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: Digital Journal
Sep 6, 2010
A German bomber is to be raised from a sandbank off Britain’s south eastern coast 70 years after it crash-landed there during the Battle of Britain.
The Daily Mail said the twin-engine Dornier Do-17 bomber first emerged from Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile stretch of coastline near Deal in Kent two years ago. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum and Wessex Archaeology have been working on a full survey of the crash site. Once the survey is complete, the bomber will be recovered and exhibited
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
A pocket book which was passed between injured soliders to record their poems and messages by a First World War nurse has emerged after 92 years.
The unknown nurse kept the book on her uniform while she worked in auxiliary hospitals in England throughout the conflict.
As she built up a bed-side relationship with the soldiers she treated, the unnamed nurse asked them to write their thoughts down in the little book....
Sapper J Gray, of the Royal Engineers,
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
The mayor of the German city of Dresden has flown into London under pressure from fellow politicians to try to get a planned memorial to Second World War bomber crews scrapped.
Helma Orosz, 57, is officially in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and that of its twin, Coventry, during the war.
She is under pressure however to get the memorial, which is to recognise the courage of RAF bomber crews, scrapped....
Source: Independent (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
Amid the splendour of the 12th-century temple at Angkor Wat, they stand and stare like silent sentinels, sensuous rather than erotic, carved with elegance and care. But exactly who are these 1,786 mysterious women and why, more than a century after Cambodia's famed Hindu temple was rediscovered byWestern archaeologists, did it take the efforts of an amateur researcher from Florida to push experts into trying to resolve the puzzle?
Though Kent Davis had lived in South-east Asia durin
Source: NYT
Sep 6, 2010
In the 1940s, when E. B. White, the author and columnist for The New Yorker, looked out of his back windows onto the private Turtle Bay Gardens along East 48th Street in Manhattan, an old but picturesque willow tree commanded his view.
He draped the tree in metaphor and imbued it with immortality by writing about it in the concluding lines of his 1949 book, “Here Is New York.”...
But now, the tree is gone. In 2009, the thoroughly bald and rotted tree was chopped down to
Source: NYT
Sep 6, 2010
For months, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has done nothing to dampen speculation that he is seriously considering a bid to return to the presidency in the 2012 election. On Monday night, he offered another hint at his plans by referring to the political career of a former president of a different country: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mr. Putin, asked whether he would damage Russia’s political system if he chose to run again, noted that Roosevelt was elected four times in the United St
Source: BBC
Sep 6, 2010
A previously unknown Bronze Age monument has been found in countryside near Cottingham.
The find was one of many made by English Heritage, who used an aircraft to survey East Yorkshire over the summer.
Archaeologist Dave MacLeod made dozens of flights over the region when the prolonged dry weather meant hidden underground features became visible.
Many of the discoveries were homesteads; small farming settlements, some dating back 3,000 years.
Source: AP
Sep 6, 2010
...Shinya Yamanaka's prize is one of four — two for sciences, two in humanities — awarded this year by the foundation, with the goal of highlighting new or emerging areas of research and to sustain fields of study that may have been overlooked elsewhere.
The humanities prizes go to Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, the father of microhistory, the study of the past based on a focus on the small scale, for his contributions to the study of ordinary people in Europe, and to German Manf
Source: BBC
Sep 6, 2010
Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, a study suggests.
It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest.
Instead, it says, traditional factors - such as poverty and social tensions - were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts.
The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) i
Source: BBC
Sep 6, 2010
A former journalist, commando, writer and poet has died at his home near Porthmadog in Gwynedd at the age of 97.
Michael Burn, who worked for The Times, lived in Wales for 60 years where he wrote numerous books and novels.
A commando during World War II, he was caught after a raid at St Nazaire in France and later sent to the infamous Colditz.
He wrote a book about his experiences which is being turned into a film....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
Condoleezza Rice ordered George Bush not to return to Washington after the 9/11 attacks before hanging up the phone, the former national security advisor revealed in a documentary interview.
In a heated exchange, Ms Rice had to argue with the US President in Florida not to return to the White House because it was a potential terrorist target.
Ms Rice also revealed that the bunker beneath the White House, where she was sheltering with Vice President Dick Cheney, began
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 6, 2010
The mayor of the German city of Dresden has flown into London under pressure from fellow politicians to try to get a planned memorial to Second World War bomber crews scrapped.
Helma Orosz, 57, is officially in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and that of its twin, Coventry, during the war.
She is under pressure however to get the memorial, which is to recognise the courage of RAF bomber crews, scrapped.
Planners at Westmin
Source: AP
Sep 6, 2010
Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.
The dramatic footage shows the destruction of several London landmarks, including the flagship John Lewis store on Oxford Street.
The film was found in the attic by the family of an air raid warden who shot it on the home movie equipment in use in the 1940s....
Source: CNN
Sep 6, 2010
Jefferson Thomas, one of the so-called "Little Rock Nine," the nine students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, has died, according to Carlotta Walls LaNier, president of the group's foundation. He was 67.
Thomas died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday, the Little Rock Nine Foundation said in a statement. He was living in Columbus, Ohio.
As a 15-year-old, Thomas was one of the nine African-American students who braved segregation
Source: AP
Sep 6, 2010
The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle.
Time and tides are conspiring to condemn the weathered old warrior to a fate two wars failed to inflict. Without a major refurbishment to its aging steel skin, the Olympia either will sink at its moorings on the Delaware River, be sold for scrap, or be scuttled for an artificial r
Source: Kent News
Sep 5, 2010
Two gold bracelets unearthed after almost 3,000 years were spotted by chance.
For around 2,700 years they were buried under the Kent soil, but after a leading archaeological expert visited an excavation site, he spotted them on top of earth already moved during the big road dig.
The bracelets join some 10,000 other important finds unearthed by volunteers and experts on the East Kent Access site between Ramsgate and Sandwich, the biggest archaeological excavation in the
Source: AP
Sep 5, 2010
Eleven culture officials from Egypt's government have been formally charged in last month's theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum that had no functioning security alarms.
The public prosecutor says he has referred the eleven Culture Ministry officials to trial on charges of negligence and harming state property. Among them is a deputy minister who says he appealed to his boss for funds to make security upgrades before the Aug. 21 theft but received little assista
Source: The Boston Globe
Sep 5, 2010
An extraordinary collection of items belonging to Worcester native Andrew Haswell Green — a visionary who helped remake New York City in the 19th century — will be sold this week in an unprecedented four-day auction at the DCU Center in Worcester. Among the thousands of documents, artworks, china, clothing, and toys being sold are handwritten correspondence to and from four presidents and a rare, printed copy of George Washington’s will.
From Green’s death in 1903 until 2009, virtua
Source: BBC
Sep 5, 2010
A prehistoric woman's skeleton which went back to her north Wales roots for the first time in more than 100 years will return to a Lancashire museum.
The remains, nicknamed Blodwen, went on display in July at Llandudno Museum in Conwy county, close to the Little Orme, where they were found in 1891.
Organisers hoped they would be allowed to stay, but they say that is unlikely.
Blodwen is in Llandudno until 1 October, before going back to Bacup Museum....
Source: BBC
Sep 5, 2010
A newly-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS Titanic sank 98 years ago has been unveiled in Southampton.
Almost 550 people from the city lost their lives when the ship, which set sail on 10 April 1912 en route to New York, hit an iceberg.
The Titanic Engineer's Memorial in Andrews Park was unveiled in 1914.
Restoration work on the bronze monument began last month and the new memorial was revealed earlier....
