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It was supposed to be the greatest British celebration ever held on foreign soil but turned into the greatest tragedy to strike California. On May 24, 1913, the first ''Empire Day'' in Southern California was celebrated. Twenty thousand British and former British subjects gathered in Long Beach that day for a festive celebration which was to include a parade, athletic competitions, games, music and speeches at the Municipal Auditorium. It was just at the close of the parade when disaster struck.

A Mississippi judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor and city leaders after the officials sued, sparking complaints from press advocates that it violates the First Amendment.

The town of Banff, about 80 miles west of Calgary in southwest Alberta, sits within Canada's oldest national park of the same name, offering awe-inspiring mountain views at every turn, and, of course, an abundance of outdoor recreation. In summer, two million visitors pour into the park, but winter is noticeably quieter. That makes it a perfect time to bundle up and enjoy the snow-blanketed natural splendor.

The Delta flight skidded along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a dramatic halt upside down, losing its tail and an entire wing in the process. Some of the 80 people on board were then left hanging upside down while still strapped to their seats, before they scrambled over luggage to escape onto the snowy runway.

Newgrange is a Stone Age (Neolithic) monument in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, it is the jewel in the crown of Ireland's Ancient East. Newgrange was constructed about 5,200 years ago (3,200 B.C.) which makes it older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza. The mound is ringed by 97 large kerbstones, some of which are engraved with symbols called megalithic art; the most striking is the entrance stone.

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.

The time was 1020, 4 June 1942. Just five minutes later, three of those carriers, the Akagi, Kaga, and S?ry? were wrecked beyond redemption, set ablaze by bombs exploding in their hangars, oily black smoke boiling up through the gaping holes rent in their flight decks. The bloody remains of sailors were scattered about in hangars below, a grim down payment on the 3,057 Japanese who would ultimately die this day. Though the final outcome had yet to be revealed to either side, the United States had just won

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.

The author says yes, Google Maps is a tool designed to get you from Point A to Point B the fastest, but there are alternative programs out there you may find more interesting and useful.

The official emblem of the State of Israel, the Menorah is a key Jewish emblem. The Torah relates how God Himself gave Moses instructions for building this holy seven-branched candelabra on Mount Sinai: ''You shall make a menorah of pure gold…'' (Exodus 25: 31-40)

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The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ''strangling angel'' for the way it suffocated children. Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors - the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver life-saving serum and free the community from the g

Featured in the film ''Gardens of Stone'', the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment serves at Arlington National Cemetery and is nicknamed The Old Guard.

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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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.

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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

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