Paul Revere's Midnight Ride -- The Sarah Palin Version
“...he who warned, uh, the...the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms...uh, by ringin’ those bells and um...makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town...to send those warning...
View Article"Unconditional Surrender" Grant -- The FDR Version
From the joint press conference at the Casablanca conference on January 24, 1943:". . . we had a General called U.S. Grant. His name was Ulysses Simpson Grant, but in my, and the Prime Minister's,...
View ArticleDisasters Through History
I have to admit to a strong interest in the dark side(s) of life, for reasons that escape me. Just as well, perhaps.This thread will be completely unplanned from day-to-day. Order and organization...
View ArticleThe Ghettos
Germany’s invasion of Poland was far from complete, yet Reinhard Heydrich was planning something even more dreadful. The following memorandum makes it clear that the measures to establish Jewish...
View ArticleHistory's Mysteries
FBI: 'Credible lead' surfaces in D.B. Cooper casePublished: Monday, August 01, 2011, 9:47 AM SEATTLE (AP) -- The FBI says it has a "credible" lead in the D.B. Cooper case involving the 1971...
View ArticleEinsatzgruppen: "We Don't Have Your Jewish Problem."
In late May 1941, Special Task Force leaders met at the Frontier Police School at Pretzsch. These officers had been chosen to command three thousand armed men who would follow in the wake of the...
View ArticleOccupy the Anacostia Flats -- The Bonus Army of 1932
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and...
View ArticleEgypt on fire again
The Egyptians are unhappy again as well as most if not all of the middle east. So what's the big deal? During the crusades 1000 years ago a muslim by the name of Saladin managed to unite all the Arab...
View ArticleThe Death Camps
On December 8, 1941, the gassing of Jews began near the Polish village of Chelmno. Seven Hundred Jews from the small town of Kolo were taken by truck to Chelmno on the Seventh and the following...
View ArticleHeil Schicklgruber!? or What's in a Name?
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria to Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf was the fourth of six children born to Alois and Klara, but only one of two to survive...
View ArticleRise To Globalism Author Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley
So, I have recently finished this book and find it interesting on how such so many things happened in such little time back then. Find it very motiving for me that this book gave a lot of depth on how...
View ArticleHannah Dustin 1697
The biblical woman Jael killed the cannanite King Sisera by driving a tent peg through his skull while he was sleeping, the Beautiful Judith seduced the ammonite King into getting drunk and then cut...
View ArticleTheodore Roosevelt Speech
Here is a YouTube video of a speech by Theodore Roosevelt:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlzdjPGxrs
View ArticleBlutarsky Was Right, the Germans Did Bomb Pearl Harbor!
Links:http://www.breitbart.com/...t&utm_medium=twitterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtU_fYe6gE
View ArticleBig mistake of the southern states they didnt put lincoln on the ballot
IF THEY HAD PUT LINCOLN ON THE BALLOT THE NORTH WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THEY WERE FAIRER MAYBE AND THE SOUTHERNS WHO SUPPORTED THE UNION MAYBE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT?possiblyfrom what ive read my great...
View ArticleThe Holocaust Just Got More Shocking -- Study Says it was Far Worse than...
The extent of Nazi brutality during World War II was far worse than historians had previously believed, according to a new study. Researchers with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum spent 13...
View Article"Usable Past"
What is a usable past? Societies define themselves by common ideas and historical memories. Historian Henry Steele Commager explained how the founding generations of Americans wrote their own...
View ArticleThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
In January 1943, the Germans had tried to close the Warsaw ghetto but had met some resistance. Now they tried again. The remaining residents were ordered to report for deportation on the 19th April at...
View ArticleThe David Family Murder/Suicide
The original AP story:Police and witnesses said the woman, Rachel David, 38, pushed some of the children as they screamed and struggled to hold on to the railing and at least three older children...
View ArticleSonar Image May Show Amelia Earhart’s Plane
"What we have is something that looks like what we think the expected wreckage should look like right in the place where we expect it to be," Ric Gillespie, TIGHAR's executive director told Yahoo...
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