When it comes to the following tourist destination...  ...ollects heat, which ends up creating a pattern of warm air that prevents rain clouds from forming. Curre...  ...ral regions have become more popular with average Americans , many places that were farmland 20 years ago are...  ...important role in Depressi...

In 1947, the British South American Airways plane Star Dust took off from Buenos Aire...  ...associate from the Dunlop tire company, a British civil servant delivering important documents to an emba...  ...ident who had been stranded in Germany during the war .The flight departe...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...on (December 25, 1864)It was the last days of the Civil War . Two months later, Stonewall Jackson would be dea...  ..., and HamGrits 14. The First Two Joint African- American Oscar Winners (March 24, 2002)At the 2002...

The American Civil War ended in 1865, but as of last September, the Depa...  ....Budahn says it's likely that the children of the Civil War veterans, who have wished to remain anonymous, bo...

We've been familiar with the term Post-Traumatic S...  ...Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder since the Vietnam War . The diagnosis of PTSD revolves around the presen...  ...the extensive medical records for soldiers in the American Civil War , whose mortality rate was about 50-80 greater tha...  ...e our modern live...

In the America of a century ago, grave robbing was...  ...more like a landmine than any firearm. Borrowing Civil War technology, Howell's device weighed 8-pounds and...  ...meteries near Gann in Knox County, Ohio.Link -via American Digest

Our hearts go out to the survivors and the familie...  ...Eddie Deezen wrote about The Legend and Legacy of American Pie.From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, we learned...  ...hat Is It? game this week, the pictured item is a Civil War Tourniquet. The first correct answer came fr...

We don't recall ever seeing them on our coins, sta...  ...e's basically remembered as a dam. Actually, many Americans probably think he was an FBI director or the guy...  ...al battlefield, M.V.B. is far from the MVP of the American presidency. One title he can claim, though, is th...  ...'t look for him on the...

At 1,456 pages, War and Peace makes a big impression … and a great...  ...Sense by Thomas Paine (52 pages) In the 1770s, American colonists were riding the fence. Should they cut...  ...nies declared independence, and the Revolutionary War was on. As for Paine, he went on t...

Redditor Lycerius has been playing the same ga...  ...dditor Lycerius has been playing the same game of Civilization II for ten years. It's now the year 3991 A.D., th...  ...litary stalemate: You've heard of the 100 year war ? Try the 1700 year war . The three remaining natio...