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: BBC
6-21-14
The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof.
Source: News Next
6-20-14
The necklace, called a lunala, was worn by the early kings of Ireland.
Source: The Moscow Times
6-16-14
The sculptor's family has vowed to stop the online auction, which concludes on June 18, saying it is illegal.
Source: NY Daily News
6-18-14
The feds recovered four of the five boxes of art, but the fifth, the bronze Degas, is still missing.
Source: Archaeology News Network
6-5-14
The cutting-edge diving suit, essentially still in an experimental stage, will be worn by U.S. divers who will be able to remain deep underwater for extended periods of time, enabling them to conduct excavations and handle the fragile ancient objects with due care.
Source: Breitbart
6-16-14
The Green Collection, according to the Green Scholars Initiative website, “is among the world’s largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts."
Source: Radio Free Europe
6-21-14
Jan Karski, an eyewitness to the Holocaust whose daring wartime attempts to call attention to the slaughter of Polish Jews were largely ignored by the United States and Britain.
Source: NYT
6-21-14
Civil and Human Rights Museum to Open in Atlanta
Source: NYT
6-21-14
The Battle of Kohima and Imphal was the bloodiest of World War II in India, and it cost Japan much of its best army in Burma.
Source: ChinaTopix
6-20-14
Jing Shenghong, a history professor with Nanjing Normal University, said Japanese troops ran more than 40 "comfort women" stations in the city during World War II, making them the largest war-related brothel in Asia.
Source: The Daily Beast
6-20-14
The woman at the center of the scandal over Hillary Clinton’s defense of an alleged child rapist speaks out in depth for the first time.
Source: Gallup
6-20-14
Americans' current confidence in Congress is not only the lowest on record, but also the lowest Gallup has recorded for any institution in the 41-year trend.
Source: National Security Archive
6-20-14
The release will help the Brazilian Truth Commission investigation.
Source: NYT
6-18-14
It is an engineering marvel of antiquity, comparable, experts say, to the Roman road system, but more remarkable for the rugged terrain it has traversed for more than 3,000 years.
Source: The Washington Post
6-19-14
They didn’t have the large skulls or other robust skeletal features seen in the prototypical Neanderthals who, hundreds of millennia later, roamed Ice Age Europe.
Source: Art Daily
6-19-14
Residents have complained that the monument will take up too much space in the popular park.
Source: Science Magazine
6-19-14
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, born a thousand years ago in Central Asia, inferred the existence of the land mass known as America--5 centuries before Columbus.
Source: Politico (Mike Allen)
6-19-14
The title of the book? "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics."
Source: Inside Higher ED
6-19-14
Students at Duke had pushed in recent months to change the name of Aycock Hall, a freshman residence that had been named in 1914 for the former North Carolina governor Charles B. Aycock, who pushed for both expanded public education and for segregation.
Source: ABC News
6-18-14
“Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same,” she said.
