The Hundred Years War between England and France actually lasted this long.
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Daily Quiz for February 1, 2015
On January 27, 1778, US Marines landed and raised the American flag over this foreign city.
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Daily Quiz for January 31, 2015
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at this American college.
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Here Is Where: Elisha Otis rises out of small-town Vermont
Birthplace of an Uplifting Inventor
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The Constitution’s Last Victory
Old Ironsides’ dramatic final battle in the War of 1812 marked the end of British naval dominance and the emergence of a confident new competitor
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Daily Quiz for January 30, 2015
A shootout at Coffeyville, Kansas on October 5, 1892, ended this gang’s crime spree.
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Those Classic Hollywood Stagecoach Chases Were More Fact Than Fiction
Think action-packed film scenes of American Indian warriors chasing the lone stagecoach were pure Western movie hokum? Well, think again.
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Interview: Lynda A. Sánchez / Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico
In her latest book New Mexico author Lynda A. Sánchez delves further into the history of the Apache people.
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Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington rendered “Border Patrol” en grisaille, a technique that better enabled engravers to faithfully duplicate an artist’s work