What one event in history would you like to be a silent, invisible, incorporeal observer?
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Daily Quiz for October 30, 2010
Dorothy Andersen, pediatrician and pathologist, was the first to identify this disease.
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Zero Hour on Niihau
Did the actions of a handful of people on a remote Hawaiian island lead to the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor?
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Excepting 9/11, what single event, in the past decade, has had the greatest impact on the world?
Excepting 9/11, what single event, in the past decade, has had the greatest impact on the world?
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Daily Quiz for October 29, 2010
This Secretary of State and his wife, Frances Miller, friends of Harriet Tubman, hosted a station on the Underground Railroad.
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Hodges: A Genius for War?
Courtney Hodges “don’t get no respect” from historians. Maybe he–and the 1st Army he led–deserve a closer look.
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Stalin the Puppetmaster
How the Soviet leader charmed his way through negotiations with the Allies.
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How effective was the American brown-water navy during the Civil War?
How effective was the American brown-water navy during the Civil War?
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Daily Quiz for October 28, 2010
In 1847, this man discovered that a way to virtually eliminate deaths of new mothers in maternity wards.
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Film Review – The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, a film by Henry Corra, chronicles Vietnam veteran Dan Smith’s 2008 search in Vietnam and Cambodia for McKinley Nolan, a private who went AWOL in 1967, but was suspected of living with a “second family” in Cambodia