Adeline Blanchard Tyler African American Women in the Civil War African American Women Spies African Americans of Gettysburg Agent 355 Agnes Maxwell Kearny Alice Cary Alice Cunningham Fletcher Alice James Alice Kirk Grierson Alice Lake Alice Parker Allegheny Arsenal Explosion Almira Fales Almira Hancock Al...
Tom Harmon of the University of Michigan; Doak Walker of Southern Methodist University; Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, the so-called Touchdown Twins of Army (the U.S. Military Academy); Joe Namath of the University of Alabama; Walter Payton of Jackson State University; Tony Dorsett of the Un...
Samuel Blackburn 23 Laborer Ireland (formerly of NY) Samuel Blackburn, Jr. 19 Laborer Ireland John Blanchard 20 Farmer Unknown Andrew Boyd 17 Laborer Unknown Bridget Brennan 17 None Ireland Joseph Brooks 28 Paper Maker England (Derbyshire) Terrance Burns 28 Laborer Ireland Miles Carpenter...
Led by eventual Heisman Trophy winners Felix "Doc" Blanchard (1945) and Glenn Davis (1946), Army finished both seasons a perfect 9-0 as national champions. 1952 — The “M*A*S*H" game The classic TV show M*A*S*H featured the Army/Navy game in an episode from its debut season fir...
Blanchard, Boyce Wayne. American Civil Defense 1945: The evolution of Programs and Policies (Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1980) Marten, James. Coping with the cold War: Civil Defense in Austin, Texas 1961-62 (East Texas Historical Journal, March 1988) The Texas Business Review, January...
Washington Irving and James Kirke Paulding’s Salmagundi (1807) Being Anglophile and aware of London happenings, Irving probably picked up the aftermath of the Pic Nic Society scandal during his tour of Europe 1804-1806. The word stuck, but it’s used only once as an adjective to mean someth...
Blanchard, Boyce Wayne. American Civil Defense 1945: The evolution of Programs and Policies (Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1980) Marten, James. Coping with the cold War: Civil Defense in Austin, Texas 1961-62 (East Texas Historical Journal, March 1988) The Texas Business Review, January...
July 1, 1966 - Medicare, the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins. September 9, 1966 - President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating the San Juan Island National Historical Park. The site, in Washington State, includes the location of British and United Stat...
Dusty Rhodes, Nikita Koloff, the Road Warriors, & Paul Ellering defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, NWA TV Champion Tully Blanchard, NWA U.S. Champion Lex Luger, & the War Machine (Ray Traylor) (substituting for an injured JJ Dillon) at 19:38 when War M...
Davis—who would win the Heisman Trophy in 1946—in one of college football’s greatest backfields. Dubbed “Mr. Inside” (Blanchard) and “Mr. Outside” (Davis), the running backs played themselves in the 1947 film “The Spirit of West Point.” (Harmon played a sportscaster in the ...