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: Live Science
June 25, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the timber burial chamber within a 39-foot-high (12 meters) mound called a kurgan.
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
June 24, 2014
A handful of Filipino-American patriots in Las Vegas cheered on members of Congress Tuesday for insisting that the nation must follow through on a promise.
Source: Tennessean
June 26, 2014
Howard H. Baker, Jr., served 18 years in the U.S. Senate starting in 1966, when he became the first Republican to be popularly elected to the Senate from Tennessee.
Source: CNN
June 26, 2014
The war, which began nearly 100 years ago, produced its own crop of bionic men.
Source: BBC
June 26, 2014
In a moving ceremony, the leaders dedicated a memorial bench stamped with the word "peace" in the EU's 24 official languages.
Source: National Geographic
June 25, 2014
Medgar was gunned down in his driveway on June 12, 1963.
Source: CNN
June 23, 2014
Inside, exhibits in the nearly 43,000-square-foot museum link the historic stories of the American civil rights movement and modern human rights struggles around the world.
Source: Playbill
June 25, 2014
"The musical Fannie Lou tells the story of Fannie Lou Hamer's voting rights struggle through her eyes and the eyes of various fictional characters, who represent a variety of viewpoints."
Source: The Daily Caller
June 25, 2014
“There’s no license for going it alone in our system.”
Source: NYT
June 26, 2014
The photographs show a young man, held down in a bowing position by what appear to be five Red Guards, the youthful fanatics who terrorized China in the name of Chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution.
Source: Huffington Post
June 25, 2014
Or, more specifically, traces of Neanderthal feces taken from a Spanish cave.
Source: NYT
June 26, 2014
The court ruled unanimously that President Obama had violated the Constitution in 2012 by appointing officials to the National Labor Relations Board during a short break in the Senate’s work when the chamber was convening every three days in pro forma sessions.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
June 24, 2014
The survey follows President Barack Obama‘s announcement last week that he is deploying 300 military advisers to Baghdad to help the struggling Iraqi government.
Source: National Geographic
June 26, 2014
Al-Qaeda splinter group selling artifacts to buy weapons.
Source: Time Magazine
June 25, 2014
Both San Francisco and Los Angeles campaigned to host the movie-memorabilia and art museum, but "aggressive" lobbying by Chicago won Lucas over.
Source: NYT
June 23, 2014
There is a poem children in Wales learn about the sunken kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod, swallowed by the sea and drowned forever after.
Source: History
June 20, 2014
The origins of the Qhapaq Ñan (“great road” in the Quechua language of the Incas) can be traced to trails that formed as early as 1000 B.C.
Source: National Security Archive
June 24, 2014
The Senate bill comes after the House unanimously passed its own bipartisan FOIA reform bill.
Source: Discovery
June 24, 2014
The ingredients included aloe, gentian, rhubarb, Spanish saffron, Zedoary (white turmeric), and one part water to three parts alcohol.
Source: Press Release -- Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive
June 24, 2014
The Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to three newspaper titles published in Savannah from 1809 to 1880.
