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The True Date of America’s Declaration of Independence: Fact, Fiction, Myth 3 Jul 2011 | 02:58 am
Signatures Came on July 2, 1776 Declaration Not Signed By Most Everyone Until August 2, 1776 and Some Later On This Date in History: 235 years ago, a group of 56 men faced the gallows for what they ...
Remember the Reason For Memorial Day 31 May 2011 | 09:43 am
Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 4,435 US dead War of 1812 1812 to 1815 2,260 US dead Mexican War 1846 to 1848 1,773 US dead Civil War 1861 to 1865 approx. 600,000 USA/CSA dead Spanish Amer. War 189...
100 Years of the Indy 500 Began With the Dream of a Visionary 30 May 2011 | 10:14 am
40 cars lined up for the 1st Indy 500; The Winner Started in the 28th position-no winner has started farther back On This Date In History: Not all success stories are college graduates or even colleg...
Mother’s Day, aka Mothering Sunday 9 May 2011 | 09:13 am
Nothing Says "Mom" Better than Whistler's Mother. What Was the Post Office Thinking? On This Date in History: I had always assumed that Mother’s Day was invented by some card company like Hallma...
Appomattox and Marian Anderson: Symbolic Irony of History 9 Apr 2011 | 02:59 pm
Don't Buy Real Estate From This Man! On This Date in History: Wilmer McLean was a Virginia grocer. He probably did fairly well at his craft. But, he didn’t have much luck when it came to real es...
Frederick Douglass: American 28 Feb 2011 | 03:18 pm
A Truly Great American With a Life that Stands on Its Own Dr. Woodson Ultimately Is Responsible for Black History Month and Started It Partly With Douglass In Mind Black History Month: Some time ag...
Ginger or Mary Ann? 12 Feb 2011 | 01:50 pm
A Long Way From Gilligan's Island NOT my grandmother...but it is Tatiana On This Date in History: If I am not mistaken, Elizabeth Carter Symon was born on this date in 1898. My grandmother li...
Disaster Comes When Men Go To the Wrong House 27 Jan 2011 | 12:03 pm
Pinkerton Logo Coined the Term "Private Eye" On This Date in History: A few years ago, Snow White and I were walking from Papa Johns Stadium and some event,,,probably a football game. We were walking...
The Prospect of a Cold Guarantee is a Stone Cold Lock 24 Jan 2011 | 10:43 am
Does This Look Like the Coldest Place in the United States? Alaska Jan. Mean Min Temperatures 1971-2000 On This Date in History: At this point in the winter season, data from the National Snow Anal...
Falkland Islands: Nothing More Than a Symbol of Pride 23 Jan 2011 | 10:30 am
May 14 1979 Time Magazine Proved To Be a Prophecy...but for what? On This Date in History: In the early 1980′s, there was a much publicized war between Argentina and Great Britain over a tiny group ...