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| New York Art Courier Loses $1.3 Million Painting on Night Out September 01, 2010, The Telegraph (UK) by Nick Allen ...Owner Kristyn Trudgeon is suing for the value of the painting, which was completed in about 1857 and spent years at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She told the New York Daily News: “I think he’s a complete fumbling idiot.” |
| Divers Lift 200-Year-Old Champagne from Baltic Shipwreck September 01, 2010, CNN by Les Neuhaus Divers are recovering bottles of champagne that have been lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for about two centuries, an autonomous Finnish island official said Wednesday. About 70 bottles lie mostly undamaged at 50 meters deep [roughly 164 feet] south of the Aland Islands. |
| Charles Darwin's Ecological Experiment on Ascension isle September 01, 2010, BBC (UK) by Howard Falcon-Lang A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest". |
| Homeowner’s Fight Involves Flag Tied to Tea Party August 30, 2010, The New York Times by Marc Lacey his year, Mr. McDonel began flying a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on his roof in this unincorporated area just outside Phoenix. The historic banner — which dates to 1775, when it was hoisted aboard ships during the initial days of the Revolutionary War — has been adopted by the Tea Party movement. But Mr. McDonel said that he had unfurled the flag for its historical significance and nothing else. He notes that the banner, the Gadsden flag, has been widely used over the years and was even featured on the cover of a rock album. “Am I a Metallica fan because I’m using the flag?” he asked. This month, he received a letter from the homeowners’ association ordering him to remove “the debris” from his roof. It threatened fines if the debris (i.e., the flag) did not go within 10 days. But Mr. McDonel, 32, a logistics operation manager, has vowed to fight the order. |
| Effingham Dig Uncovers Fort Built by the British during the Revolution August 27, 2010, Savannah Morning News (GA) by Chuck Mobley Covered over for a couple of hundred years, a British-built Revolutionary War fort at Ebenezer shows up perfectly on Dan Elliott's ground-penetrating radar as a set of squiggly lines. Just a few feet away, radar shows more squiggly lines, this time indicating several graves outside the cemetery fence. |
| "Lost" Language Found on Back of 400-Year-Old Letter August 27, 2010, National Geographic by Brian Handwerk Notes on the back of a 400-year-old letter have revealed a previously unknown language once spoken by indigenous peoples of northern Peru, an archaeologist says. Penned by an unknown Spanish author and lost for four centuries, the battered piece of paper was pulled from the ruins of an ancient Spanish colonial church in 2008. But a team of scientists and linguists has only recently revealed the importance of the words written on the flip side of the letter. |
| Cheadle Green 200th Anniversary Archaeological Dig August 26, 2010, AboutMyArea (UK) by Cheadle Civic Society Local residents are being invited to watch a major archaeological dig take place in Cheadle on Saturday and Sunday, 11th/12th of September as part of Britain's annual National Heritage Weekend and also to mark the 200th anniversary of Cheadle Green. |
| Brutal Slave History Unearthed at Frederick County's L'Hermitage August 26, 2010, The Washington Post by Michael E. Ruane From the old road that crossed the Monocacy River, you could plainly see the slave cabins of L'Hermitage. They were lined up in front of the plantation house, not hidden out back, as was the custom. And passersby could see the implements of oppression -- whips and stocks -- that the owners used to control their property. Even in 1800, this was extreme for Frederick County, this brutal, Caribbean style of bondage, with its French emigre masters, aggressive displays of subjection, and its 90 slaves. |
| Finding Stolen Piece of History may not be Easy Task August 25, 2010, CNN by Rich Phillips For more than 20 years, the bulletproof museum case housed a small piece of yesteryear: a gold bar recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon. Today, its case is broken, littered with black fingerprint dust. The treasure is gone. Stolen. Two thieves were caught in the act by the museum's security cameras. It was different because visitors could touch it. By reaching into the specially designed display case, more than 6 million people have touched the 74.85-ounce bar, valued at more than $550,000. "They're touching something that belonged to someone in 1622," said Carol Shaughnessy, author of "Diving Into Glory." |
| Brazil's Census Offers Recognition at Last to Descendants of Runaway Slaves August 25, 2010, The Guardian (UK) by Tom Phillips When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to a goldmine deep in the country's arid mid-west. After years of scrambling for gold that was shipped to Europe, he fled and became one of the founding fathers of the Kalunga quilombo, a remote mountain-top community of runaway slaves. On Wednesday last week, more than 200 years later, it was Moreira's turn to be counted – this time not by slavemasters but by Cleber, a chubby census taker who appeared at his home clutching a blue personal digital assistant (PDA). |
| Our History is Being Uncovered at the N.B.-N.S. Border August 24, 2010, The Times & Transcript (Canada) by Staff In a huge hayfield straddling the border of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia not too far from Moncton, some long-buried relics of history have been uncovered by participants in a public dig program at the Beaubassin and Fort Lawrence National Historic Sites. And lead archaeologist Charles Burke is hoping to keep digging for the past in the years to come. "We had over 135 people come here this year and over 80 days of the public program since 2007, we've had 539 people participate. They come from all over North America to be part of it," Burke told me last week as we stood at the crest of the hill near Fort Lawrence, just off the Trans-Canada Highway near the border. Amateur archaeologists and students from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and parts of the United States have come to this little hillside over the last few years to help sift through the dirt to uncover a piece of land with a long and storied past. It was first occupied by aboriginal peoples over 3,000 years ago, then by Acadian settlers in the 1600s and later fought over. |
| Bath Historian Finds Diaries of Woman who Nursed Nelson August 24, 2010, BBC (UK) by Staff A Bath historian is hoping to give an admiral's wife - who tended to a wounded Lord Nelson - "her rightful place in history". Dr Elaine Chalus has won a major research grant of more than £100,000 to investigate diaries kept by Elizabeth Wynne. |
| After Mozart’s Death, an Endless Coda August 24, 2010, The New York Times by Daniel J. Wakin Direct medical evidence? None. Autopsy? Not performed. Medical records? Nowhere to be found. Corpse? Disappeared. Yet according to a recent article in an academic journal, researchers have posited at least 118 causes of death for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
| Grandfather's Ghost Story Leads to Mysterious Mass Grave August 24, 2010, CNN by Meghan Rafferty "This is a mass grave," Bill Watson said as he led the way through the thick Pennsylvania woods in a suburb about 30 miles from Philadelphia. "Duffy's Cut," as it's now called, is a short walk from a suburban cul-de-sac in Malvern, an affluent town off the fabled Main Line. Twin brothers Bill and Frank Watson believe 57 Irish immigrants met violent deaths there after a cholera epidemic struck in 1832. They suspect foul play. |
| Henry's Historic Cottages 'Gifted' to Village August 24, 2010, The Independent (Ireland) by Colin Gleeson and Elaine Keogh ARISTOCRAT Lord Henry Mountcharles has donated four 18th-Century cottages that formerly housed workers of the Slane Castle estate to boost tourism in Slane village. The single-storey stone artisan buildings, located on Chapel Street in Slane, Co Meath, were built in 1701 by the Conyngham family, who have owned the Slane estate since that time. |
| Lower Manhattan Monument: The Alexander Hamilton US Custom House August 22, 2010, The Epoch Times by Andrea Hayley The Dutch first established New York during the second half of the 17th century, when Dutch naval power dominated the world, and Holland dominated global commerce. The area, inhabited by the peaceful Mahican Indians of the Hudson River, made for an easy colonial outpost based on a profitable trade in beaver pelts. The Dutch home capital of Amsterdam was at that time a cosmopolitan city, and its elaborate maze of canals gave it good protection from the enemies at sea. During that time, the East India and the West India companies were the leading colonial business arms of the Dutch. |
| First Jamestowne Church Likely Found August 21, 2010, The Virginia Gazette by Steve Vaughan Archaeologists at Historic Jamestowne believe they’ve made a major new discovery: the remains of the original 1608 church at James Fort. Bill Kelso, director of archaeology at Historic Jamestowne, was ecstatic. “If confirmed, this is a tremendous discovery,” he said Friday. “At long last, the heart of James Fort and the scene of so many known seminal events in the history of Jamestown.” |
| 200 Years Ago, Health Care a Priority August 21, 2010, The Boston Globe by Jack Nicas In the early 19th century, Bostonians largely had two options if they got sick: house calls from expensive private physicians or an overcrowded poorhouse. So two centuries ago yesterday, in a 2,677-word petition, two of the city’s top doctors called on the city’s gentry to help establish the state’s first public general hospital. |
| Original Magna Carta and Replica get a Cleaning August 20, 2010, The Washington Post by Ann Gerhart Okay, liberty lovers -- time for your summer-slowdown pop quiz: True or false? The following sentence appears in the U.S. Constitution: "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned . . . or in any other way destroyed . . . except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice." |
| Disease Killed Soldiers from Oliver Cromwell’s Army Discovered in Fishergate August 19, 2010, The York Press (UK) by Mark Stead ARCHAEOLOGISTS have revealed how they discovered more than they bargained for when a York excavation unearthed the remains of a “forgotten” army’s soldiers. The site at the junction of Kent Street and Fawcett Street, on which a medieval church was once housed, was the final resting place of 113 members of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentary force who fought during the gruelling Civil War siege of the city more than 350 years ago. |
| Dig Reveals Story of America's Last Slave Ship August 19, 2010, The Virginia Gazette by Roy Hoffman From bits of brick, pieces of slate and shards of glass, Neil Norman is hoping to piece together the lost world of Africatown. For the last several weeks, the anthropology professor from the College of William & Mary has excavated sites in Plateau, in north Mobile County, looking for remnants of the daily life of the Africans who arrived in Mobile in 1860 as captives on the slave ship Clotilda. |
| Victorian Era Doctor 'Escaped the Sack Despite Treating Pauper in Acid Bath' August 19, 2010, The Telegraph (UK) by Andrew Hough Thomas S Fletcher, a surgeon at the Bromsgrove Workhouse, Worcs, was investigated for negligence after his young patient, Henry Cartwright, died in 1842. The young pauper, whose details were not recorded, died after being immersed in a solution of “sulphuret of potassium”, or potassium sulphate, in a bid to cure “The Itch”, the colloquial term for scabies. |
| York River may Yield New Revolutionary War Shipwreck August 19, 2010, The Daily Press (UK) by Mark St. John Erickson Two of the nation's foremost underwater archaeologists began work in the river off Yorktown Beach Wednesday morning, surveying the previously undetected wreck of a ship that may have been scuttled by the British during the Revolution. Brought in by the Department of Historic Resources' Threatened Sites Program, the team includes Williamsburg-based John D. Broadwater — who recovered the historic turret of the USS Monitor in 2002 — and North Carolina-based Gordon Watts — who discovered the famous ironclad off Cape Hatteras in 1973. |
| Part of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentary Army Found August 19, 2010, The Northern Echo (UK) by Staff UNITED in death, they have lain together under the earth undisturbed for more than 350 years, victims of the Civil War that tore England apart. Now, centuries after they were buried and forgotten, their story has finally come to light – and given a new insight into the months-long siege of York in 1644. |
| Appleseed Teaching History with Guns August 18, 2010, FOXNews by Jonathan Serrie Fearing the U.S. is a sinking ship, a man from North Carolina's Piedmont has set out on a mission to teach everyday Americans how to shoot a rifle and how to embrace their Revolutionary War history. "How do you measure the value of liberty to a society?" Appleseed Project founder Jack Dailey asked a small group of families and individuals that gathered this past weekend at the West Georgia Youth Range in Georgia's Haralson County. "Wouldn't you measure it by the number of people who care enough about it to show up to defend it? And if that's the case, how does America in the 21st Century stack up to the America of the 18th Century? I've got to tell you, if you look at the difference, I'm not sure you'd use the word 'progress.'" |
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