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: The Chronicle
6-18-14
This week, scholars from the United States and 25 other countries will gather in Sarajevo to mark the centennial of World War I.
Source: NYT
6-18-14
As an armed guard at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and a member of the notorious SS “Death’s Head” battalion, the authorities charged Wednesday that Mr. Breyer was complicit in the gassing of 216,000 Jews brought there in 1944 from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany.
Source: Salon
6-18-14
The right-wing pundit says that, unlike himself, most liberals understood the Iraq War was a terrible idea.
Source: NYT
6-11-14
The artist’s signature was spelled incorrectly: Pollok instead of Pollock.
Source: BBC
6-17-14
An exceedingly rare 19th Century postage stamp from a British colony in South America has sold for a record $9.5m (£5.6m) at auction in New York.
Source: Huffington Post
6-17-14
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an end.
Source: Reuters
6-16-14
On a clear day, residents of Yeonpyeong Island can see North Korea, 10 kms (six miles) away.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
6-15-14
Clinton tells of defense of child rapist in newly unearthed recordings.
Source: USA Today
6-16-14
It will be demolished to make way for residential and commercial buildings.
Source: Conflict Antiquities
6-16-14
ISIS make its own bad news. It has ruled that all shrines and graves must be destroyed.
Source: Independent
4-16-14
It's a mystery worthy of a Dan Brown cracker: a famous religious college on the brink of closure and a locked archive stripped of valuable treasures it hoped to sell to stave off financial disaster.
Source: Ahram
6-11-14
Egypt's embassy in London has received 12 ancient Egyptian artefacts stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country after the 2011 revolution.
Source: owaahh (blog)
6-14-14
Ask any Kenyan why an article would sell for tens of thousands, or millions even, and the answer might just shock you.
Source: WSJ
6-15-14
The other three presidents of the quarter century all polled about the same.
Source: CBS News
6-12-14
"The Star Spangled Banner" became America's official national anthem when Congress chose it over "America the Beautiful" in 1931.
Source: City Boston -- Press Release
6-13-14
It now features a red, white, and blue-gray thermoplastic strip.
Source: National Security Archive
6-9-14
A recently declassified report by Sandia National Laboratory, published today by the National Security Archive, provides new details on the 1961 Goldsboro, North Carolina, nuclear weapons accident.
Source: Pew Research Center
6-12-14
How Increasing Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics, Compromise and Everyday Life.
Source: AP
6-11-14
The deaths of five Americans killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan stand as a fresh reminder of the dangers of friendly fire, an element of war that is older than the nation.
Source: The Root
6-12-14
Cooper, a Selma, Ala., native, who died in November 2010 at 100 years old, stood in line for hours in an attempt to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse during the civil rights movement.
