Muskets in the Revolutionary War
One of my favorite sites and podcast Speaking of History…….. recently filmed a park ranger talking about msukets and their use in the Revolutionary War. See the video below:
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10 October
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07 October
0Comments Manzanar
Read this story about Manzanar, one of the Japanese interment camps during WWII. Story from mental_floss, image from flickr via trialsanderrors
06 October
0Comments 15 Podcast that Will Make You Smarter
15. EconTalk
14. The Naked Scientists
13. Common Sense with Dan Carlin
12. The Writer’s Block
11. The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
10. Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
Find the rest at CollegeCrunch.org
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05 October
0Comments Learn more about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Find out five interesting facts about Jackie O. in this mental_floss article. Like, did you know she was accidentally pictured in Hustler magazine? Image credit: Wikimedia Commons.
04 October
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03 October
0Comments The Watts Towers
Found via mental_floss:
Los Angeles doesn’t have a Statue of Liberty. It can’t boast an Eiffel Tower. But we do have one monument unlike anything else in the world: the Watts Towers. Built between 1921 and 1954 by an Italian immigrant named Simon Rodia — in his backyard, with a window washer’s tools and no special equipment — they’re among the United States’ best and most famous examples of vernacular art. (Another is Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, just a few hours away in the desert, which I did a photo essay about earlier this year.) And yet many people in Los Angeles (I’d even say most) have never seen the Towers and don’t know much about them, perhaps fearing the reputation of Watts. The towers are an amazing and enigmatic national treasure.
No, they’re not named after me.
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02 October
0Comments Hitlers Descendents may be your Neighbors
Found on MailOnline:
Thirty-nine living relatives of Adolf Hitler have been discovered by Belgian researchers after they claim to have decoded the Nazi dictator’s DNA.
The American relatives have agreed not to have children to extinguish the saga of Hitler and stop living in fear, but have promised to publish a book before they die,’ said Mulders, who works for Belgian newspaper Het Laaste Nieuws.
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01 October
0Comments Titan Missile Site
Found via Boing Boing:
On Memorial Day of 2007, and then again in December, I visited two separate Titan I missile sites. The first was quite the introduction. The second was mind-blowing. There are no words to describe being in what is perhaps the world’s largest underground missile complex. In fact, I’ve tried more than once, and in my mind have not achieved an adequate description. Last month, I clicked on a random link and encountered the narrative of another man who had done the same. His words, and his story came much closer to describing the feeling in detail. Even better, this man knew all of the intricacies of the base. He was a true savant of Titan I – and probably the foremost non-military expert of these historic bases. I contacted him and asked if he would be willing to talk about his experience and he readily agreed.
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30 September
0Comments Whatever Happened to U-2 Spy Gary Powers?
Found via mental_floss.
From 1963 on, he test-piloted planes for Lockheed, wrote a memoir of the incident, and became a traffic-copter pilot for a Los Angeles radio station. Powers died in 1977 when his helicopter crashed while on a routine trip. His son was 12 at the time. Gary Jr. would go on to found the Cold War Museum. Sue Powers died in 2004 at the age of 68.
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Slightly related: What is it like to fly in a U2 Spy Plane?
29 September
0Comments Billy the Kid letters
Found via The History Blog:
Billy the Kid wrote to New Mexico’s territorial governor Lew Wallace twice asking for a pardon.
Image courtesy of: Wikimedia Commons.
