The United States Armed Forces were officially desegregated in this year.
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Daily Quiz for May 2, 2015
William (Wild Bill) Hickok was holding this poker hand when he was shot to death on August 2, 1876.
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Making ‘The Blue Max’
Filmed 50 years ago, long before the advent of CGI, “The Blue Max” required two air forces built from scratch.
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Daily Quiz for May 1, 2015
According to popular legend, this tune was played at the British surrender at Yorktown.
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Type 95 Ha-Go Light Tank
The Japanese Ha-Go held its own early in World War II, though by war’s end it would yield the field to stouter Allied tanks.
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Book Review: Darius in the Shadow of Alexander, by Pierre Briant
Pierre Briant reads between the lines of ancient Greco-Roman sources to reconstruct a narrative of Darius III, the oft-overshadowed king of Persia during the reign of Alexander the Great.
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Book Review: A Box of Sand, by Charles Stephenson
Charles Stephenson’s book A Box of Sand looks at the relatively overlooked 1911 Italo-Turkish War, its implications for the then-brewing global war and its present-day reverberations.
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Book Review: Marshal Joffre, by André Bourachot
French army historian and former engineer André Bourachot assesses the World War I performance of Joseph Joffre, chief of the French General Staff.
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Book Review: Secret Warriors, by Taylor Downing
In Secret Warriors, author Taylor Downing relates the military advances that originated out of Britain during World War I.
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‘Great War’ Films
Over the past century filmmakers have sought to capture the horror, heroism and dark humor of that first global war