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Bridges: Bernardo de Galvez governed Spanish Louisiana in American Revolution
Amarillo Globe-News via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe Revolutionary War found the American colonies in a desperate struggle for independence against...
Fourth of July 2023: How did the national holiday originate and why do Americans celebrate it?
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAmericans are celebrating the biggest holiday of the year on Tuesday, Fourth of July, marking the...
How Independence Day landed on July 4
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoQ. What event are we actually celebrating on July 4? A. Independence Day, or July 4, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the...
Connecticut group urges state to exonerate witch trial victims over 300 years later
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAccusations of witchcraft in Connecticut led to the first large-scale witch trials in the American...
Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later
WFXT via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDecades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the...
Are Red Beans And Kidney Beans The Same Thing?
Tasting Table via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCajun red beans and rice - Bhofack2/Getty Images Red beans star in many recipes, none more famously than a Louisiana-favorite dish called, simply, red...
Who Decided February 29th Is Leap Day?
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCredit - Getty Images 2024 is a leap year, which means that this February will have an extra day tacked onto the end. But why February? Why not put Leap...
Dames learn about religion in Colonial America
Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Ga. via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOct. 10—THOMASVILLE- The Reverend George Wilcox Brown, III, 4th Rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church, presented a program to the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century ...
On This Day, Feb. 12: Plane crashes into Buffalo, N.Y.-area home, killing 50
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOn Feb. 12, 2009, a Continental airlines turboprop commuter plane crashed into a house near Buffalo,...
This city was ravaged in WWII. Why do few remember the suffering and sacrifice?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoEven in the Philippines, the 1945 battle by American and Filipino forces to liberate Manila is...