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: Associated Press
March 12, 2014
The miniseries will star Bill Paxton as Sam Houston.
Source: Associated Press
March 12, 2014
The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina's foreign minister, Carlos Saavedra Lamas.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
March 11, 2014
Archives in Anchorage, Fort Worth, and Philadelphia will be closed.
Source: Yahoo News Canada
March 11, 2014
London, Ontario, was home to as many as six serial killers at the same time.
Source: Yahoo News
March 11, 2014
Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, remains a hero to Serb nationalists... and a villian to everyone else.
Source: World Bulletin
March 11, 2014
Saudi Arabia's religious authorities have angered both locals and
archeologists alike after they removed gravestones from a 3,000-year-old
burial site in the city of al-Baha.
Source: BBC News
March 10, 2014
Sutton Hoo contained a burial ship full of treasures under a burial mound.
Source: The Telegraph
March 9, 2014
"We did not help the Germans. We had a common enemy."
Source: Science
March 10, 2014
For the longest time, skin color was thought to be a climatic adaptation. That may only be part of the story.
Source: National Geographic
March 10, 2014
Tree-ring studies suggest that a long wet spell gave him the resources to invade and conquer.
Source: Associated Press
March 11, 2014
The Frederick Douglass Homes, first built in 1935, are meeting the wrecking ball.
Source: Associated Press
March 10, 2014
The Caribbean Community will seek a formal apology and debt cancellation from former colonizers.
Source: New York Times
March 10, 2014
The actor and Internet star has a sophisticated view of history.
Source: New York Times
March 8, 2014
Moscow has a stock market.
Source: New York Times
March 10, 2014
Yale literay theorist Paul de Man, one of deconstructionist theory's earliest proponents, turned out to be a collaborator, swindler, forger, bigamist, and deceiver, according to a new biography.
Source: New York Times
March 11, 2014
Th statement came in response to rising criticism from South Korea.
Source: New York Times
3-11-4
The scale of Russia's propaganda efforts over the Ukrainian crisis dwarfs even Soviet campaigns.
Source: New York Times
March 7, 2014
Ancient mosques and temples are among the casualties of Syria's civil war.
Source: NYT
March 8, 2014
Scholars say the scale of the slave trade here was staggering. Brazil received about 4.9 million slaves through the Atlantic trade.
Source: LOC
March 7, 2014
It was a secret until now.
