Late in World War II in the Pacific an Associated Press photographer happened into capturing a photograph that became famous world-wide. The story of the picture is interesting by itself, but it includes a major shift in battle tactics used by the Japanese Military in their defense of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles […]
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The tendency in America is to look at the Islamic Revolution in Iran through a lens that focuses only on the Hostage Crisis in 1979. As bad as that was, there’s a whole history of what transpired before and after that event that dates back over 130 years to 1891. To understand where they are
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When Julius Caesar became Dictator for Life in Ancient Rome, it was a relatively short time before he was assassinated. His fate was sealed by someone he would never have thought of as an enemy—Marcus Junius Brutus. This raises the question as to whether Brutus was Caesar’s friend or his foe. To see how it
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The Enron scandal in 2001 became the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. It featured a loophole in the accounting principles that allowed corporations to maintain entities off their consolidated books as long as the parent company owned less than 50% of the entity and the entity was adequately capitalized. A clever but crooked financial
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees all persons the right to free speech, among other things. At various times in our history this right has come under fire by actions taken by the government itself. One such time existed at a point in our history when you may not have expected it—the
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In 1829 a wagon train led by the Spanish merchant Antonio Armijo was traveling to Los Angeles to establish a trade route and took a rest break in what is now Southern Nevada. Since that time a regular stream of growth began in the area, slow at first, but then increasing to the point where
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Of all the persons who followed Christ and promoted Christianity few had a more decisive impact than the Emperor Constantine who legalized the religion in the Roman Empire and helped bring the different tangents back to the same base. The boost given during his reign propelled Christianity to the forefront of Roman life, and later
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Vincent Van Gogh was arguably one of the most popular artists of the Post-Impressionist period in Europe during the 1880’s. He remains popular today as his style of intensity, broad brush strokes, and bold colors used to create over 2,000 works of art has not been matched. He painted 860 oil paintings, most of them
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It Began Earlier Than You Think: Legend has it that the American game of baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday, in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1836. It isn’t clear where this legend came from or when it actually surfaced, but the truth in all matters is that the legend is false. Abner
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Roman arches were constructed for purpose of announcing and commemorating a victory in a major military conflict. For six hundred years they were the ways and means to bring the victory back to the Roman people. But their original purpose began to shift along with the very fabric of authority in Rome. Celebrating a Major
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