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: AP
Sep 7, 2010
The White House says President Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York for Saturday's anniversary. First Lady Michelle Obama will join former first lady Laura Bush in Pennsylvania for ceremonies marking the crash of United Flight 93....
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
Germany's intelligence service has turned over thousands of files on top Nazi Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts after World War II to a journalist who sued for them. But with so many passages blacked out and pages missing, she's taking the matter back to court.
An attorney for freelance reporter Gabriele Weber said Tuesday he was confident that she would win greater access eventually, even though Chancellor Angela Merkel's office has argued that some Eichmann files should stay secret.
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
A wooden pole used to suspend suspects by their arms. A baton used to beat prisoners on the soles of their feet. Cables used to give electric shocks.
All are displayed at an exhibit ahead of a referendum on changes to the constitution that was crafted in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, which was marked by torture and other abuses.
On Sept. 12, the coup's 30th anniversary, Turks will vote on a package of 26 reforms that the government says will strengthen democr
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
The Vatican newspaper says Christians around the world are protesting a plan by an American minister to burn the Koran on the Sept. 11 anniversary.
Pastor Terry Jones of the small, evangelical Dove World Outreach Center has said he will go ahead with plans to burn copies of Islam's holy book to protest the Sept. 11 attacks, despite a warning from the top U.S. general in Afghanistan that U.S. troops would be endangered as a result....
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, blogged on the magazine's website Tuesday that he was on vacation last month when the head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington — w
Source: CNN
Sep 7, 2010
Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, was denied parole for the sixth time Tuesday, according to the New York State Division of Parole.
A three-member panel of parole board commissioners conducted a video conference interview with Chapman from their offices in Rochester.
Chapman's latest request for freedom comes just months short of the 30th anniversary of the death of the former member of the Beatles....
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
The bodies of about 700 people killed in the wake of World War II have been discovered in a mass grave in Slovenia, 65 years after they were herded into the woods and slain by antifascists seeking revenge on Nazi collaborators, an official said Tuesday.
Marko Strovs, who heads the government's commission for exhuming mass graves, told The Associated Press that researchers examined a pit in a forest near the town of Prevalje in the country's northeast last week and found the remains.
Source: Live Science
Sep 7, 2010
Three recently discovered shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea could give archaeologists new insights into the transition between medieval and modern shipbuilding.
The remains of the three craft – all dating from between 1450 and 1600 – were found in the straits between Turkey and the Greek island of Rhodes. One ship appears to be a large English merchant ship, while the other two are smaller – perhaps a patrol craft from Rhodes and a small trading boat that could have been Turkish,
Source: Daily News (Egypt)
Sep 7, 2010
Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said on Monday.
The papyrus in the lining of the Egyptian-style leather cover of the 1,200-year-old manuscript, "potentially represents the first tangible connection between early Irish Christianity and the Middle Eastern Coptic Church", the Museum said.
"It is a finding that asks many qu
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Sep 7, 2010
Turning over the soil in his back garden, David Murray spotted something glinting in the sunlight.
When he realised it was a dog tag from a Second World War German prisoner, he asked his landlord if he could dig a little deeper - literally.
In the following months, Mr Murray unearthed a treasure trove of wartime memorabilia. The 2,000 items include coins featuring Nazi emblems, dog tags, buttons from uniforms and even a live grenade that had to be destroyed by an RAF bomb dis
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 7, 2010
An amazing new set of pictures has brought the horror of the Blitz right up to date on its 70th anniversary.
n a merging of old and new imagery wartime destruction across Britain is shown in the exact spots as they exist today.
One picture shows a huge crater next to the Bank of England headquarters in London - perfectly blended with the background of the same location in 2010.
Well-dressed businessmen from seven decades ago are seen discussing the damage in the
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 7, 2010
The courage and sacrifice of those who fought off the Nazis to win the Battle of Britain was remembered today.
On the 70th anniversary of the day the first German bombs fell on London, 2,500 people packed into St Paul's Cathedral to remember the Blitz spirit.
The service remembered all those who contributed during the Battle of Britain with former pilots and other military personnel standing alongside firefighters, nurses and ambulance workers from the era.
Source: Reuters
Sep 7, 2010
An Istanbul seminary closed in 1971 is hosting its first public event in 40 years, raising hopes it may shortly be reopened by Turkey and once again educate priests for the Greek Orthodox community.
The European Union and the United States have pressed EU membership hopeful Turkey to reopen the historic school, which occupies a beautiful and commanding site at the top of the island of Heybeliada, or Halki in Greek.
"Tracing Istanbul," an exhibition of works by
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
MARINA, Egypt – Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.
The ancient city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, was hidden for centuries after it was nearly wiped out by a fourth century tsunami that devastated the region.
More recently, it was nearly buried unde
Source: AP
Sep 7, 2010
Already in distinctive company as an American president, George W. Bush seeks to join an even more select group: president and top-selling author.
Since The New York Times began its weekly lists of best-sellers in 1942, only six of the 13 men who have served as the nation's chief executive have placed a book at the top spot for nonfiction, none while president.
Two of them, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Barack Obama, did it before they were in the Oval Office. Two others, Ji
Source: NYT
Sep 7, 2010
...As if the summer’s brutal heat, forest fires and drought were not enough, this country is now suffering through one final bit of weather-related misery, a scarcity of a beloved staple that is causing a kind of national time warp. Russians like Ms. Galina Litvyak, 72, a retired bookkeeper, are falling back on scrounging habits honed under Communism. And not liking it....
Buckwheat is not as central to the Russian diet as wheat, but it is considered more of a distinctly Russian foo
Source: Independent (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
The most important aspect of human evolution was facilitated not by Darwinian-style natural selection but by a crucial technological device invented by early Stone Age women, shows research by a leading British prehistorian.
Timothy Taylor of Bradford University claims that increased brain size was made possible by the invention of the baby sling, a development which enabled slower growing, physically and mentally immature offspring to survive and flourish....
Source: The Daily Progress (NC)
Sep 6, 2010
CULPEPER — The Journey Through Hallowed Ground wants to lay down roots — lots of them — in its remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Starting next year through 2015, the Waterford-based history organization will set out to plant 620,000 trees — about one for each soldier who died in the war — along the 180-mile route from Monticello to Gettysburg, Pa.
The National Heritage Area and national scenic byway on which JTHG focuses its preservation efforts has
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
A new book published this week in Germany exposes the 'literary-lite' reading tastes of Hitler and his cronies during the Third Reich.
While all pretended to be intellectuals consuming weighty tomes about race, culture and war, the hierarchy of Nazism were often the equivalent of today’s consumer of books with racy covers bought at airport shops.
Hermann Goering, the fat architect of the Blitz on London, liked detective novels and sci-fi books by Jules Verne....
Source: The News and Advance
Sep 6, 2010
The Museum of the Confederacy has unveiled drawings of its planned museum in Appomattox and announced plans for a Sept. 23 groundbreaking at the site after raising $6 million toward the $7.5 million project.
Construction is expected to end by spring 2012 on the 11,700-square-foot museum near the intersection of Virginia 24 and U.S. 460, housing Civil War artifacts where they were made famous.
“There’s nowhere better to do it than Appomattox,” said S. Waite Rawls III, CE
