Americans aren't big on accolades for the second person to do anything. We don't remember the second Pope (it was St. Linus); the second man to invent the telephone (Elisha Gray), and never mind the silver medal winners in the Olympics. Gold medal winners get their faces on a Wheaties ...
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Author: Rick Atkinson Pages: 768 Year Published: 2002
Long before the now-celebrated D-Day invasion of Europe, the United States and Great Britain conducted their first combined amphibious invasion of the more remote and distant shores of North Africa in Operation Torch. It was the first actions of ...
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I think most people are familiar with Volkswagen and its origins as Ferdinand Porsche's "people's car." Porsche designed a lot of products for Nazi Germany, including tanks.
However, courtesy of cracked.com, we have four more brand names that either have Nazi origins, or were deep in business with the Nazis. In ...
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Everyone knows I'm a history nut, but I'm not sure how many people know I also love maps. Maps are great. I used to spend hours as a child looking through a huge over-sized atlas my father had bought. So what happens when I discover a site that combines both ...
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