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Best Shot With a .45 Pistol
Found this article. Note the second paragraph of the story. David and Goliath-2d Lt. Owen J. Baggett By John L. Frisbee Many extraordinary encounters took place in the skies of World War II but none...
View ArticleYou (and almost everyone you know) Owe Your Life To This Man
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved and you don’t—you can’t—know what the enemy is up to, and you’re scared. Then it helps (it helps a lot) to be calm. The world owes an...
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Where were you when ..........
Where were you when you heard that JFK had been shot in Dallas? What were you doing? I was in a Reference Class at James ison University researching a question when another student walked over to me...
View ArticleThe Only Known Recording Of Hitler’s Normal Speaking Voice
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/...ording-of-hitlers-normal-speaking-voice-video
View ArticleThe Gun That Wouldn't Shoot
Colt is an iconic American gun company. It has a proud history of invention. It perfected the revolver before the Civil War. One advertising slogan went, "God created man, Sam Colt made them equal."...
View ArticleWhat We Now Know About The Men Who Led The Impeachment Of Clinton
Newt Gingrich Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) led the push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Following a disappointing election in November 1998, he announced he was stepping down as Speaker and resigning...
View ArticleThis Day in History… Republicans Pass Anti-KKK Act – Outlawing Democratic...
On September 28, 1868, a mob of Democratsmassacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana. The savagery began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white...
View ArticleInterviews with Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
On this blog there are two interviews recorded with Dr Lloyd-Jones in the 1970s. Not everyone will like them, but they give a wonderful insight into the man and his calling....
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How In the World Did We Win the War?
An excellent lecture on how the US won the war of Independence. http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-116/lecture-17
View ArticleGod wills us free. Man wills us slaves
From the 1773 epitaph of John Jack who was born free in Africa, captured and made a slave in Massachusetts, worked hard, saved and bought his freedom and died a free man. God wills us free, man wills...
View ArticleThe deb who sank the Bismarck
A DRAUGHTY wooden hut, in the company of the best brains of Britain, was not quite the billet Jane Fawcett had imagined for herself. At Miss Ironside’s School for Girls in Kensington the drill had been...
View ArticleJuly 1, 1916; The Bloodiest in British History
The Allies bombarded German trenches for seven days and then sent 100,000 men over the top to attack the German lines. The day was a disaster for the British. The Germans weathered the artillery fire...
View ArticleWho said this?
I'm trying to find a particular quote from history, but I can't remember the exact wording of the quote, which makes it that much harder to find. Hoping someone here will recognize it. It went...
View ArticleIf England won?
Suppose England had won the war of Rebellion of 1776 - how would that have changed history - esp War of 1812, 1861, WWI and WWII???
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What were you doing when ..............
I was a member of the high school track team. We were heading home from the district track meet and the coach had the bus pull off the road. We went into a small restaurant and watch Bannister break...
View ArticleTHE AXEMAN - The Worst Serial Killer in History!
I found this documentary about a string of more than 60 ax murders across the US around the year 1900 - from Washington state to Georgia and from Illinois down to Texas. They all had a lot of eerie...
View ArticleLIFE Magazine Article: Six Ways to Invade the U.S.
Thought that this was interesting. Six Ways To Invade The U.S. (Starts on page 16.)... LIFE Magazine Article: Six Ways to Invade the U.S.
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