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Female Presidential Candidates

Written on January 25, 2007. Written by Glenn Vance.

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

Written on January 23, 2007. Written by Glenn Vance.

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

Written on January 19, 2007. Written by Glenn Vance.

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

Written on January 16, 2007. Written by Glenn Vance.

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

Written on January 16, 2007. Written by Glenn Vance.

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 […]

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