This Tennessee Congressman bucked the Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren interests and fought to make public lands in West Tennessee reserved for the big planters available to poor farmers instead.
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Daily Quiz for March 31, 2009
King Henry II of England held claim to the throne through this woman.
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Daily Quiz for March 30, 2009
He had nothing to do with the founding of fast food, but Col. Speed Fry did play an important role in this battle.
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Looking Back Fondly on Glory: 20 Years Later
Andre Braugher, one of the stars from the classic Civil War film Glory, is interviewed by Jay Wertz.
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Daily Quiz for March 26, 2009
Intercepts of messages from this Japanese ambassador to Germany provided U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall with most of his information regarding Hitler‚s intentions.
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Soldiers of Fortune – The Hesse Jewel Heist
In November 1945, Jack W. Durant, Kathleen Nash, and David Watson pulled off the Hesse jewel heist, one of the most lucrative wartime thefts in history. In 1946, they were each court-martialed in Germany on charges including larceny, dereliction of duty, and conduct unbecoming U.S. military officers.
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Daily Quiz for March 25, 2009
Twenty-six years before Gordon Lightfoot had a 1976 hit with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a Great Lakes disaster involving this ship inspired a song.
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U-505: America’s Captured U-boat
Seven years and $35 million were poured into the recent restoration, and you have to see the boat up close to truly appreciate its beauty
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Collector’s Heir Declared Rightful Owner of Posters Seized by the Gestapo
A German court has ruled that a collection of rare posters seized by the Gestapo—and currently held by the German Historical Museum in Berlin—belong to a retired American airline pilot, Peter Sachs, whose father was forced to give them up just before World War II.