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History of Military Tanks Of WW I
This article is all about who built the first military tanks and why they built them.
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The US Marine Corps: A Brief History Of The Marines
The original incarnation of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was born in 1775 during the Continental Congress in a resolution sponsored by John Adams.
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Remembering the Battle of Iwo Jima
When Joe Rosenthal snapped the iconic photograph, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, he knew it was a special sight, but probably never imagined the lengths the snapshot would travel in history.
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First Defeat Of The Axis Powers On Land
This article is talking about how the Axis Powers got defeated in the first World War.
article tags: hitler, first defeat, axis powers, russia, german, axis, world war i, italian attack into southern france
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Hooray for Flag Day – why do we celebrate it on June 14?
What are the important dates in American Flag history?
• January 1, 1776, George Washington ordered the Grand Union flag hoisted above his base at Prospect Hill. It had 13 alternating red and white stripes and the British Union Jack (no stars) in the upper left-hand corner.
• May of 1776, Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag.
• June 14, 1777,.
article tags: flag hanger, rebel flag, flag display case
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Bizarre Flag Facts – Q & As
Test your Patriotic Knowlege of the American Flag:
Question: Is it ok to fly the American Flag upside down?
Answer: The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
Question: My flag was accidentally dropped and got dirty. Does it have to be destroyed?
Answer: The flag should never be allowed touch the ground, the floor or water.
article tags: flag hanger, rebel flag, flag display case
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In the footsteps of D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry D-Day, 6 June 1944
On the 6 June 1944 the greatest seaborne invasion the world has ever known took place on the Calvados Coast of Normandy, France. This invasion was the beginning of the end of the Second World War and the 6 June 1944 will be forever known as D-Day. This article is an account of the first action that took place on D-Day at the Caen Canal and River Orne Bridges near Bénouville, France.
article tags: british military history, second world war, ww2, d-day, normandy, british airborne, pegasus bridge
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ERP Products Overview
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Why Do We Celebrate The 4th Of July?
The 4th of July has been an important holiday but today, more and more people do not know why we actually celebrate this day. If you are not up to date on your history of the United States, July 4th, 1776 is the day that the colonies decided to declare themselves independent of Britain. By writing a very detailed decree, they decided that they no longer would need to be governed by the Kings of England that had been so very unjust to the colonists in the years before.
article tags: independence, 4th july, america
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Did Colorado Kill Doc Holliday
John Henry “Doc” Holliday’s final words, spoken as he lay dying in the Hotel Glenwood in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, were “this is funny”. We’ll never know, of course, exactly what the Wild West legend meant by this. Perhaps he found it ironic that after a life spent tempting death in the gambling dens of the American frontier, it was at last his 15-year long battle with tuberculosis that had killed him.
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The North Cyprus Palace at Vouni
On this mountain in North Cyprus, overlooking the village of Vouni below, stands a palace. As you look at the fragmentary walls, let your guide be a figure from 483 B.C., when Persia and Greece fought to dominate the island. Cyprus is divided into several small kingdoms. Your guide is Himilcar, elder statesman and advisor to Doxandros, King of Marion.
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New-Gate in New England: Hard Time Connecticut Style
The very 1st state prison in the United States was founded before there were states at all, let alone united ones. Connecticut’s New-Gate Prison, originally a copper mine, was began it’s role as a detention center in the fall of 1773 as the colony’s public “gaol” and workhouse. It was called New-Gate after the fearsome prison of the same name in England.
article tags: new-gate, john hinson, revolutionary war, prisoner of war, american civil war
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The Fountain of Hooey: Ponce de Leon in Florida
It probably won’t come as a surprise to too many people nowadays that the Spanish Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon was not, in fact, really looking for a genuine fountain of youth on his explorations in Florida. This myth was most likely born in the 1560’s after Ponce’s death. The grain of truth that supposedly sits at the center of every tall tail may have to do with his metaphorical search for rebirth in finding new glories in the New World in the form of resources and wealth.
article tags: fountain of youth, ponce de leon, christopher columbus, old san juan
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Thomas Garrett and Delaware’s Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad’s last stop in the slave-holding state of Delaware was located on Shipley Street in Wilmington at the home of a Quaker merchant named Thomas Garrett. Over 2,700 runaway slaves were given safe harbor there before making their way to the free states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Garrett’s passionate commitment to the abolition of slavery would cost him a great deal over the course of his life.
article tags: thomas garrett, underground railroad, wilmington, 15th amendment
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Who Created the First US Flag of 50 Stars?
Who designed our current US Flag with 50 stars?
Robert Heft, a then 17 year-old high school sophomore from Ohio created our current American Flag of 50 stars.
When was this flag created?
Robert Heft created his 50 star, hand sewn, US flag in 1958 prior to Alaska and Hawaii being admitted to the Union.
What drove Robert to create this new flag?
It all began as a high school project assigned in 1958 in Lancaster, Ohio, for his teacher, Mr.
article tags: us flag, 50 star flag, 48 star flag, american flag
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Labor Day - What Is It and Why Do We Celebrate It?
If someone were to ask you the question, "What is Labor Day?" could you really answer it? I doubt many of us really know anything about the holiday other than the fact that it is the first Monday in September and is the official end of summer. It used to signal the beginning of the new school year, but with more schools returning to classes in middle or late August that is no longer the case, though the beaches and other summer activities continue throughout Labor Day weekend.
article tags: holiday, family, party, recreation, history, labor day
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Finally! Secrets Behind Old Glory Revealed
If you are an American and grew up attending school in the United States, you were taught the lesson of how Betsy Ross sewed together the first American flag in 1776. But how many recall exactly what the stripes, the stars and the colors represent?
Believe it or not, the colors red, white, and blue didn’t have any significance when the flag was adopted in 1777.
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Secrets Behind Old Glory Revealed Part 2
The famous name of ‘Old Glory’ was originated in 1831 by Captain William Driver, a shipmaster from Salem, Massachusetts. As he was leaving on one of his many voyages aboard his ship the ‘Charles Doggett’, his friends presented him with a beautiful flag of twenty four stars. As the banner opened and waved in the ocean breeze for the first time, he cried out "Old Glory!" By the time the Civil War broke out, just about everybody in and around Nashville, where he had retired in 1837, recognized Captain Driver's banner as "Old Glory.
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Bombers of the Second World War
The Lancaster is probably the most famous of all the bombers of the second world war. According to Capt. Donald Macintosh (ex-second world war bomber pilot, and author) it was a lot smoother to fly than the Wellington; the experience of which was close to that of a fighter plane (with no payload, of course).
Survival rates on bombers.
The life of a second world war bomber pilot was probably the most dangerous of all the armed forces of the second world war.
article tags: history, military, military history, second world war, planes, bombers
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Labor Day History For Kids
Of all the things our teachers teach our children, they do not often touch on the idea of Labor Day history for kids. How much do our children know about this important holiday? If anything, they only know that it is a holiday for workers, but that is the extent of it in most cases.
The designation of Labor Day as a national holiday prior to the turn of the 20th century is historical enough for our children to know about the history of the holiday, and not just that it is a holiday for working class Americans and Canadians.
article tags: holiday, family, party, recreation, history, labor day
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London Bridge is Falling Down In Lake Havasu?
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. You remember that song from childhood no doubt. But did you know that the London Bridge is actually located in the beautiful town of Lake Havasu City in Arizona, United States of America? The world-famous London Bridge in Lake Havasu City attracts hundred of thousands of visitors year-round from all around the world.
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Hidden Jewel Of The West: Lake Havasu Uncovered
Lake Havasu City has some of the most spectacular scenery in the Southwest. Actually, the lake was a previous Colorado River reservoir and was formed when the Parker Dam was built between 1934 and 1938. The town was named for the 45 mile long Lake Havasu on the Colorado River by the Chemehuevi Indians and translates into "Land of the Blue Green Water".
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Its The End Of Summer, So Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day?
Many of us have probably wondered throughout the years why we celebrate Labor Day, though we have not made any concentrated effort to find out. It is a tradition that we accept with no questions asked. Some may not even be aware that Labor Day is more than just the end of summer activities.
Labor unions were the first to celebrate the beginning of the Labor Day tradition in the US.
article tags: holiday, family, party, recreation, history, labor day
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Celebrate American Freedom Won 225 Years Ago
With the decisive Battle of Yorktown in Virginia in 1781, America freed itself from the shackles of tyranny. Now, Virginia-the first, permanent English-speaking colony in the New World-is celebrating the 225th anniversary of the historic battle.
The National Park Service's Yorktown Battlefield and Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation's Yorktown Victory Center,.
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Quick History of World War Two - European Theater
The War's beginning?
Some would say that World War Two began with Germany’s Invasion of Poland on the 1st September 1939 and the ultimatum of Britain that without a German withdrawal a State of War would exist. Needless to say there was no German withdrawal and WWII began, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declaring war on the 3rd of September 1939
Others would argue that world war two was simply the second round of world war one.
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