Hallowed Ground: Menin Gate, Ypres, BelgiumEvery day at 7:55 p.m. police in the small Belgian city of Ypres stop traffic on the Menin Road, one of the main thoroughfares into the ancient town. At exactly 8 o’clock a team of…Read More
Penicillin: Wonder Drug of World War IIHow mold in a petri dish became the soldiers’ lifesaver. In December 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was homeward bound across North Africa after a series of meetings…Read More
Grenada, 1983: Small Island, Big LessonsA three-day Cold War clash in the Caribbean had far-reaching impacts on American joint operations. Early on the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a truck bomb detonated beside the U.S. Mar…Read More
Rome RavagedIn 1527 the eternal city learned what happens when a leaderless, out-of-control army runs amok. It was not the metaphorical “fog of war” but actual fog that rolled up the Tiber Riv…Read More
Daily Quiz for July 4, 2017World War II caused a change in the flavor of filling in Twinkies which was originally this flavor.
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