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Robert Capa, Founder Magnum Photos
On December 3, 1938, Picture Post introduced "The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa" with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War... |
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Jesse Owens, American Athlete
Jesse Owens was an African American track-and-field star famous for his performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Before the eyes of the Nazi leadership, who had h... |
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Richard Nixon, 37th US President
Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States (1969-1974), was the first and (so far) the only President of the United States to resign the office. Before th... |
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Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."
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Gerald Ford, 38th US President
Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (1974-1977), became President of the United States on August 9, 1974, under extraordinary circumstances. Owing to the... |
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The Panama Canal
By August 15, 1914 the Panama Canal was officially opened by the passing of the SS Ancon. At the time, no single effort in American history had exacted such a... |
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Murder of Franz Ferdinand : Start WW1
World War I started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria- Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by a member of the Black Hand,... |
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Sir Ernest Shackleton & the Endurance
Description of Sir Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the Antarctic and the subsequent sinking of the Endurance, and of his heroic escape from the White Continent.... |
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World War 1, Trenches on the Web
Introduction 1839-1914: The Long Fuse and Origins of the Great War. 1914- 1918: Listed are the events that turned what should have been a localized incident, the assassin... |
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FirstWorldWar.com, WW1
If you are new to the First World War - or are rusty after many years since history class - the reasons for the so-called 'Great War' can be shrouded in confusion.
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Etty Hillesum, the girl that learned to kneel
Like Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jew living in Amsterdam. She died in Auschwitz in 1943, at the age of 29. She began a diary nine months after Hitler invaded t... |
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Joe Louis
Joe Louis burst onto the professional boxing scene in 1934 with style and skill such as the boxing world has seldom seen. Known to many as the "Brown Bomber," Louis emerg... |
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Joe DiMaggio
The son of a fisherman, Joe DiMaggio is considered one of the most memorable baseball players of all time. For many of the fans who saw him play, he epitomizes grace and... |
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General Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean general who in 1973 staged a coup d'etat with the help of the CIA. His flair for fashion made him South America's answer to Muammar Qaddafi... |
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Armenian Genocide, Turkey
Somewhat surprisingly to many, Armenians and Turks lived in relative harmony in the Ottoman empire for centuries. Armenians were known as the "loyal millet". During these... |
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