The Howard 500 was the last production radial-engine passenger transport and the most advanced piston twin ever built
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Daily Quiz for February 21, 2019
In World War Two, Marines called their war dogs this name.
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Hard Winter on the Open Range
The killing winter of 1886–87 on the Great Plains came to be known as the Big Die-up.
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Daily Quiz for February 20, 2019
This famed former lawman refereed the 1896 Sharkey-Fitzsimmons heavy weight championship boxing match.
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MHQ Book Review: The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire Peter J. Heather, (Oxford University Press, 2006), $40. […]
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MHQ Book Review: The United States Army in Vietnam- MACV
The United States Army in Vietnam: MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of […]
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The Father of West Point
In the long history of the U.S. Army, can we point to one man […]
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Red River War: Last Uprising in the Texas Panhandle
Consigned to reservations, with their way of life threatened, the Cheyennes and Comanches protested […]
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Fighting Words: Gizmo and Gobbledygook
Our lexicographer considers terms arising during World War II, and in the postwar era. […]
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Hussars at the Gates of Berlin
A lightning raid that captured Prussia’s capital city embarrassed Frederick the Great and made […]