Solomon Laurent Juneau was the founder of this city.
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The Lowdown on ‘Quarrelsome’ Bill Downing
Shortly after Bill Downing arrived in Willcox, Arizona Territory, in the 1890s, he shot a man, robbed a train and faced off with Ranger Billy Speed
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Interview: Alex Kershaw / Escape from the Deep
Alex Kershaw’s latest book, Escape from the Deep, tells the suspense-driven story of the USS Tang, the high-killing navy submarine sunk by its own torpedo during a late 1944 “unrestricted warfare” run near Formosa.
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Interview: Paul Shapiro / Holocaust Studies
Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has helped lead a campaign to make documents of the International Tracing Service (ITS) available to the public.
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Interview: Pete Hamill / WWII Heroes
Pete Hamill edited A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings, a 1,090-page anthology, including previously uncollected work, from the legendary New Yorker correspondent.
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The Search for Truth in The Searchers
Following the 1864 Elm Creek Raid, Britt Johnson went in search of his family, taken captive by Kiowa and Comanche Raiders. His story would later inspire a classic book and movie.
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Interview: Robert J. Conley / Cherokee Author
Robert J. Conley, a Cherokee from Oklahoma, is an acclaimed short story writer, novelist, historian and essayist who has won three Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. In this interview with Wild West magazine he discusses his work.
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Hundreds of American GIs Held in Concentration Camp
About 350 American POWs who either were Jewish or appeared to be to their German captors were imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II, according to survivors who have begun telling their stories in a series of special reports on CNN. Anthony Acevedo, a medic in the 70th Infantry Division during the war, was the first survivor to step forward with the grisly tale of the American soldiers held at Berga an der Elster, a subcamp of Buchenwald.
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Missing Marine Dead Discovered on Tarawa
The remains of more than 100 marines who were killed during the battle of Tarawa appear to have been discovered in mass graves on the tiny Pacific atoll, according to a group that conducted a search with ground-penetrating radar this fall. Mark Noah, executive director of History Flight, a Florida-based military history nonprofit, and Ted Darcy, a Massachusetts historian with the private military research organization WFI Research Group, say they have located 139 graves on Tarawa in eight sites. Their find could lead to the largest identification of missing American soldiers in history.
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Daily Quiz for January 30, 2009
They fought one another in the War of Devolution.