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Sometime, someplace in the Judean Hills in the year 132 the storm broke. It had been a long time coming, but even so it shocked the Romans. It shocked them enough that it may have cost them a legion a ...

As the Blitz progressed (from 7 Spetember 1940-11 May 1941) the undulating sound of German bomber engines became a nightly, dreaded sound over London and other British cities. The Luftwaffe fleet sent ...

In Noah Hawley's Fargo, a fictional tale of pervasive crime and tested loyalty, Kansas City mafia hitman Mike Milligan ponders the following:

On April 4, 2003, as the invasion of Iraq reached its critical phase, the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rdInfantry Division, seized Saddam International Airport-codenamed Objective Lions ...

The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old veteran who stormed the bea ...

Stock markets around the world are surging because of two things: an expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and an AI investment boom. But neither of these things necessarily signal actual ...

To say the international environment has become more challenging is an understatement. China, Russia, and North Korea explicitly challenge American leadership, and they aim to erase America's mi ...

There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary deliverance from the pain of being alive, and of knowing we ...

Theodore Roosevelt felt antsy amid the 1904 campaign season. He was up for reelection, but the inexhaustible TR couldn't hit the trail. Custom dictated that a sitting president not activel ...

Hamilton, Gifted Immigrant, Student, and Soldier Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was born in the West Indies on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean, descended from the laird of Grange in Scotlan ...