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: National Geographic
11-20-14
Oldest human genome reveals less of an East Asian ancestry than thought.
Source: Huff Post
11-27-14
Only five other daggers like the Rudham Dirk have been found in Europe.
Source: Japan Focus- Asia-Pacific Journal
12-1-14
by Vaclav Smil
In 50 years the shinkansen never had a fatality.
Source: NYT
11-27-14
Until recently, few Germans realized that the covert program, with its echoes of Holocaust-era looting, had ever taken place in the German Democratic Republic.
11-27-14
Quick: Which American president served before slavery ended, John Tyler or Rutherford B. Hayes?
Source: Gates of Nineveh
11-27-14
Until the past week, there were few reports of the destruction of antiquities and cultural heritage sites, possibly because ISIS forces were hard pressed on multiple fronts.
Source: Science News
Villagers who collected gold in sheepskins inspired legend of Jason’s voyage.
Source: Atlantic Monthly
11-26-14
"Turkey" the bird is native to North America. But "turkey" the word is a geographic mess—a tribute to the vagaries of colonial trade and conquest.
Source: Atlantic Monthly
11-26-14
Thanksgiving used to look a lot more like Halloween.
Source: NYT
11-25-14
“First folios don’t turn up very often, and when they do, it’s usually a really chewed up, uninteresting copy. But this one is magnificent.”
Source: NYT
11-24-14
Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Goes to University of Texas
Source: NYT
11-23-14
One of the country’s great dynastic families is downsizing.
Source: Yahoo News Network
11-24-14
A World War II heroine who parachuted behind German lines on "perilous" spy missions, but was so modest she only told her children about it 15 years ago, was Tuesday presented with France's highest honour.
Source: Tablet
11-24-14
“Hatred and anti-Semitism have seized the state,” says opposition lawmaker
Source: NYT
11-24-14
Kunstmuseum Bern Obtains Trove From Gurlitt Collection
Source: The Washington Post
11-20-14
Repopulating our woods — and even our yards, our commons and our courthouse lawns — with American chestnuts would put a versatile, nutritious, easily harvested food source within reach of just about everyone.
Source: NYT
11-24-14
“Historically, there seems to be a tipping point at which the justices seem more comfortable setting aside state practices. When only a third of the states still retain a practice, the court seems ready to act.”
Source: Pew Research Center
11-21-14
President Obama’s executive action to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation is an act that both follows and departs from precedents set by his predecessors.
Source: US Studies Online
11-11-14
by Alex Bryne
Because the centennial anniversary of United States belligerency is still to come, the frequency of commemorative events within the United States that have taken place this year, compared with nations such as Britain.
Source: Newsweek
11-20-14
by Max Holland
Historian Max Holland unravels the complicated story.
