Female Presidential Candidates
They’ve tried, and failed, to run for the highest office in the land. I’m not talking about the Libertarian Party, even though that description fits them, too. I’m talking about the ladies. Many women have made a run for the presidency. Who were they? Victoria Woodhull, 1872: The first woman to run for president, Woodhull was […]
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England’s First Air Raid Casualties
The first English casualties to be suffered in an air raid didn’t come from Messerschmitts or any of Hitler’s Vengeance weapons during World War II, but from German blimps, or zeppelins, in 1915. The tiny town of Great Yarmouth was bombarded by a 3 zeppelins of the German Navy near the beginning of World War I. […]
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U-166
The German U-Boat U-166, under the command of Hans-Günther Kuhlmann, set sail from Lorient, France on June 17, 1942, for the Gulf of Mexico as part of Operation Drumbeat [1. Admiral Karl Dönitz initiated this submarine operation, which was to target all United States shipping on the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to the Gulf of […]
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The Four Presidents of The Republic of Texas
Texas, which is better than all other states because it was once its own country, had, in its entirety as the Republic of Texas, had 4 presidents, 3 if you’re not counting one of the officeholders twice. From March through September of 1836 Texas had as interim president a man named David G. Burnet. Burnet, a […]
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Lakeview, Oregon Bombed by the Japanese
On May 5, 1945 while out picnicking in the small town of Lakeview, Oregon, a minister, Reverend Archi Mitchell, his wife Elsie and five local children found a deflated balloon made from mulberry tree pulp in the woods near the town. The were about to investigate what it was when another minister ran up yelling […]

