This future American president was ridiculed and castigated for studying fossils of dinosaur bones.
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Daily Quiz for September 17, 2009
It has been 300 years since the smelting of iron with coke was perfected in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, by this leader of the Industrial Revolution.
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Daily Quiz for September 16, 2009
Gung ho, the unofficial motto of the U.S. Marine Corps, is an abbreviation of words from this language.
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ACW NovemberDecember 2009 TOC
FEATURES Fury in Vermont by Ron Soodal Spies and robbers. Intrigue and deception. The […]
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Daily Quiz for September 15, 2009
The last reigning monarch of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani, was replaced in power by this man in 1894.
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In Defense of a “Bad” Tank
The M-3 Grant medium tank gets no respect. In May 1942, however, at the battle of Gazala, it might have constituted the margin of survival for the British 8th Army.
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Daily Quiz for September 14, 2009
On February 1, 1893, Thomas A. Edison finished work on this.
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Decision 1864
(PLACE CURSOR OVER MCCLELLAN’S AND LINCOLN’S HEADS AND LISTEN) As the war-weary Union anticipated […]
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Ed Zwick, director of Glory
In 1989, director Ed Zwick brought the story of the 54th Massachusetts to the […]
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Digging deeply into the earthworks at Petersburg
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications & Confederate Defeat by Earl J. Hess […]