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: New York Times
  3-7-14
  

  Among the Wounded in Syria’s War: Ancient History

  Ancient mosques and temples are among the casualties of Syria's civil war.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-8-14
  

  Rio's slave past obliterated in race to the future

  Scholars say the scale of the slave trade here was staggering. Brazil received about 4.9 million slaves through the Atlantic trade.

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• SOURCE: LOC
  3-7-14
  

  Magna Carta is Coming to the Library of Congress

  It was a secret until now.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  3-4-14
  

  Rare book offers clues to China's musical past

  A book stored in Cambridge for the last two centuries has been identified as a rare record of early Chinese music.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-4-14
  

  L.B.J., Civil Rights and Dramatic License

  The hit Broadway play "All the Way" includes some historical inaccuracies.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  3-4-14
  

  World War One, a hundred years on, entrenched on London stages

  The centenary year of the start of World War I is being marked on the London stage as a bloodbath that wasted millions of lives and ended in failure, setting the world on the destructive path for World War II.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  3-3-14
  

  A museum for the US army after 2 centuries

  The U.S. Army has been on the front lines of history for well over two centuries, but in all that time, it has never had a national museum of its own.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-2-14
  

  ‘Act of Killing’ film fails to stir Indonesia

  Indonesian society remains remarkably sanguine about its 1965/1966 genocide.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-2-14
  

  History reburied? NY's 1755 battle site covered up

  The long-lost site of the Battle of St. George has been found by a 61-year-old retired state police investigator.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-28-14
  

  Alice Herz-Sommer, Who Found Peace in Chopin Amid Holocaust, Dies at 110

  Mrs. Herz-Sommer was widely described as the oldest known Holocaust survivor.

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• SOURCE: New York TImes
  2-27-14
  

  Video Game Uses Japanese War Criminals as Targets

  The game is provocatively titled "Shoot the Devils."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-1-14
  

  Clinton Fans, and Foes, Poised for Release of White House Papers

  The National Archives will make public on Friday afternoon a trove of secret documents detailing the inner workings of Bill Clinton’s White House.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-27-14
  

  'Thankful villages' of WW1 acknowledge their good fortune

  Thankful villages are those municipalities that didn't lose a single casualty to World War I.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-27-14
  

  Israel donates Anne Frank books to Tokyo libraries

  Israel's embassy in Japan has donated more than 300 Anne Frank-related books to public libraries in Tokyo, after many were found vandalised.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-27-14
  

  MI5 spy controlled UK Nazi group, files reveal

  An MI5 agent pretending to have Gestapo links secretly controlled a vast network of UK-based Nazi sympathisers, newly-released files reveal.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-28-14
  

  Japan to review lead-up to WW2 comfort women statement

  Japan will form a team to review the lead-up to a 1993 statement which acknowledged its wartime use of sex slaves, its top spokesman says.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2-27-14
  

  Reversal: Clinton Library Will Release Documents

  The Clinton Presidential Library "will make its first release on Friday of records that were previously withheld from the public under legal provisions that expired early last year."

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• SOURCE: LiveScience
  2-26-14
  

  How Moroccan Ruler Moulay Ismaïl Could Sire 1,000 Kids Revealed

  This could have been possible if the ruler had sex about once a day for 32 years.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  2-26-14
  

  Decline of Bronze Age 'megacities' linked to climate change

  Scientists from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that an abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon affected northwest India 4,100 years ago.

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• SOURCE: LiveScience
  2-26-14
  

  Ancient Gladiator School Discovered in Austria

  An ancient Roman gladiator school has been discovered in Austria, complete with cell blocks, a training arena and a bath complex, archaeologists say.