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Captain John E. Donovan, an electronic warfare officer, monitored the equipment in his F-100F Super Sabre fighter. It was December 22, 1965,... Read More
It was 1 August 1990. Saddam Hussein had been rattling his sword for six months, threatening to burn Israel and take over Kuwait. But the... Read More
Early in 1941, the editors of reference books such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Cram’s... Read More
Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made following the storming of the... Read More
Robert Conrad knew things could get uncomfortable. There were the guards, the explosions, the dark tunnels. He could easily stumble across a... Read More
When protests against the rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi broke out in Libya in February 2011, the government’s security forces... Read More
Ennis Cosby's convicted killer has abandoned his appeal and confessed to the murder, prosecutors said Friday. Mikail Markhasev, a... Read More
It all started with an insult. During Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign, his political opponents labeled him a "jackass."... Read More
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal is a hidden gem among institutions working to reform civic... Read More
Now that my New York Jets have been eliminated it's not for me to predict the winner—or even have much of a rooting interest—in... Read More
A rare note written by a doctor who treated Napoleon Bonaparte has revealed how the French military leader and emperor suffered with sickness... Read More
The Belarusian authorities described as ‘war’ the protests that have gripped the country since the fraudulent presidential... Read More
Sometime between around 29,000 and 14,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers navigating northern Eurasia’s frigid landscapes turned wolves... Read More
Accusations of police hostility and abuse towards African Americans has been a pressing issue fueling mass demonstrations demanding reform.... Read More
On June 28, 1778, American forces led by General George Washington clashed with the British Army at Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey. The... Read More
It may seem counterintuitive, but 18th-century generals tried to avoid battle. They thought that their aims would be better met by maneuver... Read More
iography/history of a 16th-century Dutchman who sailed courageously to the North Pole. Pitzer, a journalist who last wrote a global history... Read More
When I first came to India, I asked one of the most erudite politicians in the Indian government a question I had been scared to pose to... Read More
Battle: Cowpens War: American Revolutionary War Date of the Battle of Cowpens: 17th January 1781 Place of the Battle of Cowpens: South... Read More
To ignore Murphy’s Law—“anything that can go wrong will go wrong”—while conducting flight operations on an... Read More
On March 6, 1822, a 12-gun schooner named Enterprise captured four pirate vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. The event is little known, not well... Read More
George Wallace’s name doesn’t deserve to be on any building anywhere. That there is debate about this is, quite frankly,... Read More
Knights Templar (or simply Templars), mysteries and warfare – these three avenues had an obscured connection when it came to the... Read More
Albert Schweitzer, (born Jan. 14, 1875, Kaysersberg, Upper Alsace, Ger. [now in France]—died Sept. 4, 1965, Lambaréné,... Read More
At the site of an abandoned adobe ranch-house, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont signed a treaty, generally termed the "Capitulation of... Read More
Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Presidential Proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527 to authorize the... Read More
Stanford's miracle finish to beat Arizona on Saturday kept the Cardinal undefeated in men's college hoops, matching Saint Joseph's perfect... Read More
The [Japanese] could have landed anywhere on the coast, and after our handful of ammunition was gone, they could have shot us like pigs in a... Read More
World War II was the greatest conflict in history, carried out on a scale almost impossible to grasp. In many ways it was the first modern war, in which airpower played a vital role both on land and at sea, but many actions were ultimately won by the determination and grit of the foot soldier. Here\'s the whole vast panoramic epic of the Second World War presented in 20 of its most significant bat... Read More
After the clashes and white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, the latest dimension of our unfolding national meltdown is over monuments to the Confederacy. In retaliation for the violence in Charlottesville, demonstrators pulled down a Confederate statue in Durham, several cities in the North quickly yanked theirs down, and several other places are considering the same thing.... Read More
Ennis Cosby's convicted killer has abandoned his appeal and confessed to the murder, prosecutors said Friday. Mikail Markhasev, a Ukrainian immigrant, was convicted in July, 1998, of murdering comedian Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son during a botched 1997 robbery. He was sentenced to life in prison a month later. He sent a letter to authorities Friday confessing that he murdered Cosby in wh... Read More