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Opinion: This July 4th weekend, a different way to celebrate the history we share
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoThe Fourth of July is a day to see US history up close, write Lonnie G. Bunch III, Carla Hayden and...
Is “Saving Private Ryan” a true story? All about the real-life brothers who inspired the film
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoThe Sole Survivor Policy, which prompts the mission to retrieve Damon’s Private Ryan in the movie,...
On This Day, July 6: 'Forrest Gump' opens in U.S. theaters
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoOn July 6, 1919, a British dirigible landed at New York's Roosevelt Field to complete the first...
'Stable genius': Joe Biden mocks Trump's July 4 claim about George Washington and airports
The Raw Story· 6 days agoPresident Joe Biden has responded to calls to drop out of the 2024 presidential race with his own...
What You Could Buy With $100 the Year You Were Born
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance Canada· 6 days agoInflation, on the whole, is a good thing for the economy. When money is worth more today than it will be tomorrow or next year, people are incentivized...
A 216-acre park on Long Island is home to 4 mansions straight out of 'The Great Gatsby' — take a...
INSIDER via Yahoo Canada News· 6 days agoHarry Guggenheim and Charles Lindbergh.Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images Source: Library ...
How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoDuffy’s ads claimed the fantastical: that it cured everything from influenza to consumption, that it...
Meet the American who made us flip for hamburgers, Louis Lassen, Danish immigrant street-wagon cook
AOL· 6 days agoLouis Lunch is so old-school there is no history class. The New Haven, Connecticut eatery is considered the birthplace of a national culinary treasure. The hamburger — specifically ...
On This Day, July 5: Larry Doby becomes 1st Black player in MLB's American League
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 6 days agoFranklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act to protect the rights of employees and...
Moby Bob
Courthouse News Service· 6 days agoA whale saved my life. What is true, for purposes of this column, is that after I turned in my Ph.D. thesis in comparative religions to a Bored of...