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: New York Times
Oct 23, 2013
Climate change-triggered drought may be the culprit.
Source: Al Jazeera America
Oct 23, 2013
“This is going to make a powerful statement, I think, not only to the state but to the country."
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 23, 2013
Social Security faced the problem of enrolling 26 million people in less than a year in 1935... without computers.
Source: Toronto Star
Oct 22, 2013
Virginian veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force have their names inscribed at the Virginia War Memorial.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 22, 2013
A handy map that will teach you Middle East diplomacy in two-and-a-half minutes.
Source: Slate Magazine
Oct 22, 2013
Slate Magazine features cartoon artists capturing Hollywood films. This week features a cartoonist drawing the tale of Radium Girls, women during World War II who contracted radium poisoning while painting glow-in-the-dark watch dials.
Source: Irish Times
Oct 22, 2013
Sakharov prize for freedom of thought honours Burmese figure’s battle for democracy.
Source: Time Lightbox
Oct 21, 2013
The Times features Martin Par's documentation of a British town transitioning from a traditional industrial community to an artistic, gentrifying community over 35 years.
Source: Associated Press
Oct 21, 2013
Russell Shorto's engaging history of Amsterdam hits all the highlights.
Source: New York Times
Oct 21, 2013
Mellerio dits Meller in Paris is celebrating its 400th birthday.
Source: New York Post
Oct 21, 2013
And is this headline clickbait? You bet!
Source: New York Times
Oct 20, 2013
A group of fourteen nations has sought legal aid against the governments of the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands.
Source: BBC News
Oct 20, 2013
The spread of the Black
Death in the 14th Century reveals our medieval ancestors' social
networks and shows how connected they were.
Source: New York Times
Oct 20, 2013
The St. Louis Browns (since 1953, the Baltimore Orioles) still have their fans in the old hometown.
Source: BBC News
Oct 20, 2013
Local church leaders outside of Leipzig have objected to the "glorification" of war.
Source: New York Times
Oct 19, 2013
Foley presided over the House from 1989 to 1994.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 18, 2013
A former history teacher hopes to use ground-penetrating radar to
uncover a network of Nazi tunnels believed to be beneath Oslo's city
streets.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Oct 18, 2013
The Bull's Head was a haunt of George Washington.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Oct 18, 2013
Blame the media.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 18, 2013
China's secret salvage of Britain's sunken submarine, HMS Poseidon
