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Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: A Rap about Alexander Hamilton The father of the federal banking system is most remembered for losing a duel to Aaron Burr.
Tis a shame. Alexander Hamilton w... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 3:58 pm
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Part 6 - Hudson Highlands Burgoyne's reports turned from optimism to cries for help by late September as his army was now sick, bottled up, and outnumbered above Alba... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 2:35 pm
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Part 5 - July 1778 After their first battle in late June, the war settled into a bit of routine for Stephen Dusenbury and the NY Volunteers. Once Howe chased the Conti... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 6:53 am
Martin Dula commented on the blog post McKellar and Hypatia Prove the Theorem that Girls Can Do Math Muy interesante.
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Nov 19, 2009, 9:42 pm
Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: McKellar and Hypatia Prove the Theorem that Girls Can Do Math 1992 was a big year. Toy giant Mattel decided that year to subtract one phrase from the 270 that w... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 1:52 pm
Deb Goodrich wrote a new blog post: KS Guard Hall of Fame Inducts Cody The Kansas National Guard has inducted four new members to its Hall of Fame. Kansas Adjutant General Tod Bunting called the Novem... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 9:00 am
Alexander Zakrzewski wrote a new blog post: A Military Myth Dispelled: Polish Cavalry vs. German Tanks At 2:00 P.M. on September 1st, 1939, Colonel Kazimierz Mastelarz, commande... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 8:57 am
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Recruiting in Westchester Part 4
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Nov 16, 2009, 8:26 am
Brian King wrote a new blog post: Situation in Yemen The Sa'dah insurgency in Yemen has been going on for over five years, as the Shi'ite Shabab al-Muomineen struggle against the government of... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 5:02 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Report Says 75 percent of U.S. Youth Unfit for Military "Awright, boys, today we're bombing the Golden Arches, tomorrow we're hitting the Home of the Who... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 4:17 pm
Paul VanDevelder wrote a new blog post: A Brief History of Man's Ancient Obsession, With Clouds Part I “clouds, the patron goddesses of the layabout. From
them come our intelligence, our dialec... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 3:56 pm
Megan Charles wrote a new blog post: War Refugees and Unmanning the Frontlines According to a special issue of National Geographic, the world today is comprised of nearly 7 billion people. An estim... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 4:47 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: A Model for Success in Afhanistan? "All politics are local" is especially true in Afghanistan, where many villages and valleys see little effect from the nationa... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 5:34 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: Ambassador to Afghanistan Urges Caution on Troop Levels Karl W. Eikenberry, formerly the top American commander in Afghanistan and currently the U.S. ambassador ... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 12:15 am
Elijah wrote a new blog post: Splitting West Chester County Part 3
Within a few weeks of the Declaration of Independence, General Howe landed some 31,000 troops. The soldiers were mostly Englis... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 1:56 pm
Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: The Airmen and the Headhunters on PBS The more we speak with veterans of World War II, the more we learn that, beyond the high profile events and personalities, there ... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 4:57 am
Gerald D. Swick wrote a new blog post: War Letters on Veterans Day Today is Veterans Day in America. Originally called Armistice Day, it began in the impromptu celebrations that broke out in towns acr... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 12:28 pm
Jay Wertz wrote a new blog post: Veterans Day 2009 in Radio, TV and Film This Wednesday is Veterans Day, which historically celebrates the end of World War I, but has more recently focused on honoring... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:16 am
Megan Charles wrote a new blog post: The Universal Soldier Today there seems to be a thousand and one published works on the individual soldier’s experience. Works like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of B... Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2009, 4:09 pm
Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post The Civilian Conservation Corps Explained on PBS Great article. My uncle Paul worked with the CCC during the Great Depresion, then put himself through school ... Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2009, 3:59 pm
Frank Chadwick commented on the blog post The Best Army In History Rich,
Good question.I myself do not quite know what August Frog had in mind with thius comment. Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2009, 5:20 am
Elijah wrote a new blog post: The Speculators spawn Cato In the early 18th century private companies began springing up with various business plans. These early stock companies proved extremely vola... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 9:06 pm
Tracey McCormick wrote a new blog post: Emily Dickinson, Death, and Gilligan's Island The literary canon is defined as those works of literature that are timeless. As the centuries pass by, canoni... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 10:15 am
Brian King wrote a new blog post: Family Friendly ICBMs Imagine a situation where the US has good intelligence that bad guy *insert name here* is positively ABSOLUTELY on the ground at a known locatio... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 8:13 am
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the lines near Mamelle Trench, 11/5/1918
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This is just to let you know that I am still O.K. and enjoying the latest news fully as muc... Comment - Like
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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 (... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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! Comment - Like
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Elijah wrote a new blog post: Hello world! Welcome to Great History. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 8:23 pm
Richard Landers wrote a new blog post: Somewhere in the lines near Mamelle Trench, 11/1/1918
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Received your letter of Oct 8, not more than an hour ago and now that I have put away my me... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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Richard S. Lowry updated the "Basic Info" information on their profile Comment - Like
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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,... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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