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: The Guardian
Jun 17, 2010
Bones offer insight into royal life of Eadgyth, whose brother Athelstan married off to German king in 929, say scientists.
She ate lots of fish, rode frequently, may have suffered from a disease or an eating disorder at 10 and regularly moved around the chalky uplands of southern England, presumably as she followed her regal father around his kingdom.
Analysis of remains found in a German cathedral have not only confirm they belonged to the granddaughter of the English
Source: Civil War Preservation Trust
Jun 16, 2010
On Saturday June 26, 2010 — almost precisely 148 years after the battle fought there — living historians and preservationists will dedicate ahistorical marker on the Glendale Battlefield in Henrico County, Va. The property, recently acquired by Civil War Preservation Trust, is located along Long Bridge Road. The historical marker was constructed by Civil War Trails of Richmond, Va. and financed by the 69th Pennsylvania “Irish Volunteer” Civil War Reenactors Organization....
The mark
Source: Discovery News
Jun 16, 2010
Swiss and German scientists have experimented with using airport body scanners for a less controversial purpose – screening ancient mummies.
Mummies are usually investigated with conventional X- rays or computer tomography scans, which provide the clearest images.
But high resolution comes at a price.
Ionizing radiation used by X-rays and CT scans can destroy highly fragmented ancient DNA. But the terahertz radiations of body scanners are completely harmless t
Source: BBC News
Jun 16, 2010
An archaeologist who found a medieval badge featuring the England football team's three lions logo hopes it will prove a good World Cup omen.
The copper piece was found in the ground last week in a stone wall in Coventry by Caroline Rann.
The badge, thought to be from a horse's harness, is believed to date from the 13th Century.
A Football Association spokesman said its resemblance to the England logo was "uncanny".
Ms Rann found the
Source: Balkan travellers
Jun 16, 2010
An Albanian-American expedition reported on Monday that it has found the wreckage of a WWII Italian merchant ship that was torpedoed on June 14, 1943 by a British submarine.
The remnants, found off the coast of the Karaburun peninsula with the help of undersea scanning devices, are probably part of the 8,000 ton Rosandra freighter, the team said on the 67th anniversary of the sinking.
“This discovery will be of interest for experts of the period to shed light on the fa
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 16, 2010
France is glossing over the collective shame of collaboration in celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's appeal to resist Nazism, a leading historian has claimed.
Jean-Pierre Azéma, a respected author of more than a dozen works, said he was concerned that inconvenient truths about France's wartime past were being played down amid a surge of patriotism around de Gaulle's June 18, 1940 appeal from London.
He said the fervour around the anniversary
Source: AP
Jun 16, 2010
African-American slaves sweated in the summer heat and shivered in the winter's cold while helping to build the U.S. Capitol.
Congress took note of their service and sacrifice Wednesday by erecting commemorative plaques inside the Capitol in their honor. Lawmakers said the memorials will ensure that the contributions of slaves in building one of the world's most recognizable buildings are never again forgotten.
"In remembering the slaves who labored here, we give t
Source: AFP
Jun 16, 2010
Indian travel companies are running "human safari tours" to enable tourists to glimpse members of a rare and endangered tribe with whom contact is illegal, a campaign group said Wednesday.
Survival International, which campaigns on behalf of tribal groups worldwide, said it had found eight travel groups on India's tropical Andaman Islands promoting tours to see the indigenous Jarawa people.
Under Indian laws designed to protect ancient tribal groups susceptibl
Source: BBC
Jun 16, 2010
A grandmother has been jailed for five years for possessing a "family heirloom" World War II pistol.
Gail Cochrane, 53, had kept the gun for 29 years following the death of her father, who had been in the Royal Navy.
Police found the weapon, a Browning self-loading pistol, during a search of her home in Dundee while looking for her son.
She admitted illegal possession of the firearm, an offence with a minimum five-year jail term under Scots law
Source: BBC
Jun 16, 2010
An archaeologist who found a medieval badge featuring the England football team's three lions logo hopes it will prove a good World Cup omen.
The copper piece was found in the ground last week in a stone wall in Coventry by Caroline Rann.
The badge, thought to be from a horse's harness, is believed to date from the 13th Century.
Nicholas Palmer, principal field archaeologist at the Warwickshire Museum, said the one inch-high badge was still being assessed
Source: BBC
Jun 16, 2010
...Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon.
Most Lebanese speak French - a legacy of France's colonial rule - and the younger generation gravitates towards English.
A growing number of parents send their children to French lycees or British and American curriculum schools, hoping this will one day help them find work and secure a better future.
Even with Arabic, there is a big difference between the classical, written form of the language and the
Source: BBC
Jun 16, 2010
Two Darfur rebel leaders have surrendered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The men, Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, were secretly indicted last year.
They are wanted for war crimes in connection with the deaths of 12 African Union peacekeepers in 2007.
Earlier this year, charges against another rebel leader to do with the same attack were dropped because of lack of evidence.
ICC judges ruled p
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 16, 2010
Italian archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the artist Caravaggio, 400 years after his death as they hope to finally solve the mystery of how he died.
After a year-long investigation, researchers are 85 per cent sure that bones found in a church crypt in Tuscany are those of the artist.
Scientists from four Italian universities sifted through around 200 sets of human remains they found in the ossuary of the crypt near Porto Ercole, on the Tuscan coast
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 16, 2010
To his adoring public, Jacques Tati was the delightful clown whose charming films put a smile back on the face of France after the Second World War.
But away from the screen, the actor and director was tormented by the guilt and shame he felt for abandoning his illegitimate daughter.
It was one of the darkest episodes in his life and it led to him being shunned by friends and colleagues.
He never spoke publicly about the daughter he had following an affa
Source: CNN
Jun 16, 2010
It's the iconic image that grabbed the world's attention and helped change the course of South African history.
Thirty-four years ago Wednesday, on June 16, 1976, thousands of black school children in Soweto, South Africa, took to the streets to protest the apartheid education system that obliged them to be taught in Afrikaans.
It was supposed to be a peaceful protest, but the students were met with police gunfire and at least 23 of them were killed.
One o
Source: Charlotte Observer
Jun 16, 2010
A historian and a collector are defending the authenticity of a photo found in Charlotte that appears to depict slave children, even as critics say copies of the image exist at the New York Public Library and have been sold on eBay.
A story about the photo was written by The Associated Press and ran in the Observer on Friday. The image in question shows two African-American children, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes.
New York collector Keya Morgan paid $30,000 for t
Source: BBC
Jun 15, 2010
An archaeologist has called for the wreck of the HMS Victory to be brought to the surface to avoid further damage.
Dr Sean Kingsley is an archaeological consultant for Odyssey Marine Exploration, who found the shipwreck in the English Channel in April 2008.
He said the site would continue to suffer damage from bottom fishing and could not be protected by exclusion zones as it is too far from land.
The site's future is the subject of a public consultation
Source: BBC
Jun 15, 2010
A collection of rare paintings by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore has sold for more than £1.5m ($2.2m) at an auction in Britain.
So far the buyers of the pictures - certain to attract huge interest in India - have not been identified.
Tagore, often referred to as Bengal's Shakespeare, is the only Indian to win the Nobel literature prize.
He wrote poems and short stories and composed both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems. He died in 1941..
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 15, 2010
They last met after a bloody two-day battle in the Falklands as British forces pushed to retake Port Stanley.
Paratrooper Tony Banks had been ordered to strip belongings from Argentine prisoners, including army musician Omar Tabarez who was armed with only a trumpet.
He stowed the instrument in his office after returning to Britain and it lay untouched until last year.
Mr Banks, whose nursing home business is worth an estimated £60m, had always regarded the
Source: ABC News
Jun 15, 2010
An angry tourist, sun hat on head and camera dangling from neck, stood in the middle of the open-top double-decker tour bus, hands outstretched in a 'thumbs down' sign.
In this photo taken Thursday June 10, 2010 a Japanese child is seen in front of the ancient...
(AP)
About two dozen striking Greeks were blocking a main avenue in front of parliament, forcing the driver to maneuver awkwardly and deprive visitors of their drive-by photos.
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