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: Science Daily
Mar 19, 2014
A newly deciphered 1,800-year-old letter from an Egyptian solider serving in a Roman legion in Europe to his family back home shows striking similarities to what some soldiers may be feeling here and now.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 19, 2014
The photos were found in the collection of the National Archives.
Source: New York Times
Mar 19, 2014
The
Spanish government has been flooded with thousands of inquiries about
legislation it approved last month that will grant dual citizenship to
descendants of Sephardic Jews.
Source: New York Times
Mar 19, 2014
A spokesman for Koch Industries cited a 1958 Supreme Court case guaranteeing NAACP membership lists against state seizure.
Source: New York Times
Mar 19, 2014
Mr.
Thrower’s unusual legal background helped garner wide support from lawyers’ groups and lawmakers
when Nixon nominated him for I.R.S. commissioner.
Source: New York Times
Mar 19, 2014
South Ossetia, wrested from Georgia by Russia in 2008, has become an economic backwater.
Source: New York Times
Mar 19, 2014
Putin cited the breakup of the Soviet Union and the tenth-century baptism of Prince Vladimir, among other examples.
Source: Talking Points Memo
Mar 18, 2014
Because nothing says Martin Luther King, Jr. like a bunch of drunk World War II reenactors in German uniforms, right?
Source: The New Republic
Mar 18, 2014
Remember the story about the rich guy comparing left-wing populism to Nazism? It’s happening again, only this time it’s a different rich guy.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 18, 2014
In completely unrelated news, Drunk History is returning to Comedy Central. It's not even in this wire story. We promise.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 18, 2014
Don't think it couldn't happen -- Amelia Earhart's plane was never found, either.
Source: The Root
Mar 17, 2014
by Henry Louis Gates Jr
4 percent of whites have at least 1 percent or more of African ancestry.
Source: Stars and Stripes
Mar 17, 2014
In a White House ceremony Tuesday, the United States will officially acknowledge that the selfless combat heroics of 24 soldiers, including Erevia, always merited more than the nation’s second-highest medal for valor.
Source: Newser
Mar 17, 2014
The Blarney Stone is nothing more than local limestone.
Source: Phys.org
Mar 17, 2014
Polynesian chickens provide important clue on migration tale.
Source: The Economist
Mar 16, 2014
Arthur Guinness, the founder of the brewing dynasty, was a staunch unionist and opponent of Irish nationalism.
Source: NYT
Mar 12, 2014
Directed by the Academy Award winner Freida Mock, the documentary — which does not reveal Ms. Hill’s current views on Justice Thomas — chronicles her plunge, and the nation’s, into a volatile stew of sex, race and politics.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 12, 2014
The miniseries will star Bill Paxton as Sam Houston.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 12, 2014
The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina's foreign minister, Carlos Saavedra Lamas.
Source: Phys.org
Mar 11, 2014
Peking Man apparently could control fire.
