Washington remains the only President to be elected unanimously in the Electoral College.
Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered,...
The local pub, The Red Lion, has the double distinction of being the only pub in Britain to be surrounded by a stone circle and be voted one of the top 10 most haunted bars in the world. The pub has q...
Even as the Atlantic Wall was strengthened, Operation Fortitude tricked Hitler into keeping 13 divisions in Norway rather than reinforcing the Normandy peninsula. It had also tricked German High Comma...
Adams holds the record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by any vice-president in the Senate.
Bethlehem was occupied by the Crusaders between 1099 and 1187, and a hospital and a hospice for pilgrims were constructed in the town during this time.
This was especially true of the navy sailors under Rommel’s charge. Since the Versailles Treaty had forbidden the Germans from maintaining a navy, these sailors were now army men. Butler records a s...
The Hittites called their language Nesili (van de Mieroop 2007, 119), while the Egyptians and Mesopotamians referred to them and their language as Hittite and their land as Hatti (Faulkner 1999, 198)....
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, who so valiantly defended Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, was in command of the Union troops assembled in formation to observe an...
The Treaty of Versailles and the agreements made by the Weimar government meant that Germany’s army would be greatly reduced. Allowed to maintain an army of only 100,000, Germany would now need far f...
His famous comment, My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
As they moved out, one soldier recalled, As far as could be seen, to both left and right of us, men were advancing with their rifles in the porte position, their bayonets glinting in the pale moonligh...
The town is described in this story as the House of Bread (in Arabic, the name means House of Meat).[7] The two women arrived in time for the harvest, and Ruth started working in the barley fields sur...
The 4th century church was later replaced by the building that exists in present-day Bethlehem. Between 530 and 533, Emperor Justinian I dedicated a second Church of the Nativity upon the site, and ac...
Rachel’s tomb is located a short distance north of Bethlehem, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron. It consists of a small building with a white dome erected during the Crusader period, though the...
Only nine weeks after Hitler brought Rommel home from North Africa, his replacement, Colonel General Juergen von Arnim, was forced to surrender to the Allies. As Rommel had predicted, Africa was, at...
One rather unexpected presence at the front was Adolf Hitler himself. Hitler personally crossed into Poland on September 4, 1939, with his train under the watchful eye of Rommel himself.[63] Not yet w...
The Versailles Treaty (and the Weimar government’s at least public adherence to it) was, to von Seeckt, an embarrassment and a hurdle to be overcome. In 1921, he created the R Sondergruppe, a secret...
In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death. – Samuel Adams
Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg played the central role in Operation Valkyrie, also known as the July 20th bomb plot, the 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life that (unlike most of the Army's previous eff...
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