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D-Day 80th anniversary: See historical photos from 1944 invasion of Normandy beaches
USA Today· 5 hours agoAccording to the Library of Congress, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of...
Library of Congress hopes to preserve stories of Hawaii veterans
KHON 2 Honolulu· 2 days agoThe Library of Congress Veterans History program is working with the Oahu Veterans Center in Salt...
On this day in history, June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at London's Westminster Abbey
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoQueen Elizabeth II — on this day in history, June 2, 1953 — is crowned monarch of the U.K. before...
When democracy was on the line 80 years ago, Americans put their lives on the line
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 54 minutes agoWhen I retired in 2022, I followed the retired Baby Boomer handbook and started researching my...
Recognizing D-Day sacrifices for representative democracy, as America faces a new reckoning
Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoEighty years ago today, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the largest invasion fleet in...
'Check your bayonets': Remembering D-Day, and the hours after
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoJun. 5—"I'm no better than anyone else." That statement, in effect, was what put Foster Feathers in that landing craft, in the chop of Omaha Beach, on June 8, 1944: D-Day, Plus Two. Feathers ...
Stevie Wonder Songs: 25 Top Tracks
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHe’s won 25 Grammys and an Oscar, and he’s been awarded the Gershwin Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Library of Congress. He’s ...
Rosa Parks’s Peanut Butter Pancakes
Washington Post· 3 days agoThis recipe for Rosa Parks’s peanut butter pancakes, which she calls “featherlite,” is written in her own handwriting on the back of a bank envelope in...
New Silent Comedy Blu-ray Set Reveals Long-Lost Stars, Including Drew Barrymore’s Ancestor
indieWIRE· 5 days agoThe unheralded silent film studio Vitagraph is given its proper due in new Blu-ray collection...
Obituaries in Asheville, NC | Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville Citizen-Times· 19 hours agoBorn in Buffalo, NY, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Evelyn Guzowski. Certified by the Library of Congress to transcribe ...
