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Curtain Rising on
Anne Frank, the Musical

Creator compares teen's life to tragic opera

Jan 7, 08 10:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A first-of-its-kind musical adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank will take the stage in Madrid next month, the Guardian reports. The Spanish-language play gained the approval of the Anne Frank Foundation, which closely guards the rights to the story of the doomed Jewish teenager; a spokesman says the work... More »

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theater • Spain • Holocaust • history • Madrid • musical • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Anne Frank Foundation

'08's Ball Brightest in 100 Years

Times Square orb hits centennial

Dec 31, 07 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The ball you watch drop in Times Square at midnight will be twice as bright as any of its predecessors, the New York Times reports, to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The first ball rang in 1908 with 216 light bulbs stuck to its 5-foot iron frame. Tonight, 1,200... More »

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New York City • history • New Year's Eve • Times Square • Waterford crystal

Gulags in America?
Hoover Tried

He sought approval
to jail 12,000 'disloyal' citizens without trial

Dec 22, 07 5:56 PM CST
(Newser) - J. Edgar Hoover wanted to round up 12,000 Americans he deemed disloyal in 1950, suspend habeus corpus, and lock them up in military and federal prisons, the New York Times reports. In a newly declassified letter, the FBI chief urges President Truman to approve the plan and tell the... More »

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FBI • Guantanamo Bay • history • habeas corpus • J. Edgar Hoover

WWII Plane Found Under Beach

65 years after crash, plane uncovered on Welsh coast

Nov 15, 07 8:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Sixty-five years after its crash landing, a World War II fighter plane has emerged from under the sand on the Welsh coast. The American P-38 "Lightning" fighter, which made an emergency "belly landing" in shallow water after it ran out of fuel, was buried in the sand, with... More »

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history • World War II • Lockheed Martin • P 38 • Fred Elliott • discovery

The Genius Who Gave Us the Toothpick

A brief history of America's favorite tiny stick

Nov 4, 07 9:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Americans might still be whittling their own toothpicks, if not for the marketing genius and borderline con-artistry of Charles Forster, writes Henry Petroski, author of a new book on toothpick history, in Slate. Forster swore to make a fortune mass-producing the pointy sticks, but had trouble finding buyers. So... More »

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marketing • history • toothpick • Charles Forster

Ancient Texts Fill Blanks in Climate History

Accounts by monks, soldiers, doctors help track global warming

Sep 16, 07 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists are poring over the diaries of 17th century Swiss monks and Parisian physicians for data to help judge changes in Europe’s climate, the AP reports. Piecing together records from things as disparate as military campaigns and cherry blossom festivals dispels any doubt that the Earth is heating up,... More »

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climate change • weather • global warming • Europe • history

I Now Pronounce You Knight and Knight

15th-century Europe allowed civil unions

Aug 28, 07 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 21st-century social and political trend of same-sex civil unions has roots that go back a bit beyond Stonewall—to the Middle Ages. A history professor who analyzed legal documents and gravesites says medieval law was flexible enough to allow for a variety of non-nuclear family structures, including gay unions,... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • civil union • history • Middle Ages

Fake Sub Sets Off Harbor Scare

Coast Guard ends 'marine mischief'

Aug 4, 07 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - A New York performance artist and two pals were detained yesterday after they tried to navigate a replica of a Revolutionary War-era submarine near the Queen Mary II  in Brooklyn. Their maritime mischief  created a brief scare, and the Coast Guard was dispatched. Apparently, the three were trying to recreate... More »

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New York City • Coast Guard • history • submarine • Queen Mary II

Americas' First Gun Victim Found in Peru

Inca warrior shot in head by Conquistadors, archaeologists say

Jun 21, 07 4:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The first gunshot victim in the Americas—an 16th century Inca warrior blasted in the back of the head by Spanish Conquistadors—has been discovered by archaeologists poring over the bones of 72 Incans killed in a 1536 uprising in Peru. The remains of the warriors were uncovered in a... More »

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archaeology • science • Peru • Incans • weapon • history • Conquistador • Lima

Lebanon Under Seige

Jun 19, 07 9:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Economist Middle East correspondent Max Rodenbeck takes us on a painful amble through the history of modern Lebanon.   He sees Lebanon as a Manichean society where the wealthy live next to the poor, the religious coexist (sort of) with the secular, the pro-Syrian are at odds with the pro-Israeli. More »

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Middle East • Lebanon • Palestine • Lebanon War • Hezbollah • history

Photos That Changed the World?

Jun 19, 07 8:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Slate and Magnum Photos team up to present 31 photos that over the past 70 years have "informed the world" and "capture(d) the political and cultural zeitgeist of our time."  The iconic photos in this slide show range from a soldier falling in the Spanish Civil... More »

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photography • culture • photograph • picture • history • world • Iraq war

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