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Have A Great Memorial Weekend

Via: larry-crehore • History & Sociology • 28 Comments • 11 years ago

For our men and women who have served in our military forces, THANK YOU!!

Before Wendall Ford was a Senator... And Other Items of Note From the Attic

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

He was a 1st Lieutenant in the Owensboro National Guard, and a quartermaster. At some point in 1953, my Grandpa, (Edwyn R. Scherer), who worked at the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and my...

What IS this? A Historical Catalog of What?

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 15 Comments • 11 years ago

Digging through the family clippings, letters, and 10,000 other pieces of crumbling paper, I ran across a catalog of, what? It was used as a scrap book, sort of. To the left, Grandma, 1911....

World War I Love Letters Reach Soldier's Granddaughter 95 Years Later

Via: nona62 • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

World War I Love Letters Reach Soldier's Granddaughter 95 Years Later Talk about a long lost love story for the ages. Letters penned from a World War I soldier in France to his...

The Fallen 9000 - A D-Day Memorial

Via: nigel-dogberry • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 11 years ago

http://thefallen9000.info/ From the article: Andy Moss and myself from Sand In Your Eye developed the idea of the Fallen Project together to mark Peace Day. The objective was to make a...

70 Years Ago Today, A First Hand Account of Omaha Beach

Via: sean-treacy • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

UNLIKE what happens to other great battles, the passing of the years and the retelling of the story have softened the horror of Omaha Beach on D Day.This fluke of history is doubly ironic since no...

How many people today remember just how close we came to a Nuclear Disaster here at home?

Via: larry-crehore • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 11 years ago

Nuclear bomb nearly detonated after falling on North Carolina, declassified report says There are few things in this world that can change the course of history faster than a nuclear bomb...

Self Evident Truths - from Stonekettle Station

Via: ambivalent • History & Sociology • 32 Comments • 11 years ago

I posted this in its entirety, a Happy fourth of July to All!Self Evident TruthsWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...

World War I began 100 years ago this month

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 7 Comments • 11 years ago

Almost everyone is very familiar with WWII due to the hundreds of movies and the fact that most have fathers or grandfathers who fought in that cataclysm. Less well-known but no less interesting is...

World War I - Week 1 - August 1-8, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 37 Comments • 11 years ago

Introduction The great 19 th century German statesman Otto von Bismarck made a prescient prediction in 1888 saying, The great European war will come out of some damned foolish thing in the...

Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Via: larry-crehore • History & Sociology • 7 Comments • 11 years ago

GENEVA The International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples is commemorated annually on 9 August in recognition of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, held...

World War I - Week 2 - August 9-16, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 11 years ago

POLITICAL Aug 10 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary Aug 12 - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary Aug 12 - Turkey receives gift from Germany of two battle cruisers as enticement to...

Researchers say Richard III dined on exotic birds, drank heavily

Via: nona62 • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 11 years ago

Researchers say Richard III dined on exotic birds, drank heavily Feb. 4 2013: The curved spine and other long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years. Richard...

World War I - Week 3 - August 17-23, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 22 Comments • 11 years ago

POLITICAL Aug 17- Belgium moves government from Brussels to Antwerp. Aug 23- Germany levies war fine on Belgium. Aug 23- Japan declares war on Germany. Though Japan...

World War I - Week 4 - August 24-30, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 11 years ago

POLITICAL Aug 25 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Japan Aug 26 - Allies take over German colonies in Cameroon and Togoland in west Africa Aug 29 - New Zealand occupies German colony of Samoa...

An Ugly Side of America

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 153 Comments • 11 years ago

An Ugly Side of AmericaRecently I have been reading a book called Flyboys, a book written by James Bradley, who also wrote Flags of Our Fathers (a book about the six Iwo-Jima flagraisers, one of...

Chief Standing Bear: Retracing the Steps of a Civil Right Leader

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 11 years ago

Chief Standing Bear: Retracing the Steps of a Civil Rights Leader Mike Johanns An imprisoned Native American chief, an unlikely cadre of Nebraskans and a...

World War I - Week 5 - August 31-September 6, 1914

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

POLITICAL Sep. 1 - Russian capital St. Petersburg renamed Petrograd Sep. 2 - French government abandons Paris, moves to Bordeaux Sep. 5 - Agreement of London - Britain, France, and Russia...

Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain's most notorious criminal 126 years after string of terrible murders

Via: nigel-dogberry • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 11 years ago

GUILTY: A DNA sample has proven Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper Read complete article here:...

Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic

Via: larry-crehore • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 11 years ago

Inuit history accurate "The beauty of where they found it is it's proof positive of Inuit oral history," CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge, who has covered the Franklin search for...

World War I - Week 6 - September 7-13, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 12 Comments • 11 years ago

TIMELINE Sep 7 - Second Austrian-Hungarian invasion of Serbia begins Sep 7 - Battle of the Masurian Lakes leads to the retreat of Russian 1st Army Sep 8 - Germans forced back across the River...

World War I - Week 7 - September 14-20, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 15 Comments • 11 years ago

POLITICAL Sep. 18 - Britain's King George V delivers speech to Parliament declaring: "We are fighting for a worthy purpose, and we shall not lay down our arms until that purpose has been fully...

World War I - Week 8 - September 21-27, 1914

Via: pokermike • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 11 years ago

POLITICAL Sep. 21 - Winston Churchill gives a speech in Liverpool calling for 1,000,000 volunteers for the British Army. The British had difficulty setting up recruiting centers to handle the...

Anti Social Network

Via: ambivalent • History & Sociology • 22 Comments • 11 years ago

This is true, it is sad. When you are with someone, keep it in your pocket, so you can actually be with someone.

Slave photo from Robert E. Lee's home discovered on eBay