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World War II History, Captured in a Private’s Letters to His Wife

Via: nona62 • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 11 years ago

World War II History, Captured in a Privates Letters to His Wife Victor J. Blue for The New York Times After her husband's death, Sandy Schulman, 92, had his war...

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Via: one-miscreant • History & Sociology • 19 Comments • 11 years ago

Who are the players in this scene? i.e. Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals or of your description. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke

Hiroshima And Nagasaki: Still Justified 70 Years Later

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 11 years ago

A mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. Newscom View Enlarged ImageAug. 6 marks one of America's most important anniversaries, remarkable for what happened on that date in...

Maria Tallchief, America's First Prima Ballerina - American Indians in Ballet

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 11 years ago

Maria Tallchief was American's first Prima Ballerina. Tallchief the daughter of an Osage Chief conquered the ballet world with her beauty and grace. She and her sister Majorie Tallchief founded...

Mascots - Indians

Via: 1stwarrior • History & Sociology • 22 Comments • 11 years ago

"A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white guy decided to ask him: What do you think about Indian mascots? The Native elder responded, Heres what youve got to...

Famous Dave's, The BBQ King from the Ojibwe Nation.

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 62 Comments • 11 years ago

In 1995, Dave Anderson opened his first barbecue roadhouse shack in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis. Now there about 200 Famous Dave's restaurants across the U.S. and...

Mary G. Ross, Pioneering American Indian Engineer - Lockheed Missiles and Space

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 11 years ago

Mary G. Ross August 9, 1908 - April 29, 2008 By Mary Ouimette-Kinney Mary G. Ross, the first Native American female engineer, graduated from Northeastern State College (now Northeastern...

Wes Studi, Renaissance Man

Via: ambivalent • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 11 years ago

In Dances with Wolves, as a Pawnee From small-town Oklahoma native to internationally acclaimed actor and musician, Wes Studi credits his passion and multi-faceted background for his powerful...

HUGE Win for Conservatives That Nobody Knows About

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 77 Comments • 11 years ago

While conservatives agonize over the dismantling of America by an out of control President and activist Supreme Court, there is something BIG to celebrate this summer.According to The Wall Street...

Renaming Mount McKinley Obama's Insult To Competence

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 25 Comments • 11 years ago

McKinley: All competenceMcKinley: All competence View Enlarged ImagePolitics: President Obama says he's changing the name of Alaska's Mt. McKinley to Denali. Given President McKinley's record on...

Obama is right: 'Islam has always been part of America'

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 29 Comments • 11 years ago

As Congress is on the verge of giving President Obama his Iran Deal, including a payoff of $150 billion dollars to Irans terror regime, they might do well to contrast our founding fathers with the...

That Was Easy For You to Say....

Via: perrie-halpern • History & Sociology • 31 Comments • 11 years ago

Several years ago, my family took a trip to to Scotland. For those of you who have never heard a true deep Scottish accent, you would swear they were not speaking English, but they are. You...

Key Concepts of Libertarianism

Via: dean-moriarty • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 11 years ago

Link - Link Key Concepts of Libertarianism The key concepts of libertarianism have developed over many centuries. The first inklings of them can be found in ancient China, Greece, and Israel;...

Rise and fall of the 7th-13th century Srivijaya empire

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

Rise and fall of the 7th-13th century Srivijaya empire --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I catch an RSS feed called " Maps on the Web ", that has...

The typical male U.S. worker earned less in 2014 than in 1973

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 42 Comments • 11 years ago

The typical man with a full-time job the one at the statistical middle of the middle earned $50,383 last year, the Census Bureau reported this week. The typical man with a full-time job in...

What Do You Think the Chances Are that Jeffrey M. Lacker Is Right in 2015?

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 11 years ago

Jeffrey M. Lacker , sole dissenter from the Federal Reserve's decision last week to keep the interest rates it controls unchanged: I dissented because I believe that an increase in our...

Researchers: Salmon fishing goes back to last ice age

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 25 Comments • 11 years ago

Researchers; Salmon fishing goes back to last ice age Researchers in Alaska have verified that humans consumed salmon even during the last ice age as they verify ancient evidence of salmon...

These Nazi Bombs Are Even More Dangerous Then Ever.

Via: randy2 • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 11 years ago

Thousands of World War II bombs still lurk underground and theyre even more dangerous now than in the 1940s, making defusing a risky, delicate process. Jon Excell investigates. 23...

The history of interracial sex: It's much more than just rape or romance.

Via: randy2 • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 11 years ago

South African comic Trevor Noah will take the helm of The Daily Show, replacing longtime host Jon Stewart, beginningSept. 28. (Los Angeles Times) By Carina Ray When South...

The inequality of who dies in car crashes

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 11 years ago

Monopoly: The game that helped WWII POWs escape

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 11 years ago

Monopoly: The game that helped WWII POWs escape Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff 2:43 p.m. EST January 15, 2014 The game of Monopoly. (Photo: AP file) Story Highlights Experts...

What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 11 years ago

And many more, in the seed . - - - - - - - - - - What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like by Ana Swanson Wonkblog

'All Men...Are Endowed by Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights'

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 0 Comments • 11 years ago

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...

History is repeating itself. Money of Corporations and Billionaires instead of the Kings and Queens Rule

Via: retired-military-ex-republican • History & Sociology • 0 Comments • 12 years ago

The United States of America Bill of Rights article 1 thru 10 of the US Constitution are being ignored even Article #2 is or is being Morphed or miss construed as an aid to taking over the country...

For All Who Loved "The Diary of a Young Girl" - Anne Frank

Via: neetu2 • History & Sociology • 0 Comments • 13 years ago

I still remember how I felt when I first read this book - a journal of an incredible young woman - and felt her passions, her fears and her spirit. I was about 14 then. I was reading about a young...

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