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FACTS ABOUT D-DAY
When America entered the war, the American military leaders wanted the invasion of northern France to occur in 1942 to open a second front to help take pressure of the Soviet Union and to get into the fight. Churchill and the British high command wanted to postpone the invasion and Read more
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A BEAT POET WHO HOWLED
Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926. His father was a teacher who dabbled in poetry. His mother was a Marxist who suffered from schizophrenia. She spent most of her childhood in mental institutions. In high school, he was influenced by the poetry of Walt Whitman. He had some Read more
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THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH
Adolf Eichmann was born on March 19, 1906 to a middle class Austrian family. He attended the same high school that Hitler had attended 17 years earlier. In 1932, the joined the Nazi Party and soon found himself to be a member of the S.S. working for Reinhard Heydrich. Read more
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LADY DEATH
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was born on May 30, 1916. She was tomboy who was fiercely competitive. Pavlichenko was attending the Kyiv University when Germany invaded the USSR. She was in the fourth year of her major in history. She had proved herself to be an excellent sharpshooter, but when she enlisted Read more
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“MIGRANT MOTHER”
The most famous photo from the Great Depression is “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange. Lange was born in 1895. She contracted polio at age 7 and it weakened her right leg and left her with a permanent limp. At age 17, her father abandoned the family. She took her Read more
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THE FIRST PREDICTED ECLIPSE
The first event in history that we can date for certain was a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. In the middle of the battle, a solar eclipse occurred and shocked the soldiers into stopping. A peace was worked out because the gods were apparently angry. We know Read more
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THE DEATHS OF TWO OUTLAWS
Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow when she was 19 (and he was 20). Her husband of three years was in prison. Soon after, Clyde went to prison for robbery. Bonnie visited him and slipped him a gun, which he used to escape. He was recaptured and when he was Read more
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THE PERFECT CRIME
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were rich boys attending graduate school at the University of Chicago. Having lived a pampered life, they came to the conclusion that they were superior to regular people. To prove it to themselves, they decided to pull off the perfect crime. On May 21, 1924, Read more
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FRANK LUKE
May 19, 1897 was the birthday of the second most famous American pilot in WWI. Frank Luke was a fighter pilot who became known as “The Arizona Balloon-Buster” for his specialty of shooting down German observation balloons. These hot-air balloons were raised on cables to give a vantage over Allied Read more