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: Buffalo News
12-19-13
About 125 reenactors participated in the commemorations.
Source: BBC News
12-18-13
The Biblioteca Girolamini's invaluable fifteenth and sixteenth century book collections have been plundered.
Source: Springfield Museums
12-18-13
2013
Stored on a shelf for over 100 hundred years, a rare
anthropological treasure was recently discovered in the Springfield
Science Museum.
Source: Associated Press
12-19-13
An Indiana group devoted to telling the state's
story will auction works by John James Audubon next spring to raise
money to acquire and store items more relevant to its mission.
Source: Huffington Post
12-19-13
Castro praised his brother, Cuban head of state Raúl Castro, for the
much-discussed handshake with U.S. President Barack Obama at Mandela’s
memorial service.
Source: New York Times
12-18-13
The Delta Queen faces an uncertain future.
Source: USA Today
12-17-13
Nathan B. Forrest High School will finally be getting a new monicker.
Source: Global Times
12-15-13
The collection includes works by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi, with more recent acquisitions including Landscript by Xu Bing, the museum said.
Source: BBC News
12-11-13
Tolkein served with the Lancashire Fusiliers during the Battle of the Somme.
Source: Boing Boing
12-13-13
The library is also crowdsourcing the indexing of the collection.
Source: Polskie Radio
12-10-13
The last veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War has died at a nursing home in Tursk, western Poland.
Source: Science
12-16-13
Forget Leibniz -- he was scooped in base-2 by five hundred years by the Polynesians.
Source: New York Times
12-16-13
Obama's library plans begin!
Source: Cafe Jumble
12-17-13
The original selfies were a surprisingly joyless bunch.
Source: Wall Street Journal
12-13-13
"Prosperity’s Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China" is a book 97 years in the making.
Source: Wall Street Journal
12-16-13
The scrolls were found in the basement of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service.
Source: New York Times
12-17-13
‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives.
Source: Wall Street Journal
December 2013
The revelations come from a cache of forgotten documents unearthed by the Wall Street Journal.
Source: New York Times
12-15-13
Random House paid a reported six figures for the manuscript.
Source: New York Times
12-12-13
The manuscript was written by a man named Austin Reed, a prisoner in upstate New York.
