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 Telegraph
2-9-14
The Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka, which would have been flown by Japanese suicide bombers, is to form part of an exhibition at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Source: The Saturday Evening Post
2-6-14
George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman introduced jazz to a classical audience.
Source: Seattle Times
2-8-14
A diver and some amateur historians believe they found a lost anchor from Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 voyage into Puget Sound. But have they?
Source: Public Radio International
2-7-14
The Circassian people were nearly destroyed during the Russian conquest of 1864.
Source: LiveScience
2-11-14
Yes, ancient Egyptian students tripped the light fantastic on opium.
Source: The Independent
2-10-14
The statue is at least 2,000 years old.
Source: Huffington Post
2-10-14
The unnamed, century-old graves present a problem for the university,
whose expansion plans could be halted over the cost of relocating the
bodies.
Source: Wall St. Journal
The U.S. military's effort to protect the cultural treasures of the world continues even in today's war zones
Source: Reuters
2-5-14
The students were sentenced, in absentia,
to a suspended prison sentence.
Source: Associated Press
2-6-14
Officials at the Carondelet High School for Girls in Concord apologized to students, parents, and the community.
Source: Associated Press
2-6-14
A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery tries to quantify "cool."
Source: Associated Press
2-6-14
"Boulevard Monmartre, Spring Morning" went for $32 million.
Source: Time Magazine
1-30-14
A memorial to a man that Tokyo calls a terrorist, but Beijing and Seoul regard as a hero, reflects East Asia's War over history.
Source: Time Magazine
2-4-14
Costica Acsinte
was a Romanian army photographer during World War I, and he continue to catalog his country until his death in 1984.
Source: The Guardian
2-4-14
Website includes 10,000 new images, more manuscript descriptions and translated content, and a faster search engine.
Source: LiveScience
2-4-14
The oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean has been sitting on the
seafloor off the southern coast of Sri Lanka for some 2,000 years.
Source: New York Times
2-6-14
The move comes after a tentative agreement on Wednesday.
Source: Associated Press
2-6-14
An autographed piece of the stage goes on the auction block.
Source: New York Times
2-6-14
The Stradivarius may have been recovered in Milwaukee.
Source: NBC News
2-5-14
The new movie about the Monuments Men debuts this week.
