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: Storify
11-18-14
by Anthony Clark
Critics charge the Nixon foundation with interference with federal control of the institution.
Source: CBC News
11-17-14
A sycamore was planted in memory of a black teenager whose murder, nearly 60 years ago, helped spark the civil rights movement.
Source: The Atlantic
11-14-14
President Obama has rejected just two bills in his six years in office, the fewest of any White House occupant who has served as long since James Monroe. That could begin to change next week.
Source: Hurriyet Daily News
11-14-14
Officials of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum sent two archaeologists to the construction site to examine the entrance of the cistern and work was halted.
Source: Hyperallergic
11-5-14
It’s the Medieval Voynich Manuscript.
Source: CBC News
11-15-14
Dig site is close to Syrian city that now flies the extremist group's black banner
Source: NYT
11-16-14
The rising prices have set off a new Napoleonic war of sorts, with private collectors competing aggressively with buyers for public museums.
Source: Fox News
11-16-14
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before explorer Christopher Columbus.
Source: NYT
11-14-14
The Abe government is determined to rewrite the imperial military's history of wartime sexual slavery.
Source: Huffington Post
11-15-14
There was no political explosion then comparable to the one Republicans are threatening now.
Source: NYT
11-14-14
To any number of Southerners, the Civil War general remains a ransacking brute and bully whose March to the Sea, which began here 150 years ago on Saturday, was a heinous act of terror.
Source: Huffington Post
11-14-14
The first of their kind to be found in Denmark, the footprints may shed light on what life was like for coastal people during the Stone Age.
Source: Reuters
11-13-14
A summary of findings raises questions about whether Germany’s federal government reached a backroom deal with both the drug company and the state prosecutor in charge of the criminal case.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
11-13-14
As the first president of the Sierra Club, Muir shaped enduring perceptions about how the wild world should be prioritized, protected and managed.
Source: The Independent
11-4-14
Working in collaboration with Sketchfab, an online platform that lets users share and download 3D scans, the British Museum has created 14 3D models of busts, statues and sarcophagi from its collection for anyone to download and print at home.
Source: Usa News
11-11-14
A court in Giza sentenced in absentia three Germans -- who had claimed they were researchers -- for stealing pieces of an ancient scroll bearing the name of the Pharaoh Khufu, as well as rock samples.
Source: Harvard Gazette
11-10-14
It foreshadowed feminism.
Source: New York Post
11-8-14
President Ronald Reagan secretly recorded some of his conversations with foreign leaders.
Source: Social Science Research Network "The Politics of Early Justice, Lower Court Federal Judicial Selection 1789-1861"
11-4-14
by Michael J. Gerhardt and Michael Ashley Stein
There never was a Golden Age. These nominations were always political.
Source: RT
11-7-14
Most Russians agree with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the standoff between Russia and the West, but many think the Cold War did not end in 1989.
