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  (NYTimes) For decades, treasure hunters in Pennsylvania have suspected that there is a trove of Civil War gold lost in a rural forest ...

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After World War One, veterans were offered a service bonus payable in 1945. And that was a fine and good thing, but along came the Great ...

  (Wikipedia) Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was on May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted t...

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(Wikipedia) William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography, born on February 11, 1800 and died on September ...

  (Wikipedia) The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdom...

(NYTBR) The historian Daniel Boorstin once complained to me about the Smithsonian Institution’s decision in 1980 to delete the final two wo...

  (thedailybeast) ... Yet these American girls paid a price for their strawberry leaves and coronets. Most had grown up in modern homes...

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We never observed Veterans Day in my house, growing up. We observed Armistice Day. "It was intended for those who fought in World War...