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The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...
April 23 is the annual date for the celebration of English Language Day. William Shakespeare, one of the best writers in English, was born on this day, which is why it was selected. In order to ...
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Many Indian media houses stationed journalists in Colombo throughout the Sri Lankan civil war. The Hindu was among the first ... Narayan Swamy details how Prabhakaran’s body was found, drawing on ...
C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman cast the English civil war of the 17th century as a conflict between the “Wrong but Romantic” Cavaliers and the “Right but Revolting” Roundheads. The aftermath ...
This week, we have a two-part series on the catastrophic First English Civil War. We trace the twists and turns of this tumultuous period from the perspective of Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward ...
On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.
Worcester has a number of fascinating secrets from the English Civil War hidden in plain sight, a case in point being the strange earthworks in a field tucked away by a housing estate in Ronkswood.
Siege coins, crafted from melted church silver in Carlisle during the English Civil War, are slated for auction. The coins will be sold as part of the Frank Waley collection of hammered silver and ...
The Syrian Civil War reignited after four years of docility when a rebel coalition launched a surprise offensive against Syrian government positions outside of Aleppo. Hay’at Tahrir al Sham ...
For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...