As pubs decline one community has come together to keep their village pub in business, The Raven Inn is a community run pub in Llanarmon-yn-Ial saved from the brink.
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Daily Quiz for February 22, 2010
According to tradition, this English king "died in Jerusalem" as a prophecy had foretold, although his place of death was England.
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Worth the Cost? Justificaton of the Iwo Jima Invasion
After a staggering loss of life on Iwo Jima, American military leaders scrambled to justify the invasion.
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Besieged on the Rock: The 1942 Siege of Corregidor
Pressed into duty as a marine during the 1942 siege of Corregidor, U.S. Navy Supply Ensign Jack McClure had to quickly decide whether to follow orders or save a life.
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‘A Dreadful Step’: Surrender at Luzon
Former cavalry officer Jonathan Wainwright sank to unimaginable depths after he was compelled to surrender American forces to the Japanese in the Philippines in April 1942.
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‘I Will Fight to the Last’: WWII Japanese Soldier Diary, June 1943
A Japanese junior army officer’s diary describes World War II’s harsh island combat in June and July 1943.
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Daily Quiz for February 21, 2010
Giuseppe Zangara killed the mayor of Chicago while attempting to assassinate this man.
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Daily Quiz for February 20, 2010
Joseph T. Angelo of Camden, New Jersey, saved this future general’s life.
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Daily Quiz for February 19, 2010
The South Braintree murders are associated with this pair.
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Interview: Dale Throneberry / Veterans Radio Founder
Listeners never know what may happen or what they may hear on Veterans Radio, a Saturday-morning radio program of, by and for veterans; an interview with its founder Dale Throneberry.