The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, was born in the small village of Caprese in 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist’s apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he...
Senin, 31 Oktober 2016
Daily Quiz for November 1, 2016
James Wilson was the first person in America to produce this.
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What Did the Confederacy Use for Ammunition?
What was Used for Ammunition by the Confederacy?
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Minggu, 30 Oktober 2016
October 31, 1517: Martin Luther posts 95 theses
On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins. At the time, a Dominican...
Audio: Turns Out The Explorers Club Didn’t Actually Eat Mammoth At Their 1951 Dinner
The Explorer's Club, known for its many famous members, famously claimed to have eaten mammoth meat at a party in 1951. Years later, scientific testing reveals this may not have been true.
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Daily Quiz for October 31, 2016
Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico killed this notorious outlaw.
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Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2016
October 30, 1938: Welles scares nation
Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of “War of the Worlds”—a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.
Orson Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’ 19th-century science fiction novel War of the Worlds for national radio. Despite his age, Welles had been in radio for several years, most notably as the voice of “The Shadow” in the hit mystery program of the...
Daily Quiz for October 30, 2016
Gannett Peak, Wyoming’s highest peak, was named for Henry Gannett who became famous for his work as this.
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Jumat, 28 Oktober 2016
October 29, 1998: John Glenn returns to space
Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. During the nine-day mission, he served as part of a NASA study on health problems associated with aging.
Glenn, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, was among the seven men...
Daily Quiz for October 29, 2016
This president’s son is the only one to have been married in the White House.
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The Cubs Roar Into Aledo, Illinois
The crowds were wild! No doubt, there was a large crowd on hand for the game that was to be played. The Cubs were playing a couple of exhibition games while they were waiting for the make-up game against the St. Louis Cardinals. That game was originally set to take place on October 6, 1923 …
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Jack Northrop’s “Flying Ram”
Jack Northrop’s XP-79B jet fighter looked unusual, but its method of attack was even more bizarre. In the late stages of World War II, American bomber formations over Germany were occasionally attacked by a small, rocket-powered interceptor, the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet. Fast as the Me-163s were, however, they were usually more spectacular than effective. Nevertheless, …
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Kamis, 27 Oktober 2016
October 28, 1965: Gateway Arch completed
On this day in 1965, construction is completed on the Gateway Arch, a spectacular 630-foot-high parabola of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri.
The Gateway Arch, designed by Finnish-born, American-educated architect Eero Saarinen, was erected to commemorate President Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and to celebrate St. Louis’ central role in the rapid westward expansion...
Daily Quiz for October 28, 2016
On April 25, 1865 from a window in his grandfather’s home, this future president watched the Lincoln funeral procession in New York City.
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Video: An Oral History Interview with Stewart Marshall, WWII Army Veteran
Stewart Marshall served as a platoon leader in the Army during World War II on both the North African and Italian fronts for 39 months with the Red Bulls, a Minnesota National Guard unit. Staff Sergeant Marshall received many awards, including a Bronze Star. The interview is part of a series of oral histories being collected by Liz Gilmore Williams on behalf of the the Honoring Our Veterans Club of Sun City Carolina Lakes in Fort Mill, SC.
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1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing: ‘The BLT Building Is Gone!’
The 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 U.S. military personnel and was a harbinger of a vicious new era in terrorism
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January 2017 Table of Contents
The January 2016 issue features a cover story about the 1876 Ottoman Turk massacre of Christian Bulgarians in Batak
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Video: An Oral History Interview With Casey Janiszewski
Casey Janiszewski served as an aviation radioman in a squadron of the Black Cats, based in the Philippines during World War II. The squadron received many air medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The interview is part of a series of oral histories being collected by Liz Gilmore Williams on behalf of the the Honoring Our Veterans Club of Sun City Carolina Lakes in Fort Mill, SC.
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Last Battle on the Great Wall
In 1933, in a surreal clash of ancient and modern weaponry, Chinese troops sought to defend the Great Wall from the combined forces of the Imperial Japanese Army
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Type 94 Infantry Mortar
The Japanese Type 94 mortar proved devastating in action against Chinese forces during World War II
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Video: The Gentleman Next Door- Trailer
WWII RAF Spitfire pilot (and ace) John Wilkinson is featured in this short episode of the Old Guys and Their Airplanes series.
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Congressman Charles Rangel
Korean War combat veteran and U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel continues to advocate for those who have served in uniform
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How Zachary Taylor’s Death Changed the Course of American History
All of the land that Mexico owned north of the Rio Grande River was lost by them after the Mexican War, and with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe. This included the current day states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and California. The US government now believed that they owned the land, however …
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January 2017 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about terrorism, World War II Japanese I-boats, papal trivia, celebrities who served and the Medal of Honor
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Book Review: The Man Who Captured Washington
John McCavitt and Christopher T. George profile Robert Ross, the British general forever remembered for burning Washington during the War of 1812
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Book Review: Consequence
Eric Fair's Iraq War memoir exposes the inner workings of interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib prison
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Book Review: The Campaigns of Sargon II
Sarah Melville sheds light on ancient Assyrian imperialism and geopolitics during the reign of Sargon II
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Book Review: The Boy in the Mask
Dick Benson-Gyles recounts the life of the man behind the heroic World War I icon known as Lawrence of Arabia
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Book Review: Victoria’s Scottish Lion
Adrian Greenwood tracks the remarkable rise of Scottish-born Colin Campbell through the 19th-century British army ranks
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Book Review: Operation Agreement
John Sadler studies the reasons behind the failure of Operation Agreement, the 1942 Allied raid on Axis-occupied Tobruk
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Book Review: The Defence of Sevastopol
Clayton Donnell looks at the World War II fight for the Crimean Peninsula, with present-day implications
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Book Review: The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle
Paul Paillole profiles Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a German cipher clerk who sold key information to Allied intelligence in World War II
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The Pilots’ Pilot
Fighter pilot, test pilot, aerobatic pilot: Bob Hoover is considered the greatest of all by airmen worldwide It took Flight Officer Robert A. “Bob” Hoover more than two years to get into his first dogfight, and about five minutes to get shot down. On February 9, 1944, four Focke Wulf Fw-190As jumped his flight of …
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Book Review: Titan
William R. Nester examines Great Britain's Napoleonic-era rise into a global military power
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Book Review: Betrayal of an Army
N.S. Nash chronicles the World War I campaign in Mesopotamia, fought for oil and beset by "mission creep"
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The Rise of Unmanned Aircraft
From inauspicious biplane beginnings to near mastery of the skies above combat zones, UAVs have a rich history.
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From Dixie to the Land of the Rising Sun
How CSS Stonewall became the Japanese Navy’s First Ironclad Midshipman Alfred Thayer Mahan immediately recognized the ironclad ram he spotted entering Yokohama Bay in April 1868. He had seen it before, back when he was stationed at the Washington Navy Yard. It was the former CSS Stonewall, a French-built Confederate ironclad. Stonewall never fired a …
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Rabu, 26 Oktober 2016
October 27, 1904: New York City subway opens
At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of the city’s innovative new rapid transit system: the subway.
While London boasts the world’s oldest underground train network (opened in 1863) and Boston built the first subway in the United States in 1897, the New York City subway soon became the largest American system. The first line, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit...
Daily Quiz for October 27, 2016
This song was the first published jazz composition.
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Fistful of Firepower
The LeMat was a self-contained arsenal of devastation. With a revolving cylinder that held a daunting nine rounds and a secondary barrel that contained a load of buckshot or a lead ball, the revolver had few peers; however, the traits that made it so deadly would also prove to be significant shortcomings. Not only was …
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Selasa, 25 Oktober 2016
October 26, 1881: Shootout at the OK Corral
On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they...
Audio: What Did Culinary Habits Of World War I Have To do With The Great Depression
Jane Ziegelman, co authors of "A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression", talks about the culinary connection between World War I and the great depression.
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Daily Quiz for October 26, 2016
On December 21, 1970 President Nixon secretly met this man.
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Senin, 24 Oktober 2016
October 25, 1881: Pablo Picasso born
Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.
Picasso’s father was a professor of drawing, and he bred his son for a career in academic art. Picasso had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school so he could experiment full-time with modern art styles. He went to Paris for the first time in 1900, and in 1901 was given an exhibition at a gallery on Paris’ rue Lafitte, a street...
Daily Quiz for October 25, 2016
Ray Harroun was the first man to win this motor race.
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Minggu, 23 Oktober 2016
October 24, 1901: First barrel ride down Niagara Falls
On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898. In July 1901, while reading an article about the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, she learned of the growing popularity of two enormous waterfalls located...
Audio: Why Is The History Of The Maya So Vague, Even Though They Had A Written Language?
National Geographic reporter Erik Vance explains what happened to most of the written historical materials of the Maya civilization.
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Daily Quiz for October 24, 2016
This all-girl band was the first to have a number-one album in the US.
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Sabtu, 22 Oktober 2016
October 23, 2002: Hostage crisis in Moscow theater
On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 700 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.
The second act of the musical “Nord Ost” was just beginning at the Moscow Ball-Bearing Plant’s Palace of Culture when an armed man walked onstage and fired a machine gun into the air. The terrorists—including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies—identified themselves as members...
Daily Quiz for October 23, 2016
In 1977 the Communist Chinese government lifted the ban on reading this author.
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Jumat, 21 Oktober 2016
October 22, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—under construction but nearing completion—housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the United States, including Washington, D.C. Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval “quarantine” of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any...
Daily Quiz for October 22, 2016
This award winning science-fiction author is credited with creating the Green Lanterns’ Oath that begins: “In brightest day, in blackest night”.
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Movie Review: The Birth of a Nation
Slavery seems to be making a comeback, in Hollywood at least. On the big screen and on television, a real American horror story is now being portrayed from the viewpoint of those it affected most, African Americans. But the avalanche of prerelease publicity that accompanied The Birth of a Nation—the most recent entrant in this …
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Breaking the Gustav Line
In 1943 General Alphonse Juin and his Corps Expéditionnaire Français showed the Allies how to win a fight in the mountains
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Kamis, 20 Oktober 2016
October 21, 1959: Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City
On this day in 1959, on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world’s top collections of contemporary art.
Mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting art seriously when he retired in the 1930s. With the help of Hilla Rebay, a German baroness and artist, Guggenheim...
Daily Quiz for October 21, 2016
Female police officers first joined the London Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) in this year.
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Over Where? Cuban Fighters in Angola’s Civil War
Fidel Castro exports his brand of armed revolution
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Television’s First Baby Steps in America
Even the most avid television viewers among us are probably unaware of the first-ever TV broadcast in the U.S. And, it might come as a surprise to that it occurred a good twenty years before comedian Milton Berle sparked the TV craze with Texaco Star Theatre in 1948. Soon after Scotsman John Logie Baird first …
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Rabu, 19 Oktober 2016
October 20, 1947: Congress investigates Reds in Hollywood
On October 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare kicks into high gear in Washington, as a Congressional committee begins investigating Communist influence in one of the world’s richest and most glamorous communities: Hollywood.
After World War II, the Cold War began to heat up between the world’s two superpowers—the United States and the communist-controlled Soviet Union. In Washington, conservative watchdogs worked to out communists in government before...
Daily Quiz for October 20, 2016
The Wright Brothers original patent called their invention this.
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The Battle of Shiloh & The Importance of the Hornet’s Nest
For some, the Battle of Shiloh seems like something out of the distant past. For those who study the American Civil War, it is almost a household name. At the same time the battle was in one of the most remote destinations in Southwestern Tennessee. It is one of many battlefields, that while marked by …
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REVIEW: The Secret War by Max Hastings
The outcome of World War II was determined in no small part by men and women who never fired a shot. Many were industrial workers who forged America’s Arsenal of Democracy. Their achievements are readily apparent, even if not always trumpeted. Mostly fascination, rather than fact, still surrounds World War II espionage agents and code-breakers, …
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Selasa, 18 Oktober 2016
October 19, 1781: Victory at Yorktown
Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
Lord Cornwallis was one of the most capable British generals of the American Revolution. In 1776, he drove General George Washington’s Patriots forces out of New Jersey, and in 1780 he won a stunning victory over General Horatio Gates’ Patriot...
Daily Quiz for October 19, 2016
On May 25, 1961 President Kennedy asked Congress to support this.
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Audio: The Day Patton Almost Died- Historian On Pershing’s Warriors In WWI
Mitchell Yockelson describes the relationship between Pershing and Patton during World War I and the events of September 26, 1918 at Meuse-Argonne when Patton is shot in battle. Yockelson is the author of 'Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I'.
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Senin, 17 Oktober 2016
October 18, 1867: U.S. takes possession of Alaska
On this day in 1867, the U.S. formally takes possession of Alaska after purchasing the territory from Russia for $7.2 million, or less than two cents an acre. The Alaska purchase comprised 586,412 square miles, about twice the size of Texas, and was championed by William Henry Seward, the enthusiasticly expansionist secretary of state under President Andrew Johnson.
Russia wanted to sell its Alaska territory, which was remote, sparsely populated...
A Question Regarding U.S. Army Formations
A Question Regarding U.S. Army Formations
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Daily Quiz for October 18, 2016
This was the first million-selling jazz album.
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Audio: Art Historian David Lubin On The Glorification Of WWI Battlefields
David Lubin, author of 'Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War', describes visiting World War I graveyards and the sense of triumphant glorification of war that he felt there.
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Daily Quiz for October 17, 2016
This person was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
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Minggu, 16 Oktober 2016
October 17, 1931: Capone goes to prison
On this day in 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s.
Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899 to Italian immigrants. He was expelled from school at 14, joined a gang and earned his nickname “Scarface” after being sliced across the cheek during a fight. By 1920, Capone had moved to Chicago,...
FOOTLOCKER: Seeing Red at Pearl Harbor
Curators at The National World War II Museum help a reader identify a piece of aircraft from Pearl Harbor.
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Sabtu, 15 Oktober 2016
October 16, 1934: The Long March
The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Ch’ang Cheng—the “Long March”—the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco.
Civil war in China between the Nationalists and the Communists broke out in 1927. In 1931, Communist leader Mao Zedong was elected chairman of the newly...
Daily Quiz for October 16, 2016
The last manned Project: Mercury mission was named this.
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Jumat, 14 Oktober 2016
October 15, 1917: Mata Hari executed
Mata Hari, the archetype of the seductive female spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing squad at Vincennes outside of Paris.
She first came to Paris in 1905 and found fame as a performer of exotic Asian-inspired dances. She soon began touring all over Europe, telling the story of how she was born in a sacred Indian temple and taught ancient dances by a priestess who gave her the name Mata Hari, meaning “eye of the day” in Malay. In reality,...
Daily Quiz for October 15, 2016
This was the first number-one single from Motown Records.
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Payback: Nine American Subs Avenge a Legend’s Death
In the summer of 1945, a band of American submarines sailed for Japan on a mission bent on payback.
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Kamis, 13 Oktober 2016
October 14, 1947: Yeager breaks sound barrier
U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground. After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket...
Daily Quiz for October 14, 2016
The Federal Communication Commission licensed the first FM radio station in this year.
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Déjà Vu: Whigged Out
Donald Trump’s campaign has transformed the Republican Party, as its beaten establishment knows: the Grand Old Party’s last two presidents, Bushes 41 and 43, and most recent nominee, Mitt Romney, have refused to endorse Trump. Could a GOP loss in November destroy the party? South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, before backing the billionaire, said, “I …
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Hap Arnold: The Practical Air Force Visionary
In November 1938 Charles Lindbergh wrote urgently to Major General Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold, the new chief of the Army Air Corps. Touring Germany, the aviation hero had witnessed the surging Luftwaffe firsthand. “Germany is undoubtedly the most powerful nation in the world in military aviation and her margin of leadership is increasing with each …
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Deja Vu: Whigging Out
Donald Trump’s campaign has transformed the Republican Party, as its beaten establishment knows: the Grand Old Party’s last two presidents, Bushes 41 and 43, and most recent nominee, Mitt Romney, have refused to endorse Trump. Could a GOP loss in November destroy the party? South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, before backing the billionaire, said, “I …
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The Court-Martial of Colonel Billy Mitchell
AMERICAN AVIATOR WILLIAM “BILLY” MITCHELL was born in Nice, France, in 1879, and grew up speaking French as well as he spoke English. He joined the U.S. Army on the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and as a second lieutenant saw action against the guerrillas of Emilio Aguinaldo in the Philippines. After the …
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Tough Talk: Robert Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
Robert F. Kennedy asked black Americans for the truth. They told it. RFK didn’t like what he heard.
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TIME TRAVEL: Fortifying the Last Frontier
Travel writer Jessica Wambach Brown travels to explore the forts that once protected a vital supply route during the war.
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Rabu, 12 Oktober 2016
October 13, 1792: White House cornerstone laid
The cornerstone is laid for a presidential residence in the newly designated capital city of Washington. In 1800, President John Adams became the first president to reside in the executive mansion, which soon became known as the “White House” because its white-gray Virginia freestone contrasted strikingly with the red brick of nearby buildings.
The city of Washington was created to replace Philadelphia as the nation’s capital because of its geographical...
Daily Quiz for October 13, 2016
The Heinz Company slogan of "57 varieties" was introduced in this year.
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Custer’s First Last Stand
Almost every American school kid is familiar with the story of Custer’s Last Stand, that infamous day in June, 1876 when George Armstrong Custer divided his cavalry force into three parts, then foolishly led one of those small contingents against an enormous Lakota Sioux village camped on the banks of the Little Bighorn River in …
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Stolen Letters: Benjamin Franklin and the Hutchinson Affair
Benjamin Franklin Before the Privy Council (engraving by Robert Whitechurch, c1859) Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. In December, 1772 Benjamin Franklin – then serving in London as an agent for four American colonial assemblies as well as the appointed Postmaster General of the colonies for the Crown – anonymously received a packet of letters that …
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The Second Vermont Brigade at Gettysburg: 2 July 1863
The Second Vermont Brigade took orders from Major General Winfield Scott Hancock when they arrived on Cemetery Ridge. (Library of Congress Reproduction Number LC-DIG-cwpb-05828)The 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Vermont Volunteer Infantry regiments comprised the so-called “Second Vermont Brigade.” All regiments were nine month enlistments, and went into service in October, 1862. The brigade …
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Jeanette Rankin: The Congresswoman Who Voted NO to WWII
What does a dedicated pacifist do when the United States surges toward war?
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Selasa, 11 Oktober 2016
October 12, 1492: Columbus reaches the New World
After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.
Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked...
Audio: Born On The 4th Of July- Ron Kovic Details The Mistreatment That Awaited Wounded Vets On Their Return From War
Ronald Lawrence "Ron" Kovic, who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War, recalls the events behind his famous memoir 'Born on the Fourth of July'.
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Daily Quiz for October 12, 2016
The last conviction under Britain’s Witchcraft Act of 1735 took place in this year.
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Over the Hump
In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ brand-new Air Transport Command began running the most audacious airlift of World War II: flying “the Hump” over the foothills of the Himalayas. ON AUGUST 2, 1943, CBS WAR CORRESPONDENT ERIC SEVAREID and a small group of American diplomats and Chinese army officers climbed aboard a Curtiss C-46 Commando transport …
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Senin, 10 Oktober 2016
October 11, 2002: Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize
On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key achievements as president was mediating the peace talks between Israel and Egypt in...
What English Colony Did Not Settle Near Water?
What English Colony Did Not Settle Near Water?
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Daily Quiz for October 11, 2016
On May 10, 1940 this man was appointed Prime Minster of Great Britain.
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The Death of a Prince: Louis Napoléon and the Tragedy of the Zulu War
Ask anyone with a little knowledge of Victorian British military or colonial history about the Zulu War of 1879 and you will likely receive replies that talk of the heroic defense of Rorke’s Drift or the disaster at Isandlwana. However, at the time there was another tragedy of the war that caused great consternation in …
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Outrage at Maizar: The Great Pathan Rising Begins
Following the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, the British inherited the problem of the North West Frontier of India. For many years prior to the defeat of the Sikhs, the Pathan (or Pashtun) tribesmen had proved to be a persistent headache, raiding into Punjab territory or robbing local merchants. For decades after, the British …
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Ambush at Abu Sunt: The 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman
There is an old myth that the charge of the 21st Lancers against the Mahdists at the Battle of Omdurman, fought in Sudan on 2 September 1898, was the last full-scale British cavalry charge in history. As with many such myths, this is incorrect, since the charge of the 20th Hussars against Turkish infantry during …
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An Offensive by the Numbers – Russia and Turkey On the Caucasus Front, 1916
The Great War’s Caucasus Front did not deserve the name of sideshow. Although for the untrained eye there were no objectives there that would cripple either the vast Russian or the Ottoman Empires. Its rocky crags reached heights of 4,000 meters in many places and winter temperatures often dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius. There …
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Napoleon on War: A Book Review
Colson, Bruno. Napoleon on War. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2015. $45.00 Bruno Colson is a professor of history specializing in the history of military thought at the Universite de Namur in Belgium. He is the author of several books on military history and strategy. His current project is a biography of Carl von Clausewitz. …
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Shawnee Warrior of the Sky
During a busy November afternoon in Miami, Oklahoma, Mrs. Lorean Blaine took a break from preparing for Thanksgiving, which was two days away, to check her mailbox. In it she found an unexpected letter from her brother Staff Sergeant Charles Bluejacket who was serving in Europe as a B-24 gunner in the 376th Bomb Group, …
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White Death and the Winter War: How a Tiny Army Defeated the USSR
When attempting to summarize the 1939 conflict between the Soviet Union and its small Nordic neighbor, Finland, the old proverb stating that “big things come in small packages” seems to serve exceptionally well. How else can you explain a diminutive army with only 32 tanks and barely 100 airplanes repelling the invasion of a military …
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First USAAC-RAF Joint Combat Mission, July 4th, 1942
In May of 1942, US General Hap Arnold promised Prime Minister Winston Churchill that American troops would be fighting with the British by July 4th. Fulfilling that promise fell to US Generals Carl Spatz, Ira Eaker and Dwight Eisenhower. Yet only two US outfits were in England – the 97th Bombardment Group and the 15th Bombardment Squadron …
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Another Greatest Generation
The veterans of The Second World War are referred to as the Greatest Generation due to the sacrifices that they made and the victories that they achieved. In retrospect it brings to mind another Greatest Generation that sacrificed so much to achieve a victory that was elusive. Who were these people of another Greatest Generation? …
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