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
11-5-13
The Zapruder film remains the single most important pre-smartphone digital artifact.
Source: New York Times
11-6-13
“The Wind Rises” is entering the Oscar competition on tiptoe.
Source: New York Times
11-6-13
The exhibit will run Feb. 6 through May 10.
Source: Slate
11-3-2013
Comic artist Joe Sacco annotates the Great War in a panorama view comic book.
Source: The Guardian
11-2-13
The Imperial War Museum plans to put eight million personal stories online by 2018.
Source: The Guardian
11-2-13
The military exercise Able Archer nearly provoked a pre-emptive Soviet strike.
Source: The Guardian
11-3-13
Ammonia helped to feed billions, but killed millions.
Source: National Public Radio
11-2-13
It is difficult for those of us who write to say we need more words to tell a story when Lincoln did so much with just 272.
Source: Phys.org
10-29-13
These urban explorers are mapping Rome's subterranean secrets.
Source: LiveScience
10-30-13
Hasan Dağ was the inspiration for some of the earliest cave art.
Source: The Independent
11-3-13
An Antarctic explorer may have nasty secrets.
Source: The New Scientist
11-4-13
Chinese engineers used an ice road to drag stones to build the Forbidden City.
Source: Heritage Daily
11-2-13
Norway was deeply involved in the silk trade.
Source: Associated Press
11-4-13
In its heyday, the
Selfhelp Home bustled with refugees.
Source: Associated Press
11-4-13
The cavalcade of musicians is trying to transform the Dix Hills, Long Island home.
Source: Associated Press
11-4-13
Alexandria, Virginia, was once a slave-trading hub.
Source: CBS News
11-4-13
In the fight against Hitler's forces during World War II, thousands of U.S. planes were shot down as they carried out bombing raids over Germany.
Source: The Independent
11-4-13
Crash injuries suggest he was the first of the boy racers
Source: New York Times
11-4-13
Authorities found an apartment building hiding 1,500 works of art confiscated under the Nazi regime in Munich.
Source: The Tennessean
10-31-13
Judd Matheny and Frank Niceley were scheduled to appear at a meeting of the Southern National Congress.
