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Major George Armistead commissioned two flags, this one measures 30 by 42 feet and was intended to fly over the fort on a flagpole about ninety feet h...
A routine flight turns into a near-disaster when volcanic ash causes all four engines on a 747 to fail at 37,000 feet.
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
Photo image of the New York Stock exchange just after the market crash on the 27th of October, 1929.
In five days, the gains of five years are wiped out. But the plunge does not stop there. The freefalling market threatens the very foundation of Ameri...
In late October, 1929, share prices on the NY Stock Exchange start to plunge. No one knows why. In 5 days the gains of 5 years are wiped-out, and peop...
The close relationship between Wall Street executives, and federal government officials, allowed "the market" to be a law unto itself.
A "buy now, pay later" method of credit is introduced to the stock market as "buying on margin." How did this affect the market?
The federal government did little to help the sinking stock market in October of 1929. At the end of five days, Americans (and others invested in the ...
Like thousands of other people, Winston Churchill lost a fortune in the New York stock exchange crash of October 1929.
As a result of the stock-market crash, and the ensuing great depression, some rich people ended up in "the poor house.
Had D-Day occurred later in the month of June, 1944, things would have gone badly for the Allies. A massive gale swept through Normandy between the 19...
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