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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: Politico Magazine
  11/11/19
  

  History Says Bloomberg 2020 Would Be a Sure Loser

  Almost every four years, there’s a last-minute panic candidate for the presidency. They never win.

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• SOURCE: AP
  11/12/19
  

  Then and now: How Trump impeachment hearing is different

  There are consistencies in the process — televised hearings, partisan rancor and memorable speeches — but each impeachment process also stands alone as a reflection of the president, the Congress and the times.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  11/11/19
  

  Poland asks Netflix to make changes to documentary about Nazi death camp guard

  Many Poles still refuse to accept research showing that thousands of Poles participated in the Holocaust in addition to the thousands who risked their lives to help the Jews.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1113/19
  

  What is a caliph? The Islamic State tries to boost its legitimacy by hijacking a historic institution

  by Ken Chitwood

  The Islamic State’s caliphate was never widely recognized among the global Muslim community and no longer has significant territory. But the Islamic State still uses the history of the caliphate to push their claims.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/11/19
  

  Russian Historian Professor, Found With Bag of Severed Arms, Admits He Killed Student

  Oleg Sokolov, a Russian historian who made a career studying and impersonating Napoleon Bonaparte, liked to be called “Sire.” He also had a long history of seducing and being violent toward female students at a prestigious university.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/10/19
  

  Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa

  Private explorers found the U.S.S. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction.    

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/8/19
  

  The Battle Between NBC and CBS To Be the First To Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

  by Mike Conway

  In the summer of 1962, the two networks were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/11/2019
  

  Battlefields around the world are finding new purpose as parks and refuges

  by Todd Lookingbill and Peter Smallwood

  The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  11/7/19
  

  See the Mississippi River's hidden history, uncovered by lasers

  Using hyperprecise LiDAR data, a cartographer maps the river’s bends and channels over time with mesmerizing results.

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• SOURCE: Vice
  October 22, 2019
  

  DeepMind AI Beats Human Historians at Deciphering Ancient Texts

  by Edward Ongweso Jr

  University of Oxford researchers are using machine learning to help make ancient text restoration less tedious.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 9, 2019
  

  ‘The day the wall came down’: How The Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall 30 years ago

  by Robert McCartney

  Thirty years ago, East German officials abruptly announced it would open its border, ending 28 years of separation between East and West Berlin. This story ran on the front page of The Washington Post the next morning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/19
  

  The last time Kentucky fought over a gubernatorial election, the governor got killed

  The violence in 1899 left Kentucky on the brink of a civil war.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 6, 2019
  

  Martin Luther King Jr.’s name removed from historic street by Kansas City voters

  Voters agreed to remove Martin Luther King's name from city street signs.  

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/8/19
  

  The Forgotten Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes During 'Kristallnacht'

  Attacks on Jewish homes have often been a neglected aspect of "the Night of Broken Glass", until now.

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• SOURCE: Time
  November 10, 2019
  

  This Veterans Day, America's Military Families Have New Ways to Learn More About Their Ancestors' Service

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  New services are making it easier for families to learn about their ancestors’ military service.

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• SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
  11/6/19
  

  Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway

  Seven-foot replica of former president to be inaugurated at U.S. Embassy, overlooking site of Berlin Wall

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 8, 2019
  

  New ‘Midway’ movie aims for reality, but the discovery of wreckage brings the battle home

  by Michael E. Ruane

  Two sunken Japanese aircraft carriers were found weeks before the movie about the World War II battle opens

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 7, 2019
  

  Germany may pass a ban on conversion therapy — a turning point in a dark history of LGBTQ rights

  Germany's minister on health is trying to ban conversion therapy.  

• SOURCE: History.com
  November 08, 2019
  

  5 things you might not know about the battle of Midway

  by Sarah Pruitt

  The mighty clash between Japanese and U.S. Naval forces in June 1942 ended in a stunning— and surprising—Allied victory. 

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• SOURCE: Mashable
  11/6/19
  

  Live through incredible Berlin Wall escape stories with YouTube's VR history project

  The experimental film bridges the generational gap, transforming powerful archival photographs into immersive 360-degree virtual snapshots in time.