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: Live Science
6-25-14
Archaeologists discovered the timber burial chamber within a 39-foot-high (12 meters) mound called a kurgan.
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
6-24-14
A handful of Filipino-American patriots in Las Vegas cheered on members of Congress Tuesday for insisting that the nation must follow through on a promise.
Source: Tennessean
6-26-14
Howard H. Baker, Jr., served 18 years in the U.S. Senate starting in 1966, when he became the first Republican to be popularly elected to the Senate from Tennessee.
Source: CNN
6-26-14
The war, which began nearly 100 years ago, produced its own crop of bionic men.
Source: BBC
6-26-14
In a moving ceremony, the leaders dedicated a memorial bench stamped with the word "peace" in the EU's 24 official languages.
Source: National Geographic
6-25-14
Medgar was gunned down in his driveway on June 12, 1963.
Source: CNN
6-23-14
Inside, exhibits in the nearly 43,000-square-foot museum link the historic stories of the American civil rights movement and modern human rights struggles around the world.
Source: Playbill
6-25-14
"The musical Fannie Lou tells the story of Fannie Lou Hamer's voting rights struggle through her eyes and the eyes of various fictional characters, who represent a variety of viewpoints."
Source: The Daily Caller
6-25-14
“There’s no license for going it alone in our system.”
Source: NYT
6-26-14
The photographs show a young man, held down in a bowing position by what appear to be five Red Guards, the youthful fanatics who terrorized China in the name of Chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution.
Source: Huffington Post
6-25-14
Or, more specifically, traces of Neanderthal feces taken from a Spanish cave.
Source: NYT
6-26-14
The court ruled unanimously that President Obama had violated the Constitution in 2012 by appointing officials to the National Labor Relations Board during a short break in the Senate’s work when the chamber was convening every three days in pro forma sessions.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
6-24-14
The survey follows President Barack Obama‘s announcement last week that he is deploying 300 military advisers to Baghdad to help the struggling Iraqi government.
Source: National Geographic
6-26-14
Al-Qaeda splinter group selling artifacts to buy weapons.
Source: Time Magazine
6-25-14
Both San Francisco and Los Angeles campaigned to host the movie-memorabilia and art museum, but "aggressive" lobbying by Chicago won Lucas over.
Source: NYT
6-23-14
There is a poem children in Wales learn about the sunken kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod, swallowed by the sea and drowned forever after.
Source: History
6-20-14
The origins of the Qhapaq Ñan (“great road” in the Quechua language of the Incas) can be traced to trails that formed as early as 1000 B.C.
Source: National Security Archive
6-24-14
The Senate bill comes after the House unanimously passed its own bipartisan FOIA reform bill.
Source: Discovery
6-24-14
The ingredients included aloe, gentian, rhubarb, Spanish saffron, Zedoary (white turmeric), and one part water to three parts alcohol.
Source: Press Release -- Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive
6-24-14
The Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to three newspaper titles published in Savannah from 1809 to 1880.
