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
November 22, 2014
Friday’s 10-to-5 vote, with all Republicans on the board supporting the books and Democrats opposing them, was the first of its kind since 2002. The books will be used for at least a decade.
Source: Huff Post
November 22, 2014
A rare glimpse of Kennedy’s off-air persona. In the clip, dug up by MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Kennedy can be heard speaking candidly about that first televised presidential debate,
Source: The Conversation
November 20, 2014
by Stefanie Linden
During World War I, severe post-traumatic reactions reached an epidemic scale that surpassed anything known from previous armed conflicts.
Source: Phys.org
November 18, 2014
Researchers have identified new evidence supporting the growing belief that Neanderthals were a distinct species separate from modern humans (Homo sapiens), and not a subspecies of modern humans.
Source: The Irish Times
November 17, 2014
One tiger economy helps understand collapse of another.
Source: National Security Archive
November 20, 2014
Documents, both those from the original posting as well as more recent ones, provide insider perspective and accounts of a variety of topics.
Source: Bloomberg
November 20, 2014
The chance discovery of more than 1,400 modernist works in a 2012 raid by tax authorities at Gurlitt’s apartment in Munich unearthed paintings, sketches and prints long given up as lost or destroyed under Adolf Hitler’s rule.
Source: Politico
November 15, 2014
In 1928, Republicans won 270 seats in the House. They were on top of the world.
Source: The Washington Post
November 19, 2014
The lesser known story is that of the more than two dozen American Indian tribes scattered along the 2,400-mile byway, which stretched from Chicago to California.
Source: ABC News
November 19, 2014
"In the long term, it's really dangerous to interject one's liberal or conservative views and try to turn that into historical fact."
Source: FOX News
November 19, 2014
Despite having more than 20 gunshot wounds, Johnson almost single-handedly fought off his attackers armed only with a rifle and a bolo knife, using the rifle as a club once it had run out of bullets. All told, Johnson left four Germans dead and injured at least 20 others, who retreated.
Source: WaPo
November 9, 2014
The word "nigga" is used 500,000 times a day on Twitter.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
November 19, 2014
It's a collection totaling 196,000 posters and lobby cards representing 44,000 titles for some of Hollywood's greatest films.
Source: Al Jazeera
October 30, 2014
The documentary concludes Israel deliberately attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans.
Source: Tablet Magazine
November 19, 2014
Turns annual extremist march into a fundraiser for a very good cause
Source: Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table
November 19, 2014 (accessed)
by David W. Jacobs
A new book is said to offer strong evidence that Randolph Jefferson fathered the author's ancestor, Edwin Jefferson, with Betty Brown Hemings.
Source: ABC News
November 19, 2014
The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a digital art detective, able to unlock the mysteries of a work's age and authenticity by analyzing its underlying canvas or paper.
Source: http://motherboard.vice.com
November 18, 2014
Artificial cranial deformation—or the practice of intentionally changing the shape of a person’s skull—has been practiced by Neanderthals of 40,000 years ago until very recently, maybe even still today.
Source: The Express Tribune News Network
November 19, 2014
A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday.
Source: Smithsonian
November 19, 2014
In a burst of post World War II innovation, the transistor radio with music for your pocket fueled a teenage social revolution.
