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: Fox News
Oct 2, 2014
Experts identified a shipwreck uncovered last month in the Arctic as the HMS Erebus, the ship British Rear Adm. Sir John Franklin was likely sailing on when it vanished along with another vessel 170 years ago.
Source: Civil War News
Oct 2, 2014
After soaking for three months in 55,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide to loosen the sand, sediment and rust that comprises the concretion, conservators began carefully probing the outside of the hull in early August.
Source: Time
Oct 1, 2014
The dungeon believed to have held Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the blood-thirsty character, was recently discovered in Turkey.
Source: Press Release: Earth Cam
Oct 1, 2014
Once again the National Park Service has partnered with EarthCam to bring live views of iconic U.S. monuments to the world.
Source: National Security Archive
Oct 1, 2014
"I think we are going to have to smash Castro," Kissinger tells President Ford
Source: Al Arabiya News
Sep 30, 2014
Speaking at a conference at the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO in Paris, France's ambassador to UNESCO Philippe Lalliot warned that Iraq’s cultural heritage is in “great danger.”
Source: NYT
Sep 30, 2014
Presidents have faced astonishing breaches at “the people’s house,” long before an intruder with a knife managed to slip past security and run around the State Floor this month.
Source: Global Post/Salon
Sep 30, 2014
Could this be a map of world trouble spots?
Source: NYT
Sep 29, 2014
Now approaching next year’s 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination comes a new book that for the first time gathers together all of the 130 known photographs of the 16th president.
Source: NYT
Sep 29, 2014
Eager to bolster patriotism at a time of growing tensions with neighboring countries, China will celebrate a new holiday for the first time on Tuesday to memorialize people who died in battle against foreign powers.
Source: AP
Sep 29, 2014
"He lacks any credibility in denying responsibility for the atrocities committed on a massive scale while he was in charge."
Source: Flavorwire
Sep 28, 2014
Reel Art Press' "Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art" by John Kisch and Tony Nourmand is a centennial celebration of black film poster art.
Source: Smithsonian
Sep 28, 2014
Maps attributed to the 13th-century traveler sketch what looks like the coast of Alaska.
Source: NYT
Sep 27, 2014
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space.” -- T. S. Eliot
Source: BBC
Sep 26, 2014
A hoard of 22,000 Roman coins has been unearthed near Seaton in east Devon.
Source: The Kansas City Star
Sep 26, 2014
As its 75th anniversary approaches, even the film’s distributor acknowledges the Civil War epic’s portrayal of slavery is dated and inaccurate.
Source: The Art Newspaper
Sep 25, 2014
As air strikes begin, archaeologists are turning to safer countries of Turkmenistan and Georgia.
Source: Politifact
Sep 24, 2014
Some conservatives and members of the military are upset that President Barack Obama saluted to Marines on Tuesday while holding a cup. Others are coming to Obama’s defense.
Source: The Morning Call
Sep 24, 2014
While the Moravian settlement featuring the stately Whitefield House has been preserved as a museum, the First House had been razed 150 years ago.
Source: NYT
Sep 24, 2014
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, adheres to Wahhabism, a severe form of Islam quick to denounce others, even fellow militant groups like Al Qaeda, as infidels and worthy of death.
