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: Press Release: The Trust for Public Land
12-2-14
Dec. 9 marks 150 years since the tragic Ebenezer Creek crossing that led to the “40 acres” proclamation. The site of that event has been permanently protected and will become part of a planned public greenway, natural area, and park connecting to the Savannah River.
Source: NYT
12-2-14
The high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s is starting to look like a historical anomaly, not a trend.
Source: Washington University in St. Louis
12-1-14
Most are destined to be forgotten within 50-to-100 years of their serving as president.
Source: Popular Science
11-26-14
Based at times in Area 51, the U-2 spyplane tested the very limits of human endurance and Cold War technology when it first flew in 1955.
Source: Motherboard
12-1-14
Pinochet, convinced that a ground invasion was imminent, purchased landmines from the US and Belgium and buried them at a feverish pace.
Source: NYT
12-1-14
Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s “right-hand man” and responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to death camps, died at least four years ago, Efraim Zuroff said.
Source: New York Post
11-30-14
It was the first time the women has seen each other since Weglowski’s family hid Wexler on their farm to escape German soldiers in 1942.
Source: The Akron Beacon Journal
10-3-14
Visitors will see all manner of devices that have concealed, supported and sucked in parts of the female anatomy over the last couple of centuries.
Source: The Washington Post
11-27-14
The museum at the shuttered Cathedral of St. John, a church where slaves once worshipped, would explore how the church benefited from the trade and helped bring it to an end, said Bishop Nicholas Knisely of the Diocese of Rhode Island.
Source: AP
11-28-14
It said non-Japanese people have difficulty understanding the term "comfort women," used in Japan to describe the women.
Source: Wired
11-25-14
The ENIAC was a 27-ton, 1,800-square-foot bundle of vacuum tubes and diodes that was arguably the world’s first true computer.
Source: Politico
11-25-14
Presidents have always been ‘kings’ to their enemies.
Source: phys.org
11-27-14
Geologists may be close to cracking one of the biggest seismological mysteries in the Pacific Northwest: the origin of a powerful earthquake that rattled seven states and provinces when Ulysses S. Grant was president.
Source: BBC
11-28-14
Evocative of an aristocratic and glorious history, there are many mansions around England that now stand empty or abandoned. These impressive buildings may look lonely and forlorn but behind every mansion is a story.
Source: Heritage Daily
11-27-14
Warfare not only hastened human technological progress and vast social and political changes, but may have greatly contributed to the evolutionary emergence of humans’ high intelligence and ability to work together toward common goals.
Source: thisisafrica
11-15-14
130 years ago, Western countries met to discuss the future of Africa in what is known as the Berlin Conference. The result of the meeting saw the countries distributing portions of the continent to come under their control.
Source: NYT
11-29-14
The young have joined the old in looking for the remains of missing Japanese soldiers at the site of one of World War II’s most ferocious battles.
Source: NYT
11-27-14
Yes, he was a murderous tyrant, but he was also a father of today’s Ukraine.
Source: Boston Globe
11-30-14
by Judith Giesberg
With all the rumors circulating about her while she mourned the loss of her sons and tried to take care of her surviving children and a grandchild, Lydia Bixby might have welcomed the anonymity that finally came to her at the end of her life. But does she still deserve it today?
Source: NYT
11-28-14
by Ned Blackhawk
In terms of sheer horror, few events matched Sand Creek. Pregnant women were murdered and scalped, genitalia were paraded as trophies.
