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Source: Deutsche Welle
November 10, 2008
The file on Demjanjuk, who was nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible," was compiled by the German national office for solving Nazi crimes.
The head of the office, Kurt Schrimm, said he hopes the prosecutors in Munich will seek extradition of 88-year-old Demjanjuk from the United States, where he immigrated in the 1950s and worked in the car industry.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk is accused of having having participated in the murder in 1943 of at least 29,000 European Jew
Source: BBC
November 11, 2008
President Lech Kaczynski has not invited the 1980s Solidarity leader and former president to a Warsaw gala ball, due to be attended by some 800 guests.
Mr Kaczynski said he had been insulted by Mr Walesa so often that he did not want subject himself to more.
Mr Kaczynski's slight has angered government and church officials.
Lech Walesa is an icon in his homeland for his role in toppling communism in 1989, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw says.
Source: BBC
November 11, 2008
Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, represented the RAF, Army and Royal Navy respectively at a ceremony at London's Cenotaph.
They led the country in observing two minutes' silence from 1100 GMT.
Among other Armistice Day events across Europe, Prince Charles laid a wreath at a battle site in France.
The three veterans did the same at the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, as part of the service which is the centrepiece of the 90th anniversa
Source: National Security Archive
November 10, 2008
A court ruled today that the National Security Archive may proceed with its effort to force the White House to recover millions of Bush Administration Executive Office of the President (EOP) e-mail records before the presidential transition. Rejecting the government's motion to dismiss the Archive's lawsuit, the Court ruled that the Federal Records Act permits a private plaintiff to bring suit to require the head of the EOP or the Archivist of the United States to notify Congress or ask the Atto
Source: Telegraph (UK)
November 10, 2008
Hundreds of Palestinians marched throught the streets of Jerusalem to protest against a Jewish group's plans to build a Museum of Tolerance atop a centuries-old Muslim cemetery.
Last week Israel's Supreme Court ruled the project could go ahead after two years of delay over the fate of the cemetery's 400-year-old graves, saying a parking lot built in the area more than 40 years ago had then raised no objections.
Source: International Herald Tribune
November 10, 2008
In a library deep in the western Indian countryside, in an academy surrounded by farms on all sides, five students are writing briskly in their ruled notebooks.
They are in their early 20s and newly enrolled, pimples dotting their faces and polish peeling from their nails.
But there is no discounting the gravity of their assignment: When they complete it, the world will have five more documented languages at its disposal.
One word at a time, they are making
Source: Times (UK)
November 10, 2008
The remains of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's government-in-exile during the Second World War, will be exhumed to determine whether his death in 1943 was the result of foul play.
Source: FoxNews.com
November 10, 2008
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database to make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite
Source: FoxNews.com
November 10, 2008
Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergymen after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.
The clash broke out between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
It began as Armenian clergymen marched in an annual procession commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross belie
Source: CNN
November 10, 2008
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that he stayed quiet about his support for Barack Obama for the past few months.
Farrakhan said he feared his support would hurt Obama's campaign.
At the call to prayer Sunday at Mosque Maryam, Farrakhan praised President-elect Barack Obama.
"President-elect Obama's rise has not only given hope to us, but it has given hope to the world," Farrakhan said.
The fiery, and at times cont
Source: CNN
November 10, 2008
A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday -- days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade.
Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse's uniform like the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of "South Pacific" and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on stage by five of the ac
Source: BBC
November 9, 2008
The full extent of a hillfort likened to an Iron Age "Millennium Stadium" has been uncovered by investigators.
Gaer Fawr hillfort at Guilsfield, near Welshpool, Powys, is effectively hidden by woodland, making it impossible to appreciate the scale of it.
Detailed survey by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales produced a computer model of the site which dates from around 800BC.
The fort features in the BBC Wales pro
Source: BBC
November 10, 2008
In the run-up to the 90th anniversary of the ending of World War I, students in London and Dumfries have been researching family history to find out how their relatives were involved.
Source: http://www.voicesnewspaper.com
November 10, 2008
AMBITIOUS plans have been unveiled for the rebuilding of the Temple of Artemis - one of the original seven wonders of the world at Selçuk, near Izmir.
The Temple of Artemis, or Artemision in Greek, recalled in both Greek and Byzantine anthologies for its magnificence, was once one of the Seven Wonders of the World. After decades of vandalism, religious conflict and decay it is finally to be rebuilt.
Dr. Atılay İleri, the founder of the Selçuk Artemis
Source: http://www.advance.uconn.edu
November 10, 2008
The Pequot War, a conflict between English settlers and the Pequot tribe, is the focus of a new comprehensive study by a team of UConn researchers.
Kevin McBride, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), says the war, which took place from 1636 to 1638 in southern New England, remains one of the most misinterpreted and least understood events in the history of early America.
McBride is working on the project with Connecticu
Source: USA Today
November 9, 2008
Apocalypto fans might be forgiven for thinking the fabled collapse of the ancient Maya, the retreat of a civilization from pyramids and ceremonial centers across Central America from 800 to 1000 A.D., involved all sorts of cataclysmic events, war, famine and devastation. Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed detailed how environmental disasters might be to blame, a popular scholarly explanation for the Maya collapse.
"These models suggest that as ecosystem
Source: AP
November 9, 2008
Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.
Now a Mexican archaeologist using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish Inquisition says a series of caves he has explored may be the place where the Maya actually tried to depict this highway through hell.
The network of underground chambers, roads and temples beneath farmland and jungl
Source: CNN
November 10, 2008
On the day that President-elect Barack Obama visited the White House, a new national poll illustrates the daunting challenges he faces when it becomes his home next year.
Only 16 percent of those questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday say things are going well in the country today. That's an all-time low. Eighty-three percent say things are going badly, which is an all-time high....
The all-time low on the public's mood may have some
Source: Bloomberg News
November 10, 2008
- Barack Obama, elected president as an agent of change, is building his new team with old hands from the Clinton administration.
His first appointment, chief of staff, went to Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois representative and veteran of the last Democratic White House. Leading Obama's transition team is John Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton's chief of staff.
Obama's most dramatic step would be to name New York Senator Hillary Clinton, his defeated rival for the Democ
Source: WaPo
November 10, 2008
The long-awaited U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, $621 million and six years in the making, was unveiled this morning in all its marble, sandstone and historic splendor.
The complex, which officials stressed was built for present and future generations, was opened for a series of press tours and will not open to the public until Dec. 2, when a gala open house will be held.
The three-level center, built completely underground adjacent to the east front of the Capitol, includ
