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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.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  7-16-14
  

  How Americans Feel About Religious Groups

  Jews, Catholics & Evangelicals Rated Warmly, Atheists and Muslims More Coldly

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• SOURCE: University of Notre Dame
  7-18-14
  

  Tea Party support linked to educational segregation, new study shows

  "Acceptance or rejection of the Tea Party's views on the government's role in redistributing wealth is shaped, to a large degree, by the extent to which those who have benefited from higher education are set apart in their daily lives from those who have not."

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• SOURCE: NBC Philadelphia
  7-19-14
  

  History of Philly Rests Under I-95

  Artifacts detailing over 5,000 years of Philadelphia history have been buried beneath Interstate 95 and the Girard Avenue Interchange.

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• SOURCE: CBC
  7-22-14
  

  Agreement aims to protect North Shore wrecks from looters

  North Shore archaeologists teaming up with provincial police, federal authorities to protect historic sites

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- Producer of The Rising
  7-17-14
  

  Award-Winning Filmmaker Kevin McCann to Produce the First Film about the Easter Rising in Ireland

  Excitement building around epic motion picture that will depict events around the rebellion to end British Imperial Rule in 1916

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• SOURCE: YouGov
  7-15-14
  

  Clinton seen as the most intelligent president, George W. Bush the least

  Americans are especially likely to think of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as "very" smart.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo
  7-20-14
  

  Yahoo gains access to the CIA’s secret museum

  Yahoo News got an exclusive on-camera guided tour of what could be the coolest collection you’ll probably never get to see.

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• SOURCE: Saving Antiquities
  7-20-14
  

  ISIS Toll: Loss of historic sites in Iraq documented

  The al-Askari shrine in Samarra, which was attacked in 2006, has become a target again.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-18-14
  

  Black Southern Voters, Poised to Play a Historic Role

  The timing — 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and 49 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act — is not entirely coincidental.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-16-14
  

  Family Behind Hobby Lobby Has New Project: Bible Museum

  The development of a Bible museum has long been a dream of the Oklahoma-based Green family.

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• 7-15-14
  

  MLK’s Case for Reparations Included Disadvantaged Whites

  Reluctantly, Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for compensation included the “disadvantaged” and opened the door to whites as a way to solidify the support of white allies and liberals.

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• SOURCE: WRIC
  7-16-14
  

  Criminal history now told on statehouse portraits

  Plaques that add those details were hung Tuesday.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-15-14
  

  Corporate Medicis to the Rescue

  To Some Dismay, Italy Enlists Donors to Repair Monuments

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  7-15-14
  

  Which countries don’t like America and which do

  Sacré bleu! France makes the list of top 10 fans of the U.S. and Germany makes the list of the top 10 critics.

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• SOURCE: Science Daily
  7-15-14
  

  Surprise Finding: Mortality rate of the Mormon handcart trek across the West was low

  Mormon pioneer mortality rate calculated at 3.5 percent.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7-10-14
  

  KGB targeted intellectuals in 1968 Czechoslovakia

  Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help thwart it.

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• SOURCE: The History Blog
  7-15-14
  

  Hiker falls onto monolith, saves it from looters

  A tourist hiking in the foothills of a waterfall in Mexico two weeks ago fell from a branch onto a Mesoamerican monolith that was in the process of being carved out of the stone by looters.

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• SOURCE: Johnson’s Russia List
  6-21-14
  

  Most Russians don’t hate WWII foes of Soviet Union – poll

  Yet a half blames the enemies for the deaths of millions of people.

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• SOURCE: The Independent
  7-14-14
  

  Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago

  French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows.

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• 7-16-14
  

  Castro ordered JFK killed? Wiki entry edited by someone in the government says so.

  by HNN Editor

  Who's making the changes?  That's unknown.