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: Wall Street Journal
1-30-14
Of all the year’s Academy Award nominated films, “The Act of Killing” is
one of the most startling, and it’s raising questions in Indonesia.
Source: Wall Street Journal
1-28-14
The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was notorious for its brutality.
Source: Wall Street Journal
1-29-14
Among the changes in the school curriculum are a renewed emphasis on Japan's territorial claims.
Source: New York Times
1-27-14
The Holocaust is not a topic most students in East Asia are likely to encounter in a class. But one Hong Kong-based non-profit seeks to change that.
Source: New York Times
1-28-14
Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks.
Source: New York Times
1-29-14
Seeger was no stranger to controversy over his multi-decade career.
Source: Israel National News
1-27-14
The article originally appeared in the Zionist paper Doar Hayom.
Source: Phys.org
1-28-14
Early humans may have colonized the Near East much later than originally thought.
Source: Interfax
1-27-14
The German president extended his sympathies on the seventieth anniversary of the breaking of the siege.
Source: Discovery News
1-26-14
A new look at a cache of baby bones discovered in Britain is altering
assumptions about why ancient Romans committed infanticide.
Source: The Guardian
1-26-14
The war in Syria has claimed more than 130,000 lives and, as these images reveal, it is also laying waste to its historic buildings and Unesco-listed sites.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
1-28-14
The Hope Diamond was recut in 1792, but in its earlier version it was cut so that an effect resembling the sun resided at its center.
Source: The New Scientist
1-28-14
New DNA sequencing shows that the Plague of Justinian was in fact the bubonic plague.
Source: National Public Radio
1-27-14
The relic was stolen from a small church in Italy's Abruzzo region.
Source: CNN.com
1-26-14
Hwang Keum-ja, 89, died of lung and respiratory disease at a hospital in Seoul Sunday.
Source: NYT
1-26-14
Rand Paul comes out of a tradition with a mixed message -- reassurance to young libertarians and to defenders of slavery.
Source: Chicago Defender
1-23-14
The gift was presented at the Washington Auto Show.
Source: Fox News
1-22-14
The Byzantine structure was unearthed during a routine salvage excavation.
Source: LiveScience
1-17-14
[Pin It] Before civil war broke out in Syria, Tell Qarqur was home to an archaeological expedition. Now military tanks sit inside bunkers carved into the ancient mound.
Source: The Guardian
1-22-14
First world war Middlesex military tribunal letters range from heartbreaking appeals to rants about rotten neighbours.
