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: NYT
2-26-15
A proposal to build an immense memorial in Ottawa to the global victims of Communism has prompted protests from architects, the mayor and the country’s chief justice.
Source: Yahoo News
2-26-15
The five-minute video shows a group of bearded men inside the Mosul Museum using hammers and drills to destroy several large statues, which are then shown chipped and in pieces.
Source: History Extra
2-20-15
Everyday objects and ideas have, through history, often had fascinating and unexpected consequences, as a new BBC Two series reveals.
Source: AP
2-15-15
Architects and preservationists are at the estate building a computerized database of every piece of the mansion.
Source: AP
2-22-15
The Bradbury home's destruction came as a surprise in part because the guy who knocked it down was one of the city's most prominent architects.
Source: Salon
2-25-15
The famed mathematician and codebreaker received a royal pardon in 2013. As many as 49,000 others have not
Source: Time
2-24-15
Photographer Firat Yurdakul captured a scene reminiscent of Joe Rosenthal's WWII image
Source: Center for American Progress
2-24-15
The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation's voting electorate in all 50 states.
Source: The Conversation
2-23-15
These outbreaks were traditionally thought to be caused by rodent reservoirs of infected rats lurking in Europe’s cities, or potentially by rodent reservoirs in the wilderness. But research published in the journal PNAS suggests otherwise.
Source: Huffington Post
2-23-15
The mummy is believed to be that of Liuquan, a Buddhist monk who died in China around 1,100 A.D.
Source: WHIO
2-19-15
“I was really hurt (by the menu). Extremely hurt.” — student
Source: NYT
2-20-15
So were Mexicans.
Source: NYT
2-21-15
What led him to embellish the story is anybody’s guess.
Source: Voice of America
2-18-15
Missing from chapters on World War One are the stories of Americans who volunteered for the fight before the US entered the war.
Source: Telegraph
2-20-15
Walter Elliot discovers tale starring famous detective in collection of short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in effort to save his favourite bridge in Selkirk
Source: Politico
2-19-15
The Barack Obama Foundation, the nonprofit charged with siting the library, is set to announce the location by the end of next month.
Source: Slate
2-19-15
Texts from a village dating back to Egypt’s New Kingdom period, about 3,100 to 3,600 years ago, suggest that in ancient Egypt there was a state-supported health care network designed to ensure that workers making the king’s tomb were productive.
Source: CBS News (Video)
2-19-15
Seventy years after the battle of Iwo Jima, two survivors provide perspective on the offensive that is best remembered for an iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising an American flag.
Source: Huffington Post
2-18-15
While the this correspondence sheds light on his personal communications, it has long been known that Freud did not view homosexuality as a pathology.
Source: The Hill
2-18-15
The White House told the Times that the designation, to be made Thursday, is meant to recognize “the fragility of civil rights during times of conflict.”
