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: BBC News
Jul 29, 2010
As many as 6,600 graves at the main US military cemetery were mislabelled or unmarked because of incompetence among cemetery managers, a US senator says.
Senator Claire McCaskill was speaking at a US congressional hearing into contracting problems at Arlington National Cemetery.
US investigators have put the problems down to a poor working relationship between two top administrators.
John Metzler and Thurman Higginbotham have both been called to testify.
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2010
A month after the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Joseph P. Kennedy, the American ambassador in London and father of a future president, expressed grave doubts about “this war for idealism” against Hitler.
Joseph P. Kennedy, then an ambassador, criticized the war and Thomas E. Dewey in a 1939 letter to Roosevelt’s personal secretary.
“I can’t see any use in everybody in Europe going busted and having communism run riot,” Kennedy wrote to Marguerite LeHand, President Frank
Source: The Herald-Mail (MD)
Jul 28, 2010
ANNAPOLIS — A 60-acre property near Antietam National Battlefield has been approved for a conservation easement by Maryland’s Board of Public Works, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources said in a press release Wednesday.
The easement, part of the state’s Rural Legacy Program, will preserve the historically significant land, known as the Meyers Property, for future generations, the release said.
“By protecting this land, we are not only supporting an ecologically
Source: Guardian (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
The last party-goers seem to have cleared up very carefully after the final celebration at Marden Henge (Wilthsire, England), approximately 4,500 years ago. All left-overs from the feast - the pig bones, the ashes and the burnt stones from the barbecue that cooked them, the broken pots and bowls - were tidied up into a dump to one side. A few precious offerings were carefully laid on the clean chalk, one of which included an exquisitely worked flint arrowhead. Then the revellers covered the whol
Source: Guardian
Jul 28, 2010
Stone tools, flakes and the remains of a final feast at the site in Wiltshire hint that the huge sarsens that now stand at Stonehenge were brought to Marden Henge first.
The last revellers seem to have cleared up scrupulously after the final party at Marden Henge some 4,500 years ago.
They scoured the rectangular building and the smart white chalk platform on top of the earth bank, with its spectacular view towards the river Avon in one direction, and the hills from whi
Source: NY Times
Jul 28, 2010
You’re a high school or college student, or a journalist, psychologist or historian, and you have a paper to write on Winston Churchill’s “finest hour” speech from June 18, 1940, arguably his most stirring moment in World War II. But you want to go beyond the famous lyric of defiance he delivered in the House of Commons and learn how he progressed in his own mind to that moment, and what private doubts he had — as he did — about Britain’s ability to withstand Hitler.
By the summer o
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
An Italian artist has sparked reactions from fury to bemusement by including Spiderman and Hitler among his subjects the bizarre creation.
Giuseppe Veneziano's show entitled 'The Zeitgeist' opened this month in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy, featuring among others a work featuring Hitler as a child cuddling up to the Virgin Mary.
The picture titled 'The Virgin of the Third Reich' is just one of many paintings featuring famous figures including Jesus Christ and Pope Bened
Source: WaPo
Jul 28, 2010
A Jewish nonprofit group whose leader was accused of fabricating dramatic stories about rescued Torahs has reached a deal with Maryland investigators forbidding it from publicizing such stories about sacred scrolls unless it can prove them.
The agreement ends an investigation into the Rockville-based Save a Torah and its driving force, Rabbi Menachem Youlus, often described as "The Indiana Jones of Torah Scribes."
The probe followed a January Washington Post
Source: NYT
Jul 28, 2010
The swastika now shows up so often as a generic symbol of hatred that the Anti-Defamation League, in its annual tally of hate crimes against Jews, will no longer automatically count its appearance as an act of anti-Semitism.
“The swastika has morphed into a universal symbol of hate,” said Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization. “Today it’s used as an epithet against African-Americans, Hispanics and gays, as well as Jews, b
Source: CNN
Jul 28, 2010
A University of Florida archaeologist found centuries-old bones this week during a dig in northeastern Florida, authorities said.
The human remains, estimated to be between 500 and 700 years old, were found Monday during a excavation at Silver Glen Springs Recreation Area in Ocala National Forest, about 30 miles south of Palatka, according to Jenifer Lowe with the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Asa Randall, a senior archaeologist with the University of Florida, based h
Source: Fox News
Jul 28, 2010
The recent decoding of a cryptic cup, the excavation of ancient tunnels in Jerusalem, and other archaeological detective work may help solve one of the great biblical mysteries: Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The new clues hint that the scrolls, which include some of the oldest known biblical documents, may have been the textual treasures of several groups, hidden away during wartime -- and may even be "the great treasure from the Jerusalem Temple," which held the Ark of
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
The United States has confirmed that the ambassador to Japan will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb drop for the first time.
PJ Crowley, a spokesman for the US State Department, said it would be the first time a US ambassador will attend the August 6 anniversary.
About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when an American B-29 bombed Hiroshima....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
German prosecutor Christoph Goeke in Dortmund says 90-year-old Samuel Kunz was informed last week that he has been indicted on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, where he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943....
Source: Penn Live
Jul 28, 2010
A Civil War-era shell which a man tried to donate to the Army Heritage and Education Center caused a lockdown of the facility for about an hour Monday when employees thought the shell might be live. Jack Giblin, education director, said the man was trying to donate the shell, which he found in the Conodoguinet Creek, but a security guard recognized that it could still be dangerous.
Employees cordoned off the area and called the Carlisle Army Barracks, which notified Pennsylvania Sta
Source: Malvern Gazette (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
PUPILS from two local schools got more than they bargained for when they unearthed a long-lost Second World War defence site during an archaeological project.
Zoe Timney and Connor Law, both aged 17 and from the Chase High School, Malvern, were joined by Jamie Turner, 14, from John Masefield High School, Ledbury, for a work experience week with Worcestershire County Council’s historic environment and archaeology service .
While conducting archaeological surveys at Leopa
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
An investigation into the release of the Lockerbie bomber is to be broadened in an attempt to force Kenny MacAskill to stop “stonewalling” and give evidence, senior US senators have said.
The Senate’s foreign relations committee postponed a hearing into the furore, due to be heard on Thursday, after a series of key witnesses refused to appear.
Mr MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Minister, argued he had nothing to tell senators about alleged links between BP and the rel
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jul 28, 2010
The United States has confirmed that the ambassador to Japan will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb drop for the first time.
PJ Crowley, a spokesman for the US State Department, said it would be the first time a US ambassador will attend the August 6 anniversary.
About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when an American B-29 bombed Hiroshima.
Mr Crowley would not say if US officials would attend ceremonies
Source: AP
Jul 28, 2010
Part of a set of dentures used by Winston Churchill to disguise a lisp is going on sale.
The partial dentures are being put on auction with an estimated value of about $7,000.
A duplicate set is kept by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The organization says the dentures were a tool that the wartime British Prime Minister relied upon to overcome a childhood lisp....
Source: AP
Jul 28, 2010
A suspected former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday.
Samuel Kunz, 88, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, where he allegedly served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943, prosecutor Christoph Goeke in Dortmund said.
Kunz is a
Source: CNN
Jul 28, 2010
A University of Florida archaeologist found centuries-old bones this week during a dig in northeastern Florida, authorities said.
The human remains, estimated to be between 500 and 700 years old, were found Monday during a excavation at Silver Glen Springs Recreation Area in Ocala National Forest, about 30 miles south of Palatka, according to Jenifer Lowe with the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Asa Randall, a senior archaeologist with the University of Florida, based
