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The Dieppe Raid was a clear lesson on how not to carry out beach landings. The failures and lessons learned from it greatly affected the planning and operation of the later Normandy Landings some two years later, and ultimately helped contribute to D-Day’s success.
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Use on November 13, 2026:

A calendar year with three Fridays the 13th comes around more often than you might think. It has already happened twice this century, in 2009 and 2015. For those of you unburdened by gnosiophobia (a fear of knowledge), here is a closer look at this quirk of the calendar.

This website delves into a curated list of 20 significant historical events that transpired on this day, presented in chronological order. From pivotal political changes and groundbreaking scientific achievements to noteworthy cultural milestones, each event is explored in detail.

Over forty years later, the failure of the skywalks at the Hyatt Regency Hotel is still the most devastating structural collapse in U.S. history. (The June 2021 condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, killed 98 people.) The disaster went on to be studied in engineering classrooms and at conferences. The causes and effects of the failure, as well as the preventive measures that could have stopped it from happening at all, create a disturbing case study of negligence.

CREW uses high-impact legal actions to target government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests.

The Circumlocution Office, satirized in Charles Dickens's book Little Dorrit (1857), is shown as run purely for the benefit of its incompetent officials.

Spring brings with it the welcome return of warmer temperatures to much of the United States. On the mainland, Florida is the go-to warm place to visit in March or April, while Hawaii is as reliably sun-soaked as ever.

Could a Great White shark kill an Orca (Killer Whale)?
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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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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.

Best of Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Thanks for the Memories)

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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?

Febuary 2, 2026: On Monday morning at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania Punxsutawney, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. According to the legend, six more weeks of winter are on the way.

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