Maryland’s Tudor Hall, home of John Wilkes Booth’s family, helped to shape a future assassin.
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Daily Quiz for July 1, 2015
John Wesley Hardin claimed to have killed this many men.
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Was the Death Toll on the Underground Railroad Higher Than in Civil War Armies?
I heard the death toll in the Underground Railroad during the Civil War exceeded […]
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Daily Quiz for June 28, 2015
These two famous bank robbers were killed on May 23, 1934.
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Daily Quiz for June 27, 2015
The Pikes Peak Hill Climb road race was first run in this year.
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Fire for Effect: Unparalleled
Bagration: The Other Big One. Though D-Day dominates our collective memory of June 1944, Operation Bagration—the Red Army offensive against Germany’s Army Group Center—is one of the greatest victories in the history of land warfare.
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Banning Confederate Flag Merchandise – Overreaction or Overdue?
Retailers and on-line sites are hastening to remove any item that depicts the controversial Confederate flag. Is this overreaction or an action that is long overdue?
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Daily Quiz for June 26, 2015
This was the first guided missile built by the United States to carry a nuclear warhead.