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Children need 'life skills' not dates say teachers
Telegraph (UK)  |  March 21, 2008
Children should not be taught to remember key historical dates such as the Battle of Hastings but should instead learn "life skills", teachers have claimed. More

Tampa sued to collect on 147-year-old promissory note worth millions
St. Petersburg Times  |  March 16, 2008
Will the 147-year-old loan need to be repaid? More

Outlaw Ned Kelly's remains found
New Zealand Herald  |  March 09, 2008
Ned Kelly's resting place has been found among bones dug up at the former Pentridge Prison site. More

Second World War Nazi tanks put up for sale
Telegraph (UK)  |  March 11, 2008
Nazi tanks that have lain neglected in Bulgarian fields for decades are to be put up for auction - and one can be yours for as little as £77,000 (€100,000). More

Fiber-optic map details Vicksburg siege
Vicksburgpost.com  |  February 28, 2008
Beginning today, visitors to the Vicksburg National Military Park will have a more complete picture of how the 1863 campaign of Vicksburg unfolded, thanks to a new fiber-optic map unveiled in the Visitor Center Wednesday. More

Women's History Month
CNN  |  March 02, 2008
March is Women's History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration that encourages all Americans to reflect on the ways in which women have shaped U.S. history. But how did this celebration come to be, and why is it held in March? More

Venezuela and Colombia Have a Long History of Tension
Voice of America  |  March 03, 2008
VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, the surge in tensions are the latest chapter in a period of frosty relations between Colombia's U.S.-backed leader and Venezuela socialist-firebrand president. More

'No mystery here' say the Knights of Malta
Telegraph (UK)  |  March 08, 2008
An ancient Roman Catholic order tried yesterday to dispel the conspiracy theories surrounding it as it buried its Grand Master. More

Temple wins national pride poll
BBC  |  March 06, 2008
A Hindu temple has been named the landmark of which residents are most proud, in a national poll. More

Beeswax from centuries-old shipwrecks still found on Oregon beaches
Seattle Times  |  March 03, 2008
The wax has been turning up on Oregon's north coast in the Nehalem and Manzanita areas for centuries. More

First Sioux receives Medal of Honor
CNN  |  March 03, 2008
Nearly 26 years after his death, Army Master Sgt. Woodrow "Woody" Keeble was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Monday for his efforts during the Korean War. More

McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out
NYT  |  February 28, 2008
The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming. More

Fla. legislator proposes 'Confederate Heritage' license plates
USA Today  |  February 26, 2008
A Florida legislator wants to see "Confederate Heritage" license plates on his state's highways. More

Fresh tests on Shroud of Turin
Telegraph (UK)  |  February 26, 2008
The Oxford laboratory that declared the Turin Shroud to be a medieval fake 20 years ago is investigating claims that its findings were wrong. More

Visiting sites of tragedy to touch history, ease grief
CNN  |  February 25, 2008
"People need to confront the reality of a disaster," says one psychiatrist More

Former internees to get degrees
SeattlePI.com  |  February 21, 2008
Hundreds of Japanese-Americans who were held in internment camps during World War II will receive honorary baccalaureate degrees from the University of Washington -- a move some say has been too long in the coming. More

New Trove Opened in Kennedy Killing
NYT  |  February 19, 2008
The Kennedy assassination — a defining moment in American history and a never-ending topic of debate among conspiracy theorists — re-entered the spotlight for a moment Monday, after the Dallas district attorney unveiled the contents of a safe that had been secret for more than 40 years. More

Gettysburg prepares to limit walking tours
eveningsun.com  |  February 14, 2008
In time for the upcoming tourist season, Gettysburg officials are on schedule to approve an ordinance that places a 26-person limit for guided walking tours in the borough. More

Natural-gas drilling threatens ancient rock art
Salt Lake Tribune  |  February 15, 2008
BLM studying effects of allowing more wells in Eastern Utah's Nine Mile Canyon More

Abe’s Day
Newsweek  |  February 12, 2008
What's new in the annals of Lincolnology More

White House honors Lincoln
The Courier Journal  |  February 11, 2008
One floor below what was once Abraham Lincoln's office, President and Mrs. Bush last night hosted a White House celebration of the 16th president's legacy. More

Anguish of the Stolen Generations
BBC (UK)  |  February 12, 2008
With torment still in his voice, Frank Byrne recalls the day six decades ago when he was taken from his mother and their community in Christmas Creek, Western Australia. More

How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus
Space.com  |  February 08, 2008
Eclipses in the distant past often terrified viewers who took them as evil omens. Certain lunar eclipses had an overwhelming effect on historic events. One of the most famous examples is the trick pulled by Christopher Columbus. More

Jean-Marie Le Pen guilty over Nazi comments
Telegraph (UK)  |  February 09, 2008
The disgraced French far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was given a three-month suspended sentence yesterday for calling the Nazi occupation "not particularly inhuman". More

Does a cave prove Romulus and Remus are no myth?
USA Today  |  February 06, 2008
The discovery of an ancient Roman cave has unearthed a debate about its historical purpose and delved into a deeper question for scholars: Can archaeology prove mythology? More

Medici philosopher's mystery death is solved
Telegraph (UK)  |  February 07, 2008
After 500 years, one of Renaissance Italy's most enduring murder mysteries has been solved by forensic scientists. More

Seattle Takes Steps to Recognize Minorities’ Role in Shaping Region
NYT  |  February 07, 2008
Gray and green may be the colors most associated with this forward-focused city, but it has a history in other tones, too. More

Russia 'ditching Cold War pacts'
Telegraph (UK)  |  February 06, 2008
Russia is steadily "unravelling" the historic arms control treaties that ended the Cold War and became cornerstones of European security, the most comprehensive survey of global military trends said yesterday. More

Mess O’Potamian Art
Newsweek  |  February 11, 2008
The war turned the Baghdad museum into a tomb of antiquities. It's finally time to pick up the pieces. More

Analyze This: Dimona finally tastes real violence
Jerusalem Post  |  February 04, 2008
The greatest threat against the Negev city, according to a book published last year titled Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six Day War, came in 1967. According to this thoroughly researched though highly speculative account, the very origins of the Six Day War derive from Soviet concerns over Israel's development of its nuclear weapons-production capability at the Dimona reactor. More

Museums, re-enactors worry over plan to regulate antique firearms
Newsday.com  |  February 01, 2008
A New York City lawmaker's plan to regulate antique firearms like other weapons could have severe economic repercussions for museums and historical societies around the state and prevent hundreds of living history events and re-enactments staged every year. More

Adolf Hitler's 'lost fleet' found in Black Sea
Telegraph (UK)  |  February 04, 2008
The final resting place of three German U-boats, nicknamed "Hitler's lost fleet", has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea. More

Russia remembers Stalingrad carnage
http://www.abc.net.au/  |  February 02, 2008
Thousands of people are gathering in the Russian city of Volgograd to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the end of one of the most crucial battles of World War II. More

The graphic way Germany teaches its youth about the Holocaust
Daily Mail  |  January 31, 2008
No one can accuse the Germans of ignoring the horrors of the past. So concerned have they become about a lack of knowledge of the Holocaust among children that they are distributing a new book in schools depicting their country's genocide in an easily accessible graphic novel. More

Wreckage of Scuttled Nazi Ship Identified Off Argentine Coast
Bloomberg News  |  January 31, 2008
Argentina's navy identified a wreck off the coast of Buenos Aires province as the Ussukuma, a Nazi supply vessel that sank after an encounter with British warships in the early days of World War II. More

Last man in iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo dies
CNN  |  February 04, 2008
Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82. More

Police protecting U.S. icons 'failed,' report says
CNN  |  February 04, 2008
The federal police force responsible for protecting the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty and other national icons is understaffed, under-equipped, under-trained and demoralized, according to an assessment that echoes earlier studies. More

Find may shed light on Roman era
BBC  |  January 31, 2008
A team of archaeologists from the University of Exeter has found a Roman fort dating from the 1st Century AD in fields in Cornwall. More

A History Buff Uncovers Thefts of American History Treasures
NY Times  |  January 29, 2008
Joseph Romito, a lawyer and history buff, trolled the Web and uncovered repeated thefts of historical documents from the New York State Library. More

Poland and Germany plan joint history book
http://europe.courrierinternational.com/  |  January 28, 2008
Poland's ministry of education will join with the educational ministries of the German states to introduce a joint German-Polish history book. More

The East Berlin Tunnel: Whose Ruse?
Washington Post  |  January 30, 2008
On a rainy day 52 years ago, the cover was blown on one of the biggest espionage plots of the Cold War. Soviet and East German forces announced that they had found a quarter-mile-long tunnel that the CIA had burrowed into East Berlin as part of a massive wiretapping operation. More

German railway displays its Holocaust shame
Telegraph (UK)  |  January 24, 2008
Germany's state railway yesterday caved in to pressure to document its role in deporting Jews to Nazi concentration camps, opening an exhibition on the "death trains" in a central Berlin station. More

Posthumous Honors For Black WWII Vet
AP  |  January 19, 2008
Booker Townsell rarely spoke about his time in the Army or his wrongful conviction in one of the largest courts-martial of World War II. More

Historians Fear Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy May Be Lost
AP  |  January 21, 2008
Nearly 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some say his legacy is being frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message. More

Deadly Chemicals Hidden In War Cache
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)  |  January 20, 2008
For more than 60 years RAAF veterans Geoff Burn and Arthur Lewis kept silent about the terrible secret hidden in a disused railway tunnel at the foot of the Blue Mountains. More

Divers Discover U-Boat Wreckage
BBC News  |  January 14, 2008
A German U-boat sunk off Scotland's coast more than 90 years ago has been discovered by two divers. More

Photos Of Crowd At Lincoln Inauguration Recently Discovered
CNN  |  January 16, 2008
Glass negatives of Lincoln inauguration were labeled incorrectly. More

2,500-Year-Old Sword Excavated From Tomb
China Daily  |  January 16, 2008
Chinese archaeologists have discovered an elaborately-made sword, which they believe is 2,500 to 2,600 years old, in an ancient tomb in the eastern province of Jiangxi. More

Obituary Praises Party Boss For 'Stability' During Tiananmen Crackdown
Reuters  |  January 17, 2008
An official Chinese obituary praised a late Communist Party city boss on Thursday for "maintaining stability" during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in a rare mention of a subject that remains taboo to this day. More

Ministry Of Defense Offers Nerve Gas Veterans £3m And An Apology
Guardian (UK)  |  January 17, 2008
The Ministry of Defence is to offer compensation and an apology to the Porton Down victims of secret chemical testing, it was reported today. It is understood £3m will be made available between the 360 veterans who claim they were tricked into becoming "human guinea pigs" for nerve gas experiments. More

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