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A Hub Pages Directory of American History from 10,000 BC

Democracy began on the North American Continent with the Iroquois Confederation many centuries ago...

19 comments    education politics america
Cape Canaveral. Pad B.85

US History: John F. Kennedy and the Marilyn Monroe Murder

Cape Canaveral is in decay. 1960 - 1963 presents some of the most turbulent years in the world. Certain government sources stated that they would not release the true and complete details of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's demise to the general public until all alive that day were dead. Then Marilyn Monroe was murdered, according to the evidence. Later followed by deaths of RFK and Martin Luther King. Jr. and the disppearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

17 comments    celebrities civil rights nasa
Le Vampire, engraved by R. de Moraine in 1864   76

The Best Dracula Ever - Halloween or Anytime

Le Vampire, R. de Moraine in 1864 is but a foreshadowing. A Halloween HubMob is the best excuse in the world to write about the very best portrayal of the Vampire Dracula during the 19th - 21st centuries...

15 comments    hubchallenge hubmob cold war
Potsdam conference, 1945. (Photos this page public domain)86

US History: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, WWII General

The Presidency of our 34th President of the United States comprised 8 years of turmoil immediately after WWII. The WWII ally Russia became a Cold War enemy in the race for Communist control of the world and...

9 comments    american history us history
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How to Ruin Youth with Bad Sex Education

© P. Inglish 2009. I was eventually required to design, write, and present a course for sex education to two group homes of individuals with MR/DD, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. The...

16 comments    education high school sex ed
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US History: COLD WAR INTRIGUE 1950 - 1960

The Cold War began as World War II ended and continued unti the fall of the Berlin Wall in1989 and the collapse of the USSR, around 1990 - 1991. The Cold War involved spies and counterspies, new technology...

5 comments    education politics celebrities
Fishermen at Sea (1796) by J.M.W. Turner (public domain)    74

The Old Man and the Sea

The "Old Man and the Sea" was written in the Cuba of 1951 during the Cold War. It was the last major successful written work accomplished by Ernest Hemingway, after a decade of negative criticism of his books. After a long decade of work he was, at last, successful again.

15 comments    education careers celebrities
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How to Use Spinach for Healthy Variety

My previous set of delicious spinach recipes that use fresh and frozen spinach is located at: Spinach - Strong, but Not Just for Popeye, along with some fun background about Popeye the Sailor and the...

6 comments    food recipes nutrition
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Childhood's End and Futurist Beginnings

This is a bizarre story and even more bizarre, because it is familiar. Further, the author in 1953 predicts oral contraceptives, hints at DNA typing, and much before that - predicted satellite communications. A main character looks like a couple of people we know as well...

12 comments    golden age arthur c. clarke
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Fellow Travelers - Hunting Homosexuality and Communism

Politics and Witch-Hunts and Fruit - Oh my! This is a haunting tale of the early 1950s - 1990s, recounting the strange period of McCarthyism, and early Cold War, nd the fall of the Berlin Wall. Who knew bananas would play a part? Who knew that the Communists were not to be the only prey hunted by McCarthy?

3 comments    american history book reviews
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