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: Al Jazeera
Oct 30, 2014
The documentary concludes Israel deliberately attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans.
Source: The Guardian, where you can see the rest of the list
Oct 30, 2014
Historian Ian Mortimer identifies the 10 leading drivers of change.
Source: The Telegraph
Oct 30, 2014
Digging for victory in World War 2 improved the health and brain power of Britons, the University of Aberdeen found.
Source: Roll Call
Oct 30, 2014
Obama is likely to have the worst midterm numbers of any two-term president going back to Democrat Harry S. Truman.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 30, 2014
Two decades years after finding a piece of metal on a remote Pacific atoll, Ric Gillespie says he has proof it was used to patch the aviator’s plane—and it fits ‘like a fingerprint.’
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 28, 2014
The presidents of Poland and Israel on Tuesday joined Holocaust survivors for the formal opening of a multimedia museum that tells the 1,000-year history of Jewish life in Poland.
Source: NYT
Oct 28, 2014
Ultranationalist cyberactivists have menaced the village of Sarufutsu over a memorial to Korean laborers who died building an airfield there.
Source: Discovery
Oct 27, 2014
The remains of an Italian WWII pilot who died in a dogfight with U.S. pilots 70 years ago have finally been unearthed -- still sitting on the parachute in the cockpit.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 27, 2014
Scientists who conducted a genetic study published last week found that these ancient people had significant contact with Native American populations hundreds of years before the first Westerners reached the island in 1722.
Oct 27, 2014
by HNN Staff
The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.
Source: NYT
Oct 26, 2014
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”
Source: AP
Oct 24, 2014
"It was a brave undertaking, mixing with fascists, pretending to be someone you weren't. It was dangerous work that could have gone wrong."
Source: AP
Oct 24, 2014
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 23, 2014
Charles Freeman believes relic venerated as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth dates from 14th century and was used as a prop.
Source: EurekAlert
Oct 23, 2014
The study, published in the British Dental Journal, examined 303 skulls from a Romano-British burial ground in Poundbury, Dorset for evidence of dental disease.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 23, 2014
Who was Jack the Ripper?
Source: NYT
Oct 22, 2014
Migros, a Swiss retail giant, said it did not know exactly how the image came to be on the label.
Source: NYT
Oct 22, 2014
And the genome, extracted from a fossil thighbone found in Siberia, added strong support to a provocative hypothesis: Early humans interbred with Neanderthals.
Source: Fast Company & Inc
Oct 22, 2014
Trois-Rivieres history professor Laurent Turcot sees the potential for video games to introduce students and others to how people lived in the past.
Source: archaeologynewsnetwork
Oct 22, 2014
A profound new discovery by palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor John Long, reveals how the intimate act of sexual intercourse first evolved in our deep distant ancestors.
