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: The Tower
September 19, 2013
Rouhani refused to answer the question posed by NBC's Anne Curry during an interview.
Source: Time Magazine
September 23, 2013
Jobs moved to the Los Altos house with his foster parents when he was in 7th grade.
Source: Gilder Lehrman
September 17, 2013
Adam Matthew, an imprint of SAGE, will digitize c.50,000 items.
Source: National Library of Medicine
September 24, 2013
The National Library of Medicine has launched a traveling banner exhibition and online adaptation of Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture.
Source: New York Times
September 24, 2013
So many of the hyperlinks in SCOTUS footnotes lead nowhere.
Source: InTheCapital
September 23, 2013
Excavations near American University have found traces of mustard gas and lewisite.
Source: New York Times
September 21, 2013
Mildred Fish-Harnack is the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Adolf Hitler.
Source: New York Times
September 23, 2013
Its humble appearance, though, belies the
fact that it played a role in the famous Three Kingdoms era.
Source: NYT
September 23, 2013
The 100-year-old Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris will hold its first auction of vintage and not-so-old collectibles.
Source: New York Times
September 24, 2013
Every year in Wallonia, fetes are held to honor Napoleon.
Source: National Post
September 20, 2013
Sadako Sasaki’s family donated the origami crane to promote peace and overcome the tragedies of the past.
Source: BBC News
September 21, 2013
Retrieving the remains of a German bomber - the dreaded Dornier 217.ZA.
Source: The Scotsman
September 22, 2013
He is little known in his home country, but the Scot credited with saving America’s buffalo from being hunted to extinction is now the subject of an award-winning film.
Source: BBC News
September 23, 2013
Cashel Man has had the weight of the world on his shoulders, quite literally, for 4,000 years.
Source: Associated Press
September 21, 2013
A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation’s east coast, with a
single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more
powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published
book says.
Source: The Atlantic
September 20, 2013
"Forbidden City" the headline proclaimed. It continued: "Uncle Sam's Mystery Town Directed by '2d Einstein.'"
Source: Science & Scholarship in Poland
September 18, 2013
Until now, researchers have speculated that this house was located at the citadel in nearby Chersonesus.
Source: The Guardian
September 22, 2013
Doubts cast over ancient symbol of heroism and sacrifice.
Source: Pulse
September 23, 2013
The site serves up data on global hurricanes as they made landfall going back to 1842.
Source: Mail Tribune
September 23, 2013
Southern Oregon University archaeologists will
return to Jacksonville next month to conduct more excavations at the old
Chinese Quarter.
