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: WSJ
3-24-15
Conference panelists present different pictures of the 43rd president and his policies
Source: Foreign Policy
3-23-15
In the 1960s, hundreds of pounds of uranium went missing in Pennsylvania. Is it buried in the ground, poisoning locals — or did Israel steal it to build the bomb?
Source: The Guardian
3-23-15
Pan Macmillan announces it has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to book which is likely to tackle Mandela’s divorce from his second wife Winnie and why he opted to stand down after a single term.
Source: Stuff
3-23-15
A publicity stunt where prospective gun-buyers are told about the graphic history of each weapon has enraged US conservatives.
Source: The Guardian
3-24-15
It features Syria’s war-scarred citadel of Aleppo — the oldest city in the world
Source: The Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table
April 2015
Abu Dhabi has announced they have paid the Armand Hammer Foundation a hefty undisclosed sum for a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
3-21-15
Buoyed by a PBS documentary on the Roosevelts by Ken Burns, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in 2014 welcomed 173,000 visitors, the highest attendance since 1989.
Source: WaPo
3-23-15
"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible."
Source: WSJ
3-20-15
Since the end of the 20-year Democratic run in the White House that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt and ended with Harry Truman, there have been six occasions when either major party could have extended its control of the White House to three terms.
Source: BBC
3-22-15
Two of the ancient cities now being destroyed by Islamic State lay buried for 2,500 years, it was only 170 years ago that they began to be dug up and stripped of their treasures.
Source: Yahoo News
3-22-15
It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece's Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler's genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train fare.
Source: Southern Methodist University
3-23-15
When Southern Methodist University student Loy Williams hurriedly packed his bag before climbing aboard a bus bound to join civil rights protesters in Montgomery, Ala., he grabbed his Argus C3 camera.
Source: NBC News
3-22-15
In 1980 he said: "I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned, if murderers were immediately killed as the Bible commands."
Source: CBS Evening News
3-22-15
Richard III was finally getting the ceremony and honor a king deserves, 530 years after his ignominious death in battle.
Source: NBC News
3-21-15
The mayor wants a racist plaque taken down, but state law won't let him. It segregates black veterans who served and died in world wars 1 & 2.
Source: NYT
3-20-15
The National Endowment for the Humanities will announce a $125,000 grant it has awarded to the Department of Records and Information for the digitization of 30,000 of the pictures.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-20-15
Monday is the anniversary of the birth of the expression OK, 176 years ago, on the second page of the Boston Morning Post for Saturday, March 23, 1839.
Source: Forbes
3-17-15
For the past decade, StoryCorps has put 65,000 people through their mobile or temporary studios to be interviewed for 40 minutes. The largest body of recorded voices ever.
Source: Voice of America
3-20-15 (accessed)
The Mosul Museum is the latest target of the group’s campaign of terror and destruction, and is of grave concern to archaeologists around the world.
Source: NYT
3-18-15
Researchers found that the modern British population falls into 17 clusters that are all very similar but genetically distinguishable.
