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A selection of the history related news from outside of Singapore. in the month of May Cambodian ghosts remind a generation unfamiliar with the past, a Creation Museum unites historians, pre-historians and scientists, and lastly, “That’s history” means different things to Europeans and Americans.

The burden of history
May 17th 2007, The Economist print edition
Peter Schrank

JAVIER SOLANA, the European Union’s top foreign-policy honcho, recently offered a neat turn of phrase to explain the importance that Europeans attach to the past. Ponder the phrase “that’s history”, and what it implies on either side of the Atlantic, he suggested. When Americans say something is “history”, they mean it is no longer relevant. When Europeans say the same thing, “they usually mean the opposite”.

Is this mere wordplay? If only. History lies at the heart of many disputes that are causing such angst in today’s EU.

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Ghosts Wail as Cambodians Plunder Killing Field Graves
20th May, 2007. The New York Times
Seth Mydans

SRE LEAV, Cambodia — Researchers are examining a long-unknown killing field in Cambodia with the graves of thousands of victims of the Khmer Rouge from the 1970s.

But local villagers found it first. By the time the researchers arrived in early May, some 200 graves had been dug up and the bones scattered through the woods by hundreds of people hunting for jewelry
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Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs
24th May, 2007. The New York Times
Edward Rothstein

PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures.
But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away.
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