Playwright George Bernard Shaw called this World War II figure, "that intensely compacted hank of steel wire."
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Rest in Peace? Bringing Home U.S. War Dead
MHQ adds to PBS’s “Death and the Civil War” with the history of a sacred tradition born of a bitter fight
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Did Edward I make the Jews wear yellow stars?
Is it true that king Edward the 1st made the Jews in his kingdom […]
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Daily Quiz for September 18, 2012
Ford’s Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, was originally this.
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War Hero Poser Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Theft
In spite of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 decision striking down the Stolen […]
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This Mortar Platoon Was Surrounded, Outmanned And Outgunned in Vietnam
The decision to leave a mortar platoon alone on May 21, 1966, sealed the fate of its men and journalist Sam Castan.
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Daily Quiz for September 17, 2012
The last person to file a claim under the United States 1862 Homestead Act filed it in this state:
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Daily Quiz for September 16, 2012
This Frenchman designed the bikini in 1946.
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Daily Quiz for September 15, 2012
Roaring Camp, the fictional town in Bret Harte’s Western story "Luck of Roaring Camp," is believed to have been based on this famous California mining town.