Dynamic Directory - January 26, 2021
Revised Stories in the past 30 days
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 | So You Want to be a Writer, by Charles Bukowski Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of August, 1920. |
 | Johann Tetzel - Seller of Indulgences Johann Tetzel was a German Dominican friar who told people that if they bought indulgences, their sins would be forgiven. |
 | Martin Luther Responds to Pope Leo X On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luther burned the edict, in public. |
 | John Hus - Burned at the Stake Refusing to recant his beliefs, which were contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, Jan Hus (John Huss) was burned at the stake outside the city walls of Konstanz (Constance). |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Grieving Father Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's famous nineteenth-century thinkers and writers, endured a great deal of sadness in his life. |
 | Fermat's Last Theorem - Professor Andrew Wiles Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it? |
 | Bobby Jones Envisions Augusta National Golf Club |
 | Towing U-110 to Iceland As Alan Turing and his Bletchly Park colleagues worked feverishly to break the Enigma code, they caught a break when the Royal Navy captured U-110 on May 9, 1941. Onboard was a working Enigma machine and secret codes for the following month. Initially towing the disabled U-boat to Iceland, the crew with the secret treasure was redirected to Scotland. |
 | German U-Boat under Attack Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569. |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice. |
| Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail - Morse Code On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message? |
 | Alaska Purchase and the Klondike Gold Rush On August 16, 1896 prospectors find gold in Alaska. The Trump fortune got its start as a result. |
 | Acropolis - Parthenon with Statue of Athena |
 | Pius X Opposed WWI - Buried at St. Peter's Basilica Before he became a pope, Giuseppe Sarto had a great deal of experience living among his parishoners. As Pope Pius X, he strongly opposed the outbreak of WWI. |
 | Japanese-American Fishing Village Destroyed at Terminal Island Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way of life was gone forever. |
 | Japanese and Australian Soldiers at the Kokoda Trail |
 | The Last Day of Abraham Lincoln - by Henry Riggs Rathbone Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lunged at Rathbone with a knife, injuring but not killing him. Learn how the assassination claimed more victims, years later, when Rathbone himself lost his mind. |
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| Battle of the Bulge - Ardennes Offensive - Bastogne December-January of 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the Ardennes Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler meant the major German offensive to turn the tide of war against the Allies. Instead, despite Germany's initial gains, the opposite happened. |
 | Ansel Adams Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions? |
