll sloganeering and funky artwork in which they couched their ideas amounted to a kind of su
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 10, 2010
Seventy years on from the Battle of Britain an appeal is being launched to open a new museum at Bentley Priory in Hertfordshire, the headquarters of RAF Fighter Command during the Second World War.
The 57 acre estate, the centre of which is a magnificent house designed by Sir John Soane dating back to the 1770s, is famous for being Lord Dowding’s operation room from where he coordinated 'the Few’.
Bentley Priory stopped being an operational RAF base in 2008 and has now
Source: BBC News
Sep 10, 2010
Harrowing details of some 300 cases of alleged sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Belgium have been released by a Church investigator.
Peter Adriaenssens said cases of abuse, mostly involving minors, had been found in nearly every diocese, and 13 alleged victims had committed suicide.
Two-thirds of victims were boys but 100 girls also suffered, he said.
Belgian media have accused the Church of seeking to hide abuse despite prosecutions of abusers.
