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
January 30, 2014
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
January 28, 2014
The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was notorious for its brutality.
Source: Wall Street Journal
January 29, 2014
Among the changes in the school curriculum are a renewed emphasis on Japan's territorial claims.
Source: New York Times
January 27, 2014
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
January 28, 2014
Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks.
Source: New York Times
January 29, 2014
Seeger was no stranger to controversy over his multi-decade career.
Source: Israel National News
January 27, 2014
The article originally appeared in the Zionist paper Doar Hayom.
Source: Phys.org
January 28, 2014
Early humans may have colonized the Near East much later than originally thought.
Source: Interfax
January 27, 2014
The German president extended his sympathies on the seventieth anniversary of the breaking of the siege.
Source: Discovery News
January 26, 2014
A new look at a cache of baby bones discovered in Britain is altering
assumptions about why ancient Romans committed infanticide.
Source: The Guardian
January 26, 2014
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
January 28, 2014
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
January 28, 2014
New DNA sequencing shows that the Plague of Justinian was in fact the bubonic plague.
Source: National Public Radio
January 27, 2014
The relic was stolen from a small church in Italy's Abruzzo region.
Source: CNN.com
January 26, 2014
Hwang Keum-ja, 89, died of lung and respiratory disease at a hospital in Seoul Sunday.
Source: NYT
January 26, 2014
Rand Paul comes out of a tradition with a mixed message -- reassurance to young libertarians and to defenders of slavery.
Source: Chicago Defender
January 23, 2014
The gift was presented at the Washington Auto Show.
Source: Fox News
January 22, 2014
The Byzantine structure was unearthed during a routine salvage excavation.
Source: LiveScience
January 17, 2014
[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
January 22, 2014
First world war Middlesex military tribunal letters range from heartbreaking appeals to rants about rotten neighbours.
