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Continue reading →: July 23, 1777: French King Louis XVI Provides Assistance to the American Revolution
On this date 248 years ago, King Louis XVI of France agreed to provide the United States with munitions for the American Revolutionary War. In years prior,…
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Continue reading →: July 22, 1942: 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto Sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
As a child in the 1980’s, I learned the word ghetto from the Mac Davis composition/Elvis Presley song “In the Ghetto.” Even as a teenager, I believed…
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Continue reading →: July 21, 1861: First Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas
The First Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas occurred 164 years ago today, several months after shots were fired at Sumter in April 1861. This video is in…
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Continue reading →: July 20, 1969: The Moon Landing
Tonight 56 years ago, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong famously declared, “That’s one…
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Continue reading →: Plurals vs. PossessivesWe’re in a horrible state of affairs with some people and their misconceptions about possessives and plurals. Let’s set aside the fact that nearly all of us…
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