Wings of Defeat, an award-winning documentary on PBS, examines the kamikaze story from two dramatically different perspectives, kamikaze pilots who survived the war and American sailors who survived kamikaze attacks. A World War II magazine review.
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Daily Quiz for April 24, 2009
This pioneering archaeologist uncovered the royal palace of Knossos on Crete and defined the Cretan age writing identified as Linear A and Linear B.
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Daily Quiz for April 23, 2009
The destruction of this steamboat on April 27, 1865, resulted in the greatest maritime disaster in the United States.
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Daily Quiz for April 22, 2009
Richard F. Outcault created one of the first continuing cartoon characters to appear in newspapers, taking swipes at contemporary life.
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The Browning Battlefield
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Daily Quiz for April 21, 2009
This American inventor and manufacturer invented the flashlight in 1898, but his name has become synonymous with electric trains.
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Daily Quiz for April 20, 2009
This European explorer was the first to sail ships directly from Europe to India.
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Daily Quiz for April 19, 2009
This American inventor is credited with developing the first commercial steamboat, an early steam warship and the first practical submarine.
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Mary Liked the Clean-Shaven Look
In February 1861, longtime Illinois residents Abraham and Mary Lincoln moved their family to […]
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Daily Quiz for April 18, 2009
This early Egyptian was both architect and healer. After his death he was elevated to the Egyptian pantheon as the god of medicine.