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: Daily Mail (UK)
Sep 3, 2010
rare German wartime bomber which was discovered on a sandbank 70 years after it was shot down during the Battle of Britain is to be raised, it was announced today.
The twin-engined Dornier 17 first emerged from Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile long sandbank off the coast of Deal, Kent, two years ago, a spokesman for the RAF Museum said.
Since then, the museum has worked with Wessex Archaeology to complete a full survey of the wreck site, usually associated with shipwrecks, before th
Source: Fox News
Sep 3, 2010
A history teacher has been suspended in France for spending too much time teaching students about the Holocaust.
Catherine Pederzoli, 58, a secondary school teacher who is Jewish, was accused of teaching the subject with insufficient neutrality for both her time dedicated to teaching about the Holocaust and trips she organized to former Nazi death camps, Pederzoli’s attorney Christine Tadic told Agence France-Presse.
"If this teacher had been a Christian, no one wo
Source: CNN
Sep 3, 2010
First there was the discovery of dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, but now salvage divers have recovered what they believe to be the world's oldest beer, taking advertisers' notion of 'drinkability' to another level.
Though the effort to lift the reserve of champagne had just ended, researchers uncovered a small collection of bottled beer on Wednesday from the same shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea.
"At the moment, we beli
Source: Westmoreland Gazette (UK)
Sep 2, 2010
A METAL-detecting historian has made an exciting discovery of rare Roman coins at a South Lakeland caravan park.
John Harrison, 60, uncovered a hoard of 30 ancient Barbarous Radiates coins, thought to date back to 250AD, while walking with his metal detector at Holgates Caravan Park, near Arnside.
Experts described the find as ‘historically significant’.
Mr Harrison, from Carnforth, also found 10 bronze Roman trumpet brooches – dating back to between 75-15
Source: Irish Central
Sep 2, 2010
Never before seen documents related to the hunger strikes in Belfast in 1981 have been kept secret until now.
The recently discovered documents, which were released by the Northern Ireland Office, revel how the English government dealt with the IRA hunger strike.
The documents, which were released under the Freedom of Information Act, show how the Margaret Thatcher's government was determined to present a strong face in public while trying to come to an arrangement with
Source: Irish Central
Sep 2, 2010
The suspected murderer of Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin, has been arrested in Holland.
Dublin criminal John Traynor (62) fled from Ireland following the murder of Veronica Guerin in 1996.
Veronica Guerin was shot dead in her car by the passenger on a motorbike. The murder took place at traffic lights on the Naas Road in Dublin.
According to officials Traynor was Guerin's main contact in the underworld. He has been on the run from the law for 18 years af
Source: BBC
Sep 2, 2010
A metal detecting enthusiast has found what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.
Danny Mills, 21, made the find in a field near Sudbury in Suffolk.
The area was dotted with plush Roman villas and country estates in the second century.
The object, described as a rare example of Roman craftsmanship, has been donated to Ipswich Museum where it is now on display.
In the autumn of 2009, Mr M
Source: Kansas City Star
Sep 2, 2010
The soldier’s eyes are almost spooky as they gaze determinedly into the future.
They stare out from a patriotic poster exhorting the public to buy war bonds and help the nation prevail in the struggle against the enemy.
But this infantryman is German and the enemy is us.
The huge image dominates a new and limited exhibit at the Liberty Memorial that presents the First World War from the perspective of the other guys.
Exhibit organizers say they
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Sep 2, 2010
Mormon bomber Mark Hofmann’s calling card has popped up again, signaling that the forger’s handiwork may be more widespread than previously believed.
But this time, instead of bogus documents surrounding the origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an embarrassing affidavit on the Mountain Meadows Massacre has surfaced.
Just shy of the 25th anniversary of Hofmann’s deadly Salt Lake City-area bombing spree, a written record quoted by historians has bec
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 2, 2010
Winston Churchill ordered the assassination of Benito Mussolini as part of a plot to destroy potentially compromising secret letters he had sent the Italian dictator, a leading French historian has suggested.
Pierre Milza, an expert on fascist Italy, theorizes that the wartime prime minister may have wanted Mussolini dead to prevent the letters, in which Churchill expressed his admiration for his Italian counterpart before the outbreak of the Second World War, coming to light.
Source: New York Times
Sep 2, 2010
Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a new biography asserts.
The assertion, based on numerous documents and interviews with three people said to be Mr. Wiesenthal’s Mossad handlers, punctures not only a widely held belief about how he operated; it also suggests a need to re-evaluate the standard view that the Israeli government took
Source: Salt Lake City Tribune
Sep 2, 2010
The LDS Church and Jewish leaders in New York are looking forward to working together on relief efforts and other endeavors after announcing Wednesday the resolution of a sticky dispute: posthumous proxy baptisms by Mormons of Jewish Holocaust victims.
But not everyone is convinced the problem is settled.
The Utah-based church reiterated its willingness to eliminate names of Holocaust victims from its massive genealogical database. The Jewish delegation, headed by Rober
Source: Associated Press
Sep 2, 2010
A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday.
Capt. Dale Goetz of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday.
Before Goetz, the last Army chaplain to die in action was Phillip Nichols, who was killed by a concealed enemy explosive in Vietnam in October of 1970, said Chaplain Carleton Birch, a spokesman for the
Source: BBC News
Sep 2, 2010
A metal detecting enthusiast has found what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.
Danny Mills, 21, made the find in a field near Sudbury in Suffolk.
The area was dotted with plush Roman villas and country estates in the second century.
The object, described as a rare example of Roman craftsmanship, has been donated to Ipswich Museum where it is now on display.
In the autumn of 2009, Mr Mi
Source: Fox News
Sep 2, 2010
Physics was the reason for the Big Bang, not God, according to scientist Stephen Hawking.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," the professor said in his new book, in a challenge to traditional religious beliefs.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going," he wrote in his book "The Grand Design," extracts of which are printed in Londo
Source: Civil War News
Sep 1, 2010
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will be rotated early in 2011 to an upright position for the first time since it sank on Feb. 17, 1864.
That night the Hunley became the world’s first successful combat submarine by sinking an enemy vessel, the USS Housatonic, on blockade duty off Charleston.
The Hunley has been kept at the same 45-degree angle to starboard (right side) she had when first discovered in 1995 and recovered from the ocean in 2000....
Source: Daily News & Economic Review (Turkey)
Sep 1, 2010
Controversy over plans to bury an ancient city in western Turkey with sand ahead of a new dam project was overshadowed Wednesday by revelations from Turkey’s environment minister that the site did not, in fact, exist.
“There is no such place as Allianoi. It is just a hot spring that was recently restored called ‘Paşa Ilıcası,’” said Minister Veysel Eroğlu in response to a reporter’s question about the controversial plans to bury the ancient city,
Source: KDRV.com
Sep 1, 2010
NEAR WOLF CREEK, Ore. - A nearly $50-million project to add hill-climbing lanes for trucks on Interstate 5 north of Grants Pass has archeologists looking for traces of the historic Applegate Trail.
Volunteers and professionals are scouring the hills and canyons between Grants Pass and Wolf Creek mapping the 160-year old route. More than a 150 years of road building has all but wiped out much of the pioneer route....
Source: CBC News
Sep 1, 2010
Canadian officials say they have entered talks with the British government on how best to preserve the wreck of HMS Investigator, a 19th-century British naval ship that was found in Arctic waters this summer.
Archeologists with Parks Canada discovered the shipwreck on July 25 in Banks Island's Mercy Bay in the Northwest Territories. The ship had been abandoned in 1854, during an attempt to search for Sir John Franklin's missing expedition.
The process of preserving HMS
Source: Chicago Tribune
Sep 1, 2010
There are famous last words and last rites. There's even a new book out on last meals.
But for a rapidly dwindling group of World War II veterans, what matters most right now is the last reunion.
The final curtain call for roughly 40 surviving members of the 320th Bomb Group will start Thursday at the Westin O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont. The storied unit caught flak repeatedly during some of the toughest missions of the war.
But there are fewer veterans left to
