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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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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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.