-500th anniversary of the Reformation -100th anniversary of US entry into WWI (and only one measly WWI stamp) -75th anniversary of WW II – Pearl Harbor, D-Day, etc. (likely the last time the USPS could have honored our living WW II vets). The UK honored D-Day, but the USPS didn...
US Homefront during WWI World War I was a total war, meaning that the whole of American society and economy had to be mobilized. Yet, public opinion about the United States' entry into the war was initially mixed. Some dissented based on familial ties to Central Powers countries, such as...
For an in-depth analysis of the three 1930s films based on the WWI German secret agent, Elsbeth Schragmüller, see the page Under Secret Orders. In this film, Dita Parlo is the first “hard” femme fatale in all of film noir (from France, the UK or the US). Nurse Edith Cavell rec...
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In addition to the whole discussion about what happened during the Centenary of WWI Armistice and how and why Macron made it his mission to prevent Putin and Trump from meeting, we discuss important intel and predictions. Compared to the written version, the actual podcast has more info and di...
United States of America (1944-1945) Utility Vehicle – Prototypes Only The T33 Cargo Carrier and T13 Armored Utility Vehicle were designed in the United States of America during the Second World War. The T13 and T33 occupy a space in development as transition vehicles in the sense that ...
The hangars are laid out in order of the times, starting with the wright brothers, through WWI, then WWII, the cold war, Vietnam and Korea, space, and test aircraft. There are every type of Air Force One ever used in the last hangar. Read more Written January 2...
Ellis Island was used as a detention facility during WWI and WWII. Although the Statue of Liberty herself was a gift from France, the stone pedestal that supports the statue's 225-tonne weight was paid for by Americans. The Statue of Liberty's arm was in Madison Park from 1876 and 1882...
The Spanish Flu Was Deadlier Than WWI Warned of a Pandemic, Gerald Ford Took Swift Action Ricardo Thomas/Gerald R Ford LIbrary/PhotoQuest/Getty Images President Gerald Ford announcing a national swine flu immunization program in the White House Press Briefing Room on March 24, 1976. Among those...
The middle column contains a similar juxtaposition, showing a WWI-era biplane and a modern-day stealth fighter (an F-117A). In the right column, Walter Gropius’s 1926 Bauhaus Dessau building is seen next to an up-to-date urban mixed-use building. The punch line, of course, is that ...