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: The Chronicle
June 18, 2014
This week, scholars from the United States and 25 other countries will gather in Sarajevo to mark the centennial of World War I.
Source: NYT
June 18, 2014
As an armed guard at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and a member of the notorious SS “Death’s Head” battalion, the authorities charged Wednesday that Mr. Breyer was complicit in the gassing of 216,000 Jews brought there in 1944 from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany.
Source: Salon
June 18, 2014
The right-wing pundit says that, unlike himself, most liberals understood the Iraq War was a terrible idea.
Source: NYT
June 11, 2014
The artist’s signature was spelled incorrectly: Pollok instead of Pollock.
Source: BBC
June 17, 2014
An exceedingly rare 19th Century postage stamp from a British colony in South America has sold for a record $9.5m (£5.6m) at auction in New York.
Source: Huffington Post
June 17, 2014
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an end.
Source: Reuters
June 16, 2014
On a clear day, residents of Yeonpyeong Island can see North Korea, 10 kms (six miles) away.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
June 15, 2014
Clinton tells of defense of child rapist in newly unearthed recordings.
Source: USA Today
June 16, 2014
It will be demolished to make way for residential and commercial buildings.
Source: Conflict Antiquities
June 16, 2014
ISIS make its own bad news. It has ruled that all shrines and graves must be destroyed.
Source: Independent
April 16, 2014
It's a mystery worthy of a Dan Brown cracker: a famous religious college on the brink of closure and a locked archive stripped of valuable treasures it hoped to sell to stave off financial disaster.
Source: Ahram
June 11, 2014
Egypt's embassy in London has received 12 ancient Egyptian artefacts stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country after the 2011 revolution.
Source: owaahh (blog)
June 14, 2014
Ask any Kenyan why an article would sell for tens of thousands, or millions even, and the answer might just shock you.
Source: WSJ
June 15, 2014
The other three presidents of the quarter century all polled about the same.
Source: CBS News
June 12, 2014
"The Star Spangled Banner" became America's official national anthem when Congress chose it over "America the Beautiful" in 1931.
Source: City Boston -- Press Release
June 13, 2014
It now features a red, white, and blue-gray thermoplastic strip.
Source: National Security Archive
June 9, 2014
A recently declassified report by Sandia National Laboratory, published today by the National Security Archive, provides new details on the 1961 Goldsboro, North Carolina, nuclear weapons accident.
Source: Pew Research Center
June 12, 2014
How Increasing Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics, Compromise and Everyday Life.
Source: AP
June 11, 2014
The deaths of five Americans killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan stand as a fresh reminder of the dangers of friendly fire, an element of war that is older than the nation.
Source: The Root
June 12, 2014
Cooper, a Selma, Ala., native, who died in November 2010 at 100 years old, stood in line for hours in an attempt to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse during the civil rights movement.
