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Berlin April 1945 : The Devil's Cauldron
After over five years of war and more than 55 million deaths, the most feared empire in modern history met its end in Berlin. At its center was the paranoid, drug-transformed emperor, Adolf Hitler.
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Holocaust in the Sixteenth Century: De Soto's Invasion of North America, 1539-1542
De Soto's expedition in North America was an epic struggle that would end in disaster as his search for the lost city of El Dorado (the city of gold) proved to be a false dream.
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Fallen Star: The Great Shawnee War Chief Tecumseh
Tecumseh's death in 1813 is one of the most significant moments in American history depicted in a frieze in the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. His death marked the end of his pan-Indian confederacy.
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The V-2 Ballistic Missile Campaign on London 1944-45: A New Type of Blitzkrieg
The Second World War had been dragging on for five bloody years now London would become the target for a new revolutionary weapon which would set the stage for all future wars.
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The Battle for the Skies Over the Soviet Union, 1941-45
Erich Hartmann would score more victories in the Second World War than any fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare downing 352 Soviet planes as he prowled the skies over the Eastern Front.
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The Allied Terror Raids on Germany and the Atomic Bombing of Japan
The air raids by the American and British Air Forces in the Second World War were the most destructive in human history leaving vast wastelands wherever their massive aerial armadas would strike.
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WWII—Total War in Arkansas and the Battle for Prairie Grove
After the Battle for Pea Ridge Union army commander General Curtis would march his army through Arkansas leaving devastation in its wake, as the Confederates attempt to regroup to fight another day.
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Bloody Wilson's Creek Confederate Victory West of the Mississippi
The Battle for Wilson's Creek would take the national focus away from the battlefield at Bull Run which took place a month earlier and give the Confederacy another major victory over Union forces.
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Blitzkrieg in Western Europe: The Fall of France and the Third Republic
In the summer of 1940 Hitler would unleash his blitzkrieg on Western Europe it would roll over a vast Allied Army leaving the citizens of Western Europe under Nazi rule for the next five years.
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The Battle for Okinawa: Total War on the Japanese Home Islands
Okinawa was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific campaign one where Japanese soldiers on the island fought a desperate battle to the last man under an avalanche of Allied bombs and bullets.
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Verdun: Road to Slaughter on the French Frontier 1916
Verdun would become one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War and a symbol to the horrors of trench warfare as the fate of France hung in the balance between victory and defeat.
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The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" the Spruce Goose of the Cold War
The American military needed a bomber to deliver its deadly new thermonuclear bomb and the Convair B-36 Peacemaker was built specifically to deliver this massive 41,000 pound bomb.
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The SR-71 Blackbird the World's First Mach 3.5 Stealth Plane
The SR-71 Blackbird, also known as the Archangel, was the fastest classified air breathing airplane in the world and the world's first stealth plane that could fly at Mach 3+ .
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One of New Mexico's Natural Wonders: The Underground World of Carlsbad Caverns
I was only nine the first time I visited the Carlsbad Caverns. When I returned 50 years later it brought me in touch with the timeless beauty of this extraordinary underground natural wonder.
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The Bizarre Death of the Russian Mystic Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin's story is like the water that flows along the River Volga it will forever be a part of the Russian landscape his life and death has forever changed the course of Russia's history.
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The Quest For Mars
The future of space exploration is taking on new partners as private corporations get involved in the space race.
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The Collapse of Church Rock Dam: An American Tragedy and its Worst Nuclear Accident
Only surpassed by the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in the Ukraine and the Fukushima reactor meltdown in Japan the nuclear accident at Church Rock New Mexico remains hidden to the world.
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The Three Mile Island Accident : America's Worse National Nuclear Crisis
The crisis at Three Mile Island began in the early morning on March 28, 1979, and is considered America's worse nuclear emergency. What happened in the next five days would become history.
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The Collapse of American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
As world spins out of control at a dizzying pace the chaos spreading across the Middle East is leaving the United States looking confused and tentative unable to stop the violence.
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Israel and Iran on the Brink of All-Out War
The Civil War in Syria has given Iran the opportunity to position its Quds forces along the Golan Heights, forcing Israel's military to confront the threat as rockets rain down upon the Israeli positions.
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The Rise of ISIS and Religious Extremism in the Middle East
According to the Global Terrorism Index religious extremism has become the main driver of terrorism throughout the Middle East the violence associated with these groups has left anarchy in its wake.
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The Largest Civil War Battle West of the Mississippi River: Pea Ridge Arkansas
The Battle of Pea Ridge was the largest land battle west of the Mississippi River it was fought on March 6-8, 1862, on the frozen fields in northwest Arkansas near a rocky outcrop known Pea Ridge.
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Patton's Secret Strike Toward Hammelburg Germany : March 1945
One of the most ill conceived missions of the Second World War was the raid on the prisoner of war camp at Hammelburg deep in German held territory just weeks before the end of the war.
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Kasserine Pass and the Collapse of the Africa Korps
The Battle for Kasserine Pass was a series of battles fought in Tunisia 70 years ago on February 1943, it was the United States first major battlefield defeat of the Second World War.
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History of Nuclear Disasters
Nuclear power plants in America have the possibility of experiencing a Fukushima type meltdown at anytime, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission isn't warning American citizens about the threat.
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Guadalcanal— Turning Point in the Pacific, 1942
Guadalcanal was the beginning of an island-hopping campaign which led to the very gates of the Japan it was a turning point in the Pacific War forcing the Japanese military to go on the defensive.
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Robert E Lee's Father A Forgotten American Revolutionary War Hero : Light-Horse Harry Lee
Henry Lee III was a great American Revolutionary War hero and the father of Civil War general Robert E. Lee. He was a great American patriot who served as the ninth governor of Virginia.
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Hans Rudel Stuka Pilot: Tank Killer of WWII
Germany's most highly decorated combat pilot in World War II, known as the "Stuka Pilot" Hans Rudel was shot down 29 times during the war and survived to see the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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When did the Cold War really begin between the United States and the Soviet Union
Using the Russian Civil War as a pretense many Allied nations sent troops to Russia's artic ports on August 2, 1918 to wage war against Communist forces.
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Stalingrad Turning Point on the Eastern Front 1942-1943
In July 1942 the German Army launched the attack on Stalingrad it would become the largest single battle in human history. It raged for 199 days and would end as Hitler's greatest defeat of WWII.
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The Horror of War
Man's most dangerous game which could someday destroy all of us.
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White River Weekend
As I look back on those White River Weekends time seems to have played a trick on me.
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Voice of the Underground
Lou Reed was known as the father of experimental rock and the voice of the Velvet Underground.
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Lost Boys of Sudan
Since the genocide began in Sudan it has claimed over 400,000 lives leaving over 2,500,000 people homeless, it continues today, without peace the entire region will remain in a state of chaos.
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Iran's Quds Force and the Influence of Lawrence of Arabia on the Modern Middle East
The true danger today is state sponsored terrorism. By using proxies like Hezbollah, a rogue state like Iran can carry out operations and insulate themselves from possible retaliation.
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The Future of Space Travel
The Orion is NASA's next generation in spacecraft designed to take man to the Moon, Mars, Asteroids, and beyond to deep space.
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Age of Killer Drones and the Wars of the Future
Ronald Reagan's vision of Star Wars could have become a reality. Our President today described the U.S Military as the most powerful on this planet, such bold talk, could he know something we don't?
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Terrorism And The Origin Of Asymmetric Warfare : Countdown to Disaster
Asymmetric warfare or terrorism has a long history the most devastating example of an asymmetric attack in modern times are the events that took place in New York on September 11,2001.
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Drone Wars
As the Middle East spirals out of control the world's powers continue to point nuclear weapons at each other and flood the world with weapons, creating an environment ripe for disaster.
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The Future of America Post 911
The postwar world brought on by the existence of WWII has come to an end, a major redistribution of global power is taking place. Tragically the world today is also marked by constant uncertainty.
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Attacks on the American Electrical Grid: And the Potential for Nuclear Meltdown
In the early morning hours of April 16, 2013, the Metcalf transmission station in northern California was attacked by what federal investigators fear was a highly professional terrorist cell.
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