Nearly 9,000 Civil War reenactors staged battle re-creations as part of the activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Manassas/Battle of Bull Run.
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Reading List: Curt Schilling
Utmost Savagery The Three Days of Tarawa Joseph H. Alexander (1995) “My all-time favorite […]
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Daily Quiz for July 29, 2011
The 1983 TV movie The Scarlet and the Black, starring Gregory Peck, depicted this work of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty.
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What Narrative? Edward R. Murrow’s “I Can Hear it Now”
I’ve been spending the past few columns discussing “the narrative” of World War II, […]
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Daily Quiz for July 28, 2011
This Western figure was a guide on several of John C. Fremont’s Rocky Mountains expeditions and was promoted to brigadier general in 1865 for service in the Union Army.
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Daily Quiz for July 27, 2011
Shortly after this Oglala Sioux chief helped lead the defeat of General George Custer at Little Big Horn, Montana, he surrendered and was killed by a U.S. soldier.
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Daily Quiz for July 26, 2011
While serving in Africa, this missionary put an end to the custom of murdering twin babies.
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Daily Quiz for July 25, 2011
This invention by 15-year-old Chester Greenwood was used by soldiers during World War I.
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Daily Quiz for July 24, 2011
By crossing a loganberry, a raspberry, and a Pacific blackberry, Rudolph Boysen developed the boysenberry, but it was cultivated and popularized by this individual.
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Daily Quiz for July 23, 2011
Giuseppe Moscati, canonized by the Catholic Church in 1987, served the people of Naples, Italy, in this capacity.