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George Rogers Clark

George Rogers Clark was an American general and frontiersman. Born Charlottesville, Va., November. 19, 1752.Clark settled in the Ohio Valley in 1772 and became a leader of the frontiersmen. In 1774 he fought...

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Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.67

The History of Christmas in America

The history of Christmas in America takes us back hundreds of years ago. It was sometime during the 17th century, in the midst of religious reformations across Europe, that the celebration of Christmas...

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Genocide In History

When I hear someone speak of "Genocide" the thought that comes to mind is "mass killing of a group of people or another horrible word comes to my mind "Holocaust". I remembered watching the mini-series back...

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In the picture above the Aztecs are sacrificing a fellow member to their Gods.68

The Suffering of The Aztecs

 It has never been talked about nor discussed seriously, but the ancient Aztecs have suffered from the beginings of the conquest in America. They were treated horribly and their people were put to work with...

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"Propaganda Village" - Di-militarized Zone in North Korea.67

Tallest Flagpole in the World

What is the tallest flagpole in the world? A question that has caused 2 countries to engage in a (by some called) “flagpole war.” To even the least technically minded, it somewhat makes sense that a...

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Saddam And The Cia

George W.Bush isn't the first American president to have carried out "regime change" in iraq. In 1963 the CIA, under new President John F.Kennedy, was behind a successful coup in Baghdad, carried out in...

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THE FIRST WORLD WAR

THE FIRST WORLD WAR. “He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence, ‘all quiet on the western front. ...

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Do You Know The History Of The American Flag

As if you don't already know. Our flag has stars and stripes The stripes are red and white and the stars are white with a blue background. But do you really know the true history of our flag. Lets break it...

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Connemara-The Home of Carl Sandburg

The home of Poet and Abraham Lincon biographer Carl Sandburg was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites about 30 years ago. Originally the home of a Captain Smyth, founder of Balfour Mills now a...

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Bible Facts vs. Bible Fiction

This is my attempt to again get the facts about the Bible. It seems pretty hard to get 'just the facts' without a rush of aggressive defense that seems to come only from the one simple question, or rather a...

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