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: Chicago Tribune
12-2-13
Geoffrey Baer's 'Chicago Time Machine' takes deep-dish look at the past.
Source: PennLive
11-29-13
A military antiques shop in Gettysburg claims they are owed a share of a
$1.6 million to $1.85 million sale of a coat and cup once owned by Union
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Source: Associated Press
12-1-13
The plantation formerly belonged to a wealthy Savannah attorney.
Source: National Geographic
11-26-13
The oldest known stone-tipped projectiles have been
discovered in Ethiopia.
Source: Associated Press
11-29-13
But anti-nuclear activists are fighting the process every step of the way.
Source: Washington Post
12-2-13
The cemetery is in Manassas, VA.
Source: New York Times
12-2-13
“Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism.”
Source: New York Times
12-3-13
The I-400, an aircraft carrier sub designed to attack the Panama Canal, has been found off of Hawaii.
10-28-12
Scholars have traced the history of housing segregation in several notable books and articles. ProPublica has obtained new documents and interviewed key figures in the four-decade battle over the Fair Housing Act.
Source: CBS News
12-1-13
Amazing pictures of the inside of the dome.
Source: Outside Magazine
11-25-13
A British climber believes Mallory’s body was found decades before 1999.
Source: New York Times
11-27-13
The buyer of the Bay Psalm Book was David M. Rubenstein
of the Carlyle Group.
Source: BBC News
11-27-13
Details of what the scroll contains are expected to be revealed by Christmas.
Source: BBC News
11-27-13
Plans are afoot to correct the Birmingham, UK memorial.
Source: BBC News
11-26-13
Work has begun on a new containment vessel for the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl's #4 reactor.
Source: Washington Post
11-26-13
The original Thanksgiving meal was NOT turkey.
Source: Wall Street Journal
11-26-13
The roots go back to 1913.
Source: New York Times
11-27-13
Iterations of the presentation go back to Abraham Lincoln.
Source: CNN
11-24-13
"Every president has not
only lied at some time, but needs to lie to be effective."
Source: Agence France-Presse
11-26-13
Lucien Neuwirth was a Gaullist politician who legalized the birth control pill in France in 1967... and fought in the SAS during World War II.