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: Washington Post
Apr 14, 2014
“It’s like Christmas morning,” declared dinosaur curator Matt Carrano.
Source: CBS
Apr 14, 2014
Only blacks think he's black.
Source: UPI
Apr 14, 2014
The "Megiachile gentiles" specimen -- a species of bee still alive today -- was first excavated from Los Angeles' La Brea tar pits in the 1970s.
Source: US National Library of Medicine
Apr 14, 2014
Key journals charting the development of modern medicine over the last 150 years will be digitized in their entirety .
Source: The Guardian
Apr 13, 2014
As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC.
Source: LAT
Apr 12, 2014
England has adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Henry VIII novels; we have the LBJ play 'All the Way.'
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Apr 10, 2014
Call it a cinematic version of buried treasure.
Source: NYT
Apr 10, 2014
The test results do not prove that Jesus had a wife, only that the fragment of papyrus with the phrase, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife,’” is likely not a forgery.
Source: The Advocate
Apr 9, 2014
“There are places that don’t want to talk about it,” said Aaron Sheehan-Dean, a history professor at LSU.
Source: BBC
Apr 9, 2014
More than 150 files are being made available in the digitised release.
Source: Talking Points Memo
Apr 9, 2014
DeMint dismisses the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to argue that the Constitution just ultimately led the country in the right direction.
Source: Historyextra
Apr 8, 2014
An 18th-century chastity belt and phallic Roman amulets are to be used to enrich sex education for secondary school pupils.
Source: NYT
Apr 8, 2014
“It is all here: the story of our time — with the bark off."--LBJ
Source: NYT
Apr 8, 2014
The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act is a painful reminder to President Obama that Lyndon B. Johnson might have been the last president able to push through such sweeping legislation.
Source: NYT
Apr 7, 2014
The German government on Monday announced an agreement with Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, that would pave the way for the possible restitution of art wrongfully taken from Jewish owners and held in his private collection for decades.
Source: The Kansas City Star
Apr 7, 2014
The papers of A.B. Nichols, inaccessible for more than 80 years, are now part of a series of remembrances that will begin with an exhibit opening tonight at the library and culminate in October with a visit by historian David McCullough, author of a book about the canal.
Source: Google
Apr 7, 2014
41 or 43?
Source: Newsmax
Apr 7, 2014
Bush's breaking of his tax pledge is now seen as a plus by acolytes.
Source: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Apr 7, 2014
"We found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force."
Source: NYT
Apr 7, 2014
French officials said the justice minister would not attend the events after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda accused Paris of “political preparation” in the 1994 killings.
