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As General Sherman and his troops approached Fort McAllister, near Savannah, they encountered a new Confederate weapon - land mines - which proved to ...
At the height of the Everest climbing season, we think about Sherpas and how they help adventurers climb the world's tallest mountain. In both 2014 an...
Sid Phillips - who served with H Company, 2nd battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division - turned 18 during the Battle for Guadalcanal.
After the Allies launched their surprise assault at Guadalcanal, Japan attacked ships which were supplying ground forces.
During the summer of 1864, Union engineers from Pennsylvania (with mining experience in their own state) dug a tunnel under Confederate lines at Peter...
It's May 27, 1941, and the Bismarck is disabled, due to attacks by British planes (known as Swordfish). Several Royal Navy ships arrive on the scene -...
People at the Fezziwig Ball dance to the tune of "Sir Roger de Coverley." This video displays that dance which was popular during Victorian times.
Tatanka-Iyotanka (more commonly misspelled Tatanka Yotanka [or, Yotaka]) - a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who was also known as Chief Sitting Bull -...
Nineteen years after the formation of the modern Jewish state, Israel fought a war with her neighbors.
This clip, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explains how the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) reached the Martian surface.
At age eighty-eight, the anti-Soviet writer was awarded high honors by the Russian government.
On the 1st of July, 1916, WWI fighting in France intensifies as the deadly Battle of the Somme begins.
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