Tag: history
member name: Nick Howes
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May 28, 2009 08:25 AM EDT --
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has reopened state parks and state historic sites ordered closed by his ousted predecessor, Rod Blagojevich who is facing prosecution on federal corruption charges.
In Southern . . .
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April 17, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
School of the Soldier
The Ecolo do Soldat (School of the Soldier) is coming up the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, April 26th and 27th at Fort de Chartres State Historic Site In Southern Illinois. . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:33 AM EDT --
The last of the Doolittle Raiders were honored recently at their 67th Reunion in Columbia, South Carolina.
All nine men are veterans of the April 18, 1942 air attack on Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese . . .
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February 26, 2009 08:03 AM EST --
In Western Illinois, the New Philadelphia Town Site located near Barry in Pike County has been designated a Nationla Historic Landmark by the National Park Service. Director Jan grimes of the . . .
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April 01, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
Our current involvement in the Middle East is hardly the first time the US Army has encountered the "ship of the desert" so common there. In fact, a creative solution to a problem of resupplying . . .
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April 11, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
Rusty's Trailblazin' Chuckwagon rolls into town with stories of the cowboys on the trails, pushing longhorn cattle from Texas to the railheads that led to the Chicago stockyards. It's an authentic . . .
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May 08, 2008 08:40 AM EDT --
The last known survivor of the Von Stauffenberg bomb plot against Adolf Hitler at the height of World War Two has died. Philipp von Boesalager was part of the failed conspiracy against the Fuhrer being . . .
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February 04, 2009 09:39 AM EST --
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND A CASE OF CHRISTMAS MURDER, Robert Lee Hall, 1991, St Martin's, 279 pp paperback.
A young woman asks Benjamin Franklin to investigate a ghost that impossibly . . .
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October 02, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
Riverboat Molly's History and Hauntings Bookstore (515 East Third Street) in Alton, IL, hosts the American Ghost Society Open House tomorrow (Saturday, 10/03) from noon to 5pm. Speakers will be . . .
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October 04, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
The house where the 1949 exorcism that inspired the William Peter Blatty book and the hit movie is still standing in St Louis...and something remains behind.
It was SRO at Riverboat Molly's History . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:25 AM EDT --
When the United States military decided to establish a counterpart to the British Commandos during World War II, they didn't have to go far for inspiration in naming the unit.
The United States has . . .
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April 23, 2008 08:39 AM EDT --
The annual free Kids' Day is Saturday May 3d at Fort de Chartres State Historical Site in Randolph County, located near village of Prairie du Rocher, itself nestled below the scenic bluffs overlooking . . .
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May 01, 2008 10:55 AM EDT --
Although there are plenty of special events this weekend, new movies opening, musical performances of various types, these activities are deserving of special attention:
KID'S DAY at Fort de Chartres . . .
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January 24, 2009 09:41 AM EST --
The release of the Tom Cruise film about the von Stauffenerg plot to kill Hitler, known as the 20 July Plot, is a fine occasion to recall an amazing, little-known resistance movement that helped . . .
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February 20, 2009 11:13 AM EST --
OUT PAST THE CAMPFIRE LIGHT: Hauntings, Horrors, and Unsolved Mysteries of the Great Outdoors, Troy Taylor, 275pp, illustrated, indexed, Whitechapel Press, $18.95
Troy Taylor tackles a broader . . .
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July 03, 2009 08:34 AM EDT --
We owe our ability to get lunch from a can to the rise of Napoleon. We call it canned food. It's a common kitchen shelf presence: food in a tin can. Actually, that particular term is derived . . .
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April 03, 2008 07:32 PM EDT --
Some events coming up in the next few days. I'd like to go myself but may only attend one of them. My criteria is simple: I list it if it interests me. I can promise that under . . .
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January 27, 2009 11:08 AM EST --
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, Hampton Sides. 2001. Trade softcover. 344pp. Anchor Books.
This excellent piece of work is one of the books that was . . .
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March 22, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
Ben Franklin, History Channel documentary, 100 minutes, 2004 $24.95
A thorough documentary examination in the History Channel's fine established style on one of the United States' most . . .
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September 29, 2009 08:03 AM EDT --
At the edge of the small town of Metropolis, Illinois, is the 1,500 acre Fort Massac State Historic Site. The park is dominated by a reconstructed wooden fort overlooking the Ohio River put up in recent . . .
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