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Shutterstock Let the Good Times Roll If you haven’t hit up New Orleans yet, you’re missing out on a city that’s hotter than a ...
Wikimedia Commons Giuseppe Zangara Giuseppe Zangara was born in 1900 in Calabria, Italy. He grew up poor with an abusive ...
Wikimedia Commons USS The Sullivans and the Five Brothers Lost at Sea George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan ...
Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy The Intelligence Gathering Mission The USS Pueblo left Yokosuka, Japan on ...
NPS State Officials Tour Centralia That Morning State politicians came to Centralia on February 14, 1981, to meet with town ...
Flickr/joncutrer Continental Congress Sets the Dollar as the Official U.S. Currency On July 6, 1785, the Continental Congress ...
Flickr/Chicago Crime Scenes The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Illinois Seven men died in a hail of bullets inside a Chicago ...
Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy The Explosion of The USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana Harbor The USS Maine blew ...
Flickr/Tim Evanson When the First Teddy Bear went on Sale in 1903 Morris Michtom placed two stuffed bears in his Brooklyn ...
Shutterstock USS Cod’s Daring Rescue of Dutch Submarine Crew USS Cod sailed through the South China Sea in July 1945. The submarine operated under Lieutenant Commander Edwin M. Westbrook Jr. on her ...