Breaking News

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: Wall Street Journal

1-22-14

Japan’s Abe Defends Yasukuni Shrine Visit

“I had no intention whatsoever to hurt the feelings of people in China and Korea.”

Source: National Public Radio

1-22-14

Turns out the ancient Greeks were quite the grill masters

The Mycenaeans knew how to throw a pretty mean barbeque.

Source: The Guardian

1-21-14

Carthaginians sacrificed own children, archaeologists say

Graves holding tiny cremated bones confirm accounts dismissed as Greek or Roman black propaganda, study shows.

Source: Science News

1-21-14

Stone Age harpoon found on Pacific island

A 35,000-year-old piece of carved bone has been found on Timor.

Source: New York Times

1-23-14

Family of South Carolina Boy Put to Death Seeks Exoneration 70 Years Later

George J. Stinney Jr. was only 14 years old when he was executed.

Source: New York Times

1-23-14

Abe’s Version of History Doesn’t Sit Well With Chinese

Abe compared the Anglo-German relationship before World War I with Japan and China today.

Source: New York Times

1-24-14

Arrest Made in Fabled ’78 ‘Goodfellas’ Heist

Several organized crime figures have been arrested as part of a federal investigation into a series of unsolved crimes, including the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist.

Source: New York Times

1-17-14

Blue and Gray Still in Conflict at a Battle Site in Florida

A proposed monument to Union Civil War veterans at the site of the Battle of Olustee draws controversy.

Source: New York Times

1-16-14

Index of Millions of New York History Records Available Free Online

The move comes as a collaboration between the city’s Department of Records and Ancestry.com.

Source: New York Times

1-22-14

Wartime Claim to Fame Divides 2 Italian Towns

A new conflict has opened up between the towns of Anzio and Nettuno.

Source: The Guardian

1-18-14

How boots of first world war troops brought a foreign invader to Scotland

Alien fungus found at former Craiglockhart hospital where Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met in 1917.

Source: Times of Israel

1-17-14

4,000-year-old erotica depicts a strikingly racy ancient sexuality

Clay plaques at The Israel Museum, made 1,500 years before the Kama Sutra, display graphically that Old Babylonian culture held an ‘exalted’ view of sex.