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The Channel Islands of Guernsey (Guernsey, Herm, Sark, Alderney and Lihou) were under German occupation during World War II from 1940 to liberation in 1945. Known as 'Hitler's Island Madness' the Channel Islands became the most fortified place in the world.

Wall Street was first developed in the 17th century as it was a boundary of a settlement known as New Amsterdam. It was actually a wall that was built to protect the area from English colonial settlers. Within a few short years the planks and picket fences that had formed the wall had been replaced by a wall that was 12 feet tall and designed to keep out the Native American tribes.

Mummering, or mumming, is a Christmas-time house-visiting tradition practiced in Newfoundland, Ireland and parts of the United Kingdom. Also known as mumming or janneying, it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress in disguise and visit homes within their community or neighboring communities during the twelve days of Christmas.

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The Christmas Truce was a series of widespread, unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914, during World War I. The Truce lasted all day; in places it ended that night, but on other sections of the line it held over Boxing Day and in some areas, a few days more. In fact, there parts on the front where the absence of aggressive behavior was conspicuous well into 1915.

Artful Dodging: Answering a different question than the one that was asked-not quite a lie, but an evasion. When you've seen it: Nearly all political debates feature at least one dodge, also known as a ''pivot.'' In one Republican primary debate, Trump was asked, ''Do you still believe President Bush should have been impeached?'-to which his response started, ''First of all, I have to say, as a businessman I get along with everybody. I have business all over the world.''

Columnist Ann Coulter believes the founder of Kwanzaa, Ron Karenga, was played by the FBI to create unrest in the black community. Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO. It is a holiday celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. Black people celebrate Christmas. (Merry Christmas, fellow Christians!)

Could a Great White shark kill an Orca (Killer Whale)? https://thedailyjaws.com/blog/could-a-great-white-shark-kill-an-orca-killer-whale

If you think you understand a topic, try explaining it to someone. This may prove you don't know as much about it as you thought. How Leap Year works is a lot more complicated than you think.

I find Amazon a great place to buy what I need, and sometimes the product is so good (or bad) that when Amazon asks, I'll write a review.

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In 1956, a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. Despite many searches, no one has ever found the plane.

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Have you ever wondered how you would look if you were a yellow character like the ones you see on TV?

This is the story of the only successful overthrow of a domestic government in American history. Once generally referred to as a ''riot'', the events of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina are now more widely understood to have been a massacre of its African American citizens, and the overthrow of an elected government.

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Uncle Jay had a unique and entertaining way of making today's news comprehensible to the innocent, the ignorant and the immature. Also children. Jay kept it simple, so even the famous people he talked about could follow along.

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''Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit,'' a tradition uttered on the first day of the month to bring forth positive luck, has a captivating past. It is believed that if one utters those words prior to any other on the very first day of a fresh month then good luck would prevail during the next thirty days.

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The Battle of Mobile Bay is perhaps most famous for Admiral Farragut's immortal words, ''Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!'' When Farragut's flagship, the USS Hartford, faced a line of torpedoes (naval mines) as they sailed into the bay, he understood the risks but chose to press forward.

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, houses five world-class museums, all under one roof. Dedicated to the American West, its history, art, Native American heritage, the natural science of Yellowstone, and the development of the firearm are on display. Find your true West at the Center of the West.

Museums hold some of humanity's most cherished treasures, so it's not surprising that the most famous museums around the world host millions of visitors each year. Here are the 20 most popular museums in the world.

My wife and I traveled the country for about 10 years in our motorhome. It was a wonderful part of my life. From 2021: Buffalo Gap National Grasslands

From 2018: Early newspapers in America were run by political parties, swaying news to fit their purpose, and that editorial bias is still here on the editorial page. While a paper may endorse one candidate or another, the news content is generally impartial, with some exceptions. Cable and satellite news can be very much one way or the other, the prime example may be Rupert Murdock's Fox News Network. When Bill Clinton was president, CNN was often referred to as the "Clinton News Network" because of the favorable reporting in that direction. Are Wordsmiths Creating The News?

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