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: BBC News
Sep 23, 2013
Researchers in Hungary looking for the tomb of Suleiman the
Magnificent have uncovered instead traces of a whole Ottoman era town.
Source: Time Magazine
Sep 23, 2013
Jobs moved to the Los Altos house with his foster parents when he was in 7th grade.
Source: InTheCapital
Sep 23, 2013
Excavations near American University have found traces of mustard gas and lewisite.
Source: New York Times
Sep 23, 2013
Its humble appearance, though, belies the
fact that it played a role in the famous Three Kingdoms era.
Source: NYT
Sep 23, 2013
The 100-year-old Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris will hold its first auction of vintage and not-so-old collectibles.
Source: BBC News
Sep 23, 2013
Cashel Man has had the weight of the world on his shoulders, quite literally, for 4,000 years.
Source: Pulse
Sep 23, 2013
The site serves up data on global hurricanes as they made landfall going back to 1842.
Source: Mail Tribune
Sep 23, 2013
Southern Oregon University archaeologists will
return to Jacksonville next month to conduct more excavations at the old
Chinese Quarter.
Source: Phys.org
Sep 23, 2013
A new evolutionary model predicts when and where complex societies arise in human history.
Source: The Scotsman
Sep 22, 2013
He is little known in his home country, but the Scot credited with saving America’s buffalo from being hunted to extinction is now the subject of an award-winning film.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 22, 2013
Doubts cast over ancient symbol of heroism and sacrifice.
Source: Associated Press
Sep 22, 2013
A World War II soldier's
heartfelt letter to his daughter has finally reached her, seven decades
after it was written.
Source: The Associated Press
Sep 21, 2013
Budget cuts become so severe the Smithsonian may need to resort to furloughs and museum closings.
Source: New York Times
Sep 21, 2013
Mildred Fish-Harnack is the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Adolf Hitler.
Source: BBC News
Sep 21, 2013
Retrieving the remains of a German bomber - the dreaded Dornier 217.ZA.
Source: Associated Press
Sep 21, 2013
A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation’s east coast, with a
single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more
powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published
book says.
Source: USA Today
Sep 21, 2013
A contractor finds four significant films thought to be lost, including Their First Misunderstanding featuring Mary Pickford.
Source: The National
Sep 21, 2013
Developers of the September 11 Memorial Museum neglect Little Syria, a nearby New York neighborhood, forcing Arab Americans to fight for their presence in United States' history.
Source: AP
Sep 21, 2013
A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation’s east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.
Source: Spiegel International
Sep 20, 2013
After some initial digs, a Dutch filmmaker believes he may found the sight of buried Nazi treasure long rumored to exist.
