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: Novinite
                                        September 27, 2013
            
            
            
            Two horses and a two-wheeled carriage were found in Thrace.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: France24
                                        October 1, 2013
            
            
            
            The move comes as France prepares to mark the centennial of the "Great War."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Geographic
                                        September 30, 2013
            
            
            
            The eruption has been pinpointed to the Samalas volcano.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: New York Times
                                        September 29, 2013
            
            
                            by Sam Roberts
            
            Is de Blasio Dinkins and Lhota Giuliani?
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Pew Research Center
                                        September 27, 2013
            
            
            
            Lesson #1: the shutdown was NOT a political disaster for the Republican Party.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Foreign Policy
                                        September 25, 2013
            
            
            
            ...along with Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, and a Washington Post humorist.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Wall Street Journal
                                        September 26, 2013
            
            
            
            A GOP congressman compared the ACA to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act last August.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Media Matters
                                        September 27, 2013
            
            
            
            Tony Makris says his critics are practicing "animal racism."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Euro News
                                        September 25, 2013
            
            
            
            Twenty-one iconic Muppets have found a new home at the Smithsonian.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Atlantic
                                        September 26, 2013
            
            
            
            
        Valuable original recordings and rare tapes have vanished over 
the years—a process that Jack White and the National Recording 
Preservation Foundation are looking to stop...
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: BBC News
                                        September 23, 2013
            
            
            
            Researchers in Hungary looking for the tomb of Suleiman the 
Magnificent have uncovered instead traces of a whole Ottoman era town.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: BBC News
                                        September 26, 2013
            
            
            
            Petrov prevented the Soviet Union from responding to an (erroneous) signal of an American nuclear attack.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: New York Times
                                        September 26, 2013
            
            
            
            The Iranian leader faces criticism at home for seeming to acknowledge the Holocaust.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huffington Post
                                        September 25, 2013
            
            
            
            Cruz does the Americans who fought Nazism "a grave disservice," the Arizona Republican said.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huffington Post
                                        September 25, 2013
            
            
            
            Disney animator found a picture of Lincoln in a crowd the day he gave the Gettysburg Address.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Spiegel International
                                        September 20, 2013
            
            
            
            After some initial digs, a Dutch filmmaker believes he may found the sight of buried Nazi treasure long rumored to exist.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Time Magazine
                                        September 24, 2013
            
            
            
            "Constitute" lets you compare founding documents from 160 countries.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: SABC News
                                        September 24, 2013
            
            
            
            Local rugby players believe the newly opened rugby museum in Cape Town does not properly portray black influence.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The ABC
                                        September 24, 2013
            
            
            
            Environmental attack turns moai statues to dirt.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: UC Davis
                                        September 19, 2013
            
            
            
            UC Davis research suggests Neandertals created advanced bone carving tools before the modern human.