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: New York Times
12-12-13
The law was reinstated on a technicality, and there's little chance of India's Parliament acting to reverse it.
Source: New York Times
12-12-13
House committee hearing on Wednesday showed little progress in making the museum a reality.
Source: LiveScience
12-10-13
A new study from the School of Oriental and African Studies says yes.
Source: Associated Press
12-11-13
The wreckage of a
wooden steamer that sank during a storm in 1861 in Lake Huron has
finally been found.
Source: The Independent
12-10-13
25-site survey shows that early humans chose predominantly to live on islands in the flood plains of major rivers.
Source: Nautilus
12-4-13
The Elephant’s Foot could be the most dangerous piece of waste in the world.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
12-12-13
Between 1962 and 1964, 40 percent of the chemistry PhD’s awarded in
Soviet Russia went to women. Only 37 percent go to women in America today.
Source: Medium.com
12-12-13
Historians have long known about the Pentagon's ... unorthodox research during the Cold War. But now new light has been shed on their Soviet counterparts.
Source: The Australian
12-12-13
A Darwin boy discovered the bronze cannon at Dundee Beach.
Source: BBC News
12-11-13
You'd be surprised at how dangerous everyday life was in the 1880s.
Source: Agence France-Presse
12-7-13
Historian Monika Schmidt estimates up to a quarter of the zoo's 4000 shareholders in the 1930s were Jewish.
Source: CNN.com
12-6-13
A guitar once owned by music
legend Bob Dylan sold for $965,000 Friday at Christie's.
Source: Huffington Post
12-9-13
"Let's remember the ANC that he refers to were pursuing freedom. Many
of the communist nations embraced them," he said.
Source: National Geographic
12-6-13
Remote-sensing techniques have unearthed clues to the fate of settlers who mysteriously disappeared.
Source: Fast Company
11-11-13
The nonprofit CyArk plans to digitally preserve UNESCO sites.
Source: BBC News
12-9-13
Ethiopian colonel Fekadu
Wakene taught South African political activist Nelson Mandela the tricks
of guerrilla warfare.
Source: The Local (Sweden)
12-9-13
Sweden signed a top secret intelligence treaty with the US and other countries in 1954, leaked Snowden documents reveal.
Source: Associated Press
12-9-13
The collection also features letters from Abraham Lincoln.
Source: Associated Press
12-9-13
The statement, posted Friday, says the ban was put into place during an
era of great racial divide that influenced early teachings of the church.
Source: New York Times
12-10-13
Three new markers will be unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama that describe the city's role in the slave trade.
