The moon is not a dry desolate piece of rock orbiting earth as we have been led to believe for the past forty years, says Jose Escamilla. Instead, the moon appears to be a small planet full of color, water, clouds and perhaps civilizations existing there. The new documentary “Moon Rising” presents the moon in its “full natural color” for the first time in human history.

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AFTER selling nearly 10m copies of Life of Pi since winning the Booker prize in 2002, its author Yann Martel has finally concluded a deal for a new book to be published worldwide next year.

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Yann Martel, the Booker-prizewinning author of Life of Pi, is about to make a long-awaited return to bookshops with a novel about the Holocaust. The as-yet untitled book — Martel’s first since the bestselling Life of Pi eight years ago — is an allegorical story about an encounter between a famous writer and a taxidermist.

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US President Barack Obama paid passionate tribute to black civil rights trailblazers on the centennial of the NAACP, but said a “new mindset” was necessary to achieve a post-racial America.

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Aniboom to Infuse Animation into Celebrity Performances by Stars Including Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Sandra Oh, and Morgan Freeman, Among Others

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Fascism thrives on legality, it lawyers up every chance it gets, the better to use any institution of democracy to quietly and methodically corrupt and demolish every institution of democracy.

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A Maori historian says not all Maori will welcome the prospect of flying one flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge to represent Maoridom on Waitangi Day.

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GERMAN prosecutors charged suspected death-camp guard John Demjanjuk yesterday with helping to kill nearly 28,000 Jews in the Second World War.

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Pakistani-born writer, political activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali thought he had switched for good from non-fiction to fiction in 1990 after the Berlin Wall fell but switched back when the United States decided to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

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A RETIRED university lecturer has written a history of her old school, and is now appealing for photographs to complete the book.

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of U.S. history and should be taught in a meaningful way.

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BNP leader Nick Griffin has denied as “smears” claims he was a fascist and defended his call to sink boats carrying migrants from Africa to Europe.

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As the home of unique documents ranging from the Titanic passenger list to top-secret cabinet papers, the National Archives is Britain’s single most valuable source of primary materials for social historians. But concern is growing that public access is under threat after an announcement that it is to reduce opening hours, limit access to original documents and lay off a number of specialist …

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Colour photo shows Jewish boys huddled outside soup kitchen.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has replaced the cardinal responsible for lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop as part of the Vatican’s effort to reconcile with an ultraconservative group.

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Oklahoma couple arrested in Montana for investigation of burying a young girl then digging up her remains and moving the body from state to state for more than a year.

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An Oklahoma couple has been arrested in Montana for investigation of burying a young girl then digging up her remains and moving the body from state to state for more than a year, authorities said Tuesday.

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Corporate Personhood and the Roberts’ Court by Thom Hartmann As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of government that exercises a…

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A talk has been organised to highlight the horrors of the Holocaust.

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A school’s historical artefacts and records, some dating back 700 years, are on display at a new archive.

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Prosecutors said that ex-Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk, accused of herding 29,000 Jews to their deaths, is fit to be tried in what could be Germany’s last major Nazi case.

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Waterloo Conservation Area is ‘at risk’ from inappropriate development, warns English Heritage in this year’s Heritage at Risk register published last week. Three previously ‘at risk’ SE1 buildings have been removed from this year’s register.

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Abuja — Former Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Muhammadu Buhari, has accused President Umaru Yar’Adua and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of fascism over the detention of indigenes of Bauchi State without trial.

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UPDATED: James W. von Brunn, the white supremacist who fatally shot a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the District earlier this month, was still too injured from the gun battle to appear in court Tuesday morning. Federal prosecutor Nicole Waid said a D.C. Department of Corrections doctor made the determination. Mr. von Brunn, 88, was shot in the face during the June 10 killing of …

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An international conference assessing efforts to return property and possessions stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners or heirs said Monday that caring for Holocaust survivors is a matter of the “utmost urgency.”

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Theory is a thing of the past for these hip young historians, says Oliver Marre What does history mean to you’ Dusty tweed in ivory towers, perhaps, or a man of a certain age, with a slightly funny voice, being both caustic and informative on television’ Does it mean tramping around a site of historical interest on a wet afternoon’ Or, at best, a weighty tome read by an open fire. Today’s …

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English Heritage has compiled a new survey of “hauntings” at its sites.

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The home I grew up in … was a removal van: my father was always going broke.

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Holocaust survivors, Jewish groups and experts gathered in Prague on Friday to assess efforts to return property and possessions stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners or heirs.

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What do you come out with’ BA or BSc. Why do it’ This fascinating subject scrapes away at secrets hidden in layers of soil stretching from yesterday’s rubbish right through to the Stone Age and beyond.

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A group of 25 US lawmakers urged Lithuania and Poland in letters released Wednesday to enact laws this year to address restituting property the Nazis stole during the Holocaust.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors said Tuesday that a white supremacist accused of opening fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum still hasn’t recovered enough to appear in court but has been turned over to the District of Columbia’s Corrections Department. Prosecutor Nicole Waid told U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola at a hearing that 88-year-old James von Brunn’s doctors say he won’t be …

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With Independence Day just around the corner, here is a list of ten of my favorite books about the Revolutionary War era.

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Summer reading lists are an end-of-school staple as parents, teachers, librarians and others encourage children to continue building their skills. This summer, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History launches the “OurStory” Web site with free, themed activities for exploring American history through reading. “OurStory” activities are designed to engage a wide range of learning …

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Waitrose. Marvellous isn’t it’ So much better than Tesco and you wouldn’t be seen dead in Morrisons. Alex Ferguson. Great man and glad to see the back of Ronaldo. Gordon Brown. Formerly a serious bloke who would save us from the frivolity of the Blair years but now an incompetent loon. Organic food.

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RICHMOND | The state Department of Education is withdrawing a proposal to discontinue third-grade history and social-science accountability tests, after vocal protests from history advocates and state legislators. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said Friday she has informed the Board of Education that she is withdrawing the proposal to eliminate the third-grade …

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WASHINGTON – A federal judge has agreed to postpone until Tuesday a hearing on the condition of the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.

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The historic town of Witney part of David Cameron’s constituency is to be named as an “at risk” conservation area in a major English Heritage report to be published next week.

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WASHINGTON – Authorities say they found child pornography on a computer belonging to a white supremacist charged with shooting and killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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As a slave laborer in Auschwitz, Meyer Hack was forced to sort through the tattered clothing stripped off inmates before they were sent to the gas chambers. He gathered valuable belongings hidden inside the clothes, stuffed them in a sock, hid them and later spirited them to freedom.

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A white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear in court, a federal judge ruled Monday.

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The success of the far right in the European elections prompts this morbid question: can film hold out against co-option by some future jackboot tyranny’ Neatly, if spookily timed, veteran critic Jonathan Rosenbaum chose last week to republish on his personal blog a typically nimble essay on the troubling connections between cinema and fascism . At any point it would have been a compelling read; …

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued the following statement today in recognition of National History Day:

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Combining her skills in plot construction and suspense with a well-honed insistence on historical veracity, Firth Haring Fabend’s latest novel, Land So Fair, is a hair-raising tale of colonial life in a geographical area familiar to many readers, who will quickly recognize it as their fair land, too, and their history.

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The son of James von Brunn said Sunday that his father, who is accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, had long burdened his family with his white supremacist views.

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Richard Curtis never expected it to turn out like this – that an idea of toying with the comedy and sheer idiocy of pivotal moments in British history would end up a whole generation later as a hefty, multi-volume resource for teachers.

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MONTREAL – Looking for a correct answer to a Canadian history question’ It all depends where you ask.

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Twenty years after the fall of communism, a new exhibit in Sofia this week had Bulgarians smiling in amusement at the propaganda and political slogans of that time.

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