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: Newsweek
8-5-15
It took millions, even billions, of years for these fuels to accumulate, and we’re running through them at a startlingly fast pace.
Source: The Conversation
8-5-15
It has been confirmed that British police are examining claims of child sexual abuse against a former prime minister, Edward Heath.
Source: LiveScience
8-1-15
Ground-penetrating radar is helping archaeologists locate the buried remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Lithuania.
Source: UPI
8-5-15
In the weeks since the U.S. Treasury announced it would put a woman on the newly redesigned $10 bill, Americans have changed their mind about who they think should be the first woman to be featured on paper currency in more than a century.
Source: Hakai
7-28-15
New archaeological research hints at a new reason for Vikings’ Greenland occupation.
Source: BBC
7-29-15
The Eagle was built by the Nazis and fought for Hitler in World War Two - so how did a tall ship that once flew the swastika end up as a training vessel for new US Coast Guard cadets?
Source: Buzzfeed
7-30-15
Four years into a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced millions, Syria’s immense history is being sold off on en masse as looters descend on ruins across the country.
Source: NPR
8-1-15
The story appears in the current issue of The Strand.
Source: The Washington Post
8-4-15
Mormons believe that 185 years ago, Smith found gold plates engraved with writing in ancient Egyptian in upstate New York. They say God helped him translate the text using the stone and other tools, and it became known as the Book of Mormon.
Source: CNN
8-4-15
Although Amazon won't release sales figures, publishers say the genre's growth is phenomenal.
Source: National Security Archive
8-5-15
A few months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General Dwight D. Eisenhower commented during a social occasion "how he had hoped that the war might have ended without our having to use the bomb."
Source: US News
8-4-15
As Islamic State militants set out to destroy Iraq's history and culture, including irreplaceable books and manuscripts kept in the militant-held city of Mosul, a major preservation and digitization project is underway in the capital to safeguard a millennium worth of history.
Source: NYT
8-4-15
A ruling is near in a lawsuit that claims the copyright on the much-sung song is not valid. That would be an unhappy day for Warner Music Group, which could lose millions in licensing fees.
Source: Pew Research Center
7-30-15
Most Americans believe a woman will be elected president within their lifetime, a milestone that would add the U.S. to a growing list of countries that have had a female leader.
Source: The Washington Post
8-1-15
India and Bangladesh began the exchange of over 160 enclaves – small areas of sovereignty completely surrounded on all sides by another country – and in so doing ended a dispute that has lasted almost 70 years.
Source: Harvard Gazette
8-3-15
Fuller’s body and manuscript were lost to the sea. But a recent Houghton Library acquisition is shedding new light on the tragedy and on what Thoreau found as he wandered the beach for clues and interviewed survivors.
Source: National Parks Traveler
7-31-15
There’s not even a visitor’s center.
Source: Vulture
7-31-15
Roland Emmerich's low-budget film tells the story of the 1969 Stonewall riots.
Source: The Independent
8-1-15
David Keys reveals the research that finally explains why HMS Victory went down with the loss of 1,100 lives
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
8-2-15
Hannah Schwarz explores a 1934 photo that appears to show Jewish children in Pittsburgh giving the Nazi salute
