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April 02, 2008 03:57 PM EDT (featured date: April 11, 2008) — Served 38 months in combat zones. Commissioned May 15, 1941. Sunk Japanese Battleship Kirisima and Destroyer Ayanami in a classic night battle on 14 - 15 of November 1942. Set record steaming . . . more
April 11, 2008 07:54 PM EDT (featured date: April 11, 2008) — Today, April 11, 2008 there was a ceremony held for the newest resident on Pennsylvania Ave, the Newseum. The Newseum is a $450,000,000 building filled with two state-of-art broadcast studios, exhibits . . . more
December 05, 2007 12:52 PM EST (featured date: December 26, 2007) — There is much misunderstanding in our modern culture about the term, "separation of church and state." Rather than using it as it was originally intended, it has been twisted around to mean . . . more
December 10, 2007 05:35 PM EST (featured date: December 26, 2007) —      Do you remember the POW/MIA bracelets?  POW stood for Prisoner of War and MIA stood for Missing In Action.  The bracelet was a supportive action for those here in the . . . more
December 20, 2007 11:43 AM EST (featured date: December 26, 2007) — 1. How old were you in 1980? 0. I was born January 1980 2. How old were you in 1989? 9 3. Were you a Toys R' Us kid? No 4. Did you watch Transformers? No . . . more
October 25, 2007 10:03 PM EDT (featured date: October 25, 2007) — Henry VIII was one of the most fascinating, infamous characters in England's history.  He was a man with power, popularity, and too many wives, and he loved the Catholic . . . more
October 16, 2007 02:41 PM EDT (featured date: October 16, 2007) —  Having lived in a small town where everyone knew every person in it, there were still people that seemed to be unknown.  Characters really, like the little old man who would sit in his rocking . . . more
October 15, 2007 05:10 PM EDT (featured date: October 15, 2007) — Rural England was as superstitious as it was religious in Tudor times, when a resurgance of interest in witchcraft reared it's ugly head.  Henry VIII enacted the first ever English law against . . . more
 
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