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a37f5e7b816facd9daa34d5cc9a27dac | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-oil-opec-idUSKCN1BP1ZL | Kazakhstan to remain part of global oil pact: president | Kazakhstan to remain part of global oil pact: president
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
FILE PHOTO: Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev attends a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool/File photo
ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s larges... |
148e3019800e783a11e7a515e1724ea1 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-politics-verdict-idUSKBN13N1IB | Kazakhstan jails nine Islamists, two activists over attack, unrest | Kazakhstan jails nine Islamists, two activists over attack, unrest
By Reuters Staff3 Min Read
ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakh courts sentenced nine Islamic State supporters and two leading political activists to prison terms in separate trials on Monday after their convictions over the two biggest shocks to veteran President... |
ee666e94d244f2978dcfd9a5c51edb5a | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-president/kazakhstans-leader-nazarbayev-resigns-after-three-decades-in-power-idUSKCN1R01N1 | Kazakhstan's leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades in power | Kazakhstan's leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades in power
By Olzhas Auyezov6 Min Read
ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev unexpectedly resigned on Tuesday after three decades in power, in what appeared to be the first step in a choreographed political transition that will see him re... |
b5c618ff934252c285fda80221a58d74 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-swf/kazakhtelecom-may-be-first-key-state-company-to-list-abroad-in-2018-idUSKBN1CL1DF | Kazakhtelecom may be first key state company to list abroad in 2018 | Kazakhtelecom may be first key state company to list abroad in 2018
By Elzio Barreto3 Min Read
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Kazakhstan’s largest telecom operator may be the first of three big state-run companies to list abroad in 2018, an executive at the Kazakh sovereign wealth fund said on Monday, as the country looks to at... |
00dd84955b39964f9baab3771509bdc5 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-usa-chapman-lawsuit-idINKCN24P1EM?edition-redirect=in | Kazakhstan sues NY financier over $500 million-plus arbitration dispute | Kazakhstan sues NY financier over $500 million-plus arbitration dispute
By Reuters Staff3 Min Read
ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan is suing a New York financier, alleging he conspired with a Moldovan businessman to fraudulently secure an arbitration award of over $500 million against the oil-rich nation, according to doc... |
125257a77d646a583302cc03075966de | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-usa-idUSL2561778020070525 | U.S. criticizes Kazakhstan over media shutdown | U.S. criticizes Kazakhstan over media shutdown
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
ALMATY (Reuters) - The United States criticized Kazakhstan on Friday for closing two media outlets controlled by the son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and urged the Central Asian state to respect freedom of speech.
Kazakh officials on ... |
390af93cd3f839d8999a749d38e2b2eb | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kc-southern-results/kansas-city-southern-first-quarter-profit-beats-expectations-idUSKCN1RT1FU | Kansas City Southern first-quarter profit beats expectations | Kansas City Southern first-quarter profit beats expectations
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
FILE PHOTO: A wagon of a freight train of the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Railway Company is pictured in Toluca, Mexico October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
(Reuters) - U.S. railroad operator Kansas City Southern on Wednesday repo... |
afe0d8db1df362053a30ff8597497d70 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kc-southern-results/kansas-city-southern-profit-soars-trade-worry-eases-shares-climb-idUSKCN1MT2DL | Kansas City Southern profit soars, trade worry eases; shares climb | Kansas City Southern profit soars, trade worry eases; shares climb
By Lisa Baertlein, Rachit Vats3 Min Read
(Reuters) - Railroad operator Kansas City Southern's KSU.N quarterly profit jumped 34 percent, even after network congestion crimped operations in Mexico, where it has extensive services.
Shares climbed 4 percent... |
1e10c1979488e4ce7618e277614c99ee | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kc-southern-results/kansas-city-southern-takes-aim-at-rail-efficiency-shares-jump-idUSKCN1PC1LO | Kansas City Southern takes aim at rail efficiency, shares jump | Kansas City Southern takes aim at rail efficiency, shares jump
By Lisa Baertlein2 Min Read
FILE PHOTO: A logo of the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Railway Company is pictured in Toluca, Mexico October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Regional railroad operator Kansas City Southern KSU.N on Friday sa... |
81c453298e414e006ffd7be273598084 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kddi-daiwa-idUKKBN1FS02K?edition-redirect=uk | Japan's KDDI, Daiwa Sec tie up in smartphone asset management | Japan's KDDI, Daiwa Sec tie up in smartphone asset management
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese telecoms operator KDDI Corp and Daiwa Securities Group Inc said on Thursday they have joined hands to offer asset management services, including using smartphones to target younger investors.
Their joint ... |
3c72d576402bd6c41ada559650cc580e | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kellogg-ceo-idUSTRE6B529L20101206 | Kellogg CEO to retire with COO to succeed him | Kellogg CEO to retire with COO to succeed him
By Martinne Geller, Helen Chernikoff3 Min Read
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kellogg Co K.N named Chief Operating Officer John Bryant its new chief executive officer on Monday, replacing David Mackay, who became eligible for retirement in July.
Mackay told the board he planned to re... |
c6da4f36982f786768dff95cf5207fb5 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kellogg-restructuring-idUSKCN1TJ1KG | Kellogg to cut jobs, take $35 million pretax hit on North America unit revamp | Kellogg to cut jobs, take $35 million pretax hit on North America unit revamp
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
FILE PHOTO: The company logo and ticker symbol for The Kellogg Company, is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Ph... |
2b36490d8a3afafbfd28322addb1bf8c | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kellogg-salmonella-idUSTRE50E0BP20090115 | Kellogg takes peanut butter snacks off shelves | Kellogg takes peanut butter snacks off shelves
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kellogg Co said on Wednesday it was removing its Austin and Keebler branded peanut butter snacks from store shelves and put a hold on their shipments due to the current Salmonella food poisoning outbreak.
But the company said... |
f73995b87d5148dbecb97537fde40bbe | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kellogg-venezuela/maduro-seizes-kellogg-plant-after-it-leaves-venezuela-due-to-crisis-idUSKCN1IG2BS | Maduro seizes Kellogg plant after it leaves Venezuela due to crisis | Maduro seizes Kellogg plant after it leaves Venezuela due to crisis
By Corina Pons, Alexandra Ulmer3 Min Read
CARACAS (Reuters) - U.S.-based cereal maker Kellogg Co K.N on Tuesday pulled out of Venezuela due to the country's deep economic crisis, and an angry President Nicolas Maduro said its units would be taken over ... |
c26e0e0d860f63e1ed02e946dd36790e | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kendrascott-m-a-berkshirepartners-idUSKBN14A2GQ | Berkshire Partners to buy stake in Kendra Scott | Berkshire Partners to buy stake in Kendra Scott
By Lauren Hirsch2 Min Read
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Berkshire Partners LLC said on Wednesday it would acquire a significant minority stake in Kendra Scott Design Inc, in a deal that sources said values the Austin, Texas-based jewelry company at more than $... |
282b1d3f2348ad18289f1c0c2a0355bf | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kentucky-healthcare-idINKCN0UQ07920160112?edition-redirect=in | Kentucky governor to dismantle state's health insurance exchange: newspaper | Kentucky governor to dismantle state's health insurance exchange: newspaper
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
Matt Bevin (R-KY) speaks to a gathering at FreePAC Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky, April 5, 2014. REUTERS/John Sommers II
(Reuters) - Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has notified U.S. authorities that he plans to dism... |
52896f759e0fecfed14678ba97481465 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kentucky-lgbt-idUSKCN0XA2J5 | Kentucky governor OKs removing clerks' names from marriage licenses | Kentucky governor OKs removing clerks' names from marriage licenses
By Steve Bittenbender3 Min Read
Matt Bevin talks with his campaign supporters at his campaign headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, May 19, 2014. REUTERS/John Sommers II
LOUISVILLE (Reuters) - Kentucky’s governor on Wednesday signed into law a bill th... |
20d73d6e1848fbfe30562cc705c5525f | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kentucky-marriage-idUSKBN17Y29Y | Same-sex couple can seek damages from Kentucky clerk: U.S. appeals court | Same-sex couple can seek damages from Kentucky clerk: U.S. appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel3 Min Read
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a damages lawsuit against Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who in 2015 refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it conflicted with her C... |
93003847f63c0acf24aca73f232653f4 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kentucky-marriage/gay-man-to-run-against-kentucky-clerk-who-denied-him-marriage-license-idUSKBN1E031G?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social | Gay man to run against Kentucky clerk who denied him marriage license | Gay man to run against Kentucky clerk who denied him marriage license
By Suzannah Gonzales3 Min Read
(Reuters) - A gay man who was denied a marriage license in Kentucky two years ago by a county clerk who refused to issue licenses for same-sex marriages will run to unseat her next year, he said on Wednesday.
David Ermo... |
0b52ae1dfdfa5367aa7f48d32873820e | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kentucky-shooting/kentucky-supermarket-shooting-investigated-as-hate-crime-idUSKCN1N02W2 | Kentucky supermarket shooting investigated as hate crime | Kentucky supermarket shooting investigated as hate crime
By Reuters Staff3 Min Read
(Reuters) - The shooting of a black man and woman at a Kentucky supermarket was being investigated as a possible hate crime, a federal prosecutor said on Friday.
Gregory Bush, 51, a white man, has been charged with shooting Maurice Stal... |
2dc5bbc10c61e8ce975429ad5094c66d | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-alibaba-idUSKBN1A51XD | Alibaba's revenue to jump 45-48 percent this year: executive chairman | Alibaba's revenue to jump 45-48 percent this year: executive chairman
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - China’s Alibaba expects its revenue to expand by 45 to 48 percent in its fiscal year from April as more small businesses join its online community in search of sales, Executive Cha... |
4463e004c4dc6ffddeb51a7b173dedf9 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-alphabet/alphabet-to-deploy-balloon-internet-in-kenya-with-telkom-in-2019-idUSKBN1K90SV | Alphabet to deploy balloon Internet in Kenya with Telkom in 2019 | Alphabet to deploy balloon Internet in Kenya with Telkom in 2019
By Duncan Miriri2 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Loon said on Thursday it would deploy its system of balloons to beam high-speed Internet access with Telkom Kenya from next year to cover rural and suburban populations, marking its first comme... |
09a608406d9de117fe8f846e52306a3c | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-attack-court-idUSKBN26S1K6 | Kenya court convicts two for helping deadly jihadist attack on shopping mall | Kenya court convicts two for helping deadly jihadist attack on shopping mall
By Humphrey Malalo, George Obulutsa4 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court convicted two men on Wednesday for helping al Qaeda-linked gunmen storm Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall and kill at least 67 people in a 2013 assault that proved... |
8b735f58526a35525a68b071d299fc99 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-attack-idUSKBN19Q1VK | Somali militants kill three police in raid on Kenyan border town | Somali militants kill three police in raid on Kenyan border town
By Joseph Akwiri3 Min Read
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab militants killed three police officers on Wednesday during a raid on a northeastern Kenyan town that sparked a day-long gunbattle, a senior police official said.
It was the latest in ... |
a5895825c99338453898d0e5059cb88d | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-attack/kenya-foils-terror-attack-planned-by-somali-militants-idUSKBN1930NK | Kenya foils terror attack planned by Somali militants | Kenya foils terror attack planned by Somali militants
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has seized six men suspected of planning an attack sponsored by the al Shabaab militant group from neighboring Somalia, the head of Kenyan police said late on Sunday.
In recent weeks, the East African nation has l... |
8e3f13f6e823a25b9f34aeb5efc0a1c9 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-attacks-idUSKCN11H0AC | Robed women petrol-bomb police station in Kenya's Mombasa | Robed women petrol-bomb police station in Kenya's Mombasa
By Joseph Akwiri3 Min Read
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Three robed women tricked their way into a Mombasa police station where they stabbed one officer and set fire to the building with a petrol bomb before being shot dead, an officer and a witness said on Sunday... |
991bfbd1bfa428fd68c08ac13e4b1142 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-backstreet-abortions-idUSTRE79O4XV20111025 | Kenya backstreet abortions kill thousands each year | Kenya backstreet abortions kill thousands each year
By Katy Migiro, TrustLaw6 Min Read
NAIROBI (TrustLaw) - “I was bleeding like hell. I knew that I was going to die,” Emily said, recalling how she sat naked on a plastic basin, hemorrhaging blood for two weeks after paying $10 for an abortion in Nairobi’s Mathare slum.... |
22439a4f8aaaac8ecebbe2db70129e6b | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-bharti-airtel-idUSKBN1HH0UR | Telkom Kenya and Airtel seek merger to take on Safaricom: sources | Telkom Kenya and Airtel seek merger to take on Safaricom: sources
By Duncan Miriri3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Telkom Kenya plans to merge operations with Indian-owned Bharti Airtel's BRTI.NS local unit as a first step to acquiring all of Airtel's assets, sources said on Tuesday, creating a stronger challenger to mar... |
b6ae95c46cc179a99dc1006cccade5be | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-bonds-green-idUSKBN1721OI | Kenya sets sights on green bonds after mobile phone issue | Kenya sets sights on green bonds after mobile phone issue
By George Obulutsa3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya aims to issue its first ‘green’ bond this year, the initiative’s backers said on Friday, bolstering the nation’s reputation for financial innovation after the government launched the world’s first mobile pho... |
7510be8a97b460580200dc67f4ba7501 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-cholera-idUSKBN1A61HU | WHO sees high risk from Kenya cholera outbreak | WHO sees high risk from Kenya cholera outbreak
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
GENEVA (Reuters) - An outbreak of cholera in Kenya poses a high risk to the region and a moderate threat globally, the World Health Organization said on Friday, after delegates at two international conferences were hit.
The spread of the disease ... |
54ba52ae230c9c881184ef96e887a32b | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-conservation-idUKKCN24G0TD?edition-redirect=uk | Wild animals losing freedom to roam as city encroaches on Nairobi park | Wild animals losing freedom to roam as city encroaches on Nairobi park
By Katharine Houreld3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rhinos, lions, buffalo and leopards range against the background of a city skyline in the Nairobi National Park, Africa’s only game reserve within a capital city.
The park has been fenced in on thre... |
f5ba044c61010753efd53e2ba7c33caf | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-corruption/kenyan-court-grants-bail-to-nairobi-governor-charged-with-corruption-idUSKBN1YF17T?edition-redirect=in | Kenyan court grants bail to Nairobi governor charged with corruption | Kenyan court grants bail to Nairobi governor charged with corruption
By Humphrey Malalo3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court granted bail on Wednesday to the Nairobi County governor charged with multi-million dollar corruption in one of the most high profile cases in the government’s anti-graft push.
Nairobi's ... |
4db81cfad42509297aacd0cd99e57fd3 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-court-ruto-idUSKCN0X21WC | International Criminal Court throws out charges against Kenyan deputy president | International Criminal Court throws out charges against Kenyan deputy president
By Thomas Escritt3 Min Read
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday threw out post-election violence charges against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, giving him a major boost as he prepares to make a... |
267c82d339b18216945faf61bfe35b47 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-crash/three-americans-among-five-killed-in-kenya-plane-crash-source-idUSKCN1Q22BG | Three Americans among five killed in Kenya plane crash: source | Three Americans among five killed in Kenya plane crash: source
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A light plane crashed in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley region on Wednesday, killing five people including three Americans, a police source said.
Witnesses saw the plane clip a tree as it atte... |
b60b498cc366deda262b718e485e3119 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-credit-uber-idUSKCN0ZG1RW | Uber driver data in Kenya helps bridge credit gap | Uber driver data in Kenya helps bridge credit gap
By Neha Wadekar5 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sidian Bank has approved its first car loans to experienced Uber [UBER.UL] drivers in Kenya, using a model the ride hailing service hopes can be rolled out across countries in Africa where a lack of customer data limits lend... |
a6d794d3411140920a231cc98cd1c9fd | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-drought-insurance-idUSKCN1SJ0EW?edition-redirect=in | Voice of resilience: Kenyan radio builds herders' trust in drought insurance | Voice of resilience: Kenyan radio builds herders' trust in drought insurance
By Kagondu Njagi6 Min Read
ISIOLO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It only lasts about two and half minutes, but the brief message Asma Mohamed broadcasts on her daily radio show has become essential listening for more than half a million... |
18e36706a3d3afdd03479d1529728d5d | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-education-idUSKBN19E1EH | Kenya gives girls free sanitary pads to boost school attendance | Kenya gives girls free sanitary pads to boost school attendance
By Daniel Wesangula, Thomson Reuters Foundation2 Min Read
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya has promised free sanitary pads to all schoolgirls to encourage them to go to school during their periods, rather than stay at home with rags or tissues ... |
9e5a3ed61b34812ac5cd361089a8bb17 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-election-debate-idUSKBN1A3162?il=0 | Kenyan vice president candidate debates himself after rivals' no-show | Kenyan vice president candidate debates himself after rivals' no-show
By Reuters Staff3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyans hoping to watch a televised debate between vice-presidential candidates in next month’s election were left disappointed on Monday when only one of six meant to be on stage was left fielding quest... |
4242f7c61d51a8fd2470e326fa62044d | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-election-idUSKBN1A41AY | Kenyan leaders steer clear of hate speech before vote, but monitors wary | Kenyan leaders steer clear of hate speech before vote, but monitors wary
By Katharine Houreld, Rajiv Golla5 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan politicians are steering clear of inflammatory rhetoric at large public rallies before next month’s vote, but there are fears that hate speech is still spreading online and at ... |
ad3234157a7c5fa05b69a0e6464a9f44 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-election-idUSKBN1AS0D1?il=0 | At least eleven dead as post-election unrest erupts in Kenya | At least eleven dead as post-election unrest erupts in Kenya
By Katharine Houreld, Maggie Fick6 Min Read
NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police have killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of Kisumu and slums surro... |
77300beed9c1f56d8071de2286aba9cc | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-electricity/power-from-kenyas-planned-lamu-plant-could-cost-10-times-more-than-estimated-study-idUSKCN1TC1MP | Power from Kenya's planned Lamu plant could cost 10 times more than estimated: study | Power from Kenya's planned Lamu plant could cost 10 times more than estimated: study
By George Obulutsa3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Electricity from a coal-fired power plant due to be built in Kenya by a Kenyan-Chinese consortium will cost consumers up to 10 times more than planned, a U.S. thinktank says, raising fur... |
e83c122db6e526ef20d841f072cd8022 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-energy-cooking-trfn-idUSKBN1XF2D4 | Kenya vows to cut emissions as dirty stoves and fuels kill 21,500 a year | Kenya vows to cut emissions as dirty stoves and fuels kill 21,500 a year
By Nita Bhalla3 Min Read
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 21,500 Kenyans die each year from cooking with traditional fuels like charcoal and firewood, new government data showed on Tuesday, as authorities pledged to meet a global g... |
c62666ad7e435097db9cf266bce88cc2 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-environment-water-nature-featur/kenyan-villagers-nurture-local-springs-as-founts-of-clean-water-idUSKBN2830U3?edition-redirect=uk | Kenyan villagers nurture local springs as founts of clean water | Kenyan villagers nurture local springs as founts of clean water
By Wesley Langat6 Min Read
BOMET, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Monica Kirui, 30, a mother of five from Kipsegon, remembers queueing for hours as she waited to fetch water from the local springs, the only source of fresh drinking water in her villag... |
2393b870dd8f3e70842402ea8ec26f5d | https://www.historynet.com/americas-greatest-work-architecture.htm | America’s Greatest Work of Architecture | America’s Greatest Work of Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater turns 75 this year. A house of genius and mystery, it may be admired as America’s best 500 years from now.
December sun filled the sky in 1934 as department-store mogul Edgar Kaufmann left Pittsburgh with the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wrigh... |
182ea3d996b411c1dc43852a4f458100 | https://www.historynet.com/americas-medal-honor-heroes.htm | America’s Medal of Honor Heroes | America’s Medal of Honor Heroes
From the Civil War to Afghanistan, the United States’ highest valor award has recognized feats of courage and sacrifice.
On October 25, 2007, in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, a patrol from 2d Battalion, 503d Infantry Regiment, 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team, was returning to Comba... |
08f0260e7731debf16aeef670857673d | https://www.historynet.com/americas-spanish-savior-bernardo-de-galvez.htm | America’s Spanish Savior: Bernardo de Gálvez | America’s Spanish Savior: Bernardo de Gálvez
After entering the American Revolutionary War on the colonies’ side in 1779, Spain drew off British forces to the south, then crushed them, first in Louisiana and Alabama, and finally with a combined naval and land assault at the Battle of Pensacola in 1781. (Nicolas Ponce/L... |
35a7e75e49c145617e82361f30d68434 | https://www.historynet.com/americas-worst-wildfire-the-big-burn-of-1910.htm | America’s Worst Wildfire: The Big Burn of 1910 | America’s Worst Wildfire: The Big Burn of 1910
The fire swept through some 2.7 million acres of federal woodlands, including this stand of white pines in Idaho’s Couer d’Alene National Forest. (U.S. Forest Service)
Shopkeepers, miners and housewives in Wallace, Idaho, had been complaining about the smoke for most of th... |
d654d92ab68c9a2f12943ef7e6db42e5 | https://www.historynet.com/an-american-traitors-homecoming.htm | An American Traitor’s Homecoming | An American Traitor’s Homecoming
British Brigadier Benedict Arnold’s last ‘homecoming’ only served to secure his place in the history books as America’s most despised traitor.
A fleet of warships and troop transports glided quietly across the waters of Long Island Sound toward the Connecticut coastline. The commander ... |
ba713ae26d7c958749be43fe4d0d5fe4 | https://www.historynet.com/ancient-history-walls-of-constantinople.htm | Ancient History: Walls of Constantinople | Ancient History: Walls of Constantinople
The art of fortification has existed ever since man first came to realize the value of natural obstacles to his common defense, and evolved as he sought to invoke his own methods to fully exploit that advantage. The building of barriers rapidly evolved from the simple mud parape... |
073909b98efceb9be3d5807f2fde7b7d | https://www.historynet.com/andrew-carnegie-a-fool-for-peace.htm | Andrew Carnegie—A Fool for Peace | Andrew Carnegie—A Fool for Peace
Author and historian David Nasaw, who specializes in early 20th-century American social and cultural history, is a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books Andrew Carnegie (2006) and The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times ... |
d24473bf74ab6c0a1be573e857afc258 | https://www.historynet.com/andrew-jackson-winner-and-loser-in-1824.htm | Andrew Jackson: Winner and Loser in 1824 | Andrew Jackson: Winner and Loser in 1824
Did a corrupt bargain between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay steal the presidential election and overturn the will of the people?
It was a cold and snowy morning on February 9, 1825, as New York Congressman Stephen Van Rensselaer trudged through Washington, D.C., to the Capito... |
3532c78a1f584203d66f7f563bce7613 | https://www.historynet.com/andrews-celebrates-u-s-air-force-70th.htm | Andrews Celebrates U.S. Air Force 70th | Andrews Celebrates U.S. Air Force 70th
After a year off due to budget restrictions, the Joint Base Andrews Air Show was held at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C., on September 16-17, 2017. Spectators at the free airshow were treated to military aircraft displays, aerobatic routines, warbird flybys and a... |
1286c2c7fbe92fdaf6996a24b27fdd18 | https://www.historynet.com/another-italian-misadventure-in-the-battle-of-britain.htm | Another Italian Misadventure in the Battle of Britain | Another Italian Misadventure in the Battle of Britain
When the Italian air force pitted biplanes against Hurricanes and Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, the outcome wasn’t pretty.
Sergeant Pietro Salvadori desperately tried to determine what was causing the engine of his Fiat C.R.42bis biplane fighter to overheat as... |
d06db11bf5f1bb85715787c8039c88c8 | https://www.historynet.com/antietams-deadly-harvest.htm | Antietam’s Deadly Harvest | Antietam’s Deadly Harvest
New revelations from a recently discovered map.
In this vivid drawing by Frank Schell, curious Sharpsburg civilians watch as Union soldiers excavate mass graves on the Roulette Farm and quickly fill them with corpses. (Atwater Kent Collections/Bridgeman Images) Nightfall on September 17, 1862 ... |
74205110a3db884259db9f78c3ccf342 | https://www.historynet.com/apocalypse-45-triumph-and-terror-in-never-before-seen-footage-of-the-pacific-war.htm | ‘Apocalypse ’45’: Triumph and Terror in Never-Before-Seen Footage of the Pacific War | ‘Apocalypse ’45’: Triumph and Terror in Never-Before-Seen Footage of the Pacific War
Ittsei Nakagawa, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, once recalled Frank Oppenheimer asking, “Do you know the story of Genie in the Bottle? Well, the Genie’s out of the bottle. There is no way that you can get that guy in a bottle.”
A... |
c33d328b9963b464015b88f0d18893b8 | https://www.historynet.com/appomattox-apple-tree-yields-prize-for-winners-wife.htm | Appomattox Apple Tree Yields Prize for Winner’s Wife | Appomattox Apple Tree Yields Prize for Winner’s Wife
Exquisite jewelry carved in the shape of acorns presented to Julia Dent Grant
On April 9, 1865, during the final hours of the Appomattox Campaign, General Robert E. Lee sent Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant a message requesting a meeting to discuss the surrender of his army... |
4638ce0289b1fb95cb1567c2201e209e | https://www.historynet.com/arch-and-teddy.htm | Arch and Teddy: First Flight By a U.S. President | Arch and Teddy: First Flight By a U.S. President
A bromance blossomed between Archibald Hoxsey and Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 when the early aviator took TR for a short flight—the first by a U.S. president.
As dawn broke on the last day of 1910, things were looking up for Arch Hoxsey. The early bird pilot had broken th... |
f92f3d5b1a6d19d421ef5b31f3aac225 | https://www.historynet.com/arlington-funeral-held-for-bennie-g-adkins-medal-of-honor-recipient-who-died-from-covid-19.htm | Arlington Funeral Held for Bennie G. Adkins, Medal of Honor Recipient Who Died from COVID-19 | Arlington Funeral Held for Bennie G. Adkins, Medal of Honor Recipient Who Died from COVID-19
On Wednesday, Medal of Honor recipient Bennie G. Adkins was finally laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
After contracting COVID-19 in March of this year, Adkins died after a brief struggle wit... |
4c485479dbcfbb6eac4fe7f7fc00b4a5 | https://www.historynet.com/arlingtons-enslaved-savior-selina-gray.htm | Arlington’s Enslaved Savior: Selina Gray | Arlington’s Enslaved Savior: Selina Gray
In October 1866, as the country was still in the early stages of recovering from the Civil War, a U.S. government party arrived on the doorstep of the Custis-Lee home at Arlington, the grand Greek revival mansion high on the hill overlooking Washington D.C. Robert E. Lee had lef... |
f0fadbfbf000a0394390021f1428a030 | https://www.historynet.com/armchair-historian-the-attempt-to-kill-hitler.htm | Armchair Historian – the Attempt to Kill Hitler | HistoryNet | Armchair Historian – the Attempt to Kill Hitler | HistoryNet
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942cbf8512228dcab19ba2732d8e53cb | https://www.historynet.com/arsenal-hh-43-huskie.htm | Arsenal – HH-43 Huskie | Arsenal – HH-43 Huskie
Click on image for expanded view. (Illustration: Greg Proche)
In March 1964, the U.S. Air Force deployed six Pacific Air Rescue Center HH-43B Huskies to Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, forming the 33rd Air Rescue Squadron’s forward detachment. A year later, the 33rd launched i... |
2d84639315bea698f64dadb34c0ac8ec | https://www.historynet.com/arsenal-mig-21-hanois-aerial-equalizer.htm | Arsenal | MiG-21: Hanoi’s Aerial Equalizer | Arsenal | MiG-21: Hanoi’s Aerial Equalizer
The Mikoyan-Gurevich concept of a tailed delta wing interceptor with Mach 2 capability first flew in 1955, entered Soviet service in 1959 and remained in first-line service for more than 30 years—a record for progressive development, longevity and overall success paralleling t... |
21ca92782be51eee3e7c1960126a3087 | https://www.historynet.com/arsenal-nvas-quick-change-machine-gun.htm | Arsenal | The NVA’s ‘Quick Change’ Machine Gun | Arsenal | The NVA’s ‘Quick Change’ Machine Gun
The Soviet-made PK general purpose machine gun—never as widely employed as the ubiquitous the Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifle and RPD light machine gun—began to replace the Soviets’ DP light machine gun in the North Vietnamese Army in late 1965. The gun’s open-bolt, gas-op... |
6667a71c2ebdebd8dcb099d1ebd9c8a8 | https://www.historynet.com/as-american-as-jim-crow.htm | The History of the Real Jim Crow | The History of the Real Jim Crow
The trickster whose name came to label racist language and culture has a startling past IN RECENT YEARS, the phrase “Jim Crow†has seen much use. Ire at a congressional rollback of federal Voting Rights Act protections, at state efforts to restrict access to polling places, and at p... |
f5c154f035e885ee3cbf05c7cdd28d76 | https://www.historynet.com/as-he-lived-for-others-so-did-he-die.htm | ‘As He Lived For Others, So Did He Die’: Beloved Union General Israel Richardson Cut Down at Antietam | ‘As He Lived For Others, So Did He Die’: Beloved Union General Israel Richardson Cut Down at Antietam
Israel Bush Richardson was born in Fairfax, Vt., in December 1815, the second of seven children born to Israel Putnam Richardson and Susanna Holmes Richardson. His father, one of Vermont’s more prominent lawyers, serve... |
7671f258a9ffedb4ff211c3c84271bcf | https://www.historynet.com/assault-at-petersburg.htm | Assault at Petersburg | Assault at Petersburg
Lieutenant Octavius Wiggins of Company E, 37th North Carolina, peered out across Arthur’s Swamp in the pre-dawn darkness of Sunday, April 2, 1865. He was searching for the masses of assaulting Federal soldiers that he and his fellow members of Brigadier General James Lane’s Brigade expected every ... |
3c0206dd481211221421c7a2a1376bea | https://www.historynet.com/attack-on-pearl-harbor-why-werent-we-warned.htm | Attack on Pearl Harbor: Why Weren’t We Warned | Attack on Pearl Harbor: Why Weren’t We Warned
More than 60 years later, Americans still wonder how Japan’s surprise attack on the Pacific Fleet could have succeeded. The joint congressional committee that investigated the attack in 1945 and 1946 put the question sharply: ‘Why with some of the finest intelligence availa... |
b73e8ae3830636755c4a341f861a69fe | https://www.historynet.com/author-historian-t-j-stiles.htm | Author-Historian T.J. Stiles | Author-Historian T.J. Stiles
Author-historian T.J. Stiles must be running short on shelf space. The Minnesota native’s latest book, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, won the 2016 Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the William H. Seward Award for excellence in Civil War biography and the... |
6f1c21aa580815c2b91e45b62a4c87b2 | https://www.historynet.com/avengers-doolittle-raid.htm | The Avengers: The Doolittle Raid | The Avengers: The Doolittle Raid
Four Doolittle Raiders recall the mission that rocked Japan.
The first bombs, four 500-pound incendiary clusters, began tumbling down to Tokyo on Saturday, April 18, 1942, at precisely 12:20 p.m. While little is known of Sergeant Fred A. Braemer’s aim, his timing— as well as that of his... |
2e01ecc52e1f6806340dcfaf554757a1 | https://www.historynet.com/aviation-history-book-review-red-knight-germany.htm | Aviation History Book Review: The Red Knight of Germany | Aviation History Book Review: The Red Knight of Germany
The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen by Floyd Gibbons
Two dollars doesn’t seem like much today, but it was a whole lot of dough in 1947, when I plunked it down at Amatin’s bookshop in St. Louis for a well-worn copy of The Red Knight of Germ... |
95761a1d5a26529a45291ebddf9a18d4 | https://www.historynet.com/aviation-history-book-review-squadron-303.htm | Aviation History Book Review: Squadron 303 | Aviation History Book Review: Squadron 303
Squadron 303: The Polish Fighter Squadron with the R.A.F. by Arkady Fiedler, 1943.
Arkady Fiedler, a Polish-born writer of popular travelogues, reached his zenith as a wordsmith when he chronicled the impressive early exploits of free Polish fighter pilots flying with the Roya... |
b2843ee7900176ef254b70ce1afc4d02 | https://www.historynet.com/aviation-history-book-review-the-flying-tigers.htm | Aviation History Book Review: The Flying Tigers | Aviation History Book Review: The Flying Tigers
The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan by Sam Kleiner, Viking, 2018, $28.
The American Volunteer Group (AVG) that helped China fend off Japanese invaders in the first seven months after Pearl Harbor has probably bee... |
babdc0c4f23d6e2e096d8ee3fde3e445 | https://www.historynet.com/aviation-history-briefing-july-2009.htm | Aviation History Briefing- July 2009 | Aviation History Briefing- July 2009
Barn Cub Found
Every collector’s dream is to come across a “barn find,” though often the discovery doesn’t involve a barn. It can be a Merlin engine spotted in a junkyard, a decrepit Stearman parked in a field, Spad wings stored in a warehouse. A remarkable recent find, in fact, inv... |
c6530218eeb1b18b1e284e1ddbbcc126 | https://www.historynet.com/aviation-history-briefing-march-2009.htm | Spirit of TWA Transcontinental | Spirit of TWA Transcontinental
The oldest surviving ex-TWA aircraft, a Lockheed 12A Electra Junior, made a coast-to-coast round trip in September to celebrate the opening of the new JFK Terminal 5. The structure is attached to the once-spectacular swooping, science-fictiony terminal originally designed for TWA by the f... |
46ca6fe705770c3b03a53181c71c106f | https://www.historynet.com/aviation-history-interview-with-world-war-ii-luftwaffe-ace-gunther-rall.htm | Aviation History: Interview with World War II Luftwaffe Ace Günther Rall | Aviation History: Interview with World War II Luftwaffe Ace Günther Rall
From the time the Luftwaffe went to war on September 1, 1939, its fighter pilots immediately began to make their presence known. Slashing through the skies and inflicting enormous casualties, they amassed previously unimaginable scores of aerial v... |
c226acec3b03494b3f35d886a0ee817f | https://www.historynet.com/axis-sally.htm | Axis Sally: The Americans Behind the Infamous Nazi Propaganda Broadcast | Axis Sally: The Americans Behind the Infamous Nazi Propaganda Broadcast
From the deserts of North Africa to the Normandy beaches, GIs listened to the traitorous Axis Sally broadcasting over the radio for Nazi Germany.
Mildred Gillars, the Berlin Axis Sally, attracts a new audience as she arrives in the United States in... |
e5add4c43669c6ae905cb96c16d63251 | https://www.historynet.com/b-24-gunner-andy-hocko-on-a-celebrated-mission-we-think-we-know.htm | B-24 Gunner Andy Hocko, on a Celebrated Mission We Think We Know | B-24 Gunner Andy Hocko, on a Celebrated Mission We Think We Know
“I was never a talker, even with my crew. But I’d try to do the best I could to get back to base.”
Andrew Hocko Jr., the son of Slovakian immigrants who settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, coal country, was a waist gunner aboard Double Trouble, a B-24J Lib... |
60aae29d8814dacb8709880ea769a405 | https://www.historynet.com/back-to-guam.htm | Back to Guam | Back to Guam
When the navy ordered me to Guam last winter, I was less than enthusiastic about the prospect. It certainly didn’t help that an officer I worked with who had spent some time in Guam in the 1960s referred to the North Pacific island—the southernmost and largest of the Mariana Islands—as “the armpit of the w... |
fec1c6d68bcdb4701eaef8e64e3140c9 | https://www.historynet.com/baseballs-odd-man-out.htm | Baseball’s Odd Man Out | Baseball’s Odd Man Out
Morris “Moe” Berg was a brainy academic who spoke a dozen languages. He was also a spy.
In the fall of 1934 Morris “Moe” Berg, a journeyman backup catcher for the Cleveland Indians baseball team, caught a break—or so it was thought. To the surprise of many people, he was named to a squad of 14 ma... |
103d5077a51704e473652a6555bf1b6b | https://www.historynet.com/battle-films-rommel-2012.htm | Battle Films: Rommel (2012) | Battle Films: Rommel (2012)
MY LAST COLUMN EXAMINED The Desert Fox, the well-known 1951 film that helped popularize the image of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as a gallant, principled soldier who stood up to Hitler and supported the attempt to remove the Nazi dictator from power in the summer of 1944. Rommel, a German tel... |
ef3973999f4dd9cd7614240715320ead | https://www.historynet.com/battle-for-chitor-storming-the-last-hindu-fortress-in-1567.htm | Battle for Chitor: Storming the Last Hindu Fortress in 1567 | Battle for Chitor: Storming the Last Hindu Fortress in 1567
The walls had been breached. The Mogul forces were closing in on the gallant Rajput defenders inside Chitor Garh, the fort of Chitor. Suddenly, flames were seen rising up in the air from three places inside the fort. The courtiers of Akbar the Great, the Mogul... |
0c8eee7d6d640831f6fcac66c596aa07 | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-antietam-controversial-crossing-on-burnsides-bridge.htm | Battle of Antietam: Controversial Crossing on Burnside’s Bridge | Battle of Antietam: Controversial Crossing on Burnside’s Bridge
In 1951 Bruce Catton indicated in his book Mr. Lincoln’s Army that Major General Ambrose Burnside deserved much of the blame for the incomplete Union victory at the Battle of Antietam. Throughout the 1862 Maryland campaign Burnside had commanded a wing com... |
52530ea42d6e48fda428a9ba761dc8e9 | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-gettysburg-general-george-sears-greene-at-culps-hill.htm | Battle of Gettysburg: General George Sears Greene at Culp’s Hill | Battle of Gettysburg: General George Sears Greene at Culp’s Hill
The Union left had almost broken late on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant General James Longstreet’s Rebels had hit the Federals hard for more than an hour, with the 15th and 47th Alabam... |
5c563ff3314cee8fe6078cfd6ce88414 | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-gettysburg-major-eugene-blackford-and-the-fifth-alabama-sharpshooters.htm | Battle of Gettysburg: Major Eugene Blackford and the Fifth Alabama Sharpshooters | Battle of Gettysburg: Major Eugene Blackford and the Fifth Alabama Sharpshooters
On the hot afternoon of July 1, 1863, a 24-year-old Confederate officer and his elite unit stood very much in harm’s way. Major Eugene Blackford ordered his corps of sharpshooters to deploy off the eastern side of Oak Hill to screen and pr... |
80723091f0a4fa813494b335286676ef | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-hurtgen-forest-the-9th-infantry-division-suffered-in-the-heavily-armed-woods.htm | Battle of Hürtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods | Battle of Hürtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods
Hürtgen. If a single word can cause a U.S. Army veteran of the European theater to shudder, it would be that. The foreboding image of dark forests, steep hills, voracious mud, pillboxes, constant rain and shells bursting in treetops... |
2abaec8aa8be12bd1fd7342be8cfea0b | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-palmetto-ranch-american-civil-wars-final-battle.htm | Battle of Palmetto Ranch: American Civil War’s Final Battle | Battle of Palmetto Ranch: American Civil War’s Final Battle
By May 11, 1865, nearly everyone in the United States and in the moribund Confederacy considered the Civil War over. Both of the South’s principal armies had capitulated. Lieutenant General Richard Taylor had surrendered most of the remaining Confederate force... |
7a33fca5ec29ccec5a8bb1235cc0e089 | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-stalingrad-operation-winter-tempest.htm | Battle of Stalingrad: Operation Winter Tempest | Battle of Stalingrad: Operation Winter Tempest
Stalingrad–Stalin’s City–the industrial center on the Volga River, attracted German and Soviet divisions in the latter part of 1942 like a magnet draws metal shavings. During the heady days of that summer, the men of General der Panzertruppe Friedrich von Paulus’ vaunted S... |
1d7a03b80c776a1b1514ae4ac40ff3c4 | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-stones-river.htm | Battle Of Stones River | Battle Of Stones River
By the afternoon of December 30, 1862, the cannoneers of Captain Warren P. Edgarton’s Battery E, 1st Ohio Artillery Regiment, were exhausted and worn down from hard marching and coping with adverse weather. Now, moving in column with their infantry support, Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson’s ... |
45b5bba3e3b8a78d9fdc1a7c1cd587bb | https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-hedgerows.htm | Battle of the Hedgerows | Battle of the Hedgerows
The city of St. Lô was the U.S. Army’s key to breaking out of Normandy into the French hinterland.
On the morning of July 11, 1944, the 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, advanced toward Martinville Ridge, two miles east of St. Lô. The German defenders were deployed in ideal positions along... |
06bac0c590583419de06fed278b3e90b | https://www.historynet.com/beech-starship-little-bighorn-with-wings.htm | Beech Starship: ‘Little Bighorn With Wings’ | Beech Starship: ‘Little Bighorn With Wings’
Expectations were high when Burt Rutan teamed up with Beech to produce the Starship business aircraft, but the result was a rare failure for the innovative designer.
In 1955 the Beech Aircraft Company considered marketing the French Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris jet in the Uni... |
6a334e87dd34cfb13d723d36feed00b0 | https://www.historynet.com/behind-barricade-identity-devils-den-sharpshooter.htm | Behind the Barricade: How diligent research revealed the identity of the Devil’s Den ‘sharpshooter’ | Behind the Barricade: How diligent research revealed the identity of the Devil’s Den ‘sharpshooter’
A Confederate soldier, his youthful face turned toward the viewer, lies behind a stone wall built between two boulders in Gettysburg’s notorious Devil’s Den. His head rests on a knapsack, and his rumpled uniform coat mak... |
f37b7627e27c3bfec940100c0a3bfbb4 | https://www.historynet.com/bell-x-1-dropping-the-orange-beast.htm | Bell X-1: Dropping the Orange Beast That Broke the Sound Barrier | Bell X-1: Dropping the Orange Beast That Broke the Sound Barrier
The first supersonic flight would not have been possible without the help of countless support personnel, including the man who oversaw the project and piloted the X-1’s B-29 mother ship.
During the past 70 years, numerous books, articles, documentaries a... |
e364b9dab6a8fba7e3d72f513bae012a | https://www.historynet.com/benedict-arnold-general-in-the-battle-of-saratoga.htm | Benedict Arnold: General in the Battle of Saratoga | Benedict Arnold: General in the Battle of Saratoga
The season was changing. Hot afternoons gave way to cool evenings and cooler mornings as summer turned to autumn in New York’s upper Hudson Valley. Beneath the green, red, and orange canopy of leaves shrouding the hills that straddled the Hudson River, a different sort... |
8f6a1c659f0d329460f42948d988e1e3 | https://www.historynet.com/best-vietnam-war-books.htm | Top Five Vietnam Books to Read this Winter | Top Five Vietnam Books to Read this Winter
With the holidays encroaching upon us, Vietnam magazine has pulled together some recommended reads to make your literary season bright (or at least more interesting). Here are 5 of our favorite books from fall and winter 2020 about the Vietnam War and those who served.
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37159b1706767e06fb691264d8c99ef9 | https://www.historynet.com/betrayal-at-ebenezer-creek.htm | Betrayal at Ebenezer Creek | Betrayal at Ebenezer Creek
What Davis perhaps forgot was that the able-bodied male fugitives–sturdy workmen like these ex-slaves in Virginia– were serving as pioneers, carving a path for his corps. (National Archives)
Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis had few complaints about the able-bodied black men who were suppl... |
a87d6a805a44390e3e9cd462af00317e | https://www.historynet.com/big-ben-americas-secret-agent.htm | American History Review: Big Ben, America’s Secret Agent | American History Review: Big Ben, America’s Secret Agent
While in London, Benjamin Franklin helped foment a plot involving a slave that contributed to the colonies’ separation from Great Britain Somersett: Or Why and How Benjamin Franklin Orchestrated the American Revolution by Phillip Goodrich, philgoodrichauthor.com... |
25411b47bccd1abf0aad509d37f1532d | https://www.historynet.com/big-ears-three-and-the-battle-of-bien-hoa.htm | ‘Big Ears Three’ and the Battle of Bien Hoa | ‘Big Ears Three’ and the Battle of Bien Hoa
A 19-year-old sentry assigned to a listening post at a U.S. air base gets caught in the crossfire during a Viet Cong attack.
On January 29, 1968, the night sky above the sprawling Bien Hoa Air Base, where I was on sentry patrol, appeared to be on fire. Large numbers of flares... |
596a89ae075bdd84d0b5903790d83470 | https://www.historynet.com/biographer-nancy-plain.htm | Biographer Nancy Plain | Biographer Nancy Plain
Inspired in childhood by the standout figures of American history, author Nancy Plain has focused her own career on writing biographies geared to young readers. Her subjects range from men and women of the French Renaissance to some of the most celebrated characters of the American West, includin... |
154be15a6131d9e3e9180ce72c04aa4b | https://www.historynet.com/bizarre-b-17-collision-over-the-north-sea-during-world-war-ii.htm | Bizarre B-17 Collision Over the North Sea During World War II | Bizarre B-17 Collision Over the North Sea During World War II
At dawn on December 31, 1944, while the Battle of the Bulge raged, two young airmen took off from Thorpe Abbotts, England, and flew their Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress in formation with hundreds of others in what was to be a ‘maximum effort’ over Germany by e... |
27fac5d5c98eb4e06ef96f28446da1a0 | https://www.historynet.com/black-force-recon-marine-battlefield-commission-vietnam-war-hero-snubbed-for-the-medal-of-honor.htm | Black Force Recon Marine, Battlefield Commission, Vietnam War Hero … Snubbed for the Medal of Honor? | Black Force Recon Marine, Battlefield Commission, Vietnam War Hero … Snubbed for the Medal of Honor?
At the end of March 1967, Marine 2nd Lt. Jim Capers stepped off on what was to be a four-day foot patrol into the jungles near Phú Lộc, Vietnam.
He snaked through that jungle terrain, sporting a recent battlefield commi... |
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