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: AP
July 10, 2014
Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help thwart it.
Source: The History Blog
July 15, 2014
A tourist hiking in the foothills of a waterfall in Mexico two weeks ago fell from a branch onto a Mesoamerican monolith that was in the process of being carved out of the stone by looters.
Source: Johnson’s Russia List
June 21, 2014
Yet a half blames the enemies for the deaths of millions of people.
Source: The Independent
July 14, 2014
French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows.
July 16, 2014
by HNN Editor
Who's making the changes? That's unknown.
Source: BISI (British School of Archaeology in Iraq) blog
July 11, 2014
For now, the Tomb of Jonah appears to be safe.
Source: CNN
July 9, 2014
World War I ushered in an era of chemical weapons use that lingers, lethally, into the present day.
Source: Salon
July 15, 2014
The school, Heritage Academy, is using two of Skousen’s most popular books, “The 5,000 Year Leap” and “The Making of America.”
Source: NYT
July 12, 2014
Though she never held elected office, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely considered to be the most influential first lady ever.
Source: The Toronto Sun
July 12, 2014
Despite being the foundation of modern North American spy training, surviving structures were razed in 1969.
Source: The Florida Times-Union
July 10, 2014
The hunt is expected to wrap up in August.
Source: Informed Comment blog
July 14, 2014
A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn’t sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who’d apparently failed to sign up for the draft by their 18th birthday.
Source: BBC
July 12, 2014
Why does Italy have two police forces and what is so special about this one?
Source: Bloomberg
July 11, 2014
Sadly, Putin's nostalgia will come at great cost to the country's future.
Source: The Conversation
July 10, 2014
And there is much to lose.
Source: NYT
July 10, 2014
‘Blood Feud’ vs. ‘Hard Choices’ in Hillary Clinton Book Battle
Source: Vanity Fair
July 10, 2014
In an adaptation from their forthcoming book, Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley and historian Luke A. Nichter draw on 3,700 hours of President Nixon’s White House tapes to convey the inner workings of Nixon’s action-packed first term.
Source: Politico
July 8, 2014
Only 20 percent of today’s lawmakers have served in the military, the lowest rate since World War II and a dramatic fall from over 70 percent in the 1970s.
Source: Express
July 8, 2014
It started growing nearly 500 years before the Pharaohs built the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
July 9, 2014
Washington and Lee moves Confederate flags, apologizes for having owned slaves
