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: The Guardian
3-23-14
The
Führer found himself reborn in the 21st century in a 2012 comic novel
by Timur Vermes, which sold 1.4m copies in Germany. Its success suggests
Germans now look at their former leader in the same way as the rest of
the world does.
Source: Associated Press
3-25-14
Obama will visit the Belgian cemetery Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian
3-25-14
Battered case, believed to have been lent to officer during first world war, part of reopening exhibition at Bank of England.
Source: Washington Post
3-25-14
For Ukraine and Russia, no era or actor is more omnipresent in their crisis today than World War II and Stepan Bandera.
Source: Associated Press
3-25-14
Memento Park in Budapest is one of Eastern Europe's major galleries of communist-era statuary.
Source: Washington Post
3-25-14
"The" word has a long, controversial political and social history.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3-24-14
Nalanda University was one of the world's first institutions of higher learning -- and now it's coming back after nearly a millennium.
Source: New York Times
3-24-14
Suárez led a new generation of Spanish
politicians to power after Franco's death in 1975.
Source: New York Times
3-24-14
The museum has set aside the preceding week as a dedication period.
Source: Talking Points Memo
3-25-14
The new College of Charleston president is an avid Civil War reenactor and is affiliated with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Source: The Daily Beast
3-25-14
The most comprehensive study of Saudi textbooks ever commissioned by the U.S. government was completed at the end of 2012, but to this date the State Department has kept it from the public.
Source: AP
3-21-14
Illinois, New York and Hawaii are all expected to compete for Obama's library.
Source: New York Times
3-21-14
Walsh helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal.
Source: Time Magazine
3-20-14
NTT DATA said it would digitize 3,000 manuscripts totaling 1.5
million pages over the next four years.
Source: ABC News
3-20-14
Vladimir Putin recounted the post-Cold War history during a speech Tuesday marking Crimea's annexation.
Source: Science Daily
3-19-14
A newly deciphered 1,800-year-old letter from an Egyptian solider serving in a Roman legion in Europe to his family back home shows striking similarities to what some soldiers may be feeling here and now.
Source: Washington Post
3-19-14
The photos were found in the collection of the National Archives.
Source: New York Times
3-19-14
The
Spanish government has been flooded with thousands of inquiries about
legislation it approved last month that will grant dual citizenship to
descendants of Sephardic Jews.
Source: New York Times
3-21-14
2014 marks both the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I and the year in which British troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
Source: New York Times
3-19-14
A spokesman for Koch Industries cited a 1958 Supreme Court case guaranteeing NAACP membership lists against state seizure.
