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
11-22-14
Friday’s 10-to-5 vote, with all Republicans on the board supporting the books and Democrats opposing them, was the first of its kind since 2002. The books will be used for at least a decade.
Source: Huff Post
11-22-14
A rare glimpse of Kennedy’s off-air persona. In the clip, dug up by MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Kennedy can be heard speaking candidly about that first televised presidential debate,
Source: The Conversation
11-20-14
by Stefanie Linden
During World War I, severe post-traumatic reactions reached an epidemic scale that surpassed anything known from previous armed conflicts.
Source: Phys.org
11-18-14
Researchers have identified new evidence supporting the growing belief that Neanderthals were a distinct species separate from modern humans (Homo sapiens), and not a subspecies of modern humans.
Source: The Irish Times
11-17-14
One tiger economy helps understand collapse of another.
Source: National Security Archive
11-20-14
Documents, both those from the original posting as well as more recent ones, provide insider perspective and accounts of a variety of topics.
Source: Bloomberg
11-20-14
The chance discovery of more than 1,400 modernist works in a 2012 raid by tax authorities at Gurlitt’s apartment in Munich unearthed paintings, sketches and prints long given up as lost or destroyed under Adolf Hitler’s rule.
Source: Politico
11-15-14
In 1928, Republicans won 270 seats in the House. They were on top of the world.
Source: The Washington Post
11-19-14
The lesser known story is that of the more than two dozen American Indian tribes scattered along the 2,400-mile byway, which stretched from Chicago to California.
Source: ABC News
11-19-14
"In the long term, it's really dangerous to interject one's liberal or conservative views and try to turn that into historical fact."
Source: FOX News
11-19-14
Despite having more than 20 gunshot wounds, Johnson almost single-handedly fought off his attackers armed only with a rifle and a bolo knife, using the rifle as a club once it had run out of bullets. All told, Johnson left four Germans dead and injured at least 20 others, who retreated.
Source: WaPo
11-9-14
The word "nigga" is used 500,000 times a day on Twitter.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
11-19-14
It's a collection totaling 196,000 posters and lobby cards representing 44,000 titles for some of Hollywood's greatest films.
Source: Al Jazeera
10-30-14
The documentary concludes Israel deliberately attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans.
Source: Tablet Magazine
11-19-14
Turns annual extremist march into a fundraiser for a very good cause
Source: Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table
11-19-14 (accessed)
by David W. Jacobs
A new book is said to offer strong evidence that Randolph Jefferson fathered the author's ancestor, Edwin Jefferson, with Betty Brown Hemings.
Source: ABC News
11-19-14
The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a digital art detective, able to unlock the mysteries of a work's age and authenticity by analyzing its underlying canvas or paper.
Source: http://motherboard.vice.com
11-18-14
Artificial cranial deformation—or the practice of intentionally changing the shape of a person’s skull—has been practiced by Neanderthals of 40,000 years ago until very recently, maybe even still today.
Source: The Express Tribune News Network
11-19-14
A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday.
Source: Smithsonian
11-19-14
In a burst of post World War II innovation, the transistor radio with music for your pocket fueled a teenage social revolution.
