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Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

Source: Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1967

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WW2 Bombing in Europe

I am reading a book about the 8th Air Force's operations in Europe. The author really has a knack to communicate on a human level what was happening to the airmen who manned the planes. The following...

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Did Forrest REALLY threaten Bragg ?

In 1899, John Wyeth wrote in his book about the life of CSA Gen. Nathan B. Forrest that, after a mixup after the battle of Chickamauga, that Forrest supposedly told CSA Gen. Braxton Bragg, "“I have...

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The Elaine Massacre

Interesting story I had not heard of before. “The sharecroppers that had gathered in Elaine had a simple goal: to secure a share in the profits gained from their work. But the series of injustices the...

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Trying to remove Confederate history...

The New-Age-Liberals are trying to remove all teaching about the American Confederacy from schools, history boox, etc. Sorry, John Birch, but the CSA is a fact of history that cannot be denied...

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How we took out Yamamoto...

In WW2, IJN Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the architect & chief planner of the Pearl Harbor attack, & of the 1st 6 months of Japanese success everywhere they turned. His plans were carried out...

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The WW2 event that started Japan's defeat...

Many people cite the Battle of Midway as the event that sealed Japan's defeat, but the actual gamebreaker occurred 2 months before that - THE DOOLITTLE RAID. Late in 1941, FDR expressed he'd like to...

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Hitler had a demon for awhile...

My dad, a WW@ vet, insisted Hitler had a demon for awhile, & as time passed, I began to believe he was right as I studied Hitler's life. He was an ordinary drifter for awhile, same as thousands of...

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Admiral Husband E. Kimmel - Scapegoat for Pearl Harbor

Adm. Husband E. Kimmel(1882-1968) was unjustly made the main scapegoat for Pearl Harbor's unreadiness for the Japanese attack by some other high-ranking USN officers trying to "cover their own...

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Tokyo firefighting service ran up its casualty list...

The Tokyo FD, at the time of the late March 1945 firebombing raids ordered by Gen. LeMay, waqs steeped in ritual and custom. Each company had a standard bearer who, at the scene of a large fire, would...

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More facts/thoughts on Midway...

Come June 1942, Japan had been at war since 1937. And her Combined Fleet, especially the carriers, had been in constant warfare since the Pearl Harbor attack. Their crews were in need of some R&R;...

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Was Columbus the first to discover Americia

This is a long read- I have not confirmed any other valid souces but who knows?

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How Nazi Germany doomed the Luftwaffe...

When Charles Lindbergh visited Germany several times in 1937-38, he was impressed with the Luftwaffe's aircraft & advised a US commission the US should build more & better military aircraft....

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Who side is God on?

During any war in general - do you think that God is for one side or another? Example - 1776 - the Americian Revoultion 1930-40's World War II 1898 Spanish Americian War anglo french wars War between...

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This car went missing in Syracuse, NY in 1949

Hitlers custom built 1943 Mercedes-Benz was touring North America - then came to Syracuse....

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Arthur James Balfour, non-Jewish "Father of Modern Israel"

While many have heard of the "Balfour Declaration", which led to the creation of the modern nation of Israel, what about the man himself? He entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1879, and, being a...

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A Hard Battle Lesson, Not yet learned by ALL...

A fact of battle that's been true since the development of spears & lances, & missile-type weapons, such as arrows - AN ARMY CANNOT SUCCESSFULLY STORM A WELL-FORTIFIED, WELL-ARMED POSITION !...

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, July 8, 1741

Jonathan Edward's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Sermon A reckoning is coming for sinners. You must be born again, or you wilt burn, perish in hell.

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Was Yamashita unjustly executed ?

Japanese WW2 general Tomoyuki Yamashita was hanged Feb. 23, 1946 in The Philippines for alleged war crimes. While soldiers under his command did commit some war crimes in China, Malaya, & the...

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Faith of our Fathers

"The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [Washington; Adams; Jefferson; Madison; Monroe; Adams; Jackson] not a one had professed a...

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