(Image credit: Flickr user Diann Bayes) The follow... ...ating vast new estates for themselves. During the wars with Napoleon Bonaparte from 1805 to 1810, many o... ...that crops could be grown year-round. But he also warned that settling large numbers of Germans in Texas w... ...scription of the republic&hel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/27/A-New-Germany-in-Texas/The following article is from Uncle John’s F... ...n intelligence gathering. The president wanted to ward off any foreign threats against the new nation by... ...against Maine and in support of Great Britain.UN- CIVIL INTELLIGENCEThe first formal intelligence agency... ...organized in early 1863, about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/13/The-History-of-American-Spy-Agencies/Phantom limb pain is one of those mysterious sensa... ...n seems today imagine how it was perceived when a Civil War doctor named Silas Weir Mitchell proved his patie... ...ected as impossible to treat. When his specialty ward in Philadelphia filled up, the Army Medical Depa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/10/The-Civil-War-Doctor-Who-Proved-Phantom-Limb-Pain-Is-Real/The following article is reprinted from the book T... ...idered one of the best movies ever made—the American Film Institute ranks it #3, after Citizen Kane an... ...friend who live in Germany after the end of World War II. The critics praised it, but it didn’t s... ...nd worries about her daughte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/04/The-Story-Behind-The-Godfather/The following article is from the book Uncle John'... ...a cop and even volunteered for the FBI. In World War II, he became a decorated bomber pilot who compl... ...o completed 89 missions in the Pacific. After the war , Captain Roddenberry was piloting a Pan Am passe... ...without informing NBC: He added...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/01/the-Star-Trek-Story/Amazing coincidence, karma, or just plain luck? An... ...o say, she survived.(Image credit: Wilson44691)5. Civil War Union Corporal Barton W. Mitchell found an envelo... ...n sold it to a museum for more than $1 million.7. American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing in a Pari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/31/10-People-Who-Were-in-the-Right-Place-at-the-Right-Time/The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-K... ...tle Times, he proved that the Washington State Un- American Activities Committee doctored evidence to accuse... ...d the same time, Nixon had worked on the House Un- American Activities Committee, which rooted out Communists... ...McGovern, the memo not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/21/Nixons-List/Civil War by The P is For PenisIt can be mighty confusing... ...be mighty confusing to hear people talk about the Civil War these days, on account of the fact that they name... ...amed that superhero conflict after the historical *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/11/Civil-War-Geeky-History-In-The-Making/The following article is from the book Uncle John'... ...ale and under 30- who traveled on busses into the American South to protest racial inequality and violence.... ...even though nearly 100 years had passed since the Civil War , the South was still a stronghold of prejudi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/24/Freedom-Ride/When I was a youngster in Kentucky, I occasionally... ...held the title of "Sin City." It started with the Civil War and a lucrative prostitution trade. During Prohib... ...ct a new sheriff, and they chose a clean-cut, all- American former NFL player from nearby Cincinnati na...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/13/How-Newport-Kentucky-Lost-the-Title-of-Sin-City/
