Samuel F.B. Morse and Telegraphy American portrait artist Samuel F.B. Morse developed the technology […]
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Picture of the Day: June 30
Geronimo Geronimo (June 16, 1829?February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of […]
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Joe Palooka: A Comic Strip Character Goes to War
In 1940, one man saw the gathering war clouds and decided to forgo his career and enlist in the United States Army. His name was Joe Palooka-and he was a comic strip character.
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Picture of the Day: June 29
‘The Great Compromiser’ Statesman Henry Clay of Kentucky, who died on June 29, 1852, […]
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Picture of the Day: June 28
Gettysburg Celebration Two veterans shake hands at the Gettysburg Celebration in Pennsylvania in 1913. […]
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Picture of the Day: June 26
The Berlin Airlift June 26, 1948, was the first day of what would become […]
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Picture of the Day: June 27
Helen Keller Helen Keller, American author, activist, and lecturer, was born on June 27, […]
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Picture of the Day: June 25
To crush the Plains Indians and drive them onto reservations, Lt. Col. George Armstrong […]
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The Hoa Binh Campaign
At Hoa Binh, the watershed of the First Indochina War, the Viet Minh succeeded in bottling up the French in the Red River Delta.