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
3-12-14
The miniseries will star Bill Paxton as Sam Houston.
Source: Associated Press
3-12-14
The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina's foreign minister, Carlos Saavedra Lamas.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3-11-14
Archives in Anchorage, Fort Worth, and Philadelphia will be closed.
Source: Yahoo News Canada
3-11-14
London, Ontario, was home to as many as six serial killers at the same time.
Source: Yahoo News
3-11-14
Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, remains a hero to Serb nationalists... and a villian to everyone else.
Source: World Bulletin
3-11-14
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
3-10-14
Sutton Hoo contained a burial ship full of treasures under a burial mound.
Source: The Telegraph
3-9-14
"We did not help the Germans. We had a common enemy."
Source: Science
3-10-14
For the longest time, skin color was thought to be a climatic adaptation. That may only be part of the story.
Source: National Geographic
3-10-14
Tree-ring studies suggest that a long wet spell gave him the resources to invade and conquer.
Source: Associated Press
3-11-14
The Frederick Douglass Homes, first built in 1935, are meeting the wrecking ball.
Source: Associated Press
3-10-14
The Caribbean Community will seek a formal apology and debt cancellation from former colonizers.
Source: New York Times
3-10-14
The actor and Internet star has a sophisticated view of history.
Source: New York Times
3-8-14
Moscow has a stock market.
Source: New York Times
3-10-14
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
3-11-14
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
3-7-14
Ancient mosques and temples are among the casualties of Syria's civil war.
Source: NYT
3-8-14
Scholars say the scale of the slave trade here was staggering. Brazil received about 4.9 million slaves through the Atlantic trade.
Source: LOC
3-7-14
It was a secret until now.
