Brian King

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Elijah wrote a new blog post: Tory popularity declines

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 3:15 pm
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Tory popularity declines Part 2   After the Lexington and Concord battle the committee of One Hundred called for a convention and appointed yet another committee (...
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Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: 23 Americans Convicted in Italy

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 6:31 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: 23 Americans Convicted in Italy Reuters News Agency reports that a judge in Milan, Italy, convicted 23 Americans of abducting a Muslim cleric on the streets of M...
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Elijah wrote a new blog post: Westchester County

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 2:59 pm
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Westchester County I originally started this particular story in a myspace group.  It got rather long and involved (not to mention isolated as myspace declined in popul...
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Elijah wrote a new blog post: Hello world!

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 2:40 pm
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Hello world! Welcome to Great History. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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Elijah wrote a new blog post: Hello world!

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 2:40 pm
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Hello world! Welcome to Great History. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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Rob Citino wrote a new blog post: Wild Blue Yonder - U.S. Casualties in the Air War Over Europe, Part 2

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 11:42 am
Rob Citino wrote a new blog post: Wild Blue Yonder - U.S. Casualties in the Air War Over Europe, Part 2 This is part two of a two-part blog about U.S. casualties in the air over Europe during World Wa...
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Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: The Civilian Conservation Corps Explained on PBS

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 11:19 am
Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: The Civilian Conservation Corps Explained on PBS Agriculture and working the nation’s natural resources were aspects of American progress that made this country the ...
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Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Afghan Election Cancelled, Karzai Retains Presidency

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 9:14 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Afghan Election Cancelled, Karzai Retains Presidency After opponent Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of the race in protest, last Saturday's runoff vote in Afgh...
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Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post Thoughts on the Afghan Election

Brian King posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 7:17 am
Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post Thoughts on the Afghan Election I suppose. Secretary of State Clinton has said that Abdullah's withdrawal from the race will not affect the legitimacy of ...
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Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the lines near Mamelle Trench, 11/1/1918

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 8:23 pm
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the lines near Mamelle Trench, 11/1/1918 Dear Em, Received your letter of Oct 8, not more than an hour ago and now that I have put away my me...
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Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: Amelia Takes Audience on Bumpy Ride

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 2:02 pm
Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: Amelia Takes Audience on Bumpy Ride The best thing that I can say about Amelia, now playing from Fox Searchlight Pictures, is the filmmakers found the perfect actress ...
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Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Trick or Treat - Halloween Costumes of the 1930s

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 10:09 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Trick or Treat - Halloween Costumes of the 1930s "Shrieking, wailing, full of banshee mirth they ran, on everything but sidewalks, going up in the air over bushe...
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Brian King wrote a new blog post: History Roundup 10-30-2009

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 9:18 am
Brian King wrote a new blog post: History Roundup 10-30-2009 My weekly buzz around the Weider History Group websites, and odds and ends from elsewhere; On HistoryNet, take off to the Wild Blue Yond...
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Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: Women Who Whack, Part II

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 4:50 am
Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: Women Who Whack, Part II In Part I, we took a look at what happens when blind ambition meets with an iron will. In Part II, we'll look at two other motivati...
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Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post Thoughts on the Afghan Election

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 7:46 pm
Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post Thoughts on the Afghan Election Jack, Thanks for your comment. Back in "the day," almost all South Vietnamese farmland was owned by absentee landlords wh...
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Paul VanDevelder wrote a new blog post: Courage that Knew No Season

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 7:11 am
Paul VanDevelder wrote a new blog post: Courage that Knew No Season One of the many things that has kept me enthralled with history, in general, and American history, in particular, are the myriad obs...
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Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in Verdun, 10/29/1918

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 3:44 am
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in Verdun, 10/29/1918 Dear Em. I have answered all your letters that have been received to date but having a few spare minutes I thought I could spe...
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Elijah commented on the blog post Sieges of the Crusades, pt. 4

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 10:58 am
Elijah commented on the blog post Sieges of the Crusades, pt. 4 Very impressive blog organization and content. However, being ignorant of place names and people, I wonder if there is a way to post a ...
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Brian King commented on the blog post Sleep Tight GeoCities

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 10:49 am
Brian King commented on the blog post Sleep Tight GeoCities Fascinating! Someone out there decided to backup all of GeoCities, and reopen it as ReoCities. So, for any latecomers to this article who ...
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Richard S. Lowry updated the "Basic Info" information on their profile

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 5:52 am
Richard S. Lowry updated the "Basic Info" information on their profile
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Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: Native Americans Descended from One?

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 6:15 pm
Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: Native Americans Descended from One? One wouldn't think that a study entitled, "Haplotypic Background of a Private Allele at High Frequency in the Americas,...
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Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post The Missiles of September: The Return of Common Sense

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 1:58 pm
Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post The Missiles of September: The Return of Common Sense Tim, Thanks. I do my best. I am by constitution sceptical about the claims for most missile intercept...
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Rob Citino wrote a new blog post: Wild Blue Yonder - U.S. Casualties in the Air War Over Europe

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 5:45 am
Rob Citino wrote a new blog post: Wild Blue Yonder - U.S. Casualties in the Air War Over Europe Since the dawn of the air power age, an irresistible and romantic image has formed in our culture of air...
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Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in Verdun, 10/26/1918

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 12:29 pm
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in Verdun, 10/26/1918 Dear Em. Received a letter from you tonight dated Oct 1, and on my first glance at the envelope could not dope out who it was ...
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Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: Repeating History Whether We Want To or Not: The 1930s Debuts on PBS

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 7:51 am
Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: Repeating History Whether We Want To or Not: The 1930s Debuts on PBS To some, the parallels between the situation that faced America in the beginning of the 1930s and ...
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Brian King wrote a new blog post: Sleep Tight GeoCities

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 7:04 am
Brian King wrote a new blog post: Sleep Tight GeoCities If you've been on the web for more than ten years, there is no doubt in my mind you know about GeoCities. At one point an Internet darling ...
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Jose Clemente commented on the blog post Band of Brothers and the Berchtesgaden Myth

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 4:44 am
Jose Clemente commented on the blog post Band of Brothers and the Berchtesgaden Myth As one who greatly admired Ambrose's book and the subsequent HBO mini-series, the portrayal that Easy was the f...
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Brian King commented on the blog post Women Who Whack, Part I

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 5:13 am
Brian King commented on the blog post Women Who Whack, Part I Speaking literally of whacking, I can't help but think of the Nancy Kerrigan incident. Not nearly as bad as offing someone, but the b...
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Brian King wrote a new blog post: History Roundup 10-23-2009

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 4:54 am
Brian King wrote a new blog post: History Roundup 10-23-2009 Some odds and ends on Great History to report; What can we learn about insurgencies from the Nepali Civil War? Does it have lessons for...
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Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Government to Slash Executive Pay

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 12:41 pm
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Government to Slash Executive Pay A report published online by The New York Times says the Obama administration will order companies that received the most feder...
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Deanna Dahlsad updated the "Bio Page" information on their profile

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 8:40 pm
Deanna Dahlsad updated the "Bio Page" information on their profile
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Deanna Dahlsad updated the "Bio Page" information on their profile

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 8:37 pm
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Dealing with Somali Pirates Part II

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 2:47 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Dealing with Somali Pirates Part II The Somali pirates are not pirating because they are mad at the West for dumping radioactive waste on their beaches. Th...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Dealing with Somali Pirates Part II

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 2:47 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Dealing with Somali Pirates Part II The Somali pirates are not pirating because they are mad at the West for dumping radioactive waste on their beaches. Th...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Dealing with Somali Pirates Part II

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:27 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Dealing with Somali Pirates Part II Maybe if the Horn of Africa countries had legitmiate governments and a desire to enter the 21st century instead of rapin...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post 21st-Century Lessons from America's Indian Wars - Part II

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:16 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post 21st-Century Lessons from America's Indian Wars - Part II Yes, we do need a total effort on the WOT. What we need to do is send over every single local...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post 21st-Century Lessons from America's Indian Wars - Part II

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:16 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post 21st-Century Lessons from America's Indian Wars - Part II Yes, we do need a total effort on the WOT. What we need to do is send over every single local...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Cell Phones, the New Tobacco

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:09 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post Cell Phones, the New Tobacco I think more people will be injured from inattentive driving while using their cell phones instead of keeping their attention t...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist?

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:03 pm
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist? Timely topic on the 150th anniversary of the Harper's Ferry Raid on October 16, 1859.
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Gerald D. Swick commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist?

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 5:56 am
Gerald D. Swick commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist? A new online exhibit of original documents from the exhibition "John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legecy," which is on di...
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Gerald D. Swick commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist?

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 5:55 am
Gerald D. Swick commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist? A new online exhibit of original documents from the exhibition "John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legecy," which is on di...
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Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the Neptune Sector, 10/18/1918

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 7:22 pm
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the Neptune Sector, 10/18/1918 Dear Em Taking every opportunity I can get to write to you, here is another right on the heels of one I wrote only...
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Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the Neptune Sector, 10/16/1918

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 2:22 pm
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the Neptune Sector, 10/16/1918 Dear Em, First of all please excuse the condition of this letter. If you could see me now you would wonder how in ...
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Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist?

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 10:39 am
Nathanael Greene commented on the blog post John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist? John Brown was a martyr. He gets not the credit he deserves for his contribution in helping ending slavery. This book is ...
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Roy Stedall-Humphryes wrote on Haley Elizabeth Garwood's wire:

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 2:41 am
Roy Stedall-Humphryes wrote on Haley Elizabeth Garwood's wire: I first was came across your article regarding Empress Matilda a few moments ago then I noticed you surname ....Garwood. It's not...
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Brian King commented on the blog post Making History Ain't for Sissies

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 11:58 am
Brian King commented on the blog post Making History Ain't for Sissies Thanks for sharing this story. Is there any mechanism in place to help your granddaughter replace any of her things or the t...
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Haley Elizabeth Garwood wrote a new blog post: Making History Ain't for Sissies

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 10:05 am
Haley Elizabeth Garwood wrote a new blog post: Making History Ain't for Sissies History for me has always been in the past and created by people far removed from my life -  until a couple weeks a...
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Brent Layman commented on the blog post Cell Phones, the New Tobacco

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 5:25 pm
Brent Layman commented on the blog post Cell Phones, the New Tobacco Hi Greg! Look around the site more. I think you'll find many other stories that may be of more interest to you. For me, I ...
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Brian King wrote a new blog post: History Roundup 10-09-2009

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 11:38 am
Brian King wrote a new blog post: History Roundup 10-09-2009 The big news of the day is the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to neophyte President Obama. This has lit up the Internet with strong opinio...
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Great History Guest Author updated the "Bio Page" information on their profile

Brian King posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 3:27 pm
Great History Guest Author updated the "Bio Page" information on their profile
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