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
9-16-14
In France, they say they’re puzzled by the humor. In Germany, they say it will be difficult to market.
Source: The Washington Post
9-15-16
“Get it or regret it!” read the description for a “vintage,” one-of-a-kind Kent State sweatshirt that Urban Outfitters briefly offered for just $129.
Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
9-16-14
While little more than a third of respondents (36 percent) could name all three branches of the U.S. government, just as many (35 percent) could not name a single one.
Source: Archaeology
9-12-14
The pieces were snipped off the flag by its various keepers and given away as keepsakes until about 20 percent of the flag was missing by the 1880s.
Source: Live Science
9-15-14
Archaeologists previously thought the structure was part of a city wall.
Source: Philly.com
Noting that he had already shown his executors the location of "all of my personal letters, journals and diaries," he ordered them, upon his death, to be destroyed.
Source: NYT
9-13-14
As marine navigation tools have become more sophisticated, lighthouses have become less necessary, and automated technology has eliminated the need for people to actually operate them.
Source: Huffington Post
9-11-14
In May 1899, a storm on Lake Superior caused a boat to sink so quickly that, as an eyewitness put it, the vessel "disappeared as suddenly as one could snuff out a candle."
Source: Huffington Post
9-9-14
The total number of children currently being apprehended is roughly half of what it was before the Great Recession.
Source: BBC
9-9-14
Archaeologists have dated the 26cm (10in) weapon to either the Shang or Zhou dynasties - the dawn of Chinese civilisation - based on its material, size and shape.
Source: National Security Archive
9-12-14
Top officials at the Pentagon were especially supportive of applying pressure on Israel. Nixon overruled them.
Source: NYT
9-11-14
Whitewashing the Bible is nothing new.
Source: Iraq Heritage
9-12-14 (accessed
More than 4000 archaeological sites that are located in areas that have been controlled by ISIS are facing a serious threatening either by looting or destruction.
Source: New Yorker
9-11-14
Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama.
Source: CBS Evening News
9-10-14
Most of the people buried in the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery in Alexandria, their names now etched in bronze, were former slaves and children who escaped to freedom during the Civil War.
Source: Johnson's Russia List
8-19-14
The number has grown 14 percent in the past 20 years, from 27 percent in 1994, the Levada Center pollster told Interfax, referring to a nationwide poll held in late July.
Source: National Library of Medicine
9-10-14
by Rebecca C. Warlow
The National Library of Medicine is making the film of Roosevelt’s speech publicly available for the first time, nearly 74 years after the President made his speech.
Source: Media Matters
9-9-14
"The book relies on wild extrapolation and questionable or anonymous sources and has been denounced as "fictional" by lawyers and investigators involved in the case."
Source: Huffington Post
9-9-14
In what's been called a "sensational" find, archaeologists have discovered a Viking fortress near the Danish city of Køge, about 30 miles southwest of Copenhagen.
Source: Politico
9-7-14
It is the most famous, or notorious, political attack ad in U.S. history, and 50 years after it first aired on Sept. 7, 1964, the iconic "Daisy" commercial has lost none of its explosive punch.
