How long has it been around, and is it true that George Washington wrote his own eggnog recipe?
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Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’ Exposes the Corruption Wrought by Slavery
Slavery is almost impossible to portray through any medium. But Fuqua and Smith have marshalled their considerable talents to produce a film that is hard to watch and impossible to look away from.
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BBC ‘SAS Rogue Heroes’ Series Typecasts Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne As A ‘Drunk Irishman,’ Says His Niece
History continues to be unkind to this Irish war hero, according to his family and a few historians willing to challenge assumptions about him.
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They Told Him They Were There to Protect Him. But Their Search Lights and Guns Faced Him.
It was May 1942, and Yoshio Nakamura’s El Monte, California high school classmates had elected him president of the honor club. But America didn’t see an American — they saw the enemy.
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Who Was the US Army’s First Female Chaplain? Hint: It Was During the Civil War
Correcting the record: It took years for the first female chaplain to get what she was due.
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The Little Sub That Couldn’t: How One Japanese Vessel Spectacularly Failed at Pearl Harbor
Even before the first Japanese bomb fell on Pearl Harbor, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow to the “sleeping giant” in the harbor.
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How the Civil War Inspired This 19th-Century Poet’s Classic Christmas Song
A dramatized version of the story is currently being told in the new movie “I Heard the Bells,” but the true story behind it is just as, if not more, interesting.
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How Did NORAD Start Tracking Santa?
A holiday tradition began thanks to the kindness of World War II pilot and Vietnam War veteran Col. Harry Shoup.
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He Was a Lifelong Con Man. His Biggest Mark: Adolf Hitler
Freeman Bernstein “nickeled” and dimed the Fuhrer.