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85Titanic Passenger List Now Online
Ninety-five years ago, on April 14, 1912, the British White Star Line's largest ship, the R.M.S. Titanic, hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Out of her approximately 2,200 passengers and crew,...
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97The Oldest House in America
After visiting San Miguel Church on Old Santa Fe Trail in the historic district of Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to follow the sign by the church and walk down the street to check out what the sign claimed...
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78Giving The Finger to North Korea
Recently (April 5, 2009) North Korea again attempted to flex its military muscle launching a long range missile. The test failed causing some embarassment for the crowd running the show in Pyongyang, North...
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82Wrong Way Corrigan – NY to LA via Dublin
While not as common as it used to be, the phrase Wrong Way Corrigan is used to describe someone one whose actions result in the exact opposite of what they started out trying to do. I first heard the...
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80Oxford University World War I Poetry Digital Archive - A Site Worth Visiting
November 14, 2009 Horrible as it was, World War I inspired a generation of writers and poets. While they probably would have ultimately been drafted into the war as a result of Great Britain eventually...
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83How to Become a History Teacher
So, you enjoy history and would like to teach that subject but don't know how to go about becoming a history teacher? The first thing to do is decide where you would like to teach history. High school?...
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92U S Navy NC-4 - First Plane to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean
It has been 46 years, almost a half a century since the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to cut the bonds of Earth and venture into space on April 12, 1961. A mere four years earlier,...
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77Jacques de Meulles and His Playing Card Money
Card games have been popular throughout history and, more often than not, money is frequently included when playing in order to make the games more exciting. Much of the attraction and popularity of Playing...
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81Remembering Astronaut Wally Schirra
Astronaut Walter "Wally" Schirra died last week (May 3, 2007) at the age of 84. Schirra was one of America's first seven astronauts and the only astronaut to fly into space as a part of America's first...
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74A Visit to Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone Arizona
A couple of hours drive south east of Tucson, Arizona is the old silver mining town of Tombstone. Best known for the gunfight at the OK Corral, Tombstone lives on despite the depletion of the mine. Instead...
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