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: NY Daily News
Jun 18, 2014
The feds recovered four of the five boxes of art, but the fifth, the bronze Degas, is still missing.
Source: NYT
Jun 18, 2014
It is an engineering marvel of antiquity, comparable, experts say, to the Roman road system, but more remarkable for the rugged terrain it has traversed for more than 3,000 years.
Source: ABC News
Jun 18, 2014
“Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same,” she said.
Source: The Chronicle
Jun 18, 2014
This week, scholars from the United States and 25 other countries will gather in Sarajevo to mark the centennial of World War I.
Source: NYT
Jun 18, 2014
As an armed guard at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and a member of the notorious SS “Death’s Head” battalion, the authorities charged Wednesday that Mr. Breyer was complicit in the gassing of 216,000 Jews brought there in 1944 from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany.
Source: Salon
Jun 18, 2014
The right-wing pundit says that, unlike himself, most liberals understood the Iraq War was a terrible idea.
Source: BBC
Jun 17, 2014
An exceedingly rare 19th Century postage stamp from a British colony in South America has sold for a record $9.5m (£5.6m) at auction in New York.
Source: Huffington Post
Jun 17, 2014
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an end.
Source: The Moscow Times
Jun 16, 2014
The sculptor's family has vowed to stop the online auction, which concludes on June 18, saying it is illegal.
Source: Breitbart
Jun 16, 2014
The Green Collection, according to the Green Scholars Initiative website, “is among the world’s largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts."
Source: Reuters
Jun 16, 2014
On a clear day, residents of Yeonpyeong Island can see North Korea, 10 kms (six miles) away.
Source: USA Today
Jun 16, 2014
It will be demolished to make way for residential and commercial buildings.
Source: Conflict Antiquities
Jun 16, 2014
ISIS make its own bad news. It has ruled that all shrines and graves must be destroyed.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Jun 15, 2014
Clinton tells of defense of child rapist in newly unearthed recordings.
Source: WSJ
Jun 15, 2014
The other three presidents of the quarter century all polled about the same.
Source: owaahh (blog)
Jun 14, 2014
Ask any Kenyan why an article would sell for tens of thousands, or millions even, and the answer might just shock you.
Source: City Boston -- Press Release
Jun 13, 2014
It now features a red, white, and blue-gray thermoplastic strip.
Source: CBS News
Jun 12, 2014
"The Star Spangled Banner" became America's official national anthem when Congress chose it over "America the Beautiful" in 1931.
Source: Pew Research Center
Jun 12, 2014
How Increasing Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics, Compromise and Everyday Life.
Source: The Root
Jun 12, 2014
Cooper, a Selma, Ala., native, who died in November 2010 at 100 years old, stood in line for hours in an attempt to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse during the civil rights movement.
