Breaking News

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.

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• SOURCE: Legal History Blog
  4-15-14
  

  Supreme Court reveals that the docket books of many justices survive -- and are being made available

  by Dan Ernst

  Long secret historic dockets reveal how justices voted in various cases.

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• SOURCE: CBS
  4-14-14
  

  Poll: Majority Of Americans Say Obama Is Mixed Race, Not Black

  Only blacks think he's black.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  4-14-14
  

  New technology helps paleontologists see Ice-Age bee in intricate detail

  The "Megiachile gentiles" specimen -- a species of bee still alive today -- was first excavated from Los Angeles' La Brea tar pits in the 1970s.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  4-5-14
  

  History textbooks in crosshairs of Australia's curriculum wars

  Conservative politicians in Australia have ordered a review of a new national curriculum they say imposes political correctness on shared historical events, such as the battle for Gallipoli.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4-13-14
  

  Archaeologists' findings may prove Rome a century older than thought

  As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC.

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• SOURCE: US National Library of Medicine
  4-14-14
  

  150 years of medical journals to go online

  Key journals charting the development of modern medicine over the last 150 years will be digitized in their entirety .

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4-9-14
  

  Secret WW1 spy files have been made available online

  More than 150 files are being made available in the digitised release.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-10-14
  

  Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists Say

  The test results do not prove that Jesus had a wife, only that the fragment of papyrus with the phrase, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife,’” is likely not a forgery.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-8-14
  

  At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History

  “It is all here: the story of our time — with the bark off."--LBJ

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  4-9-14
  

  Jim DiMint: It's Really The Constitution That Freed The Slaves

  DeMint dismisses the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to argue that the Constitution just ultimately led the country in the right direction.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-8-14
  

  For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large

  The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act is a painful reminder to President Obama that Lyndon B. Johnson might have been the last president able to push through such sweeping legislation.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-7-14
  

  Germany Announces Deal on Art Looted by Nazis

  The German government on Monday announced an agreement with Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, that would pave the way for the possible restitution of art wrongfully taken from Jewish owners and held in his private collection for decades.

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• SOURCE: The Kansas City Star
  4-7-14
  

  ‘Lost’ history of Panama Canal is now found in exhibit at KC’s Linda Hall Library

  The papers of A.B. Nichols, inaccessible for more than 80 years, are now part of a series of remembrances that will begin with an exhibit opening tonight at the library and culminate in October with a visit by historian David McCullough, author of a book about the canal.

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• SOURCE: Google
  4-7-14
  

  Google Boo Boo

  41 or 43?

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• SOURCE: Newsmax
  4-7-14
  

  George H.W. Bush Reunion: 'Kinder, Gentler' View of History Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com

  Bush's breaking of his tax pledge is now seen as a plus by acolytes.

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• SOURCE: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
  4-7-14
  

  Those Who Don't Know Where Ukraine Is Support Intervention

  "We found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force."

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• SOURCE: The Star Press
  4-1-14
  

  Indiana Historical Society's Audubon books sell for $3.77 million

  The auction took less than 30 minutes to dispense with a pair of items that had been in the Society's care for 81 years in the case of "The Birds of North America" and 63 years in the case of "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America."

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• SOURCE: National Post
  4-6-14
  

  Calgary real estate tycoon wins bidding war for sword that once belonged to legendary Sikh warrior king

  “The Sikh history is not in the hands of Sikhs, it’s in private collections in the U.K.” said Mr. Dillion, who is bent on lending the artifact to any Canadian or Indian school or museum that wishes to exhibit it.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4-6-14
  

  Half-century milestone for IBM mainframes

  The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4-6-14
  

  The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript

  The puzzling - and thus far indecipherable - nature of an old manuscript has confounded some of the world's greatest cryptologists. Is there truly a code to break, or is it all an elaborate hoax?