10 Great Places to Remember WWII
Sunday November 28, 2004
USA Today has created a list of 10 places to remember WWII. Several of the places on the list seem obvious, like Pearl Harbor, but others, like the National ... Read More
Did a Corset Kill JFK?
Friday November 26, 2004
In a new article in the L.A. Times, James Reston Jr. says that President Kennedy was wearing a back brace (or corset) while riding in the motorcade. This corset ... Read More
Jack Ruby's Garage
Sunday November 21, 2004
As part of their effort to revitalize downtown, the city of Dallas, Texas may open the underground parking garage that was the site of Lee Harvey Oswald's murder to the ... Read More
Planned Online Newspaper Archive
Friday November 19, 2004
By 2006, the U.S. government hopes to have digitized and make available to the public approximately 30 million digitized pages from newspapers published from 1836 through 1922. The collection ... Read More
Mussolini's Son Writes Memoir About His Father
Tuesday November 16, 2004
A new book by Benito Mussolini's son portrays the dictator as a loving husband, father, and grandfather. However, showing the human side of the brutal dictator has stirred emotions ... Read More
Voyage of the SS St. Louis
Sunday November 14, 2004
In 1939, over 900 Jews tried to escape persecution and death in Germany by boarding a ship, the St. Louis, headed for Cuba. They thought they had the proper papers ... Read More
New Search for Amelia Earhart
Thursday November 11, 2004
A new expedition has begun to search for the remains of famous aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Both Earhart and Noonan disappeared in 1937 during an ... Read More
Arafat Is Dead
Thursday November 11, 2004
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has died at the age of 75. While many people mourn his passing, many more hope that his death will issue in a new era of ... Read More
Russians Still Celebrating Revolution Day
Tuesday November 9, 2004
Sunday, November 7, 2004 was the 87th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and thousands hit the streets for the annual celebration. However, the downfall of the Communist era has ... Read More
Arafat Is Seriously Ill
Sunday November 7, 2004
The 75-year old, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seriously ill and has spent the last five days in intensive care at a military hospital in France. Though many news ... Read More
WWI British Service Records Available Online
Friday November 5, 2004
The British National Archives has created an online database of those that served in the First World War. Never before has such a list been created because 60 percent ... Read More
War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
Tuesday November 2, 2004
On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked when radio news alerts announced the arrival of Martians. They panicked when they learned of the Martians' ferocious and ... Read More