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: NYT
11-10-14
Mary Berg wrote a diary about her life in the Warsaw Ghetto that was published in English long before Anne Frank’s diary. Then she disappeared.
Source: Civil War Trust Press Release
11-11-14
Dubbed ‘Campaign 1776,’ new initiative led by Civil War Trust will focus on preservation and interpretation of the hallowed battlefields where a young America was forged.
Source: NYT
11-10-14
Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.
Source: CBS
11-10-14
For the last four years, New York researcher and photographer Sarah Stacke has been trying to bring their identities into focus.
Source: The Washington Post
11-10-14
The text in question is called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, written on treated animal skin, which was brought to the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it from an Egyptian monastery.
Source: Media Matters
11-10-14
Paul: "Judge Napolitano Gets It"
Source: The Siberian Times
11-3-14
Experts have been examining the giant moose-shaped stone structure since it was discovered in 2011 and have now confirmed it is the world's oldest.
Source: AP
11-6-14
The segments include a reference to top-secret intelligence briefings the Nixon administration provided to China, and reveal Nixon's private musings as he wrangled with the then-Soviet Union over limiting nuclear weapons.
Source: UPI
11-6-14
Putin's comments were seen as using historical precedent to strengthen his authoritarian policies.
Source: Pacific Standard
11-4-14
Forty years later, only one state is making reparations for thousands of forced sterilizations.
Source: National Geographic
11-9-14
Dutch photographer Martin Roemers spent ten years documenting those relics—the now decaying testaments of an era that shaped the character of a continent.
Source: The Wilson Quarterly
11-9-14 (accessed)
Many Americans took credit for its fall. But only one was poised to profit from it: New Jersey-based contractor Joseph Sciamarelli.
Source: NYT
11-8-14
After 28 years, East Berliners were giddy with marvel that they could now visit the West. Günter Taubmann felt different, as if, he said, “I am in the wrong movie.”
Source: NYT
11-8-14
The project took so long there were rumors that the statue was beyond repair. But it was not, as the Met will make clear on Tuesday when the museum puts Adam on display again.
Source: SBS (Australia)
11-8-14
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has visited the site of Checkpoint Charlie as celebrations kick off to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.
11-7-14
25 years later the anchor recalls NBC's scoop.
Source: Huffington Post
11-7-14
Egypt's Antiquities Minister, Mamdouh El-Damaty, said the artifacts belonged to a temple dating back to King Tuthmose III.
Source: National Geographic
11-4-14
Storms in 1200s could have helped thwart attacks by Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan's fleets, a study of lake sediments finds.
Source: Huffington Post
11-6-14
Of course none of the movements are even close to convincing Washington to let them hold a Scottish-like referendum.
Source: The Washington Post
11-6-14
A 94-year-old woman is responsible.
