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: National Geographic
November 20, 2014
Oldest human genome reveals less of an East Asian ancestry than thought.
Source: Huff Post
November 27, 2014
Only five other daggers like the Rudham Dirk have been found in Europe.
Source: Japan Focus- Asia-Pacific Journal
December 1, 2014
by Vaclav Smil
In 50 years the shinkansen never had a fatality.
Source: NYT
November 27, 2014
Until recently, few Germans realized that the covert program, with its echoes of Holocaust-era looting, had ever taken place in the German Democratic Republic.
November 27, 2014
Quick: Which American president served before slavery ended, John Tyler or Rutherford B. Hayes?
Source: Gates of Nineveh
November 27, 2014
Until the past week, there were few reports of the destruction of antiquities and cultural heritage sites, possibly because ISIS forces were hard pressed on multiple fronts.
Source: Science News
November 27, 2014
Villagers who collected gold in sheepskins inspired legend of Jason’s voyage.
Source: Atlantic Monthly
November 26, 2014
"Turkey" the bird is native to North America. But "turkey" the word is a geographic mess—a tribute to the vagaries of colonial trade and conquest.
Source: Atlantic Monthly
November 26, 2014
Thanksgiving used to look a lot more like Halloween.
Source: NYT
November 25, 2014
“First folios don’t turn up very often, and when they do, it’s usually a really chewed up, uninteresting copy. But this one is magnificent.”
Source: NYT
November 24, 2014
Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Goes to University of Texas
Source: NYT
November 23, 2014
One of the country’s great dynastic families is downsizing.
Source: Yahoo News Network
November 24, 2014
A World War II heroine who parachuted behind German lines on "perilous" spy missions, but was so modest she only told her children about it 15 years ago, was Tuesday presented with France's highest honour.
Source: Tablet
November 24, 2014
“Hatred and anti-Semitism have seized the state,” says opposition lawmaker
Source: NYT
November 24, 2014
Kunstmuseum Bern Obtains Trove From Gurlitt Collection
Source: The Washington Post
November 20, 2014
Repopulating our woods — and even our yards, our commons and our courthouse lawns — with American chestnuts would put a versatile, nutritious, easily harvested food source within reach of just about everyone.
Source: NYT
November 24, 2014
“Historically, there seems to be a tipping point at which the justices seem more comfortable setting aside state practices. When only a third of the states still retain a practice, the court seems ready to act.”
Source: Pew Research Center
November 21, 2014
President Obama’s executive action to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation is an act that both follows and departs from precedents set by his predecessors.
Source: US Studies Online
November 11, 2014
by Alex Bryne
Because the centennial anniversary of United States belligerency is still to come, the frequency of commemorative events within the United States that have taken place this year, compared with nations such as Britain.
Source: Newsweek
November 20, 2014
by Max Holland
Historian Max Holland unravels the complicated story.
