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: Archaeology News Network
                                        June 6, 2014
            
            
            
            Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Archaeology News Network
                                        June 6, 2014
            
            
            
            One of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be a self-portrait, is in extremely poor condition.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huff Post
                                        June 6, 2014
            
            
            
            Obama spoke from the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, where nearly 10,000 white marble tombstones sit on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: TalkingPointsMemo
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            "Naturally, Lt. Col. Oliver North has plenty to say about the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NBC
                                        June 5, 2014
            
            
            
            Veterans are traveling to Utah Beach, knowing this anniversary could be their last.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Seattle Times 
                                        June 5, 2014
            
            
            
            As a dwindling cast of veterans make their way to France for the 70th commemoration Friday, the semi-welcome guest is Russian President Vladimir Putin.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
                                        May 24, 2014
            
            
            
            Deadliest disaster 
in state’s history
 teaches lessons in physics, ethics, law, 
and class injustice
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: AP
                                        June 5, 2014
            
            
            
            Five former victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery and their supporters submitted hundreds of official documents.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Sky News
                                        June 5, 2014
            
            
            
            Organisers said Hong Kong had a duty to light a candle in remembrance "when the whole of China is being silenced."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Guardian
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            Genetically regrowing Van Gogh's ear is fascinating, because it returns us to how the artist saw himself: as a martyr of art.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Guardian
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            Mysterious artwork at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum showing people clustered on beach had huge creature painted over.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Atlantic
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            New tests prove what librarians have long believed: this book's cover is made of human.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Indian Country Today  Media Network
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            The code talkers mission was so secretive they could not talk about it until 23 years after the war ended.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Press Release
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            “Medal of Honor: The History” is the first history that’s been done on the nation’s highest award.  
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: CP World
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            Despite all the economic progress in China, there has been little political reform in the past 25 years, he said. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: GlobalPost
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            In this small town in the Limousin region more than 300 miles south of Omaha Beach, people will gather to remember the worst Nazi atrocity on French soil.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Entertainment 
                                        June 3, 2014
            
            
            
            Movie's director famous for "Independence Day" and other blockbusters. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: CBS affiliate 
                                        June 4, 2014
            
            
            
            The names of 74 sailors who died on the USS Frank E. Evans may finally be included on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Security Archive
                                        June 3, 2014
            
            
            
            The National Security Archive is posting 25 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) records relating to the event and its aftermath.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Smithsonian
                                        June 1, 2014
            
            
            
            For years patriots clamored for swatches of the enormous flag that raised spirits at “dawn’s early light.”