This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: NYT
December 15, 2015
“There may be a tunnel,” said Janusz Madej, the head of the scientific team, “but there is no train.”
Source: NYT
December 15, 2015
Thanks to centuries of legislating by Parliament, which bans the wearing of suits of armor in its chambers, Britain has accumulated many laws that nowadays seem irrelevant, and often absurd.
Source: NYT
December 14, 2015
A broad examination of heads of government and their unsuccessful challengers across 17 countries from 1722 to 2015 found that the leaders lived 2.7 fewer years.
December 14, 2015
by Brian D. Johnson
The latest to do so is Baltimore.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
December 7, 2015
Citing history, they say it’s time to heal an old wound.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
December 13, 2015
The map is “a powerful smack in the forehead,” said John Kneebone, a professor of history who researched the second wave of the Klan after it was reborn in Atlanta in 1915 with the premiere of “The Birth of a Nation.”
Source: The Guardian
December 9, 2015
Historian says ‘in all certainty’ remains found near Szigetvar in southern Hungary point to resting place of 16th-century sultan of Ottoman Empire
Source: NYT
December 11, 2015
That was the year Ronald Reagan rattled insiders with his insurgent campaign against President Gerald R. Ford, with party members arriving at the convention without a clear nominee.
Source: The Washington Post
December 11, 2015
For 90 years the school’s stadium has honored a football star who later as president of the university sought to deny black students admission to the state’s flagship campus.
Source: National Security Archive
December 11, 2015
The documents suggests a number of parallels with the Obama experience.
Source: VOX
December 11, 2015 (accessed)
by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, Christoph Trebesch
The study by two economists found that on average, far-right votes increase by about a third in the five years following systemic banking distress.
Source: IBTimes
December 10, 2015
How Reparations Debate For Black Americans Has Kept Congress From Apologizing For Slave History
Source: NYT
December 8, 2015
The Magdala Stone, found in Israel, is forcing scholars to revisit ideas about synagogues and their relationship to the Second Temple around the dawn of Christianity.
Source: NYT
December 9, 2015
“The French elite used to say the same things that the Indian elite now say, that inequality would be reduced with rising development.”
Source: Pew Research Center
December 9, 2015
No longer the majority and falling behind financially
Source: Newsweek
December 8, 2015
Pascal Cotte, a French scientist, claims to have found another portrait beneath that of the world-famous Mona Lisa using reflective light technology.
Source: Inside Higher ED
December 9, 2015
Early campaigns to abolish the holiday form a largely forgotten chapter in American history.
Source: NYT
December 8, 2015
Middle East analysts say that when it comes to the Islamic State, the West is acting as if overwhelming firepower alone could guarantee success.
Source: Time Magazine
December 5, 2015
The Republican frontrunner at this point usually wins the nomination
Source: Huffington Post
December 8, 2015
The new finding, published on Monday in the journal Antiquity, traces the bluestones -- or the smaller stones used at the 5,000-year-old monument -- to two quarries in Wales.
