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‘Eat what you like and grow thin,’ claimed Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, author of the 1918 diet book that introduced Americans to calorie counting. Peters preached portion control and exercise to a mostly female audience who’d come of age believing that a few extra pounds were a sign of health and abundance. The 1920s idealized …
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Valor: Down with His SubmarineCaptain John Cromwell U.S. Navy Medal of Honor Caroline Islands Nov. 19, 1943 In November 1943, U.S. Navy Captain John Philip Cromwell fought a deadly game with the Japanese and lo… Read MoreKiller U-BoatsPrior to World War I, Krupp’s shipyard in Kiel, Germany, turned a maritime novelty into a deadly naval weapon. World War I saw the first widespread use of four game-changing weapon… Read MoreWhat We Learned: from the Mayaguez IncidentU.S. military prestige was at an ebb in 1975. Its war in Vietnam had ended in defeat, and the Khmer Rouge had taken Phnom Penh and extended Cambodia’s territorial waters to 90 mile… Read MoreConversation Piece: J.E.B. The InventorIn October 1859, while serving as a U.S. Army lieutenant, J.E.B. Stuart filed for and eventually received U.S. Patent #25,684: “Improved Method of Attaching Sabers to Belts.”
The p… Read MoreHunley’s Harrowing MissionEight committed crewmen crowded into the Confederacy’s revolutionary submersible for its first operation, it would also be its last.
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