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World wars, decolonization, Cold War, rights, and rapid technology shifts.
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Jim Emison on his roots in Haywood County and Elbert Williams, the NAACP’s first voting rights martyr
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The Navy Canceled 58,460-Ton Iowa-Class Battleship USS Illinois at 20 to 25 Percent Complete. One Piece Was Saved: a Bell That Rings Every Time the Fighting Illini Score a Touchdown
17+ hour, 38+ min ago (684+ words) The State of Illinois is known as the “Land of Lincoln,” a commander-in-chief under whom the United States Navy made major technological strides, so it’s entirely appropriate that the Navy bestowed the USS Illinois moniker on multiple warships throughout the…...
Sun Tzu’s Best Quote Of All Time Is Simple and Effective Military History: ‘One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all’
17+ hour, 38+ min ago (775+ words) “One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.” The line credited to Sun Tzu sums up The Art of War, which Isaac Seitz reads as a playbook for control…...
Mustard gas near Ypres: the weapon that changed 1917
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (552+ words) Oct 12, 2026 16:22 74 In the trenches near Ypres, the soldiers initially felt almost nothing. There was no green cloud that they already knew from chlorine attacks, nor immediate suffocation. Hours later, however, the skin began to blister, the eyes became inflamed, and…...
POTD: Massachusetts Colt Second Model Dragoon – Surgeon’s Sidearm
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Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Best Quote Of All Time Is Simple and Effective: ‘What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it’s the size of the fight in the dog’
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What sank the Edmund Fitzgerald? Expert to discuss
12+ hour, 1+ min ago (324+ words) LOUDONVILLE - The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum's speaker series returns with a program exploring one of the Great Lakes' most enduring mysteries. Christopher Gillcrist, director emeritus of the National Museum of the Great Lakes, will present "The Edmund Fitzgerald: What Really…...
Memphis students bring 1963 civil rights case to federal courthouse exhibit
12+ hour, 38+ min ago (170+ words) Memphis students bring landmark civil rights case to life in federal courthouse exhibit Daily Memphian Janani Prakash shows Allison Collier, her social studies teacher at Collierville High School, the work the students compiled for a display on the Supreme Court…...
Those who preserve the memories of the Zone D War Zone.
15+ hour, 3+ min ago (984+ words) Deep within the Ma Da forest in Dong Nai City, forest rangers and conservationists tirelessly protect the forest, care for historical sites, and pass down stories of the resistance war to today's generation. Eighty years after the formation of the…...
Drebbel's submarine: Radical 1620 invention the Royal Navy dismissed as a novelty
14+ hour, 48+ min ago (200+ words) Montevideo, October 12th 2026 - 07:20 UTC The British Navy did not see the military value in Drebbel's invention, instead dismissing it as more of a spectacle than a weapon. In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built the world's first operational, navigable submarine while working…...