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: Time Magazine
Feb 4, 2014
Costica Acsinte
was a Romanian army photographer during World War I, and he continue to catalog his country until his death in 1984.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 4, 2014
Website includes 10,000 new images, more manuscript descriptions and translated content, and a faster search engine.
Source: LiveScience
Feb 4, 2014
The oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean has been sitting on the
seafloor off the southern coast of Sri Lanka for some 2,000 years.
Source: New York Times
Feb 4, 2014
Volume of Robert Frost’s letters renews debate about his character.
Source: The New Civil Rights Movement
Feb 4, 2014
“I mean, if the woman who wrote the song, Katharine Lee Bates saw this ad, she would be disgusted, and so would have life partner Katharine Coman, with whom she lived for 25 years, in then what was referred to as a ‘Boston Marriage.’”
Source: Phys.org
Feb 4, 2014
The researchers obviously can't prove without a shadow of a doubt that the bones they've been studying are indeed those of Charlemagne, but insist that there is a "great likelihood" that they are, based on their research efforts.
Source: Haaretz
Feb 4, 2014
Woman finds marbles, a doll's tea service and a book given to her for safekeeping by the Jewish girl in 1942.
Source: Phys.org
Feb 4, 2014
The Khoisan are most familiar to Westerners as the people who speak with distinctive clicking noises.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 4, 2014
Trial of Pascal Simbikangwa is first case in France linked to the slaughter of 500,000 people after 20-year wait.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 4, 2014
SNCF is one of the Purple Line bidders.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 4, 2014
John Paul II's confidant has published personal notes the late pope wanted burned.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 4, 2014
The Golden Temple massacre was one of India's bloodiest episodes in recent history.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 3, 2014
Mondale was recognized as one of the most prominent political spouses of her era.
Source: New York Times
Feb 3, 2014
On Tuesday, the Cineteca di Bologna, an
Italian film restoration institute, will release a previously
unpublished novella by Charlie Chaplin.
Source: BBC News
Feb 2, 2014
The project is to be led by the University of Leicester geneticist who helped identify the remains.
Source: New York Times
Feb 2, 2014
Chinese folk culture faces pressure in the light of rural development.
Source: New York Times
Feb 2, 2014
At 93, Edward J. Saylor is one of the few remaining participants in the 1942 Doolittle raid over Tokyo.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 30, 2014
A memorial to a man that Tokyo calls a terrorist, but Beijing and Seoul regard as a hero, reflects East Asia's War over history.
Source: UPI
Jan 30, 2014
The U.S. contends a recent Russian missile test violated the treaty.
Source: New York Times
Jan 30, 2014
The legacy of Neanderthals has endured 30,000 years after their extinction.
