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World War II

Fact vs. Fiction in Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain, which took place between July and October 1940, was a major air campaign in which Britain's Royal Air Force defended the British Isles against Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. Described by prime minister Winston Churchill as the RAF's finest hour, it was the first major military campaign in history to be fought entirely in the air. It was one of Britain's most im Read More

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Virginia Officials Want to Pardon Civil War 'Traitor'

Waving a white flag of surrender after the failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Aaron Dwight Stevens was riddled with bullets to the face, neck and chest area. The handsome 28-year-old, who lost his baritone voice in the October 1859 crossfire, was hundreds of miles from home.But he'd long deserted Norwich as a teenager, a rebel with a quick temper and yearning to fight slavery. In “Bleeding Kansa Read More

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Suspected Golden State Killer Charged 13th Time

Claude Snelling woke in the night 42 years ago to find a man in the backyard trying to abduct his 16-year-old daughter. He tried to stop him and was fatally shot.Tulare County prosecutors on Monday filed a murder charge against Joseph DeAngelo, 72, bringing to 13 the killings he is accused of and resolving four decades of police disagreement over whether the Visalia attacker wa Read More

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