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It’s Ratification Day! Who, what, when, where and why?
WHTM via Yahoo News· 4 months ago(WHTM) — It’s 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia, a British army under the command of Major General Charles...
Amsterdam is the most fun you can have watching a film about veterans
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoChristian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington in Amsterdam. Photo courtesy of imdb.com....
Roy Wilhelm: General's carriage was a spoil of war
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSometimes it can be a special kind of fun to look back at local history. Today we share some tidbits of the past that I hope you find of interest. The...
With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, ...
The many ways that weather impacted the bombing of Tokyo during WWII
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring...
Hundreds of bodies discovered in Gaza mass graves
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPalestinian health workers recover bodies from a mass grave at the Nasser Medical Hospital compound in Khan Younis - Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg Hundreds of...
That time the CIA tried to topple Castro
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOfficially greenlit on November 30, 1961, the operation aimed to incite a "revolutionary" atmosphere in Cuba that would ultimately lead to Castro's...