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: BBC
                                        September 14, 2014
            
            
            
            One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic more than 160 years ago has been found, Canada's prime minister says.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Discovery
                                        September 7, 2014
            
            
            
            Carved from marble with traces of blue-and-red paint, the Caryatids were found when a team of archaeologists, led by Katerina Peristeri, removed sandy soil in front of a sealing wall.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: South China Morning Post
                                        September 9, 2014
            
            
            
            Hirohito warned against a “reckless war” that would make him feel “deeply sorry for my imperial ancestors.”
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Journal of Turkish Weekly
                                        September 8, 2014
            
            
            
            There are a number of reasons for people to yearn for Saddam Hussein. The first reason is his antagonism toward Israel. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Guardian
                                        September 7, 2014
            
            
            
            Infamous killer is identified from blood samples on a shawl found next to one victim’s body, says ‘armchair detective.’
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Foreign Policy
                                        September 4, 2014
            
            
            
            A few too many years under the Deutsche Demokratische Republik can wreak havoc on a moral compass
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Foreign Policy
                                        September 4, 2014
            
            
            
            How the slave trade patterns of centuries ago are still shaping African marriages today
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huffington Post
                                        September 5, 2014
            
            
            
            Everybody grows older, but when you're president of the United States, the physical aging process happens a lot more quickly.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        September 4, 2014
            
            
            
            ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Looks at Fall of Saigon
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        September 4, 2014
            
            
            
            Until 1976 West Point didn't even admit women.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huffington Post
                                        September 2, 2014
            
            
            
            A prolonged drought has revealed that the mysterious monument's ancient stones, which currently arc in a semicircle, likely once formed a complete circle. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Radio Free Europe
                                        September 5, 2014
            
            
            
            ITAR-TASS is again adopting its Soviet-era acronym of simply TASS in a step it says will strengthen its image.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 483
                                        September 5, 2014
            
            
            
            Lack of Legal or Legislative Closure to Affair Opened Path to Future Presidential Abuses
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Geographic
                                        September 3, 2014
            
            
            
            Amid the devastation and danger of civil war, Syrian archaeologists and activists are risking their lives in the battle against looting.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Salon
                                        September 2, 2014
            
            
            
            "Fred Ryan, who's just been named the Post's new publisher, is among the more Reagan-y people to ever walk the earth -- somewhat less Reagan-y than Ronald Reagan himself, but probably more Reagan-y than Nancy Reagan or other members of the Reagan family."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                                        September 4, 2014
            
            
                            by HNN Staff
            
            "For 16 months, working under the noses of his clueless Nazi overseers ... a Jewish doctor managed to send fake typhus vaccine to the Nazi soldiers at the front, even as he provided the real thing to inoculate his fellow condemned Jews in a concentration camp."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: AP
                                        August 31, 2014
            
            
            
            Invasion of Alaska? Yes. It seemed like a real possibility in 1950.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: News Observer
                                        August 26, 2014
            
            
            
            Thirty years ago, North Carolina waged a Senate race that even today staggers the imagination.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Philly
                                        September 1, 2014
            
            
            
            Villanova professor's quest reveals LBJ vendetta against George Hamilton.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: BBC
                                        August 29, 2014
            
            
            
            An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images.