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: NYT
Feb 26, 2015
It opened in Louisiana in December.
Source: NYT
Feb 26, 2015
A proposal to build an immense memorial in Ottawa to the global victims of Communism has prompted protests from architects, the mayor and the country’s chief justice.
Source: Yahoo News
Feb 26, 2015
The five-minute video shows a group of bearded men inside the Mosul Museum using hammers and drills to destroy several large statues, which are then shown chipped and in pieces.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 25, 2015
Book of legal and philosophical advice on king’s efforts to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled helped change the course of English history
Source: Seattle Times
Feb 25, 2015
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans polled in national survey back establishing Christianity as the “national religion” of the United States.
Source: The Nation
Feb 25, 2015
Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.
Source: NPR
Feb 25, 2015
The Museum of the Bible will house the more than 40,000 artifacts in Green's personal collection, including Jewish Torah scrolls and papyrus fragments of the New Testament.
Source: Salon
Feb 25, 2015
The famed mathematician and codebreaker received a royal pardon in 2013. As many as 49,000 others have not
Source: Time
Feb 24, 2015
Photographer Firat Yurdakul captured a scene reminiscent of Joe Rosenthal's WWII image
Source: Center for American Progress
Feb 24, 2015
The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation's voting electorate in all 50 states.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 23, 2015
These outbreaks were traditionally thought to be caused by rodent reservoirs of infected rats lurking in Europe’s cities, or potentially by rodent reservoirs in the wilderness. But research published in the journal PNAS suggests otherwise.
Source: Huffington Post
Feb 23, 2015
The mummy is believed to be that of Liuquan, a Buddhist monk who died in China around 1,100 A.D.
Source: AP
Feb 22, 2015
The Bradbury home's destruction came as a surprise in part because the guy who knocked it down was one of the city's most prominent architects.
Source: NYT
Feb 21, 2015
What led him to embellish the story is anybody’s guess.
Source: History Extra
Feb 20, 2015
Everyday objects and ideas have, through history, often had fascinating and unexpected consequences, as a new BBC Two series reveals.
Source: NYT
Feb 20, 2015
So were Mexicans.
Source: Telegraph
Feb 20, 2015
Walter Elliot discovers tale starring famous detective in collection of short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in effort to save his favourite bridge in Selkirk
Source: WHIO
Feb 19, 2015
“I was really hurt (by the menu). Extremely hurt.” — student
Source: Politico
Feb 19, 2015
The Barack Obama Foundation, the nonprofit charged with siting the library, is set to announce the location by the end of next month.
Source: Slate
Feb 19, 2015
Texts from a village dating back to Egypt’s New Kingdom period, about 3,100 to 3,600 years ago, suggest that in ancient Egypt there was a state-supported health care network designed to ensure that workers making the king’s tomb were productive.
