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![]() | The Pacific - Robert Leckie Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men. |
![]() | Navajo Hogan - Exterior Covered with Dirt This image depicts Philip Johnston visiting members of the Navajo Nation at their hogan. |
![]() | Guadalcanal - War in the Pacific Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about to commence the first Allied offensive against the Empire of Japan. |
![]() | Bobby Jones Envisions Augusta National Golf Club |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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? |
![]() | 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? |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | Codex Vaticanus |
![]() | Ansel Adams Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions? |
![]() | Japanese and Australian Soldiers at the Kokoda Trail |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | Acropolis - Parthenon with Statue of Athena |
![]() | Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt, Page 2 This image depicts the second page of a letter - from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt - which changed the world. |
![]() | Death and Last Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elizabeth Shoumatoff (1888-1980) was painting President Roosevelt's portrait at his Little White House, in Warm Springs, on the 12th of April, 1945. The President said he had a headache; soon after he was dead. |