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: BBC
4-6-14
The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Source: BBC
4-6-14
The puzzling - and thus far indecipherable - nature of an old manuscript has confounded some of the world's greatest cryptologists. Is there truly a code to break, or is it all an elaborate hoax?
Source: NYT
4-6-14
José María Galante says he was tortured by an infamous enforcer of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s and is seeking to prosecute the man in an Argentine court.
Source: NYT
4-7-14
French officials said the justice minister would not attend the events after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda accused Paris of “political preparation” in the 1994 killings.
Source: M.I.T. Media Lab project, Pantheon
4-7-14
"To celebrate our global cultural heritage we are compiling, analyzing and visualizing datasets that can help us understand the process of global cultural development."
Source: whoisbigger website
4-7-14
"We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages ."
Source: NYT
4-4-14
The world’s most distinctive gallery of world leaders, the work of George W. Bush, who took up painting after he left office, opens in Dallas on Saturday.
Source: NYT
4-5-14
They insist that the museum will, in the words of Hank T. Holmes, the director of the Department of Archives and History, “not be sugarcoated at all.”
Source: News Release -- John M. Rossi,
4-4-14
Bankruptcy Court finds the Huber Breaker’s 900 tons of steel, valued at $85,000, was a much higher worth than preserving the keystone historic site.
Source: Hoover
4-3-14
This vast array of digital files illuminates political conditions in, and governance of, Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime.
Source: Open Culture website
3-31-14
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads.
Source: BBC
4-2-14
Only one other complete film by Pearson survives, making the discovery of Life, Love and Laughter "particularly significant", said the British Film Institute.
Source: Daily Beast
4-2-14
Watch Donald Rumsfeld Lie About Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, and 9/11.
Source: McClatchy
4-1-14
Putin's personal political agenda.
Source: NYT
3-31-14
National Geographic Channel said Monday that it would “indefinitely” pull a planned television series on unearthing Nazi war graves after days of blistering criticism from archeologists and others who said the show handled the dead with macabre disrespect.
Source: UPI
3-31-14
Proposed field trip includes visits to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and American Jazz Museum.
Source: AP
3-31-14
An 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's `Fuehrer Museum' was handed back to Poland on Monday, a move Germany hopes will revive thorny talks over a vast trove of historical documents that Berlin wants to recover from Poland.
Source: UPI
3-31-14
"There is no doubt that the ossuaries were recently looted from a magnificent burial cave in Jerusalem," said Dr. Eitan Klein.
Source: Yahoo News
3-27-14
Russia and Ukraine are ruthlessly using history as a weapon in the battle to paint their opponents as dangerous aggressors, ripping open old wounds from World War II that may not easily heal.
Source: Telegraph
3-21-14
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation.
