US History
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What do you need to do to become a special agent for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Well actually not that much. All you do is you book a flight to DC, on board you write a letter to the President of the USA. Once you land you take a limo to the White House…
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I can’t think of any other political family who had to endure the amount of tragedies as the Kennedys did.I will not go into the details of the assassination of President KennedyLyndon B. Johnson because so much is already written about it, I will focus more on some of the events which happened in the…
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Before I go into the blog I have to warn you that this blog contains an image of an adult nature. So if you are offended by it, get over it. U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Magee fell out of a burning plane at 22,000 feet without a parachute. And he lived. Magee…
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Some people say that TV has a bad influence on especially younger people.Juan Catalan will wholeheartedly disagree with that. Juan Catalan was 24 when he was wrongly charged with gunning down 16-year-old Martha Puebla on her doorstep outside her home in Los Angeles.Martha had earlier testified in a gang-related murder case ,involving Catalan’s gangster, and…
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Once-upon-a-time, it was legal to mail a baby in the United States. It happen more than once and by all accounts, the mailed tots arrived no worse for wear. Yes, “baby mail” was a real thing. On January 1, 1913, the then Cabinet-level U.S. Post Office Department—now the U.S. Postal Service—first started delivering packages. Americans instantly fell in…
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It is often though that the Vietnam war started in the 60s, but in fact it dates back much further then that. It really started on the 19th of December 1946. In February Ho Chi Minh had already sent a telegram to U.S. President Harry S. Truman requesting support for independence. The First Indochina War (December 1946 to…
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New York city has such a rich history. Although I have never been there (but I will someday) I find it one of the most fascinating cities in the world. For me to write a whole essay on the city would do it injustice, therefore below some pictures of its rich history. A woman dressed…
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Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican free-tailed bat with a small, timed incendiary bomb attached. The bomb was designed to terrorize the people of Japan in a most unexpected way. Dr. Lytle S. Adams, like most Americans at…
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One of my favourite songs is from a band called Extreme it is called “When I first kissed you” The opening line goes as follows.”New York city can be so pretty from a bird’s eye view” If history had gone a slightly different direction the lyrics to that song would not have been the same.…
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The Ku Klux Klan has survived for more than 150 years. Its ideology of hatred and white supremacy continued to attract new members through the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, and the election of America’s first black president. It seems unbelievable that hatred could live on for that long, that anyone in the modern world…
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