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 10, 2014
Mary Berg wrote a diary about her life in the Warsaw Ghetto that was published in English long before Anne Frank’s diary. Then she disappeared.
Source: Civil War Trust Press Release
November 11, 2014
Dubbed ‘Campaign 1776,’ new initiative led by Civil War Trust will focus on preservation and interpretation of the hallowed battlefields where a young America was forged.
Source: NYT
November 10, 2014
Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.
Source: CBS
November 10, 2014
For the last four years, New York researcher and photographer Sarah Stacke has been trying to bring their identities into focus.
Source: The Washington Post
November 10, 2014
The text in question is called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, written on treated animal skin, which was brought to the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it from an Egyptian monastery.
Source: Media Matters
November 10, 2014
Paul: "Judge Napolitano Gets It"
Source: The Siberian Times
November 3, 2014
Experts have been examining the giant moose-shaped stone structure since it was discovered in 2011 and have now confirmed it is the world's oldest.
Source: AP
November 6, 2014
The segments include a reference to top-secret intelligence briefings the Nixon administration provided to China, and reveal Nixon's private musings as he wrangled with the then-Soviet Union over limiting nuclear weapons.
Source: UPI
November 6, 2014
Putin's comments were seen as using historical precedent to strengthen his authoritarian policies.
Source: Pacific Standard
November 4, 2014
Forty years later, only one state is making reparations for thousands of forced sterilizations.
Source: National Geographic
November 9, 2014
Dutch photographer Martin Roemers spent ten years documenting those relics—the now decaying testaments of an era that shaped the character of a continent.
Source: The Wilson Quarterly
November 9, 2014 (accessed)
Many Americans took credit for its fall. But only one was poised to profit from it: New Jersey-based contractor Joseph Sciamarelli.
Source: NYT
November 8, 2014
After 28 years, East Berliners were giddy with marvel that they could now visit the West. Günter Taubmann felt different, as if, he said, “I am in the wrong movie.”
Source: NYT
November 8, 2014
The project took so long there were rumors that the statue was beyond repair. But it was not, as the Met will make clear on Tuesday when the museum puts Adam on display again.
Source: SBS (Australia)
November 8, 2014
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has visited the site of Checkpoint Charlie as celebrations kick off to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.
November 7, 2014
25 years later the anchor recalls NBC's scoop.
Source: Huffington Post
November 7, 2014
Egypt's Antiquities Minister, Mamdouh El-Damaty, said the artifacts belonged to a temple dating back to King Tuthmose III.
Source: National Geographic
November 4, 2014
Storms in 1200s could have helped thwart attacks by Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan's fleets, a study of lake sediments finds.
Source: Huffington Post
November 6, 2014
Of course none of the movements are even close to convincing Washington to let them hold a Scottish-like referendum.
Source: The Washington Post
November 6, 2014
A 94-year-old woman is responsible.
