(Photo: Lt. Col. Presley M. Rixey)Siwash, a duck, was the mascot of the First Battalion of the Tenth Marine Regiment and later the entire Second Marine Division during World War II. He went ashore with the Marines at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/05/Siwash-The-Duck-Who-Fought-with-the-Marines-during-World-War-II/(Photo: Chung Hu)Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, California is unlike any other in the world. Due to its location, direction, and shape, at a particular moment each year, it will appear to glow. Sunlight hits...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/05/The-20-Strangest-Waterfalls-in-the-World/This is the Zaamurets, a land cruising battleship.... ...and finally the Japanese before disappearing into history
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/21/This-Armored-Train-Served-7-Armies-in-Battles-from-Ukraine-to-Manchuria/(Photo via Pairie View A&M University)Today, J... ...ollection. Web. 6 June 2015.---. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York: Oxford Universi... ...quo;Juneteenth: Independence Day.” American History . 49.2 (2014): 40. History Study Center. Web....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/19/150-Years-Ago-Today-The-First-Juneteenth/(Photo: José David Leiva)Two streams in Tenorio Volcano National Park in Costa Rica merge to form the Rio Celeste. One of them has large quantities of sulfur and calcium carbonate, which gives the river a beautifu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/02/Los-Tenideros-A-Chemical-Reaction-Where-Two-Rivers-Meet/(Photo: Camille)The Battle of Verdun consumed most of 1916. Over 10 months, 300,000 Frenchmen and Germans died. Another 750,000 were wounded. There was a constant monsoon of artillery shells. It permanently changed the l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/31/The-Forbidden-Zone-65-Square-Miles-of-France-Still-Uninhabitable-after-World-War-I/(Photo: US Post Office)In a fascinating article at io9, Esther Ingils-Arkell tells us about United States fractional currency. During the American Civil War, the Trent Affair almost drew the UK into declaring war on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/14/This-3-Cent-Bill-Is-Legal-Tender-in-the-United-States/(Photo: Brian Barbutti)The United States has the White House and Argentina has the Pink House. That's what the presidential palace in Buenos Aires is called--the Casa Rosada. The color comes from a traditional blending o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/28/13-Presidential-Palaces-around-the-World/(Image via Visual News)When President Barack Obama was born in 1961, President Herbert Hoover was still alive. When President Hoover was born in 1874, President Andrew Johnson was still alive. When President Johnson was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/22/The-United-States-Is-Only-4-Presidents-Old/(Photos: Kecko, Pascal Binczak)Nazi Germany coveted the prosperous nation of Switzerland and made plans to invade it. But Operation Tannenbaum remained forever a hypothetical exercise and the Swiss were largely spared fr...
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