http://hdlns.com/g149 http://hdlns.com/rss_g149.xml Arts and Entertainment -> Humanities -> History en-us Aggregation copyright hdlns (dot com), articles copyright original authors. http://hdlns.com/g149/History+-+News+articles+and+blogs+on+history+and+historical+subjects HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. http://hdlns.com/g149zf8684za44677648/Italy+agrees+to+digitize+a+bunch+of+books Italy is working with Google to scan a million books in Rome and Florence - all published before 1868 and hence public domain. via Cronaca. http://hdlns.com/g149zf8684za44613372/Tuesday+the+Baltic%2C+Today+the+Indian+Ocean... Tuesday I linked to a story about a dozen shipwrecks found in the Baltic. Today I came across a story about one of those fun reconstruct-it-and-sail-the-old-route efforts - this time a 9th Century dhow sailing from Oman to Singapore! Interesting st http://hdlns.com/g149zf8684za44760401/Shifting+Wine+Markets 'Bordeaux will get cheaper,' said negociant Ivanhoe Johnston, with whom I chatted over a spit bucket at the tasting. Don't you know wine critics live to write sentences like that? Interesting article about a major wine distributor in America. http://hdlns.com/g149zf963za44794180/Metal+music%2C+Christopher+Lee%2C+and+Charlemagne Christopher Lee -- the actor with the magnificent voice who starred as Dracula in all those Hammer films, and who younger audiences will recognize as Saruman the White from Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku from Star Wars -- has produced a 'symphonic http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785286/Headless+Man%27s+Tomb+Found+Under+Maya+Torture+Mural Source: National Geographic News (3-12-10)The tomb of a headless man adorned with jade has been discovered beneath an ancient Mexican chamber famously painted with scenes of torture. Found under the Temple of Murals at the Maya site of Bonamp http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785272/Ties+between+Israel+and+US+%27worst+in+35+years%27 Source: BBC News (3-15-10)Israel's ambassador to the US has said that relations between the two countries are at their lowest point for 35 years, Israeli media have reported. Last week Israeli officials announced the building of 1,600 new home http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785281/Hero%27s+medals+given+to+Duxford+Imperial+War+Museum Source: BBC (3-15-10)A war hero's Battle of Britain medals have been gifted to a museum on the site of the former Cambridgeshire airfield he was based at. Wing Commander George Blackwood served at RAF Duxford during World War II with the 310 S http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785276/Nazis+planned+to+infiltrate+Vatican+with+spies+dressed+as+monks Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-15-10)Germany hatched a plan during World War Two to infiltrate the Vatican with spies disguised as monks, according to secret MI5 intelligence reports. A Nazi sympathiser living in Rome came up with the idea and it w http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785285/Russian+church+wants+czar%27s+burial+site Source: New York Times (3-13-10)Visitors from around the world have turned an isolated ravine in central Russia into a pilgrimage site in recent years. They arrive to gaze at the unadorned earth where the Bolsheviks, in one final act to defile http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785280/Wallenberg%3A+The+lost+hero Source: BBC (3-15-10)Raoul Wallenberg was a heroic Swedish diplomat who made history by assisting and saving thousands of Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust. But Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet Union and disappeared into the Gulag, nev http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785275/30+years+later%3A+The+long+road+to+clearing+Falklands+landmines Source: BBC News (3-14-10)Nearly 30 years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands, a pilot project has begun to rid the territory of some of the 20,000 landmines left behind and clean up land that has been off limits s http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785284/Medieval+Child%27s+Brain+Found+Preserved Source: Discovery News (3-15-10)Scientists were able to identify neurons and cerebral cells from the brain preserved from the 13th century. An international team of researchers has identified intact neurons and cerebral cells in a mummified me http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785279/Dotcom+web+address+celebrates+silver+anniversary Source: BBC (3-15-10)The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March - the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered. In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785274/Wembley+Way+built+by+German+Prisoners+of+War+%28UK%29 Source: BBC News (3-15-10)English Sporting icons don't come much bigger than Wembley Stadium but few realise that it owes some of its splendour to the labour of German prisoners of war . The news, which follows an investigation by BBC Radio 4' http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785283/World+War+I+tunneller%27s+nephew+is+traced Source: BBC (3-5-10)A relative of a Swansea soldier whose story helped inspire a memorial to the tunnellers killed in World War I has been traced ahead of its unveiling. Historians were desperate to invite any descendents of Thomas Collins, wh http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785278/Princess+Diana+book+claims+her+driver+was+framed Source: Telegraph (UK) (2-15-10)A raft of alleged inconsistencies in the evidence surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has been published in a book by an investigative journalist. Australian journalist John Morgan claimed he was http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785273/Dotcom+web+address+celebrates+silver+anniversary Source: BBC News (3-15-10)The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March - the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered. In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books wi http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785282/Fire+destroys+19th+Century+church+in+Cambridgeshire Source: BBC (3-15-10)A fire which destroyed a church in the fenland area of Cambridgeshire is being treated as suspicious. The fire broke out mid-morning at the 19th Century church of St Mary's at Westry on the outskirts of March. Only the e http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44785277/World+War+II+Propaganda+Posters+to+be+Auctioned+off Source: Metro (UK) (3-15-10)A treasure trove of 200 World War II propaganda posters is being auctioned after being found in an old printing factory. The posters, with famous slogans such as Keep Calm And Carry On and Careless Talk Costs Lives http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44774510/Texas+Conservatives+Win+Curriculum+Change Source: NYT (3-12-10)After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of America http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44774509/After+the+Earthquake%2C+a+Military+Chile+Can+Love+Again Source: NYT (3-12-10)At Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s funeral, one of his grandsons, an Army captain also named Augusto Pinochet, gave a eulogy so defiant and aggressive that he was cashiered the next day. Earlier, as the general lay in state i http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44774508/Tea-ing+Up+the+Constitution Source: NYT (3-12-10)Brash and young though it is, the Tea Party movement has already added something distinctive to contemporary political discourse. It has made the Constitution central to the national conversation. The content of the moveme http://hdlns.com/g149zf8685za44770318/Review%3A+The+Long+Shadow+of+the+Civil+War%3A+Southern+Dissent+and+Its+Legacies Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. The University of North Carolina Press (2010). 240 pages, 9 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 $35.00 (Hardcover). Was the http://hdlns.com/g149zf961za44762087/Myth+Monday+-+Liber%27s+Festival Bacchus at Waddesdon CC Flickr User wit Ovid tells us in his Fasti that on the third day after the Ides of March, Romans celebrated the Liberalia. To review: fasti refers to the festival days or, basically, the Roman calendar [see Roman ca http://hdlns.com/g149zf961za44762086/The+Ides+of+March There was a day known as the Ides (originally set to correspond with the full moon) in each month of the ancient Roman calendar, but only one of them has made it into popular culture. This day is the Ides of March, which happens to occur on the 15th http://hdlns.com/g149zf965za44761961/Top+Ten+Women+of+Medieval+Europe Before the Renaissance -- when a number of women in Europe wielded influence and power -- women of medieval Europe often came to prominence primarily through their family connections. Through marriage or motherhood, or as their father's heir when the http://hdlns.com/g149zf965za44752291/Poll%3A+Most+Overrated+Woman+of+the+20th+Century Women's history uncovers many less-known women, while history and the news may overemphasize other women whose achievements don't really warrant that attention. Who do you think was the most overrated woman of the twentienth century? Click to vote, http://hdlns.com/g149zf8686za44742743/The+Friesland+ship+Gideon+in+1631 No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g149zf8703za44742492/Chinese+vase+at+auction A vase thought to have belonged to an 18th Century Chinese emperor turned up an auction in rural Ireland earlier this month and sold for more than 70 times its asking price. The 12-inch http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44738137/A+Very+Short+Course+in+Contemporary+Prestige+Films See how many references you can catch: http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44736757/Expedition+Sought+to+Find+George+Mallory%27s+Camera Source: Discovery News (3-12-10)George Mallory's camera may contain photographic evidence of whether he and Andrew Irvine were the first to summit Everest. Tom Holzel really wants a camera. The problem is, the only camera that he'll settle for http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44736756/Kenneth+Dover%2C+a+Provocative+Scholar+of+Ancient+Greek+Literature%2C+Dies+at+8 Source: New York Times (2-13-10)Kenneth Dover, an eminent scholar of ancient Greek life, language and literature who became known for his willingness to break longstanding taboos in print, from his frank descriptions of sexual behavior (both th http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44736755/Dig+may+find+signs+of+Viking+town+in+Thetford Source: BBC (3-14-10)Archaeologists hope to find signs of an old Viking town during excavations in Norfolk. The dig at the Anchor Hotel in Bridge Street, Thetford, is being carried out ahead of a possible redevelopment of the area. The proxi http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44736754/Henry+Kissinger+released+from+South+Korea+hospital Source: CNN (3-14-10)Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was discharged from a hospital in Seoul on Sunday after being treated for a stomach virus. He is "in good spirits," said Dr. John Linton of Yonsei Severance Hospital. Kissing http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44736758/Ancient+Norse+Settlements+Hit+Cold+Spell Source: Discovery News (3-10-10)A long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago. New research reveals just how bad an idea it was to colonize Greenland and Iceland more than a millennium ago: ave http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44730624/Texas+board+endorses+conservative-backed+curriculum Source: Houston Chronicle (3-13-10)The State Board of Education tentatively approved new standards for social studies Friday with members divided along party lines — some blasting them as a fraud and conservative whitewash, others praisin http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44718656/The+Good+President+%5Bcontinued%5D Regarding Bush and Iraq, Jeff Jacoby writes:RONALD REAGAN liked to say that there was no limit to what a man could accomplish if he didn't mind who got the credit. The transformation of Iraq from a hellish tyranny into a functioning democracy will be http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44718655/Toyota+Hoax Once again the MSM displays its incredible and impenetrable stupidity. That much-hyped Toyota out of control story that was ubiquitous last week turns out to have been a hoax [gee, how many of those have we had lately?] perpetrated by a guy who wante http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44718654/Predators On Dec. 30, a Jordanian double agent blew himself up, killing seven CIA agents and a Jordanian military officer at a CIA base near Khost. One of the reasons the base was targeted was because it was involved in coordinating drone attacks.Der Spiegel d http://hdlns.com/g149zf961za44716664/On+This+Day+in+Ancient+History+-+Equiria March 14, the day before the Ides of March, was the second annual occasion of Roman horse races known as Equir(r)ia. The first was on February 27. Clipart.com They are attributed to Romulus and held in honor of Mars. They were probably held at the C http://hdlns.com/g149zf965za44716640/Mae+West%27s+Wit+and+Wisdom Mae West was best known as a comedian and actress whose bawdy plays and movies were full of double entendres and attracted the attention of industry censors. Less well known is her role as writer in many productions. Her film career -- mainly at Para http://hdlns.com/g149zf960za44708695/Eli+Whitney+and+the+Cotton+Gin On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin. This device made the job of separating cotton from its seeds much easier. The ease of separating the cotton fiber from the seed meant that more raw cotton would be needed to keep http://hdlns.com/g149zf963za44708099/Einhard+dead+at+70 Actually, he may have been a few years younger or older; it is uncertain when Einhard was born. But we do know that this contemporary and friend of Charlemagne, who witnessed many of the significant events of the late 8th and early 9th centuries and http://hdlns.com/g149zf964za44706932/Punitive+Expedition%3A+Pershing+Crosses+the+Border March 15, 1916 - Brigadier General John J. Pershing leads American troops across the border during the Punitive Expedition (right). In the wake of Pancho Villa's raids against American citizens and March 9, 1916 attack on Columbus, NM, Pres. Woodro http://hdlns.com/g149zf8685za44703403/More+on+Battle+Ranges Last week I looked at a study by a serving US Army officer, Maj. Thomas Erhart, about the need for longer range infantry weapons in Afghanistan. While looking at some of the supporting material I came across a fascinating study the Army conducted in http://hdlns.com/g149zf964za44697930/War+of+1812%3A+1814+-+Advances+in+the+North+%26+A+Capital+Burned Having endured a succession of ineffective commanders, American forces on the Niagara received capable leadership in 1814 with the appointment of Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown and Brig. Gen. Winfield Scott. Entering Canada, Scott won the Battle of Chippawa http://hdlns.com/g149zf962za44694293/Emile+Fradin+Dies Emile Fraudin, who possibly perpetrated one of European archaeology's greatest frauds, has died aged 103, taking his secrets with him. I discovered this news from an obituary in a British newspaper which manages to be marvellously even handed when di http://hdlns.com/g149zf962za44694292/Oral+History+of+Science+Begun The British Library is to spend the next three years interviewing British scientists to create an oral history archive. While veterans of the world wars have been the target of oral historians for a while, curator Dr Rob Perks explained to the BBC th http://hdlns.com/g149zf962za44694291/Lock+of+Napoleon%C2%27s+Hair+found+in+Australia%3F I've come across a few stories linked to the posthumous spread of Napoleon's body parts and related objects, and thanks to the Telegraph I've found another. According to this article, people cleaning (the apparent depths) of a Town Hall's vaults unco http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692883/Alleged+Ku+Klux+Klan+Member+Loses+Appeal+in+1964+Murders Source: AP (3-13-10)A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member accused in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964. In a two-to-one ruling, the panel of j http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692892/Ancient+Tribal+Meeting+Ground+Found+in+Australia Source: Discovery News (3-10-10)The 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life. Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000 http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692887/%27Despicable%27+raid+at+WWII+heroine+Andree+Peel%27s+home Source: BBC (3-12-10)Burglars have broken into the home of French Resistance heroine Andree Peel, it has emerged. Mrs Peel, who died last week aged 105, helped save more than 100 Allied pilots and spent her final years in Long Ashton, near Bri http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692882/Settlement+offer+worth+millions+in+9+11+case+to+go+before+judge Source: CNN (3-12-10)A New York judge Friday postponed a decision on a proposed $657 million settlement for people who became ill after working on the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The settlement, announced Thursday http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692891/Villagers+threatening+Achaemenid+tomb+in+southern+Iran Source: Tehran Times (3-11-10)Construction by local residents has imperiled an ancient structure, believed to be the tomb of Cyrus I, the Achaemenid king and son of Teispes and grandfather of Cyrus II the Great, near the village of Tang-e Eram http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692886/Cypriot+%27Al+Capone%27+suspected+of+stealing+president%27s+body Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-12-10)A notorious Cypriot villain, known as "Al Capone", is suspected of ordering the theft of the corpse of the former president Tassos Papadopoulos. Antonis Kitas is suspected of giving the order to snatch the body http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692881/Kissinger+admitted+to+South+Korean+hospital Source: CNN (3-13-10)Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday with a stomach virus, a doctor told CNN. The state-run Yonhap news agency reported that Kissinger, 86, arrived in http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692890/Jewish+retiree+creates+stir+defending+Pope+Pius Source: AP (3-13-10)In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender. Gary Krupp, who is Jewis http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692885/Apollo+astronauts+dismay+at+axing+of+Nasa+mission+to+return+mankind+to+the Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-13-10)Former Apollo astronauts have expressed dismay at President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the Nasa programme that was intended to return mankind to the Moon. Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the M http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692889/Richard+Stites%2C+Historian+of+Russian+Culture%2C+Dies+at+78 Source: New York Times (3-12-10)Richard Stites, who opened up new territory for historians with a landmark work on the Russian women’s movement and in numerous articles and books on Russian and Soviet mass culture, died on Sunday in Helsi http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692884/Vandals+Ransack+Former+Nazi+Concentration+Camp Source: AP (3-13-10)Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that authorities discovered Saturday and are investigating. Words including "Jude Raus" — German http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44692888/Da+Vinci+trial+hears+of+loan+request Source: BBC (3-12-10)A lawyer asked one of his clients if he could borrow £350,000 to retrieve a stolen painting, a trial has been told. Roy Radcliffe, 60, told the High Court in Edinburgh that he was promised a 10% profit but he dismisse http://hdlns.com/g149zf963za44687447/Felix+becomes+pope Born into a Roman senatorial family, Felix III was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope Simplicius. Once pope, Felix had to deal with a controversy over Monophysitism that led to the Acacian Schism. The papacy of Felix III http://hdlns.com/g149zf965za44679302/America%27s+First+Ladies While the wives of American presidents haven't always been called 'first ladies,' the first wife of a president, Martha Washington, went far in establishing a tradition somewhere between a democratic family and royalty. Some First Ladies have wielded http://hdlns.com/g149zf8683za44663486/What+to+listen+to+while+copy-editing More from the WUMB list. #99 Jonathan Edwards. Have a Good Time for Me (1973; re-issued 2005). Edwards singing the work of other songwriters. The amazing Wikipedia tells me that Jonathan Edwards was living in Western Massachusetts when he made this http://hdlns.com/g149zf8695za44662144/What%27s+the+Matter+with+Kansas%3F The same thing that has been the matter with the whole country for quite some time. For example, allegedly Red State Kansas has recently passed a statewide ban on all smoking in private businesses. Today Democratic governor Mark Parkinson signed HB22 http://hdlns.com/g149zf8695za44662143/Gore%27s+Wishes+are+Your+Commands Guest Commentary by Edward Cline:Former Vice-President Al Gore, star of the pseudo-documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' which won an Oscar for best documentary feature and garnered him a Nobel Peace Prize shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44655306/VDH+on+Tom+Hanks Victor Davis Hanson wonders if Tom Hanks is 'unhinged' [here]. No, he's just a typical Hollywood liberal, convinced that history is monocausal, that the common folk are dangerous bigots, and that America is a force for evil in this world. That is ind http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44655305/Iowahawk+on+Leaks The funniest writer on the web strikes again. Go here to check out the latest from Iowahawk. http://hdlns.com/g149zf8676za44655304/History+Links A massive compilation of links to information on historical subjects. The quality varies, but there are some real gems. Check it out here. http://hdlns.com/g149zf965za44653168/Anne+Bonny%2C+Pirate A colorful tale of scandal, piracy, and cross-dressing, Anne Bonny's story was first told in a 1724 book on pirates by a pseudonymous author, most likely Daniel Defoe. What happened to Anne Bonny is still a matter of speculation and contention. Rea http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652433/Nazi+victims%27+mass+graves+found+in+Austria+under+football+pitch Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-12-10)Two mass graves containing scores of people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War have been found underneath an army football pitch in Austria, government officials said on Friday. Some of the remai http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652442/Queen+Victoria+and+Prince+Albert+art+shown+in+London Source: BBC (3-12-10)A new exhibition will showcase for the first time the art that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert collected and presented to each other. The display at Buckingham Palace reveals the couple's enthusiasm for paintings, sculptu http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652437/New+York+agrees+World+Trade+Center+9+11+dust+payout Source: BBC (3-12-10)New York City officials have agreed to pay up to $657.5m (£437m) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers after 9/11. The settlement would compensate more than 10,000 plaintiffs who say they were made sick by dust http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652432/Beheaded+Vikings+found+at+Olympic+site Source: CNN (3-12-10)They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave. Their resting place was unknown until last year, when workmen excavating for a road near the L http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652441/Sweden+to+extradite+Auschwitz+sign+theft+suspect Source: BBC (3-11-10)A court in Stockholm has ruled that a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland to face trial over the theft of a sign from the Auschwitz death camp. Investigators accuse Anders Hogstrom, 34, of instigating the theft of the http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652436/Winnie+denies+interview+criticising+Nelson+Mandela Source: BBC (3-12-10)Winnie Mandela, the former wife of ex-President Nelson Mandela, has denied giving an interview accusing him of letting down black South Africans. Ms Madikizela-Mandela said the article, published in London's Evening Standa http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652440/Ex-Bosnian+leader+%27owed+apology+by+British+government%27 Source: BBC (3-11-10)Britain should apologise to a former Bosnian president for "mistreating" him in prison, the chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina said. Former Bosnian President Ejup Ganic, 64, was arrested at Heathrow ove http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652435/Atheist+in+battle+to+remove+%27In+God+We+Trust%27+from+US+currency Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-12-10)An atheist has claimed in court that the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on US currency should be removed on the grounds they breach his constitutional rights as a non believer http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652439/Israel+in+legal+battle+over+Kafka%27s+papers Source: BBC (3-12-10)This is a struggle between Israel and Germany, between a Jewish refugee family from Prague and Israeli public opinion over a collection of papers that might include unpublished works by the celebrated 20th Century writer Fr http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652434/Germany+fights+to+keep+Holocaust+organiser%27s+files+sealed Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-12-10)Germany is fighting to keep sealed the Eichmann files detailing the years the Holocaust's chief logistics organiser spent on the run before he was captured by Mossad agents. Those hoping to have a 50-year secre http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652443/Miniature+portrait+of+Scots+naval+hero+goes+on+sale Source: BBC (3-12-10)A tiny portrait of a Scottish naval officer who helped set the White House ablaze is estimated to fetch up to £15,000 at auction next month. The miniature of Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1768-1838), from Dumfriesshire, measu http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44652438/No+let-up+in+row+over+ex-Bosnian+leader%27s+arrest Source: BBC (3-11-10)The arrest of a former Bosnian president is still causing diplomatic fallout, even after the decision by the High Court in London on Thursday to release him on bail. Ejup Ganic was arrested on 1 March on a Serbian extradi http://hdlns.com/g149zf958za44649795/Apartheid+Government+Targeted+Oliver+Tambo%3F On 12 March 1982 the ANC offices in London were bombed. The head of the South African Security Branch, General Johan Coetzee, had planned the operation under instruction of the Minister of Law and Order, Louis le Grange. The bombing coincided with an http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44641667/Texas+SBOE+members+clash+over+racial+balance+in+history Source: Houston Chronicle (3-11-10)The State Board of Education's Hispanic and African-American members clashed with its Anglo majority for hours Thursday over how to present history to the state's 4.7 million public school children. Much of t http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44641671/Israel+in+legal+battle+over+Kafka%27s+papers Source: BBC News (3-12-10)Imagine a number of safety deposit boxes, in different banks in different countries. No-one is quite sure what's inside them. Yet private individuals, state bodies and commercial institutions are locked in a seemingly http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44641670/Texas+Conservatives+Seek+Deeper+Stamp+on+Texts Source: NYT (3-10-10)Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum tha http://hdlns.com/g149zf8719za44641669/Germany+fights+to+keep+Holocaust+organiser%27s+files+sealed Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-12-10)Germany is fighting to keep sealed the Eichmann files detailing the years the Holocaust's chief logistics organiser spent on the run before he was captured by Mossad agents. 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