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: Associated Press
Dec 9, 2013
The statement, posted Friday, says the ban was put into place during an
era of great racial divide that influenced early teachings of the church.
Source: New York Times
Dec 9, 2013
A new ad campaign in Los Angeles highlights famous figures from history who may have been autistic.
Source: Agence France-Presse
Dec 7, 2013
Historian Monika Schmidt estimates up to a quarter of the zoo's 4000 shareholders in the 1930s were Jewish.
Source: CNN.com
Dec 6, 2013
A guitar once owned by music
legend Bob Dylan sold for $965,000 Friday at Christie's.
Source: National Geographic
Dec 6, 2013
Remote-sensing techniques have unearthed clues to the fate of settlers who mysteriously disappeared.
Source: ABC News
Dec 5, 2013
The former South African president had been hospitalized since June.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 5, 2013
The document used to be in the collection of Springsteen's former manager, Mike Appel.
Source: New York Times
Dec 5, 2013
Aussaresses admitted that he coldbloodedly tortured and summarily executed dozens of prisoners during the Algerian War.
Source: New York Times
Dec 5, 2013
The new discovery is the oldest known fossil of the hominid Denisovan.
Source: Nautilus
Dec 4, 2013
The Elephant’s Foot could be the most dangerous piece of waste in the world.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dec 4, 2013
Medical file and discharge summary discovered in 2009.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dec 4, 2013
The Eureka flag was raised against colonial rule in 1854 and has been a symbol of Australian democracy ever since.
Source: Associated Press
Dec 4, 2013
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has received a $1
million grant to launch a long-term initiative to digitize and preserve
recordings of endangered languages.
Source: Religion News Service
Dec 4, 2013
The Vatican Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library are teaming up.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 4, 2013
An 85-year-old U.S.
veteran being held in North Korea spent his war years there in one of
the Army’s first Special Forces units.
Source: Military.com
Dec 4, 2013
Heffron was a paratrooper in Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dec 4, 2013
The report also advocates developing preservation programs.
Source: Scientific American
Dec 4, 2013
To predict and prevent the collapse of streets in Rome, geoscientists mapped high-risk areas of the quarry system.
Source: Associated Press
Dec 3, 2013
Johnson's two daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda
Johnson Robb, attended the presentation of the award.
Source: New York Times
Dec 3, 2013
The I-400, an aircraft carrier sub designed to attack the Panama Canal, has been found off of Hawaii.
