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: Buffalo News
Dec 19, 2013
About 125 reenactors participated in the commemorations.
Source: Associated Press
Dec 19, 2013
An Indiana group devoted to telling the state's
story will auction works by John James Audubon next spring to raise
money to acquire and store items more relevant to its mission.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 19, 2013
Castro praised his brother, Cuban head of state Raúl Castro, for the
much-discussed handshake with U.S. President Barack Obama at Mandela’s
memorial service.
Source: National Public Radio
Dec 18, 2013
Ronnie
Biggs went to jail for his role in the Great Train Robbery, then lived on the lamb for thirty-six years after busting out.
Source: Houston Chronicle
Dec 18, 2013
The artifacts belonged to Sam Houston, the first governor of Texas.
Source: BBC News
Dec 18, 2013
The Biblioteca Girolamini's invaluable fifteenth and sixteenth century book collections have been plundered.
Source: Springfield Museums
Dec 18, 2013
2013
Stored on a shelf for over 100 hundred years, a rare
anthropological treasure was recently discovered in the Springfield
Science Museum.
Source: New York Times
Dec 18, 2013
The Delta Queen faces an uncertain future.
Source: KSL.com
Dec 17, 2013
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a document about plural marriage on its website Monday.
Source: USA Today
Dec 17, 2013
Nathan B. Forrest High School will finally be getting a new monicker.
Source: Cafe Jumble
Dec 17, 2013
The original selfies were a surprisingly joyless bunch.
Source: New York Times
Dec 17, 2013
‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives.
Source: Politico
Dec 16, 2013
How everyone from Bill O’Reilly to Jon Stewart became a co-conspirator in an annual farce.
Source: Science
Dec 16, 2013
Forget Leibniz -- he was scooped in base-2 by five hundred years by the Polynesians.
Source: New York Times
Dec 16, 2013
Obama's library plans begin!
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dec 16, 2013
The scrolls were found in the basement of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service.
Source: Global Times
Dec 15, 2013
The collection includes works by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi, with more recent acquisitions including Landscript by Xu Bing, the museum said.
Source: New York Times
Dec 15, 2013
Random House paid a reported six figures for the manuscript.
Source: Boing Boing
Dec 13, 2013
The library is also crowdsourcing the indexing of the collection.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dec 13, 2013
"Prosperity’s Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China" is a book 97 years in the making.
