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: Belfast Telegraph
October 20, 2015
Due to drought, the ruins of a 16th century church recently surfaced from the receding reservoir water in Mexico.
Source: New Historian
October 22, 2015
A new study shows the wealthy in the Middle Ages were being poisoned by the lead used to make their fancy cups and plates.
Source: The Root
October 22, 2015
Samuel Burris was a free black man who got caught trying to help slaves escape in 1847.
Source: Wired
October 21, 2015
The group says its models, created with the Autodesk software Maya, can be used for online visualizations, Oculus-style walkthroughs, or even 3-D printing miniature replicas.
Source: PsyBlog
October 21, 2015
by Dr. Jeremy Dean
Neuroscientists have gained insights into how gratitude operates from an unexpected source.
Source: NYT
October 21, 2015
The Museum of War Crime Evidence by Japanese Army Unit 731, which opened on Aug. 15, is bolder in intent than the older, adjacent museum that it incorporates and replaces and, according to museum officials, has attracted large crowds of visitors.
Source: New Historian
October 21, 2015
By performing a 3-D stability analysis on the ‘Lee Harvey Oswald in the Backyard Photo’, the Dartmouth University scientists claim they have proven its legitimacy.
Source: NYT
October 21, 2015
Israeli historians and opposition politicians joined Palestinians in denouncing the Israeli prime minister for saying the grand mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea of annihilating Jews.
Source: NYT
October 21, 2015
A proposal that would put a bell atop Stone Mountain in Georgia, where a carving of Confederate heroes dominates, has drawn opposition from whites and blacks.
Source: WaPo
October 14, 2015
White House chief technology officer Megan Smith on Wednesday launched a nationwide search for the original "Declaration of Sentiments," the document signed in July 1848 at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y..
Source: Washington Examiner
October 19, 2015
"We realized after we went off the air the maps were not factually accurate and we regret using them. Clearly, that set of maps was wrong."
Source: Penn State News
October 15, 2015
Climate variability is one of the major forces in the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru, according to a team of researchers looking at both climate and archaeological records.
Source: NYT
October 19, 2015
A couple in Yaphank, N.Y., is suing a community organization, saying the housing practices are discriminatory and violate the Fair Housing Act.
Source: Yahoo News
October 19, 2015
The University of Virginia announced that Jefferson's chemistry lab was discovered during renovations of the school’s famous Rotunda.
Source: Huffington Post
October 19, 2015
Genetic material suggests the shroud may have been created in India.
Source: Stars and Stripes
October 17, 2015
Hundreds of South Korean scholars have declared they are boycotting the writing of state-issued history textbooks out of concern that that they will teach distorted views on the country's recent history.
Source: NYT
October 18, 2015
President Obama plans to bequeath his successor — or perhaps his successor’s successor — a new-and-improved Air Force One for the smartphone age.
Source: Fusion
October 16, 2015
The FBI maintains a national genetic database with samples from convicts and arrestees, but this was the most public example of cops turning to private genetic databases to find a suspect.
Source: Vox
December 16, 2015
Palestinian rioters set a fire on the compound containing Joseph's Tomb — which is venerated by Jews as a holy site — in the West Bank city of Nablus
Source: The Washington Post
October 15, 2015
A set of 47 human teeth found in China have been dated as at least 80,000 years old -- perhaps even older.
