On this day in 1961, amusement park lovers “head for the thrills” as Six Flags Over Texas, the first park in the Six Flags chain, opens. Located on 212 acres in Arlington, Texas, the park was the first to feature log flume and mine train rides and later, the first 360-degree looping roller coaster, modern parachute drop and man-made river rapids ride. The park also pioneered the concept of all-inclusive admission price; until then, separate entrance...
Minggu, 31 Juli 2016
Audio: WWII Navy Vet- The Moment I Realized We Were At War
Albert Henderson, a veteran of World War II, describes his experiences in the Pacific, fighting in the Philippine Islands, and the Kamikaze.
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Daily Quiz for August 1, 2016
Completed in 1772, this state’s capitol building is the longest one in continuous use.
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Sabtu, 30 Juli 2016
July 31, 1975: Jimmy Hoffa disappears
On July 31, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa, one of the most influential American labor leaders of the 20th century, disappears in Detroit, Michigan, never to be heard from again. Though he is popularly believed to have been the victim of a Mafia hit, conclusive evidence was never found, and Hoffa’s death remains shrouded in mystery to this day.
Born in 1913 to a poor coal miner in Brazil, Indiana, Jimmy Hoffa proved a natural leader in his youth. At the...
Daily Quiz for July 31, 2016
Famous for his invention of the telegraph, Samuel Morse was a professor at the University of the City of New York teaching this.
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Jumat, 29 Juli 2016
July 30, 1965: Johnson signs Medicare into law
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card. Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945,had becomethe first president to propose national health insurance,...
Daily Quiz for July 30, 2016
The first shovelful of dirt for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was dug in 1828 by Charles Carroll who was honored for being this.
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Kamis, 28 Juli 2016
July 29, 1958: NASA created
On this day in 1958, the U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been instrumental in everything...
Daily Quiz for July 29, 2016
In the early 1900’s, the American Issue Publishing Company, was established to promote this organization’s beliefs.
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Tempest At Cool Spring
Exhausted from weeks of incessant campaigning, Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s 8,000 Army of the Valley veterans hoped that Sunday, July 17, 1864, might afford them an opportunity for some much- needed rest. Some of them had been on the march since late June, when they left the Petersburg lines and headed into the Shenandoah Valley …
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October 2016 Table of Contents
The October 2016 issue features a cover story about dentist turned legendary gunslinger Doc Holliday
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Fountain of the Red Pipe
From southwest Minnesota quarries Indians have long extracted the sacred stone for their ceremonial pipe bowls
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Texas State Historian Bill O’Neal
The Lone Star State historian holds forth on everything from Sam Houston to frontier forts
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Travis Erickson
Dakota Sioux pipe maker Travis Erickson quarries and shapes sacred red stone from southwestern Minnesota's Pipestone National Monument
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October 2016 Readers’ Letters
In the October 2016 issue of Wild West readers share dispatches about Western wolves, spiked helmet and frontier scouts
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All Things Vicksburg
The Union’s eight-month struggle to conquer Vicksburg, Miss., culminated in a 47-day siege that ended on July 4, 1863—one day after the Federal triumph at Gettysburg. Terrence Winschel, former chief historian at Vicksburg National Military Park, has written nine Civil War books, including Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, first published in 1999. We recently …
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Interview: Louis Valiante, WWII P-61 Black Widow Crewman
Heatherly: Tell me about your early years. Valiante: “I was born in June 11, 1922. We lost my maternal granddad in 1927. Also my paternal grandmother the same year. They both were our favorite grandparents. I loved them both. I went to Catholic school and the first and second grade were in the same room. …
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Book Review: Soap Suds Row
Jennifer Lawrence weaves a decidedly offbeat history of the unsung U.S. Army laundresses who labored at Western frontier posts through much of the 19th century
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Where the Pronghorns Play
Their size, form and speed call to mind the antelopes of Africa, but the pronghorns of the Great Plains have the run of their own family
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Book Review: Wyatt Earp’s Cow-boy Campaign
Chuck Hornung bases his book about Wyatt Earp and the vendetta against the Arizona "Cow-boys" on a discovered letter from New Mexico Territorial Governor Miguel Otero — which (if genuine) clears up many questions
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Book Review: Sam Houston
Texas state historian Bill O'Neal assesses the leadership qualities of storied Sam Houston—U.S. congressman and senator, governor of Tennessee and Texas, and two-time president of the Republic of Texas
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Book Review: Whiskey River Ranger
Bob Alexander's latest Texas Ranger biography centers on Baz Outlaw, who when sober was a top lawman, but when "in his cups," well ...
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Book Review: Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen
Matthew Mayo profiles a rogues' gallery of swindlers, flimflam artists, shysters and other ne'er-do-wells of the Old West
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Book Review: It Ends Here
Joe Johnston creatively retells the story of Missouri vigilante Edward O'Kelley, the man who shot the man who shot Jesse James
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Rabu, 27 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 28, 2016
Policarpa Salvarrieta Rios was executed on November 14, 1817 for her leadership in the freedom movement of this country.
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July 28, 1868: 14th Amendment adopted
Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.
Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts, where new state governments, based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus began the period known as Radical...
The Gun Whisperer
Over the years Doug Wicklund has earned the nickname “the Gun Whisperer.” And once you meet him, you’ll know why. As a senior curator at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va., Wicklund oversees thousands of guns that span hundreds of years of history. We recently spoke with him about the museum’s extensive collection of …
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Dick Cole — Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole, 100, was copilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
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The Rise of North Vietnam’s Air Defenses
Rapid mobilization of Communist anti-aircraft guns, missiles and jet fighters provided Hanoi with a potent resistance to U.S. bombers in the early years of the Vietnam War
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The Search for Billy Laney, the Guy on My POW Bracelet
How author Maggie Ruth learned the fate of the MIA on her POW bracelet, and changed her view of Vietnam veterans
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The Flying Banana in Vietnam
Piasecki Helicopter Corp. developed the H-21 as an arctic rescue helicopter, and in Vietnam it flew under less than perfect conditions.
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Walt Sides Talks With Vietnam Magazine
Former Marine Walt Sides explains his views on the Vietnam War and social history
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Selasa, 26 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 27, 2016
Nicknamed the Seasick Summit, the Malta summit achieved this.
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Audio: The WWII Marine Who Single-Handedly Took Out A Japanese Regiment
Colonel Mitchell Paige describes the night of October 26, 1942 during World War II when he single-handedly held off a Japanese attack.
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July 27, 1974: House begins impeachment of Nixon
On this day in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommends that America’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and removed from office. The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be collectively known as Watergate.
The Watergate scandal first came to light following a break-in on June 17, 1972, at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters in the Watergate...
Senin, 25 Juli 2016
Who Is This Man and What Did He Do?
Who Is This Man and What Did He Do?
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Daily Quiz for July 26, 2016
During World War II, the Night Witches were a group of these.
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July 26, 1775: U.S. postal system established
On this day in 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Franklin (1706-1790) put in place the foundation for many aspects of today’s mail system. During early colonial times in the 1600s, few American colonists needed to send mail to each other; it was more likely that their correspondence was with letter writers in Britain. Mail deliveries from across...
Minggu, 24 Juli 2016
Audio: The Real Band Of Brothers- How We Made Captured Germans Talk
During World War II, Germans would wear Allied uniforms and sneak behind enemy lines. Edward Shames describes how he and his men were instructed to force these Germans to reveal information.
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Daily Quiz for July 25, 2016
Charles Town, West Virginia is named for the brother of this U.S. founding father.
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July 25, 1978: World’s First Test Tube Baby Born
On this day in 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown. The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by caesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces.
Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November...
Sabtu, 23 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 24, 2016
Walter Camp created the American version of this sport.
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July 24, 1911: Machu Picchu discovered
On July 24, 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations.
Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a summer retreat for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century. For hundreds of years afterwards, its existence was a...
Jumat, 22 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 23, 2016
In the early 1770’s, there was a movement in America to create a fourteenth colony with this name.
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July 23, 1984: Miss America resigns
On this day in 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history, after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude photos of the beauty queen in its September issue. Williams originally made history on September 17, 1983, when she became the first black woman to win the Miss America crown. Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles, the first runner-up and also an African American, assumed...
Kamis, 21 Juli 2016
July 22, 2003: Jessica Lynch gets hero’s welcome
On this day in 2003, U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch, a prisoner-of-war who was rescued from an Iraqi hospital, receives a hero’s welcome when she returns to her hometown of Palestine, West Virginia. The story of the 19-year-old supply clerk, who was captured by Iraqi forces in March 2003, gripped America; however, it was later revealed that some details of Lynch’s dramatic capture and rescue might have been exaggerated.
Lynch, who was born April...
Daily Quiz for July 22, 2016
After this state’s constitution was completed in 1802, Thomas Worthington delivered it to congress for approval.
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Rabu, 20 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 21, 2016
In 1916, ten year old Antonio Gentile designed this advertising icon.
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July 21, 1861: The First Battle of Bull Run
In the first major land battle of the Civil War, a large Union force under General Irvin McDowell is routed by a Confederate army under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard.
Three months after the Civil War erupted at Fort Sumter, Union military command still believed that the Confederacy could be crushed quickly and with little loss of life. In July, this overconfidence led to a premature offensive into northern Virginia by General McDowell. Searching...
Selasa, 19 Juli 2016
Audio: The USS Yorktown- How Two Sailors Survived The Battle Of Midway
During the Battle of Midway of World War II, two injured sailors left aboard the abandoned USS Yorktown manage to get rescued.
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Daily Quiz for July 20, 2016
A professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1914-1921, this man designed the graduate college and chapel at Princeton University.
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July 20, 1969: Armstrong walks on moon
At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon has its origins in a famous appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special...
Interview: Author Dorothy Love
In this interview, HistoryNet reporter Rebecca Miller interviews historical author Dorothy Love. Love is an award-winning writer known for her ability to bring historical color and refinement to historical fiction. Her latest novel, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray, illuminates the remarkable friendship between Mrs. Robert E Lee and Selina Norris Gray, a servant born into …
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Senin, 18 Juli 2016
What Is a Good Book On U.S. History?
Can you recommend a good general book on U.S. history?
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Daily Quiz for July 19, 2016
On March 29, 1973 the last US combat troops left this country.
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July 19, 1799: Rosetta Stone found
On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring...
Martin Guitar Factory
Welcome to An American Place This page carries on from the department of the same name on the back page of every issue of American History magazine. Here you’ll find additional material, including videos, interviews, slideshows, and other content that drills deeper into the subject at hand, which in the October 2016 issue is C.F. …
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Audio: Horror, Death And Gratitude- WWII Veteran Recalls Liberating Buchenwald Concentration Camp
A World War II veteran, Jimmy Weldon describes clearing minefields and the horrors he encountered when liberating the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
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Daily Quiz for July 18, 2016
On Easter Day in 845, Vikings, supposedly lead by Ragnar Lodbrok, sacked this city.
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Minggu, 17 Juli 2016
July 18, 1940: FDR nominated for unprecedented third term
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.
Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, and went on to serve as a New York state senator from 1911 to 1913, assistant secretary of the Navy...
Sabtu, 16 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 17, 2016
This man is the only person to have won both the Medal of Honor and Carnegie Medal for Heroism.
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July 17, 1955: Disneyland opens
Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy, and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 14 million visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion.
Walt Disney, born in Chicago in 1901, worked as a commercial artist before setting up a small studio in Los Angeles to produce...
Jumat, 15 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 16, 2016
Sir Thomas More was executed in July 6, 1535 for this crime.
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July 16, 1945: Atom bomb successfully tested
On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Plans for the creation of a uranium bomb by the Allies were established as early as 1939, when Italian emigre physicist Enrico Fermi met with U.S. Navy department officials at Columbia University to discuss the use of fissionable materials for military purposes. That same year, Albert Einstein...
C.F. Martin & Co.
Welcome to An American Place This page carries on from the department of the same name on the back page of every issue of American History magazine. Here you’ll find additional material, including videos, interviews, slideshows, and other content that drills deeper into the subject at hand, which in the October 2016 issue is C.F. …
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Kamis, 14 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 15, 2016
On March 24, 1401 Damascus was sacked by armies lead by this man.
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July 15, 1971: Nixon announces visit to communist China
During a live television and radio broadcast, President Richard Nixon stuns the nation by announcing that he will visit communist China the following year. The statement marked a dramatic turning point in U.S.-China relations, as well as a major shift in American foreign policy.
Nixon was not always so eager to reach out to China. Since the Communists came to power in China in 1949, Nixon had been one of the most vociferous critics of American efforts...
Rabu, 13 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 14, 2016
William Westmoreland was replaced by this man as US commander in Vietnam.
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July 14, 1789: French revolutionaries storm Bastille
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed.
The Bastille was originally constructed in...
Selasa, 12 Juli 2016
Audio: WWII Navy Vet- Why I Enlisted In The Navy And Not The Army
Drawing from his father's advice and experience, Charlie Wadhams explains why he joined the Navy in World War II.
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Daily Quiz for July 13, 2016
This person was the final performer at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969.
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July 13, 1985: Live Aid concert
On July 13, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. Continued at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and at other arenas around the world, the 16-hour “superconcert” was globally linked by satellite to more than a billion viewers in 110 nations. In a triumph of technology and good will, the event raised more...
Senin, 11 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 12, 2016
On March 19, 1931 this became legal in Nevada
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Was John C. Calhoun Proud of Slavery?
Was John C. Calhoun Proud of Slavery?
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July 12, 1984: Ferraro named vice presidential candidate
Walter Mondale, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, announces that he has chosen Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate. Ferraro, a daughter of Italian immigrants, had previously gained notoriety as a vocal advocate of women’s rights in Congress.
Four days after Ferraro was named vice presidential candidate, Governor Mario Cuomo of New York opened the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco with an impassioned...
Minggu, 10 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 11, 2016
This military unit has lead the largest Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in the world since 1851.
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Audio: WWII Navy Vet On Amphibious Training And How The SEALs Trained Before There Were SEALs
Charlie Wadhams, a World War II Navy veteran, describes the similarities in amphibious training with the Navy SEALs.
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July 11, 1804: Burr slays Hamilton in duel
In a duel held in Weehawken, New Jersey, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America’s political economy, died the following day.
Alexander Hamilton, born on the Caribbean island of Nevis, came to the American colonies in 1773 as a poor immigrant. (There is some controversy as to the year of his birth, but it was either 1755 or 1757.)...
Sabtu, 09 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 10, 2016
The first Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded in this year.
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July 10, 1925: Monkey Trial begins
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” With local...
Jumat, 08 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 9, 2016
Until 1820 Maine was legally part of this US State.
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July 09, 1877: Wimbledon tournament begins
On July 9, 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer-suburb of London. Twenty-one amateurs showed up to compete in the Gentlemen’s Singles tournament, the only event at the first Wimbledon. The winner was to take home a 25-guinea trophy.
Tennis has its origins in a 13th-century French handball game called jeu de paume, or “game of the palm,” from which developed an indoor...
Video: Expert Commentary, Ret. Army Col.’s Lessons for Fallujah from the Ground in Ramadi
Colonel (R) Tony Deane is a veteran of the Cold War, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Operation Joint Guardian (Kosovo), and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He served in numerous armor and cavalry leadership positions for over 28 years. In June of 2005, he assumed command of the 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment, Task Force Conqueror and, in …
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Kamis, 07 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 8, 2016
This First Lady had small parts in the films Becky Sharp and The Great Ziegfeld.
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July 08, 1951: Paris celebrates 2,000th birthday
On this day in 1951, Paris, the capital city of France, celebrates turning 2,000 years old. In fact, a few more candles would’ve technically been required on the birthday cake, as the City of Lights was most likely founded around 250 B.C.
The history of Pariscan be traced back to a Gallic tribe known as the Parisii, who sometime around 250 B.C. settled an island (known today as Ile de la Cite) in the Seine River, which runs through present-day Paris....
Letter From Aviation History: Collateral Damage
At what point did it become morally acceptable to bomb civilians? Two articles in the September 2016 issue examine tipping points in the history of strategic bombing that led to widespread destruction in the Japanese homeland (“When Fire Rained from the Sky”) and the leveling of a historic German city (“Target: Freiburg”) during World War …
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Rabu, 06 Juli 2016
Daily Quiz for July 7, 2016
“Scrambled Eggs” was the working title of this hit Beatles song.
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July 07, 1930: Building of Hoover Dam begins
On this day in 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam begins. Over the next five years, a total of 21,000 men would work ceaselessly to produce what would be the largest dam of its time, as well as one of the largest manmade structures in the world.
Although the dam would take only five years to build, its construction was nearly 30 years in the making. Arthur Powell Davis, an engineer from the Bureau of Reclamation, originally had his vision for the...