Topic: United States
Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland honors the site of the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War. Maryland raised three monuments, and one of them is dedicated to Maryland men on both sides. Another individual monument of note is dedicated ...
Some historians say Jefferson Davis was an ignorant man, that he was narrow-minded, that he could not see beyond the South and his own aristocratic way of life. Jefferson Davis was rooted and grounded to the past, in how he was raised, ...
One of the keys (perhaps a minor key but still a key) to the Army of the Potomac's success at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, was the little-known colonel of the 20th Maine, a former academic from Bowdoin College named ...
There is much talk about immigrants coming into America these days, principally illegal immigrants who bring drugs and human trafficking inside our boundaries. Many immigrants came to America from Ireland bringing with them knowledge and literature and skills and, certainly not the ...
The original Zouaves were a fair-haired, blue-eyed Berber people of the Algerian deserts called Zouaoua or Zawia. Elmer E. Ellsworth popularized the Zouave drill and uniform in the United States with a Chicago drill team in 1860. Ellsworth was the first Union ...
20 Years Ago Dream weaver On Christmas Day 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, 35, demonstrates the workings of his new creation, the World Wide Web, over the Internet. 120 Years Ago Melee Massacre As U.S. troops attempt to disarm a band ...
It is situated at the junction of the Mississippi and Rock rivers. ) Products include military equipment, manufactured at the Rock Island Arsenal on an island in the Mississippi, and farm equipment.. Augustana College is in Rock Island. Many parks dot the ...
Montgomery, capital of the state of Alabama, U.S., and seat (1822) of Montgomery county, located in the central part of the state. In February 1861, just before the start of the American Civil War, Montgomery became the first capital of the Confederacy, ...
Mustang Island State Park is a barrier island with five miles of beachfront to entertain sand castle makers, fisherman, runners, sea shell hunters, surfers, boaters and the list goes on and on.. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, "The earliest ...
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall used to appear regularly in the City Paper's pages, but in recent years he's expanded beyond " He writes a weekly syndicated editorial, just returned from Afghanistan where he was practicing cartoon journalism (with cartoonists Matt Bors and ...
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South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, right, shakes hands with U.S ...AP News - -
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Sacramento Kings forward Carl Landry, center, goes to the basket against Atlanta ...AP News - -
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Columbus Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger (18) scores a goal against Phoenix ...AP News -
