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: AP
Dec 13, 2013
One of the country's poorest Native American tribes wants to buy a historically significant piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were killed, but tribal leaders say the nearly $4 million price tag for a property appraised at less than $7,000 is just too much.James Czywczynski is trying to sell a 40-acre fraction of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The land sits adjacent to a gravesite where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890 are buried.Czywczynski, whose family has owned the property since 1968, recently gave the tribe an ultimatum: purchase the land for $3.9 million or he will open up bidding to non-Native Americans. He said he has been trying to sell the land to the tribe for years...
Source: New York Times
Dec 12, 2013
The manuscript was written by a man named Austin Reed, a prisoner in upstate New York.
Source: New York Times
Dec 12, 2013
The law was reinstated on a technicality, and there's little chance of India's Parliament acting to reverse it.
Source: New York Times
Dec 12, 2013
House committee hearing on Wednesday showed little progress in making the museum a reality.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Dec 12, 2013
Between 1962 and 1964, 40 percent of the chemistry PhD’s awarded in
Soviet Russia went to women. Only 37 percent go to women in America today.
Source: Medium.com
Dec 12, 2013
Historians have long known about the Pentagon's ... unorthodox research during the Cold War. But now new light has been shed on their Soviet counterparts.
Source: The Australian
Dec 12, 2013
A Darwin boy discovered the bronze cannon at Dundee Beach.
Source: AP
Dec 12, 2013
...International Olympic Committee leaders dropped wrestling from the Summer Games on Tuesday. The move is set to take effect for the 2020 Olympics and eliminates a sport that has been a staple of both the ancient and modern games. Though wrestling's chances of making it back onto the Olympic program by 2020 are considered slim, the sport has two chances left to stop the drop.Wrestling was voted out from a final group that also included modern pentathlon, taekwondo and field hockey, officials familiar with the vote told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the voting details were not made public.But the IOC executive board will meet in May in St. Petersburg, Russia, to decide which sport or sports to propose for 2020 inclusion. The final vote will be made at the IOC session, or general assembly, in September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Source: BBC News
Dec 11, 2013
Tolkein served with the Lancashire Fusiliers during the Battle of the Somme.
Source: Associated Press
Dec 11, 2013
The wreckage of a
wooden steamer that sank during a storm in 1861 in Lake Huron has
finally been found.
Source: BBC News
Dec 11, 2013
You'd be surprised at how dangerous everyday life was in the 1880s.
Source: New York Times
Dec 11, 2013
The attendees included South African president Jacob Zuma, Barack Obama, and Raul Castro
Source: Polskie Radio
Dec 10, 2013
The last veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War has died at a nursing home in Tursk, western Poland.
Source: LiveScience
Dec 10, 2013
A new study from the School of Oriental and African Studies says yes.
Source: The Independent
Dec 10, 2013
25-site survey shows that early humans chose predominantly to live on islands in the flood plains of major rivers.
Source: New York Times
Dec 10, 2013
Three new markers will be unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama that describe the city's role in the slave trade.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 9, 2013
"Let's remember the ANC that he refers to were pursuing freedom. Many
of the communist nations embraced them," he said.
Source: BBC News
Dec 9, 2013
Ethiopian colonel Fekadu
Wakene taught South African political activist Nelson Mandela the tricks
of guerrilla warfare.
Source: The Local (Sweden)
Dec 9, 2013
Sweden signed a top secret intelligence treaty with the US and other countries in 1954, leaked Snowden documents reveal.
Source: Associated Press
Dec 9, 2013
The collection also features letters from Abraham Lincoln.
