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
April 6, 2014
The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Source: BBC
April 6, 2014
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
April 6, 2014
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
April 7, 2014
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
April 7, 2014
"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
April 7, 2014
"We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages ."
Source: NYT
April 4, 2014
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
April 5, 2014
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,
April 4, 2014
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
April 3, 2014
This vast array of digital files illuminates political conditions in, and governance of, Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime.
Source: Open Culture website
March 31, 2014
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
April 2, 2014
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
April 2, 2014
Watch Donald Rumsfeld Lie About Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, and 9/11.
Source: McClatchy
April 1, 2014
Putin's personal political agenda.
Source: NYT
March 31, 2014
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
March 31, 2014
Proposed field trip includes visits to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and American Jazz Museum.
Source: AP
March 31, 2014
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
March 31, 2014
"There is no doubt that the ossuaries were recently looted from a magnificent burial cave in Jerusalem," said Dr. Eitan Klein.
Source: Yahoo News
March 27, 2014
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
March 21, 2014
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation.
