(Portrait by Rembrandt Peale)Mount Vernon is the estate of George Washington. It's a historical site open to the public that features year-round events. This Halloween, children can go trick-or-treating there! Visitors c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/23/You-Can-Go-Trick-or-Treating-at-George-Washingtons-House/(Photo via Kate Shapiro)If you're the President, y... ...Mint Juleps and with Teddy Roosevelt: A Complete History of Presidential Drinking, Mark Will-Weber describ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/20/A-Complete-List-of-What-Every-US-President-Drank/Slate's Vault blog describes a fascinating board game made in the midst of the American Civil War. Charlton & Althrop, a publishing house in Philadelphia, produced the "Game of Secession, or Sketches of the Rebellion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/07/This-1862-Board-Game-Was-the-Civil-War-Version-of-Candy-Land/Redditor RTWin80weeks was hiking along the beach outside of Lagos, Portugal when he came upon this amazing rock formation. It's a hole that goes deep into the earth--farther than he could see.[https://www.youtube.com/wat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/06/Hiker-Stumbles-Upon-an-Abyss-in-Portugal/(Image: NASA)The Aral Sea is--or was--a large body of water in Central Asia. It is divided between the nations of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. While the Soviet Union existed, the Aral Sea was entirely within its borders.Tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/02/The-Aral-Sea-Flotilla-The-Warships-of-a-Lost-Sea/(Photo of fireworks over Ft. Henry by Rich Dennis... ...and naval professionals might well be enough.The geography of Baltimore offered the defenders substantial ad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/13/200-Years-Ago-Today-The-Battle-of-Baltimore-and-the-Star-Spangled-Banner/(Painting by Julian O. Davidson)For Americans, Se... ...tions also grasped its significance. In his naval history of that war, Theodore Roosevelt referred to the B... ...le of the war.” Winston Churchill, in his A History of the English Speaking Peoples, called it the &l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/11/200-Years-Ago-Today-The-Battle-of-Plattsburgh-The-Most-Decisive-Battle-in-the-War-of-1812/(Photo: Dr. Russ Bellico/Bateaux Below)That headline requires a bit of unpacking. If you do some math, you'll find that that number gives us an origin of 1758, which is 18 years before the United States came into existen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/02/Americas-Oldest-Intact-Warship-The-Land-Tortoise-Is-256-Years-Old/USS New OrleansWe are now in the midst of the bicentennial of the War of 1812. I find this war fascinating and my interest has led me to write numerous posts on the subject for Neatorama. For example, last Sunday, I pub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/26/In-1815-The-US-Tried-to-Build-the-Largest-Warship-in-the-World-on-Lake-Ontario/(Photo: Maria Ly)Guangxi Province, on China’s border with Vietnam, contains this natural wonder known as Moon Hill. The mountain is called that because the hole that goes straight through it is shaped like the moon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/26/Moon-Hill-The-Mountain-with-a-Hole-in-It/
