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Do you know any good sites for into about the Battle of Okinawa?
Well, here’s an entire online book on the subject… I’m not sure how good it is, but it looks really in-depth.Sites for general info: x, x, x, brief accounts by civilians/veterans, there are a lot more,...
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March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates. Crowned in 1894,...
March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates.Crowned in 1894, Nicholas II led Russia through a disastrous and embarrassing war against Japan, a period of widespread political and social unrest, a world...
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Today is 45th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre. Photo...
Today is 45th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre.Photo gallery (images may be graphic)
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March 18, 1893: Wilfred Owen is born. Wilfred Owen was a British...
March 18, 1893: Wilfred Owen is born.Wilfred Owen was a British poet who wrote primarily during (and on) World War I. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army and left for the Western Front in early...
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My icon is The Coronation of Napoleon, and my sidebar image is John William Waterhouse’s version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
View ArticleDid anything historical happen on April 10th? (it seems like alot of things...
According to the wiki and this page, plenty - Maximilian I became Emperor of Mexico, the Titanic left Southampton, Emiliano Zapata was killed, The Great Gatsby was published, a lot of people were born...
View ArticleCould you recommend any good/interesting books on the Industrial...
(disclaimer: when I recommend books, I probably haven’t read them myself, since I tend to be the type that hoards and starts dozens of different books and then never gets to finishing any of them. It’s...
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March 20, 1602: The Dutch East India Company is...
March 20, 1602: The Dutch East India Company is founded.The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie) was founded through the sponsorship of the Dutch government, who granted it a...
View Articleany good books on the VOC? especially their interactions with japan?
I honestly have never read a single book about the VOC, so I have no idea, but if anyone has any recommendations… This might help, though?EDIT: a helpful Dutch follower just messaged me and added this...
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March 21, 1925: The Butler Act is enacted. Tennessee’s...
March 21, 1925: The Butler Act is enacted.Tennessee’s infamous Butler Act forbade the state’s public school teachers from teaching students any other explanation for the origins of the human species...
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March 22, 1933: Dachau concentration camp opens. Dachau...
March 22, 1933: Dachau concentration camp opens.Dachau concentration camp, located in the southern German state of Bavaria, was completed and opened less than two months after Adolf Hitler was named...
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Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart (and many other...
Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart (and many other novels) and icon of modern African literature, died today at 82. She looked at each in turn with a strained smile on her countenance. `Truth...
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March 26, 1812: The term “gerrymander” first appears...
March 26, 1812: The term “gerrymander” first appears in print.The phenomenon dubbed “gerrymandering” by the Boston Gazette, in which district boundaries are redrawn (often to from an irregular shape)...
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March 27, 1854: The Crimean War begins. The Crimean War was one...
Fenton's "Valley of the Shadow of Death"March 27, 1854: The Crimean War begins.The Crimean War was one of the first major conflicts to pit the Great Powers of Europe against each other following the...
View ArticleI just wanted to make a post to thank you guys for following my blog and to...
I just wanted to make a post to thank you guys for following my blog and to let you know that my college decisions are complete - yesterday, I got into Johns Hopkins!! (…after getting rejected from all...
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March 29, 1951: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of...
March 29, 1951: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.In August of 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first successful nuclear weapons test when it detonated...
View ArticleUNHISTORICAL: I just wanted to make a post to thank you guys for following my...
UNHISTORICAL: I just wanted to make a post to thank you guys for following my blog...: mirandacadabra:unhistorical:I just wanted to make a post to thank you guys for following my blog and to let you...
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March 30, 1940: Japan establishes a Chinese puppet government in...
March 30, 1940: Japan establishes a Chinese puppet government in Nanjing.In 1931, the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria (the northeast portion of China) following the Mukden Incident and, following its...
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