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 Telegraph
Jun 6, 2016
Historian Florian Kotanko has claimed that Adolf Hitler had a disabled younger brother who died of hydrocephalus when the Nazi dictator was three years’ old.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 5, 2016
Will Obama risk armed confrontation to save it?
Source: Forward
Jun 5, 2016
She saved at least 12 Jews during the Holocaust, hiding them in the convent in Rome where she served as mother superior.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 4, 2016
Thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park to commemorate the brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing at the hands of the Chinese army 27 years ago
Source: The Conversation
Jun 3, 2016
The Cornish language “Kernewek” is one of the oldest tongues still spoken in Britain today.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 3, 2016
Similar attempts to disqualify minority judges have long been dismissed
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 3, 2016
The discovery of a three-thousand-year-old settlement at Must Farm is reshaping the view of Britain’s Bronze Age.
Source: CNN
Jun 3, 2016
A four-page love letter written by John F. Kennedy to his mistress is being auctioned.
Source: MSN
Jun 3, 2016
Ford had more experience than Carter and lost. Carter had more experience than Reagan and lost. Bush I had more experience than Bill Clinton and lost. See a theme here?
Source: Newsy
Jun 2, 2016
The country is already known for censorship, but it gets even worse on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
Source: NPR
Jun 2, 2016
The discovery, a collection of more than 400 Roman waxed writing tablets, was announced Wednesday by the Museum of London Archaeology.
Source: NYT
Jun 2, 2016
The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried in Egypt with King Tutankhamen probably came from a fallen meteorite, researchers have determined — a form of metal so prized by ancient Egyptians that they called it “iron from the sky.”
Source: The Daily Beast
Jun 2, 2016
As the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre approaches, China is still trying to come to terms with the contradictory legacies of Mao and Deng.
Source: NYT
Jun 2, 2016
The Anglican God inherited over generations from Henry VIII’s day has long ceased to represent an exclusive franchise.
Source: Russia Today
Jun 2, 2016
The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.
Source: Slate
Jun 1, 2016
These letters show that many were greatly disturbed by the series and felt the producers went too far.
Source: The Times of Israel
May 31, 2016
27 candles were lighted to symbolize the 27 centuries of Jewish life in the Iraqi capital.
Source: The New Historian
May 31, 2016
A new experiment has shown that the difficulty of moving the stones from Wales to Wiltshire wasn’t nearly as high as everyone thinks.
Source: The World Weekly
May 30, 2016
The Saudis agreed to use petrodollars earned from the sale of oil to US to purchase treasury bonds to finance our debt.
Source: The Daily Beast
May 30, 2016
After WWII, the city’s bureaucrats decided ‘equal treatment’ for the few Jews not exterminated was to fine them. Now the municipality is trying to make amends.
