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: Phys.org
Feb 26, 2014
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that an abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon affected northwest India 4,100 years ago.
Source: LiveScience
Feb 26, 2014
An ancient Roman gladiator school has been discovered in Austria, complete with cell blocks, a training arena and a bath complex, archaeologists say.
Source: BBC News
Feb 26, 2014
America's most notorious prison continues to reveal its secrets.
Source: BBC News
Feb 26, 2014
Japan hopes to immortalise its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men
who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in World War Two - by
seeking Unesco World Heritage status for a collection of their letters.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Feb 25, 2014
Bryan Cranston is a bit surprised to find himself defending former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Source: Politico
Feb 25, 2014
A trove of Clinton White House records long processed for release remains hidden from public view.
Source: Variety
Feb 25, 2014
Angelina Jolie Speaks to Tom Brokaw about Universal’s ‘Unbroken’.
Source: Asahi Shimbum
Feb 25, 2014
The site is part of a necropolis that contains 1,000 or so grotto tombs that were first excavated nearly 200 years ago.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 25, 2014
Indian-Americans are doctors, engineers, motel
owners and spelling bee champs, based on a few takeaways from a new
exhibition at the Smithsonian.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 25, 2014
Nearly
all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated,
mint condition.
Source: Daily Show
Feb 24, 2014
Andrew Napolitano questions the economic underpinnings of the Civil War and Lincoln's legacy, but Larry Wilmore argues that tea isn't the only black thing worth fighting for.
Source: Public Radio International
Feb 24, 2014
Kolmanskop is being swallowed by the desert.
Source: BBC News
Feb 24, 2014
Dingell served for nearly sixty years.
Source: BBC News
Feb 24, 2014
Nearly 100,000 Ingush who were deported from their homes by the Soviets during World War II.
Source: New York Times
Feb 24, 2014
. The award includes a $100,000 cash prize as well as assistance from the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University Libraries.
Source: New York Times
Feb 23, 2014
A champion of collectivism, Stalin undoubtedly would have frowned upon the renting of his summer home to a corporation.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 23, 2014
The Royal Society is urging people to help it shine a light on the achievements of women in science in a forthcoming 'edit-athon.'
Source: Reason
Feb 22, 2014
Wow.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 21, 2014
Grosvenor also revealed famous portrait previously accepted as genuine was actually of prince's younger brother Henry.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 20, 2014
A federal arts panel has given final approval for designs and materials to build a bronze color "corona" as the defining element of the Smithsonian's new black history museum being built on the National Mall.
