Anecdote
THE PARDO PUSH
On March 10, 1967, F-4 Phantom fighter pilot Capt. Bob Pardo was on a mission to bomb a steel mill north of Hanoi. Fellow pilot Earl Aman was hit by flak in his fuel tank. Pardo’s jet was also Read more…
Anecdote
VERGINIA
In 451 B.C., a Roman patrician named Appius Claudius fell in lust for a plebeian woman named Verginia (also spelled Virginia). She was the daughter of an esteemed centurion named Verginius and betrothed to Lucius Icilius. Gifts and bribes Read more…
Anecdote
ANNA COLEMAN LADD
Anna Coleman Watts was born on July 15, 1878 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She studied sculpture in Paris and Rome. Her first important work was called “Triton’s Babies”. In was displayed at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in Read more…
Anecdote
THE RULE OF “KING MOB” BEGINS
The most raucous inauguration in American History was that of Andrew Jackson on March 4, 1829. “Old Hickory” was the first common person to be elected President. By common, I am referring to his birth, not his personality. His Read more…
Anecdote
MASADA
Masada was a fortress on a plateau in the middle of a desert in what is today Israel. It was built by Herod the Great and had everything necessary to withstand a long siege. After the Romans put down Read more…
Anecdote
THE LINDBERGH BABY KIDNAPPING
On March 1, 1932, Charles and Anne Murrow Lindbergh’s nineteen-month-old baby boy Charles, Jr. was taken from his second story bedroom in Hopewell, New Jersey. The kidnapper left a note with a symbol on it. The note demanded $50,000. It Read more…
Anecdote
THE GREAT EMU WAR
One of the most unusual wars in history occurred in Australia in 1932. And the bad guys won. If you can call birds bad guys, that is. When Australian soldiers returned from the Great War, they were rewarded with Read more…
Anecdote
DAILY LIFE OF A ROMAN LEGIONARY
Wake up at dawn in the barracks or tent you share with seven other soldiers. Put on your tunic, belt, and sandals. Breakfast of porridge or bread. Don armor and go to morning muster. Daily tasks – clean latrines, clean Read more…
Anecdote
THE BOMBARDMENT OF ELLWOOD
The first enemy attack on American soil since the British attacked Washington during the War of 1812 occurred on Feb. 23, 1942. In the period after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese sent seven subs to roam the California coastline in Read more…
Anecdote
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
NAME – George Washington NICKNAME(S) – The Old Fox / The Sage of Mount Vernon BIRTH / DEATH – Feb. 22, 1732 Westmoreland County, Va. / Dec. 14, 1799 Mount Vernon FATHER – planter (died when he was 11) MOTHER Read more…