Dynamic Directory - March 13, 2026
Revised Stories in the past 30 days
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 | Ted Kennedy - Giving Eulogy at RFK's Funeral Ted Kennedy gave the eulogy for his brother, Bobby, at the St. |
 | Martin Luther King, Jr. - Mountaintop Speech On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last. |
 | John Cabot and His Explorations John Cabot - the Anglicized version of Giovanni Caboto's name - is believed to be the first European explorer to visit parts of North America since the Vikings reached what they termed "Vinland" (in the 11th century). |
 | Tollund Man with Rope around His Neck It is clear from the way Tollund Man's body was found, in a Danish peat bog, that he died by hanging. |
 | Silkeborg Museum Silkeborg Museum, located in the Danish town of Silkeborg, has an Iron-Age collection which features two mummies found in a nearby peat bog. |
 | Volga River - Topography Map The Volga River is one of the longest in the world. Here are some key facts about it, and its topography. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Bobby Jones Envisions Augusta National Golf Club |
| 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? |
 | 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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 | 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 and Australian Soldiers at the Kokoda Trail |
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
 | Ansel Adams Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions? |
 | Acropolis - Parthenon with Statue of Athena |
