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: Buffalo News
December 19, 2013
About 125 reenactors participated in the commemorations.
Source: BBC News
December 18, 2013
The Biblioteca Girolamini's invaluable fifteenth and sixteenth century book collections have been plundered.
Source: Springfield Museums
December 18, 2013
2013
Stored on a shelf for over 100 hundred years, a rare
anthropological treasure was recently discovered in the Springfield
Science Museum.
Source: Associated Press
December 19, 2013
An Indiana group devoted to telling the state's
story will auction works by John James Audubon next spring to raise
money to acquire and store items more relevant to its mission.
Source: Huffington Post
December 19, 2013
Castro praised his brother, Cuban head of state Raúl Castro, for the
much-discussed handshake with U.S. President Barack Obama at Mandela’s
memorial service.
Source: New York Times
December 18, 2013
The Delta Queen faces an uncertain future.
Source: USA Today
December 17, 2013
Nathan B. Forrest High School will finally be getting a new monicker.
Source: Global Times
December 15, 2013
The collection includes works by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi, with more recent acquisitions including Landscript by Xu Bing, the museum said.
Source: BBC News
December 11, 2013
Tolkein served with the Lancashire Fusiliers during the Battle of the Somme.
Source: Boing Boing
December 13, 2013
The library is also crowdsourcing the indexing of the collection.
Source: Polskie Radio
December 10, 2013
The last veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War has died at a nursing home in Tursk, western Poland.
Source: Science
December 16, 2013
Forget Leibniz -- he was scooped in base-2 by five hundred years by the Polynesians.
Source: New York Times
December 16, 2013
Obama's library plans begin!
Source: Cafe Jumble
December 17, 2013
The original selfies were a surprisingly joyless bunch.
Source: Wall Street Journal
December 13, 2013
"Prosperity’s Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China" is a book 97 years in the making.
Source: Wall Street Journal
December 16, 2013
The scrolls were found in the basement of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service.
Source: New York Times
December 17, 2013
‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives.
Source: Wall Street Journal
December 2013
The revelations come from a cache of forgotten documents unearthed by the Wall Street Journal.
Source: New York Times
December 15, 2013
Random House paid a reported six figures for the manuscript.
Source: New York Times
December 12, 2013
The manuscript was written by a man named Austin Reed, a prisoner in upstate New York.
