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John Wayne Is Big As Life in This Fort Worth Museum

For his role as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 film True Grit the actor took home that year’s ...
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John Wayne Is Big As Life in This Fort Worth Museum

For his role as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 film True Grit the actor took home that year’s ...
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M113: Why Is a Vietnam-Era US APC Crucial to the War in Ukraine?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 25, 2022 has seen the use of a wide range weaponry, both from ...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Oh, Charles

Holly and Tracy discuss the difficult nature of Chapin's personality. They also talk about the ways that the rivalry between ...
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Detailing a disastrous autumn day in ancient Italy

The Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 4,000 years ago -- 2,000 years before the one that buried the Roman ...
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Did These WWI Posters Convince People to Join the War in the Air?

Powered flight had barely advanced past infancy by 1914, when the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo sent ...
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Be the First to See Cast Bronzes from the World War I Memorial

Sabin Howard is a master figurative sculptor and authority on modern classicism. Raised in New York and Torino, Italy, he ...
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Watch a Historian Answer: Was Kid Curry Really a Psychopath?

Was outlaw Kid Curry (the alias of Harvey Logan) really the deadliest of the gang that came to be known ...
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Is This the Weirdest Airplane You’ve Ever Seen?

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet Union was greatly concerned about the United States’ submarine-launched Polaris missiles. The ballistic ...
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Where Did the Irish Stereotype Come From? And Why Is It Still in Movies and on TV Today?

Filmmakers these days can’t seem to do Ireland justice. Despite being on the cutting edge of modern technology and communication, ...
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Indonesia’s forest fires

Twenty five years ago in Indonesia, some of the worst forest fires in history devastated the environment and resulted in ...
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Sweden’s pronoun battle

Sweden has a long history of championing LGBTQ+ rights. But campaigners spent years battling to get the gender-neutral personal pronoun ...
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The resignation of President Nixon

On 8 August 1974 Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign from office, following the Watergate ...
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The return of Asians to Uganda

When President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, he encouraged exiled Asians to return to Uganda and reclaim their ...
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The city shaped by Ugandan Asians

Thousands of Asians who were expelled from Uganda in 1972, settled in the UK and many made Leicester their home ...
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The exodus of Asians from Uganda

In 1972, the dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had just 90 days to leave Uganda. Teacher Nurdin Dawood, ...
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When Asians were forced to leave Kenya

Many South Asians migrated to Kenya in the early 20th century. They lived in a society divided by race and ...
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Why Asians came to Uganda

In the early 20th century, South Asians migrated to Uganda in search of a better life. Jamie Govani’s grandparents married ...
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The Leaflet Bomber

In 1971, young communist Bob Newland left the UK and headed to South Africa to take part in a secret ...
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“I Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me”

Malcolm tells the story of how his parents and their friends sponsored three Vietnamese refugees, in the aftermath of the ...
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