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Gilbert Stuart’s Founder Portraits Come Alive We have Gilbert Stuart to thank for the most indelible images of the founding fathers and the colonial elite, and now seven of them look better than they have since the 19th century. Among the restored portraits recently unveiled at the National Gallery of Art—with nine more on the …
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What Ever Happened to the French Foreign Legion?Conceived in fear and mistrust, this fighting force of unmanageable misfits and deserters survived, thrived and earned its country’s grudging respect. Time was, films about the Fre… Read MoreWhat We Learned: from Mount Gilboa, 1006 BCThe Israelite victory at Michmash Pass (1010 BC) sparked a popular uprising that ejected Philistine outposts from the Israelite hill country. Saul’s control of the foothills thwart… Read MoreValor: The Cliff-Scaling CaptainHiram Bearss U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor The Philippines November 17, 1901 Hiram Bearss earned his first major decoration, the Medal of Honor, in the Philippines for leading h… Read MoreHallowed Ground: The Kahlenberg, ViennaThe Ottoman Turks gained their first foothold in Europe at Gallipoli in 1354. In 1529 they reached Vienna and almost took the capital of the Habsburg Empire. They made a second att… Read MoreBuddha: Enlightened WarriorIn his youth Siddhartha Gautama was a brawny, six-foot warrior prince, trained in the art of war—and perhaps touched by tragedy. It is a curious fact of military history that the f… Read More
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