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: National Post
Jan 12, 2014
Could Sir Francis Drake have reached Canada's Pacific coast?
Source: BBC News
Jan 12, 2014
"Sometimes we find them just beneath the moss and a few
layers of fallen leaves. They are still lying where they fell. The
soldiers are waiting for us - waiting for the chance to finally go
home."
Source: New York Times
Jan 10, 2014
The archive comes from a veteran of the famed Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry, the first African American formation fielded by the Union in the Civil War.
Source: Irish Independent
Jan 10, 2014
Memorial Records go digital with list of all those from island of Ireland who died during war or as result of injuries sustained in battle in Belgium.
Source: New York Times
Jan 9, 2014
In a world as multipolar today as Europe in the early 20th century, the implications go far beyond academic debate
Source: TIME Magazine
Jan 8, 2014
On 50th anniversary of LBJ speech.
Source: New York Times
Jan 8, 2014
Sophie Lillie and Agnes Peresztegi will serve on a panel chaired by Germany’s former
deputy state minister for culture.
Source: New York Times
Jan 8, 2014
Cholera experts praised the work, although they disagreed about what it proved about the disease’s recent history.
Source: Washington City Paper
Jan 8, 2014
The festival will be moving to the
Walter E. Washington Convention Center in 2014.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 8, 2014
Professor finds cache of previously unpublished letters by author of Frankenstein, written between 1831 and 1849.
Source: Associated Press
Jan 8, 2014
Thee 88-year-old man was charged with participating in the 1944 massacre of the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 7, 2014
Call it the 50 Shades of Grey effect.
Source: NYT
Jan 7, 2014
They were never caught, and the stolen documents that they mailed anonymously to newspaper reporters were the first trickle of what would become a flood.
Source: WaPo
Jan 7, 2014
The former defense secretary describes a contentious relationship between the president and his top aides about Afghanistan war strategy and policies.
Source: Huffington Post
Jan 7, 2014
The newly-recovered Dutch vessel pre-dates Captain Cook by more than 50 years.
Source: Nature
Jan 7, 2014
The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table.
Source: New York Times
Jan 7, 2014
The FBI offices in Philadelphia were burglarized forty years ago today.
Source: McClatchy DC
Jan 6, 2014
John Rizzo, a former CIA general counsel, says Bush's claim that he was informed about waterboarding from the first is not true.
Source: New York Times
Jan 5, 2014
Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Stature Carries ‘12 Years a Slave.’
Source: inSerbia
Jan 5, 2014
The letter was drafted by an Austro-Hungarian general Oskar Potiorek, governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
