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1. Holocaust: South American Hero Saved Thousands of Jews
2. History: Nice article on the Caledonian Picts (Scotland) versus the Romans
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of  Explorator 11.31-32

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1. Holocaust: South American Hero Saved Thousands of Jews
Israel Recognizes El Salvador's Holocaust Role
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128544
 
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni is presenting a special Certificate of Commemoration on Tuesday to El Salvadoran Foreign Minister Marisol Argueta de Barillas in tribute to her country's policy of saving Jews during the Holocaust.

The certificate, which will be presented to Foreign Minister Barillas after a working lunch, states:

"The government and people of Israel extend their deepest gratitude to the El Salvadoran government, which, by issuing El Salvadoran citizenship papers at the consulate in Geneva, headed by Consul-General Jos?Arturo Castellanos Contreras, contributed to saving perhaps as many as 30,000 persecuted European Jews during the Second World War."

During the Second World War, Contreras issued thousands of false citizenship papers to Jews from central Europe, mainly from Hungary. In 1942, he appointed a Transylvanian-born Jewish businessman named Gy?gy Mandl as the consulate's "First Secretary," a fictitious title that does not exist in the Salvadoran diplomatic hierarchy, in order to enable him to issue the life-saving papers. These documents enabled whole families to register as citizens of El Salvador and avoid deportation to Nazi concentration camps.

In July 1944, El Salvador requested that Switzerland act as the protector of its citizens in Hungary, at the time under Nazi occupation. As far as it is known, the vast majority of El Salvadoran citizens in Hungary at that time were Jews who received their citizenship papers from the consulate in Geneva.

On Monday, Foreign Minister Barillas toured Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum. The El Salvadoran government is seeking to have Contreras officially declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

A 2008 documentary called "Glass House" told the story of Contreras' heroic efforts. It was directed and produced by husband and wife Brad and Leonor Avila Marlowe.

2. History: Nice article on the Caledonian Picts (Scotland) versus the Romans
http://www.albawest.com/rome.html

3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of  Explorator 11.31-32
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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Extracts from explorator 11.31-32 November 30, 2008
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AFRICA
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Yet another Libya-is-promoting-archaeology piece:

http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnJOE4AH0GQ.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on a pile of sites being found in Iran:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0811268191183810.htm

Interesting inscription referring to a 'separable' soul from
Turkey (ca. 800 B.C./B.C.E.):

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/081120/ironage.shtml
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18soul.html
 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/546481/?sc=rssn
 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Turkish_monument_to_soul_found/articleshow/3729747.cms
 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/546481/
 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/uoc-fmr111408.php
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118071136.htm
 http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/healthscience/18soul.php

Major tomb find at Herod's winter palace:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_herod_s_tomb_6
 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-herod22-2008nov22,0,4465791.story
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038946.html
 http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AI7S920081119
 http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-herod22-2008nov22,0,4263286.story
 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/palestine-antiquities/lange-text
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081119-herod-tomb-paintings-missions.html
 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1226404780993
 http://hunews.huji.ac.il/articles.asp?cat=6&artID=935
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128463
 http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AI7S920081119
 http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-ml-israel-herods-tomb,1,178643.story

What Simcha's up to:

http://media.www.unogateway.com/media/storage/paper968/news/2008/11/18/News/Biblical.Archaeology.Conference.Highlights.naked.Archaeologist.Lost.Tomb-3549868.shtml

Not sure if we've mentioned this spin on the gate found at the Elah
Fortress (David, Goliath and all that):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081121-biblical-city.html
 http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=10882
 http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/16/1000999/new-discovery-adds-to-evidence-of-king-david-era-fortress
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/17/MNS314468L.DTL
 http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/article/2008/11/15/quelques-signes-pour-le-royaume-de-david_1119113_3238.html

A 3000 b.p. royal burial from Kurdistan:

http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc112708KNC.html

Recent finds from Sir Bani Yas Island:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081124/NATIONAL/350055070/1042

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the 'credit crunch' of 88 B.C.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/28/credit-crunch-roman-republic-lecture

A Scythian village from Hungary:

http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/scythian_vil/?cHash=cc250b6869

A Roman tombstone (and assorted other finds) from Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7741835.stm

A new survey of Hadrian's wall has revealed plenty:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7747922.stm
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/3463005/Hadrians-wall-boosted-economy-for-ancient-Britons-archaeologists-discover.html
 http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/latest-north-east-news/New-finds-at-Hadrian39s-Wall.4722086.jp

Nice feature on the trireme:

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/11/17/life/doc492156e977cfc250849868.txt

In case you missed the Classical side of Obama's oratory:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/nov/26/classics-barackobama

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Neolithic 'family burial' from Germany:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7733372.stm
 http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11009182?source=rss
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081117/ap_on_sc/sci_first_family_1
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081117/sc_livescience/graverevealsviolentdeathofancientfamily
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1086703/Buried-arms-Scientists-discover-remains-worlds-ancient-nuclear-family.html
 http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=27770938 (best
headline)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081118/sc_nm/us_family_ancient_3
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081117-stone-age-family.html
 http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4ag73p-us-family-ancient/

A massive prehistoric fort from Wales:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081121-underground-fort.html

A very nice torq (and other items being highlighted by the PAS folks):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7738208.stm
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7736759.stm
 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aqf5EkqPy6_E&refer=uk
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087549/Pictured-The-350-000-Iron-Age-neckband-discovered-man-metal-detector.html
 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23588968-details/Gold+(and+silver)+diggers+on+the+increase/article.do
 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iSuGw6hC7xpPHFC-AN_ikKxlycRQ
 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5192991.ece
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3484377/Metal-detector-mans-350000-Iron-Age-neckband.html

A 'dugout' from the Black Sea is going to be dated:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n161249
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/29/international/i085535S93.DTL&feed=rss.business
 http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/384073.html
 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzpycJTrdJgQgqJJEC_a9-G7LPiAD94ON9VG0
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27968305/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A marijuana 'stash' find from China:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081127/marijuana_tomb_081127/20081127
 http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544684

Nice feature on the 'Loulan Beauty':

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/asia/19mummy.php

... and what DNA tests on the Uighurs reveals:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97219868

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Reclaiming some Canadian history (from the US):

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/11/25/engraving-archeology.html

Objects from the 1700s and 1800s found during road construction in
Connecticut:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458904,00.html

Interesting story behind Elkader, Iowa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/us/22beliefs.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a slave ship from off the Turks and Caicos:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMoDPgTe3KFmjauvEOkPLwIAf-cAD94M6ELO1
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8092504
 http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081125_trouvadore.html
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081126/sc_nm/us_shipwreck_slaves_1
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_on_sc/sci_slave_ship_found

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Pondering how the guy who made the first 'America' map knew what he
knew:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111601753.html
 http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=29591

Folks might be interested in the NY Times list of 100 notable books for
2008:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html

How 'epidemics of fear' work:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121151918.htm


101 assorted factoids about history:

http://www.chortler.com/37322101historyfacts.shtml

Still trying to figure out why a Stradivarius is so good:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081108164152.htm

On the journalistic origins of (American) Thanksgiving:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117220543.htm

Assorted famous pirates:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/21/f-pirates-whoswho.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tripoli:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum/Travel-Terrific-Tripoli.4719874.jp

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

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CRIME BEAT
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Herschel Shanks thinks archaeologists should 'compete' with looters:

http://bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=34&Issue=6&ArticleID=2

Nice feature on looting in the West Bank:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/palestine-antiquities/lange-text

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NUMISMATICA
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Some Civil War coins fetched a nice price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7753412.stm

On the double eagle gold coin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/arts/design/25coin.html

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Mysteries of the Ancient Ukraine:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27447
 http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/results.asp?id=1153
 http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/trypilia.php

Dead Sea Scrolls (NY):

http://www.forward.com/articles/14616/

Beyond Babylon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21baby.html

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ON THE WEB
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Bayside Historical Society:

http://www.baysidehistorical.org/exhibits.html
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OBITUARIES
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Avraham Biran:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/25/archaeology-avraham-biran-israel-obituary


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