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Testity test testIn Monday night’s debate, Mitt Romney seemed surprised by a direct question from the Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib: Will you publicly release your tax returns? That Romney wasn’t ready with the sort of glib, pre-rehearsed non-answer he has expertly delivered to sensitive questions throughout the GOP debate season was itself surprising. Democrats have been making no secret of their desire to press the tax issue and one of Romney’s rivals, Rick Perry, had even raised it earlier in the evening (with Romney artfully ducking it).In response to Seib, Romney stumbled around and kind of, sort of committed to maybe thinking about releasing his tax records in April, claiming there’s a tradition of presidential candidates doing so around Tax Day. Clearly, this is not something he wants to do or wants to be talking about at all. Which makes the comments of his top campaign surrogate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” decidedly unhelpful:

Wood Lake battlefield association obtains site easement: Includes 54 acres to accommodate a planned memorial

The Wood Lake Battlefield Preservation Association (WLBPA) has taken a major step toward the development of a memorial site to commemorate the last major battle of the U.S. - Dakota Conflict.On the eve of the Association’s sixth anniversary in January, the organization announced last week that it had signed a conservation easement with owners of a 240 acre section of land that had been a substantial portion of the Battle of Wood Lake’s setting.“It’s a great day for future generations of Minnesotans to have this historic area preserved,” said WLBPA founder and president Tom Hosier.  “We’re most pleased that it is done.”...

Roman villa 'rare and important for Peterborough' says archaeologist

A "substantial, high-status" Roman villa discovered in Peterborough has shed new light on the city's occupants 2,000 years ago, archaeologists say.Although the city - known as Durobrivae - was well-documented as a strategic area for the movement of Roman troops, there was little evidence of occupation - and no evidence of wealthy occupants in the east of the city.Now Oxford Archaeology East and archaeologists from Peterborough City Council have discovered a 2nd Century villa and farm complex on the site of former allotments at Walton....

New Alabama law could mean finders-keepers for historic artifacts found underwater

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- A battle over historic artifacts hidden below the surface of Alabama's rivers, lakes and bays is surfacing in advance of the opening of Legislature's 2012 regular session on Feb. 7.Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, has introduced a bill to amend the Alabama Cultural Resources Act, a law that requires underwater explorers to get a permit from the Alabama Historical Commission before going after submerged wrecks and relics.In Ward's version, the law would still require permits for recovery of artifacts related to shipwrecks and would forbid disturbing Native American burial sites. But treasure hunters would otherwise be able to search state waters and keep what they find....

Female singer's 3,000-year-old tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings

The 3,000-year-old tomb of a female singer was discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, it was announced.Swiss archaeologists came across the resting place of Nehmes Bastet by accident, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim told reporters Sunday in Cairo, according to the Al Ahram newspaper.An inscription found on a wooden plaque on the tomb said that she was the daughter of the High Priest of Amon and sang for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the 22nd Dynasty, which reigned between 945 and 712 BC....

Egyptian Scholars Struggle to Protect Country's History Amid New Violence

When soldiers and protesters clashed in downtown Cairo in late December, the army's crackdown left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured. Another victim of the violence was the oldest scientific institute in Egypt, which was largely destroyed in a fire, along with much of its precious library.The destruction of the historical archive of the Egyptian Scientific Institute caused an outcry. But while this is the most significant case of Egypt's historical heritage being damaged by the turbulence of the last year, it is hardly the only one. Since the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak last February, antiquities and historical sites have faced a variety of new dangers."Threats to the heritage are diversifying," says Tamar Teneishvili, who oversees cultural programs in Egypt for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. "Who would have thought that the institute would burn that way? The situation is so unpredictable and volatile."

Yes, He Discovered the Titanic. No, He Doesn’t Want to Talk About It.

Robert Ballard has made quite a few notable discoveries in deep waters around the world in the last 27 years. But most people still want to hear him use the T-word.He will do it, as he did for about half an hour on Wednesday at the Explorers Club in Manhattan, but he does not have to like it. Indeed, the stated purpose of his appearance was to promote a coming exhibition in Mystic, Conn., that will be devoted to his discovery on Sept. 1, 1985, of the wreckage of that most famous of ocean liners. You know, the really big one. The one that hit an iceberg.Oh, all right. Yes, yes, it’s the Titanic again.Mr. Ballard, the great explorer of the seas, is lending his name and his expertise to yet another attempt to capitalize on the public fascination with a century-old shipwreck. Now 69, he would rather talk about another ship, one that floats and which he plans to use to survey the sea floor of the South Pacific. But he knows that there will be no escaping the Big T this year, the 100th anniversary of its sinking....

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Dan Ephron: In Jerusalem, the Holocaust Is Trivialized

Dan Ephron has been Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief since January 2010. Previously, he served as a national-security correspondent and deputy bureau chief for the magazine in Washington. His stories have also appeared in The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Esquire.An Israeli protest over the weekend by ultra-Orthodox Jews who dressed their children to look like inmates at a Nazi concentration camp highlights the sometimes peculiar role the Holocaust plays there in political discourse and even in everyday exchanges.The spectacle at a Jerusalem square Saturday night, staged by the most extreme of the ultra-Orthodox community’s myriad factions, featured mostly adults but also several dozen kids in striped uniforms and yellow stars, evoking the Holocaust’s most iconic images. The demonstrators were protesting an effort by secular Israelis to roll back gender segregation on some bus lines and in certain neighborhoods—a dispute that has surged in recent weeks.

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New Year Honours: Knighthood for Prof Diarmaid MacCulloch

A leading church historian and television presenter from Oxford has received a knighthood in the New Year Honours.Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch is best known for his six-part BBC television series, A History of Christianity.The university academic has been given the title for services to scholarship.He said he was "extremely honoured, flattered and delighted" by the award which showed how valuable arts subjects like the history of religion were.Prof MacCulloch added: "They are the sanity of our society. Without them we wouldn't have memory and we wouldn't know how to look at the future properly."...

Meryl Streep rallies for new women's history museum

Known for her film work, Meryl Streep is going off script to rally for a National Women’s History Museum by the National Mall in Washington, D.C. She’s donated $1 million to the cause, but money isn’t the only requisite. Congressional approval is required for the location.Explaining her zeal, she told the press that history before the 20th century was written by men and it’s full of holes. “Every child knows the name of our first traitor, Benedict Arnold, but nobody knows the name of the first female soldier to take a bullet for the U.S., who enlisted under her dead brother’s name. Nobody knows Deborah Sampson’s name. That’s a great story. Or Elizabeth Freeman, who was the first slave to sue for her own freedom and won in Great Barrington, Mass.”Streep has a point. Many women’s stories in history have gone untold - in art history, too....

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