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: Associated Press
November 5, 2013
The Zapruder film remains the single most important pre-smartphone digital artifact.
Source: New York Times
November 6, 2013
“The Wind Rises” is entering the Oscar competition on tiptoe.
Source: New York Times
November 6, 2013
The exhibit will run Feb. 6 through May 10.
Source: Slate
November 3, 2013
Comic artist Joe Sacco annotates the Great War in a panorama view comic book.
Source: The Guardian
November 2, 2013
The Imperial War Museum plans to put eight million personal stories online by 2018.
Source: The Guardian
November 2, 2013
The military exercise Able Archer nearly provoked a pre-emptive Soviet strike.
Source: The Guardian
November 3, 2013
Ammonia helped to feed billions, but killed millions.
Source: National Public Radio
November 2, 2013
It is difficult for those of us who write to say we need more words to tell a story when Lincoln did so much with just 272.
Source: Phys.org
October 29, 2013
These urban explorers are mapping Rome's subterranean secrets.
Source: LiveScience
October 30, 2013
Hasan Dağ was the inspiration for some of the earliest cave art.
Source: The Independent
November 3, 2013
An Antarctic explorer may have nasty secrets.
Source: The New Scientist
November 4, 2013
Chinese engineers used an ice road to drag stones to build the Forbidden City.
Source: Heritage Daily
November 2, 2013
Norway was deeply involved in the silk trade.
Source: Associated Press
November 4, 2013
In its heyday, the
Selfhelp Home bustled with refugees.
Source: Associated Press
November 4, 2013
The cavalcade of musicians is trying to transform the Dix Hills, Long Island home.
Source: Associated Press
November 4, 2013
Alexandria, Virginia, was once a slave-trading hub.
Source: CBS News
November 4, 2013
In the fight against Hitler's forces during World War II, thousands of U.S. planes were shot down as they carried out bombing raids over Germany.
Source: The Independent
November 4, 2013
Crash injuries suggest he was the first of the boy racers
Source: New York Times
November 4, 2013
Authorities found an apartment building hiding 1,500 works of art confiscated under the Nazi regime in Munich.
Source: The Tennessean
October 31, 2013
Judd Matheny and Frank Niceley were scheduled to appear at a meeting of the Southern National Congress.
