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: The Telegraph
Feb 9, 2014
The Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka, which would have been flown by Japanese suicide bombers, is to form part of an exhibition at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Source: The Telegraph
Feb 8, 2014
Gandhari, Sogdian, Rongorongo... Meet the elite group of academics determined to translate scrolls in long-lost languages - one painstakingly slow syllable at a time.
Source: Seattle Times
Feb 8, 2014
A diver and some amateur historians believe they found a lost anchor from Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 voyage into Puget Sound. But have they?
Source: Wall St. Journal
Feb 8, 2014
The U.S. military's effort to protect the cultural treasures of the world continues even in today's war zones
Source: National Post
Feb 7, 2014
In 1940, German Jewish refugees in Canada were placed in internment camps, treated as dangerous threats to Canadian security.
Source: BBC News
Feb 7, 2014
An argument about what to call the sea between South Korea and Japan has spread to the United States.
Source: BBC News
Feb 7, 2014
Dickens stipulated there was to be no statue of him in his native land, but Portsmouth unveiled a bronze statue for the author's 202nd birthday. Should they have?
Source: BBC News
Feb 7, 2014
Details of the extraordinary markings have been published in the science journal Plos One.
Source: Public Radio International
Feb 7, 2014
The Circassian people were nearly destroyed during the Russian conquest of 1864.
Source: Nautilus
Feb 6, 2014
Life, death, and Sputnik.
Source: The Saturday Evening Post
Feb 6, 2014
George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman introduced jazz to a classical audience.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 6, 2014
Officials at the Carondelet High School for Girls in Concord apologized to students, parents, and the community.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 6, 2014
A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery tries to quantify "cool."
Source: Associated Press
Feb 6, 2014
"Boulevard Monmartre, Spring Morning" went for $32 million.
Source: New York Times
Feb 6, 2014
The move comes after a tentative agreement on Wednesday.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 6, 2014
An autographed piece of the stage goes on the auction block.
Source: New York Times
Feb 6, 2014
The Stradivarius may have been recovered in Milwaukee.
Source: Reuters
Feb 5, 2014
The students were sentenced, in absentia,
to a suspended prison sentence.
Source: NBC News
Feb 5, 2014
The new movie about the Monuments Men debuts this week.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 4, 2014
Museum of London Archaeology wants to record items washed up in thousands of sites around the UK.
