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 22, 2014
“I had no intention whatsoever to hurt the feelings of people in China and Korea.”
Source: National Public Radio
January 22, 2014
The Mycenaeans knew how to throw a pretty mean barbeque.
Source: The Guardian
January 21, 2014
Graves holding tiny cremated bones confirm accounts dismissed as Greek or Roman black propaganda, study shows.
Source: Science News
January 21, 2014
A 35,000-year-old piece of carved bone has been found on Timor.
Source: New York Times
January 23, 2014
George J. Stinney Jr. was only 14 years old when he was executed.
Source: New York Times
January 23, 2014
Abe compared the Anglo-German relationship before World War I with Japan and China today.
Source: New York Times
January 24, 2014
Several
organized crime figures have been arrested as part of a federal
investigation into a series of unsolved crimes, including the infamous
1978 Lufthansa heist.
Source: New York Times
January 17, 2014
A proposed monument to Union Civil War veterans at the site of the Battle of Olustee draws controversy.
Source: New York Times
January 16, 2014
The move comes as a collaboration between the city’s Department of Records and Ancestry.com.
Source: New York Times
January 22, 2014
A new conflict has opened up between the towns of Anzio and Nettuno.
Source: The Guardian
January 18, 2014
Alien fungus found at former Craiglockhart hospital where Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met in 1917.
Source: Times of Israel
January 17, 2014
Clay plaques at The Israel Museum, made 1,500 years before the Kama Sutra, display graphically that Old Babylonian culture held an ‘exalted’ view of sex.
Source: LiveScience
January 19, 2013
The ancient bone turned up in storage boxes at the Winchester City Museum.
Source: BBC News
January 20, 2014
The extraordinary story of connections between German Nazis and Brazilian fascists.
Source: Nautilus
January 21, 2014
Vikings -- turns out they're just like us.
Source: BBC News
January 19, 2014
Young conscientious objectors during WWII were starved for
six months to help experts decide how to treat victims of mass
starvation in Europe.
Source: Science News
January 21, 2014
War elephants didn't begin with Hannibal.
Source: NBC News
January 19, 2014
A South Carolina judge will be asked to overturn the conviction of George Stinney, a 14-year-old who was convicted and executed 70 years ago.
Source: Moscow Times
January 16, 2014
Some analysts have accused the Kremlin
of using the new textbooks to promote its ideological agenda and crack
down on academic freedom.
Source: Irish Times
January 16, 2014
Military Service Pensions Collection published online.
