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[Holocaust Remembrance - 08 Feb 2010 Mr. Pisar’s reminder that the remaining survivors of the Shoah will soon have died is sad and disturbing.... [Archaeology expert calls Scots power line 'rape of countryside' - 07 Feb 2010 TV ARCHAEOLOGIST Neil Oliver has joined the controversy over the Beauly-Denny power line and also compared onshore wind farms to "raping" the countryside.... [The Melody and Lyrics of Black History - 06 Feb 2010 An alliance of composers has put together music for the vocalist Tara Nova, using the texts of black poets like Langston Hughes.... [Rupert Cornwell: The incredible story of the most important woman in the history of modern medicine - 06 Feb 2010 She was a poor black tobacco worker, the descendant of slaves. She is buried in an unmarked grave in a clearing, just outside the little town in rural Virginia where she grew up, now all but razed from the face of the earth. Whether or not her soul lives on is a matter of religious belief. Unarguably though, her body does, and for that reason, Henrietta Lacks may be the most important woman in ...... [Iranian museum cutting British Museum ties in artefact protest - 06 Feb 2010 Iran's national museum is to cut ties with the British Museum amid a dispute over the loan of an ancient Persian treasure.... ['Empathic Civilization' Excerpt: Homo-Empathicus, The Big Story That Historians Missed - 04 Feb 2010 What's Your Reaction' Historians, by and large, write about social conflict and wars, great heroes and evil wrongdoers, technological progress and the exercise of power, economic injustices and the redress of social grievances.... [Excavation and restoration on the Avenue of Sphinxes - 03 Feb 2010 Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), along with the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, will embark today on an inspection tour along the Avenue of Sphinxes that connects the Luxor and Karnak temples.... [Wartime Pope Pius XII 'more concerned about Communism than Holocaust' - 02 Feb 2010 Britain implored the controversial wartime Pope to speak out against the Holocaust but Pius XII was more concerned about the threat posed by Communism, according to documents in the National Archives at Kew.... [Black History Month Quotes: Famous, Inspirational Sayings To Reflect On February 2010 - 01 Feb 2010 What's Your Reaction' Historical quotes provide an opportunity for reflection this Black History Month 2010.... [Alex Remington: Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Popular History of Human Evolution That Actually Contributes to Understanding - 30 Jan 2010 Popular nonfiction is a tricky beast. It's one thing for someone to write a memoir, or a long-form investigation that the journalist-author has personally...... [English Heritage issues SOS - save old schools - 24 Jan 2010 Britain's unprecedented rush to build schools is condemned today as a threat to hundreds of sound and thoughtfully designed buildings from an era when materials were high-quality but cheap.... [Debunking the history myths your teachers might have told you - 14 Jan 2010 Anyone who's studied Ancient Egypt - or seen The 10 Commandments - knows slaves built the pyramids......	[Navy seaman named youngest serviceman to die in second world war - 07 Feb 2010 Reginald Earnshaw, who was killed during the conflict, aged 14, will be honoured by the Commonwealth graves commission The slim headstone marking the grave of the youngest Briton to die on active service in the second world war has a short inscription. It starts: "R Earnshaw. Boy." Reginald Earnshaw was 14 years and 152 days old when he died. He had lied about his age to join the merchant navy ...... [WWII hand grenade found in garden - 07 Feb 2010 A hand grenade dating back to World War II is unearthed in a garden in the Isle of Man.... [LITTLE REGGIE, THE YOUNGEST HERO OF WW2 - 06 Feb 2010 Cabin boy, 14, gets headstone at last... [Book Claims Hitler Took Bulls' Semen to Satisfy Mistress - 06 Feb 2010 Adolf Hitler took 82 medicines, including a primitive form of Viagra, to satisfy his mistress, a new book claimed Saturday.... [Dylan Loewe: Defining the Second Great Depression - 03 Feb 2010 From the moment he was sworn into office, President Obama had a pretty overwhelming task ahead of him. In that month, the economy lost 700,000...... [Mussolini iPhone app taken down - 03 Feb 2010 A controversial iphone application that allows users to download speeches by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is withdrawn.... [Poland: Arrest Warrant Issued in Auschwitz Sign Theft - 02 Feb 2010 A European arrest warrant was issued for a former neo-Nazi leader, Anders Hogstrom, 34, suspected in the theft of the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign at Auschwitz.... [100 years on, soldiers killed in a WW1 finally laid to rest - 31 Jan 2010 Cut down in a hail of German bullets nearly 100 years ago, soldiers killed in a First World War battle were finally laid to rest yesterday.... [Lost grave of hundreds of British and Australian Great War dead from battle of Fromelles is discovered - 30 Jan 2010 A mass grave containing the remains of more than 400 British and Australian soldiers killed in the bitter fight for Fromelles, near Lille, in 1916, has been discovered by Scottish archaeologists exploring the First World War battlefield.... [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Replaying the Obama Bolshevik Card - 30 Jan 2010 President Obama had two things in mind when he invited himself to the cozy GOP in house confab in Baltimore. One was to tell...... [Winston Churchill cigar sells for £4k - 30 Jan 2010 A CIGAR that Sir Winston Churchill left unfinished in 1941 fetched £4,500 at a sale.... [Lenin proves too heavy a burden - 28 Jan 2010 A CITY in the south of Russia is selling its bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, as it can no longer afford the cost of repairs.... [Noise=Noise - Vultures + John Wall + Sz. Berlin + Ampersand - 27 Jan 2010 A night of live music from Noise=Noise, Vultures, John Wall, Sz. Berlin, Ampersand, Ryan Jordan, Jose Macabra and Eaten By Children, with DJ Gianni.... [Jim Kennedy: President Obama To America: "I See You " - 27 Jan 2010 President Obama's version of "I see you" must convey to people that he understands both the extent of their problems and their hesitancy to grow government to solve them.... [Texas Board Of Ed Bans Children's Book Over Marxism Mix-Up - 26 Jan 2010 What's Your Reaction' In its haste to sort out the state's social studies curriculum standards this month, the State Board of Education tossed children's author Martin, who died in 2004, from a proposal for the third-grade section.... [Israelis protest over 'fascist' Jerusalem settlements - 22 Jan 2010 At least 15 protesters were arrested yesterday as several hundred left-wing Israelis held their biggest demonstration yet against demolitions and evictions of east Jerusalem Palestinians designed to make way for Jewish settlers.... [Internet censorship 'the new Berlin Wall' - 21 Jan 2010 The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has called for an unfettered internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the US over the hacking and censorship of Google.... [Yoani Sanchez: Che Guevara's "New Man ": Another Look - 21 Jan 2010 Today's guest blogger is Ivan Garcia, a freelance journalist since 1995; Ivan's blog, Desde Cuba: Ivan's File Cabinet, has recently been translated into English....... [Concentration camp survivor Thomas Blatt takes John Demjanjuk trial back in time - 19 Jan 2010 Courtroom 101 took on the air of a macabre seance yesterday when the lights were dimmed and one of the last survivors of Sobibor concentration camp guided a stunned, often weeping audience back in time to the Holocaust.... [Russian heir demands Tsar Nicholas II murder investigation - 16 Jan 2010 The self-proclaimed heir to Russia's imperial throne has demanded the reopening of the investigation into the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by Bolsheviks in 1918.... [China and Google: Inability to deal with new technology helped hobble the USSR \| Michael White - 14 Jan 2010 China has always been more interesting, more subtle. But continental isolationism has consequences Do great powers all make the same fatal mistakes' It's tempting to say yes at a time when the United States is still busily fulfilling Geordie historian Paul Kennedy's "imperial overstretch" prediction, which so enraged Ronald Reaganauts in the 1980s. So how about Google's decision to withdraw its ......	[Napoleon Perdis: Valentine's Day: A Makeup Survival Guide - 01 Feb 2010 Follow these full-proof makeup tips and application techniques to look absolutely ravishing this Valentine's Day. Cupid, ready your arrow.... [Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How the British empire is striking back - 31 Jan 2010 I did try to sit through the Blair show. An unfortunate combination of Asiatic high emotion and feminine fragility made me feeble. I had to walk away, knocking over a large goblet of dark red wine, the colour of blood. It stained the beautiful wooden floor. From TB, then, the final words. I Did It My Way and Je ne regrette rien. So long folks. The Tory poster of Blair as the devil man now seems ......	[A clear picture from man who taught Leonardo Da Vinci - 05 Feb 2010 To the modern world, Andrea di Cione, called Verrocchio (true eye), is most famous as the artist to whom the teenage Leonardo da Vinci was apprenticed....	[Romans' chariot racetrack imperilled - 07 Feb 2010 There was considerable excitement among archaeologists when, in 2005, a firm of housing developers unearthed the only Roman chariot racing track in Britain, on a site in Colchester, Essex. Five years later, residents have less than a month to save the site. The racetrack is still hidden beneath local roads, gardens and old army buildings, but campaigners are hoping to buy a large Victorian ......


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