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: Telegraph (UK)
November 11, 2008
A church has vanished from the Russian village where it stood for almost 200 years, the local diocese said.
The Church of Christ's Resurrection, in the central Russian village of Komarovo, was built in 1809 but in early October someone took it away brick by brick, Father Vitaly a spokesman for the local Russian Orthodox Church, claimed.
"We have sent a letter to local prosecutors," he said. "Who exactly did this, the investigation will show."
Source: http://politicalticker
November 12, 2008
Republican Paul Broun is sorry for calling President-elect Barack Obama a 'Marxist' and comparing him to Adolph Hitler, the Georgia Congressman said Tuesday.
"I regret putting it that way," he told WGAC radio in Augusta, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "I apologize to anyone who has taken offense at that."
In an interview with the Associated Press earlier this week, Broun admitted to calling the future commander-in-chief a 'Marxist' a
Source: KOMO
November 11, 2008
BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- The diary of a local corporal killed in Iraq sent his mother on a painful but inspiring journey.
The 37 pages helped the mother of Jonathan Santos walk through her son's final days and ultimately led her to an unexpected discovery.
"My brother went off to Vietnam," said Doris Santos, "but he came home. So (I thought) Jonathan would come home. I thought he'd come home."
But he never did. On Oct. 15, 2004, an improvise
Source: CNN
November 12, 2008
Cyanide was being bought and shipped to the Rev. Jim Jones' jungle compound in South America for at least two years before 909 Americans died there at the command of their cult leader, CNN has learned.
Sources in Guyana said the Jonestown camp began obtaining shipments of cyanide -- about a quarter to a half-pound of the deadly poison each month -- as early as 1976, well before most of Jones' followers made the move there.
CNN's Soledad O'Brien tells the story of the l
Source: Bloomberg News
November 11, 2008
Archaeologists digging near the world's oldest step-pyramid of Saqqara, the main burial site of ancient royal Egyptians before the pyramids of Giza, said today that they have discovered what may be the tomb of the mother of a sixth dynasty Pharaoh called Teti.
The pyramid was discovered about two months ago on a site that has been under excavation for 20 years, said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Little remains except the base of the struct
Source: http://www.myfoxphilly.com
November 11, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Another rare find, or not so significant history?
The debate is raging over the value of what's buried beneath the site of the half-billion-dollar Sugarhouse Casino project.
Sugarhouse officials said they've been cooperating with archeologists for over a year now but the latest dig is not much more than another hole in the ground.
However, local historians are more than excited. They believe the stone foundation in Fishtown dates back to d
Source: AP
November 12, 2008
Couples chatted, children played and joggers hustled past gardens on an unseasonably warm November day at Cheesman Park.
Few knew that the grounds in the center of Denver were once the final resting place for at least 4,200 of the city's earliest residents, according to historical records.
That past literally came up again last week when a construction crew building a parking garage at the nearby Denver Botanic Gardens unearthed two rows of caskets.
Source: FoxNews.com
November 11, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama is only the third sitting senator to be elected directly to the White House.
With a potential lame-duck session looming next week, here is a little background on the activities of senators who move to the Executive Branch.
* Only two sitting senators before Obama moved right from the Senate to the White House: Warren Harding and John Kennedy. In late 1920, President-elect Harding came back to the Senate briefly for a speech and meetings, bu
Source: Editor & Publisher
November 12, 2008
Many conservative pundits and Republican officeholders on the national stage have reacted to the election of Barack Obama as a promising step forward in the history of race relations and democracy in the U.S. But gaining much less coverage from the national media are local reactions that are far less accepting and positive.
Away from the spotlight, many local newspapers around the country have covered recent incidents of racially-motivated reactions to last week’s election, from fla
Source: Scotsman
November 6, 2008
THEY risked the wrath of their families, just by falling in love.
Former SS Stormtrooper Rudi Franzel and Betty Young initially kept their friendship a secret after meeting at Upperkeith Farm, in Humbie, East Lothian.
But the relationship between the PoW and the local farm girl blossomed and this week they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
They met a few years after the end of the Second World War, when Rudi had been billeted to pick potatoes at
Source: Gannett News Service
November 7, 2008
A proposal to replace the cracked and weathered white marble monument that crowns the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery has stirred up a years-long controversy.
The always-guarded tomb to the nation’s war dead is a potent symbol of sacrifice and patriotism and the above-ground monument, which has cracks running 48 feet around it, is the most visible part of it.
Source: http://www.armytimes.com
November 11, 2008
For years, Johanna Arnoldy wondered about her brother’s wartime service. But she could never get any answers.
“When he came back, he wouldn’t talk about it. He said he had lost too many friends,” she said.
All the Wabasha woman knew was that her brother, Arden Gullickson, was drafted and served in the Army on Iwo Jima during World War II. Then came an unexpected discovery made just in time for this year’s Veterans Day — a forgotten letter.
“I am writing th
Source: http://www.armytimes.com
November 12, 2008
After 63 years, former Army Cpl. J.D. Elliott of Texarkana, who served in Europe during World War II, has received his Bronze Star.
Last month, the Department of Veterans Affairs finally sent the 82-year-old Elliot his citation in the mail.
“Back in April of this year, my parents received a letter from the VA,” said Brenda Pearcy, Elliott’s daughter.
The letter stated the VA had researched World War II servicemen’s records and found out that in some units,
Source: AP
November 12, 2008
BABYLON, Iraq: It was one of the world's first great cities, a place where astronomers mapped the stars millennia ago and kings created an early code of law and planted what became known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Yet little remains of the ancient capital, as seen during a trip here last month on one of the few permits issued by the Iraqi government since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 ousted Saddam Hussein. The site has the aura of a theme park touched by the ambition of Sad
Source: WaPo
November 12, 2008
It was just a few quiet words, coming after an hour of ringing speeches, songs and other public tributes to U.S. war veterans -- especially women -- at the annual Veterans Day ceremony yesterday in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
But when Barbara Lilly, 62, a former American Red Cross worker in Vietnam, hugged Army Sgt. Danielle Modglin, 26, who was standing on crutches from an injury she had received this summer in Iraq, her brief greeting seemed especially eloquent.
Source: Spiegel Online
November 11, 2008
What the public remembers, it remembers in pictures. Wars, even more than other events, tend to survive in the popular imagination not just as a chronology of events, but also as an archive of images.
When it comes to remembering the World War I, most of us have had to content ourselves with a visual inheritance almost exclusively limited to black and white photography. No longer.
In a new book edited by historian Peter Walther, an extraordinary set of color images fro
Source: Deutsche Welle
November 12, 2008
A German association has started burying in a Czech cemetery the remains of 5,500 German soldiers and civilians killed during World War II. The remains were discovered over the last 10 years.
Fritz Kirchmeier, spokesman for the German war graves authority VDK, said 330 soldiers would be buried on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the cemetery in the western Czech town of Cheb.
The rest, including 450 civilians, would be buried over the next two or three weeks, he added.
Source: CNN
November 11, 2008
President Bush said today he plans to return "straight home to Texas" after he leaves office on January 20 and "may write a book." Bush said he regrets some of his more blunt statements on terrorism over the years and said he wishes he had not spoen in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner only a month after U.S. troops in Iraq were deployed.
"I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said," Bush told CNN's Heidi Collins when asked to re
Source: WaPo
November 11, 2008
It ends today.
The last commander is tired. His old Army pals are worn out. They're sick, they're bent with age, they're disappearing from this Earth.
So Lester Tenney, the 88-year-old commander of a dwindling group of Bataan Death March and Japanese prison camp survivors, plans to commemorate Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery today for the last time, closing a 62-year tradition. The organization, American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, voted in May to of
Source: http://www.poligazette.com
November 10, 2008
Jules Crittenden reports that federal agents are investigating whether CBS correspondent Lara Logan
smuggled mementoes to the U.S.
Agents found out that Logan had items in her possession which belong back in Iraq, after a video
profile on the beautiful reporter was aired called “Lara Logan’s Spoils of War.”
In the video, Logan shows off mementoes from Iraq and Afghanistan which she keeps in her Washington
office. She explained she found the pieces in the ruins of the Olympic com
