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
9-22-14
“No one has bothered to tell this story,” Mr. Greenberg said. “So I said, we’re telling the story through them, and their families.”
Source: Priceonomics
9-22-14
Dangling from the ceiling of a California firehouse is a bulb that’s burned for 989,000 hours -- nearly 113 years.
Source: Yahoo News
9-23-14
This is considered America’s oldest bar. Where is it? Read on to find out.
Source: U.S. State Department
9-22-14
"Ancient treasures in Iraq and in Syria have now become the casualties of continuing warfare and looting."
Source: History
9-19-14
On the 80th anniversary of the capture of Bruno Hauptmann, read how a New York City gas attendant and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s monetary policy contributed to the big break in the “crime of the century.”
Source: NYT
9-20-14
After years of research, a historic find has emerged: what MoMA curators say is the earliest surviving footage for a feature film with a black cast.
Source: New Republic
9-17-14
by Alice Robb
"Eight pages long, with three illustrations of the child’s anatomy, the pamphlet may describe one of the earliest instances of sex-change surgery."
Source: NYT
9-18-14
by Matt Bai
In a long piece in the NYT Magazine, Matt Bai reports on "How Gary Hart’s Downfall Forever Changed American Politics."
Source: WSJ
9-15-14
The physicist, Joe Shonka, said he was surprised during his research at how close residents lived to the Trinity blast—in some cases within 20 miles.
Source: ArtNet
9-12-14
It shows his route through the desert of Saudi Arabia in the spring of 1917 amid the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Source: National Security Archive
9-16-14
It's just been revealed that thousands of COINTELPRO documents were destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.
Source: Live Science
9-17-14
When archaeologists uncovered her remains they found she wore "a very complex coiffure with approximately 70 extensions fastened in different layers and heights on the head."
Source: BBC
9-17-14
The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years.
Source: Investor's Business Daily
9-18-14 (accessed)
He was the longest serving Treasury Secretary in US history.
Source: USA Today
9-14-14
The document has never been available to the public — until now.
Source: Daily Beast
9-17-14
History teaches us that the Vikings were brutal, thieving invaders, but much of that history was written by Viking victims: European monks. New evidence says otherwise.
Source: AHA
9-12-14
“The difference between what museums used to do and what they do today is we actively engage the visitor in their experience. It’s not a passive experience.”
Source: South China Morning Post
9-16-14
Collection sheds light on daily life in the capital dating back a century
Source: Fox News
9-16-14
In the latest research, published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, scientists used computer scans and other methods to analyze the king's skeletal wounds.
Source: AP
9-15-14
Oskar Groening is accused of helping operate the death camp in occupied Poland between May and June 1944.
