Tag: history
member name: Mary Ann S.
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August 10, 2008 07:58 PM EDT --
Dwight David Eisenhower was president.
Nautilus, a U.S. submarine passed under the North Pole.
Cartnapping was a crime; I don't know what the sentence was, but the crime was stealing . . .
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August 24, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
Who were they singing about?
When ______ ____ _______ was a little boy he pointed to the sea
Said when I get to be a man a fightin' man I'll be
I'll leave my . . .
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March 25, 2008 10:35 PM EDT --
Eleanor VS Ike by Robin Gerber
315 pages, plus extras
Avon Publisher
The year is 1952 and America is in the middle of a presidential election. The candidates are Eleanor Roosevelt . . .
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March 09, 2008 11:40 AM EDT --
This is the sensible compromise. Gore won the popular vote in 2000; he is even more respected now. He does not have the baggage that Hillary has, nor can anyone argue that he is inexperienced and . . .
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August 10, 2008 11:31 AM EDT --
Who were they singing about here?
In 1855 in old Californ eye ay.
A man was a lookin' in the paper one day.
Uncle Sam needs a post man to carry the mail
Through the high Sierra . . .
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August 10, 2008 02:36 PM EDT --
Who were they singing about?
He led his men through waters dark,
Rocky reefs and hungry sharks,
Braved the enemies' bayonettes,
A thirty-eight hung round his neck.
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August 10, 2008 08:35 PM EDT --
He has been on television and in movies since 1957.
In regular television series, he played first Deputy Johhny McKay and later Chad Cooper, a Texas Ranger.
He also starred in two daytime soap operas . . .
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June 22, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Title: America's Hidden History
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: Smithsonian Books, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2008
334 pages plus notes.
"America's . . .
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March 23, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
Lincoln is not photogenic and FDR was in a wheel chair. There is nothing photogenic about that.
The press is bound to find out about Lucy Mercer, FDR's misstress and even if he gets . . .
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February 02, 2008 08:59 AM EST --
On this date in 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash. Don McLean called it the day the music died.
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January 22, 2008 03:00 PM EST --
O'Leary's cow was innocent.
The fire that destroyed Chicago in October 1871was caused by three months of drought and small forest and prairie fires that had been burning for . . .
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February 12, 2008 08:52 PM EST --
This is the actual name of a historical character. Ever heard of him?
Can you pronounce the name?
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February 26, 2008 10:29 AM EST --
So was the U.S. Capitol.
This is from an interview with Charles Cobb, author of a new book, "On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail."
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March 01, 2008 07:38 PM EST --
The U.S. sold scrap metal to them before the war and Japan built a navy and the bombs that hit us at Pearl Harbor. Japan does not have a source for metals within her island.
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June 06, 2008 04:59 PM EDT --
Today is the Anniversary of D Day, June 6, 1944. This is the day the allies landed in Normandy and began the push that ended World War II. The fate of the free world was decided 64 years ago today. . . .
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March 06, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
He may have been Eleazer Williams born around 1787 in New York to American Indian parents, but no church records exist to confirm his birth. He lived in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area for . . .
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