Meinhardt Raabe was a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol during World War II, a carnival barker, and a spokesman for Oscar...

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February is American History Month and here at Nea...  ...his flaws. Washington was not generally the great war hero we remember him for. He actually lost ever m...  ...jor engagement during the first four years of the war . He wasn’t even the great president we have...  ...ll Hall, 100 Things You're Not S...

Adolfo Farsari was quite a character. An Italian...  ...he USA with the sole intention of fighting in the Civil War (he was a fervent abolitionist) he eventually arr...

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Scientists -- with their flesh-eating robots and w...  ...xaggerated and misunderstood) could destroy human civilization . One example is a "love drug" that could strongl...  ...rsity of Pennsylvania and author of the book Mind Wars : Brain Research and National Defense, believes su...

Today would be Jack London’s 134th birthday....  ...ve named Virginia Prentiss. After Flora married a Civil War veteran named John London, baby Jack was given ba...

The following is reprinted from Bathroom...  ...mely, China. The Taiping Rebellion in China was a civil war that drove hundreds of thousands of Chinese out o...  ...n that little skirmish, the financial cost of the war was crippling. In 1879, Peru went to war with Chile in an a...

We’ve all seen company name changes like Cin...  ...of a private security company to help in the Iraq war . The company, Blackwater, found itself in some ho...  ...eptember 2007 incident that left 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians dead. In February of 2009, the company tried to...  ...o the accident. SabreTech f...

Yes, this week's collaboration with the always awe...  ...e used as a hammer or pick. The owner of it had a Civil War book that described it as a cannon tool, he said...