One of the main crops at Plimoth Plantation was historical fiction.
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Daily Quiz for July 29, 2019
204 mainly Irish-American deserters that fought for Mexico in 1846-47 were called this.
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Daily Quiz for July 28, 2019
This was the only nationality in the Union Army allowed to field officially designated ethnic regiments.
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Daily Quiz for July 27, 2019
In 1865 Chinese workers were paid this much per month for building the Central Pacific railroad.
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Census Czar Herman Hollerith’s Trials and Tabulations
Self-taught tinkerer used punch-card machine that created textile patterns to create an early computer
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The 10 Best and Worst Aviation Movies of All Time
From ‘Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines’ to (yes) ‘Snakes on a Plane,’ we look at the greatest — and least greatest — cinematic odes to flying.
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Vatican Intrigue: How a Priest Outwitted the Nazis
How an Irish monsignor used his Vatican office to defy fascist authorities in wartime Rome
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Daily Quiz for July 26, 2019
During the Blitz this three letter acronym was used to label undetonated ordnance.
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Bully for Roosevelt!
Though raised a sickly child in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt became a substantial man of the West.
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Book Review: The Cowboy President
It was in the Dakota Territory, writes Michael Blake, that Roosevelt learned to carry a big stick as well as the importance of conservation