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: Broadway World
5-27-14
THE WORLD WARS tells the story of three devastating decades of war told through the eyes of the powerful men who held the fate of humankind in their hands.
Source: WSJ
5-28-14
Lotus feet, more commonly known as bound feet, are a legacy of China’s imperial past.
Source: The Daily Beast
5-27-14
The Jobar Synagogue was one of the holiest Jewish sites in Syria and contained priceless historical artifacts.
Source: NYT
5-25-14
General Jaruzelski earned a villainous place in history when he suppressed Poland’s powerful Solidarity labor movement, but was later consoled by the idea that his reputation would improve.
Source: The Virginia Gazette
5-21-14
“It's not a house, it's an incredible, authentic experience.”
Source: NYT
5-25-14
A final chapter for the Western Flyer may be about to unfold.
Source: The Guardian
5-24-14
Next month, scientists will meet in the Dordogne to mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the La Madeleine mammoth – an engraving on ivory that proves man had lived alongside these prehistoric creatures.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
5-26-14
The food etiquette is all wrong.
Source: The Independent
5-25-14
A book on the exploits of Edward Smiley III, who had a taste for cartography, reveals ancient works are still missing.
Source: The Telegraph
5-24-14
As the classic Michael Caine film is re-released, African warrior prince says the original was great PR for his people.
Source: The Independent
5-20-14
By cutting open the mummies, scholars and collectors destroyed the fragile layers of embalmment, arranged with care after death in order to ensure the person's existence in the afterlife.
Source: The Art Newspaper
5-23-14
The cave was discovered in November 2013 but its location will only be revealed once security measures are in place.
Source: Seattle Times
5-24-14
Fifty years is a long time to keep a secret. But that’s what Roy Matsumoto was instructed to do, so that’s what he did.
Source: BBC
5-24-14
Recently discovered letters written by the late Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of former US President John F Kennedy, to an Irish priest are being withdrawn from auction.
Source: National Security Archive
5-23-14
Nixon Alerted in Advance to Date of Coup, Retired CIA Operative Writes in Foreign Affairs.
Source: Huffington Post
5-22-14
The ensuing Spanish conquest of the Inca had a profound effect on the region’s indigenous people, but a new paper published today reveals that it also had an unexpected impact on the land itself.
Source: PEW
5-22-14
The last president to win the White House without having a college degree was Harry Truman, who studied briefly at a local business college and a law school but didn’t graduate from either.
Source: Gnomes National News Service
5-22-14
The folks at the D.C.-based, conservative-leaning organization Concerned Women for America are downright chipper about a South Carolina college’s decision to scrap its women’s studies center and take up teaching the constitution.
Source: National Security Archive
5-21-14
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit joined the CIA's cover-up of its Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 by ruling that a 30-year-old volume of the CIA's draft "official history" could be withheld from the public.
Source: USA Today
5-21-14
Denson-Rogers, a historian for the Lee County Black History Society, would like to see the victims' recognized.
