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: CBS News
June 3, 2014
U.S. military lost more lives practicing to land on Utah Beach than actually died there on D-Day.
Source: PolicyMic
June 2, 2014
While the iconic image of an unarmed man standing before a row of tanks on a road leading to Tiananmen Square stays firmly planted in the world's collective memory, Chinese authorities have gone to great lengths to scrub the protests, the massacre and that scene from its history.
Source: The Guardian
June 3, 2014
Scholar says that drug given to Ulysses author for complaints including failing sight was only ever prescribed for this condition.
Source: CNN
June 3, 2014
It's 2014, but the pro-democracy, pro-rights sentiments that manifested across China as demonstrations in 1989 are still alive and well.
Source: NYT
June 3, 2014
Even during the D-Day summer of 1944, the Allies turned to high-stakes drone warfare.
Source: The Daily Beast
May 31, 2014
In a desperate bid to save its heritage, Egypt is now demanding the U.S. impose emergency restrictions that could ban trade of all Egyptian objects of cultural value to America.
Source: Washington Post
June 2, 2014
Harold Holzer, an expert on President Lincoln and the author or editor of more than 30 books, called the sale of the skull a desecration.
Source: Press Release -- University of Colorado at Boulder
April 30, 2014
The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior intelligence allowed them to be driven to extinction by the much brighter ancestors of modern humans is not supported by scientific evidence.
Source: ABC News blog
June 2, 2014
by Rick Klein
In 2008 Obama chided Bush for using signing statements to override Congress.
Source: NYT
June 2, 2014
In 1989, a Chinese general refused to take part in violence against protesters, sending tremors through the Communist Party establishment, documents and interviews show.
Source: BBC
May 31, 2014
If there is a single word to sum up World War One, it might well be "loss."
Source: National Security Archive
May 29, 2014
Leading decision makers from the United Nations, Africa, the United States, and Europe will gather in The Hague from June 1 to 3 to consider the failure of the international community to prevent or effectively respond to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Source: The Independent
May 30, 2014
An adolescent growth spurt that went wrong caused King Richard III’s physical deformity but it did not give him a hunchback, a limp or a withered arm.
Source: The Guardian
May 26, 2014
Dido Belle, the mixed-race daughter of an 18th-century British aristocrat, is the subject of a mysterious painting and a new film, Belle.
Source: The Connexion
May 28, 2014
They do not have long to work out exactly what it was used for, as developers are scheduled to move in and start work on the shopping mall in July.
Source: AP
May 28, 2014
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is convening a panel of 18 scholars next month that will be charged with exploring the LGBT movement's story in areas such as law, religion, media, civil rights and the arts.
Source: NBC
May 28, 2014
"It is generally thought that mind-altering substances, or at least drugs, are a modern-day issue, but if we look at the archaeological record of prehistoric Europe, there are many data supporting their consumption."
Source: NYT
May 29, 2014
The short version: He doesn’t give an inch.
Source: NYT
May 27, 2014
Concern about instability in the wake of a withdrawal may be driving support for keeping some United States forces there.
Source: PBS
May 26, 2014
We don’t know how many Americans who died while serving during wartime are buried on foreign soil.
