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TOKYO ROSE
Iva Toguri D’Aquino was born to Japanese immigrants in 1916 in Los Angeles. In 1941, she reluctantly went to Japan to care for an ailing relative. Although she did not intend to stay, she was caught in Japan when Read more…
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BARBED WIRE
Today is the birthday of one of the most important individuals in the settling of the West. Joseph Glidden was born on Jan. 18, 1813. Without his invention, ranchers might have won their war with farmers. The following anecdote is Read more…
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FACTS ABOUT AL CAPONE
Alphonse Capone was born the 4th of 9 children to Italian immigrants in Brooklyn. His father was a barber. One of his brothers changed his name and became a Prohibition agent. He was in a street gang as a teenager. Read more…
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PROHIBITION FACTS
There was a Prohibition Party and its symbol was the camel because it doesn’t need to drink much. The party still exists. In California it works to get winemakers to switch to a different crop from grapes. Large parts of Read more…
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THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD
The Great Molasses Flood (also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster and the Great Boston Molasses Flood) occurred on Jan. 15, 1919. The U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company had built a huge storage tank in Boston to store the molasses Read more…
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SGT. ELVIS PRESLEY
On Jan. 14, 1960, Elvis Presley was promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Army. It was the culmination of a year and a half stint in the military. Presley was drafted on March 24, 1958. Originally, he had been Read more…
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SON OF A GUN
For those unfamiliar with this classic slang term, it means a man who is a bit of as scamp or rascal. In some cases, it acted as a more acceptable version of “son of a b****”. The most accepted Read more…
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FACTS ABOUT ALICE PAUL
She was born to Quaker parents on Jan. 11, 1885. She was a descendant of William Penn. Her parents were progressives who believed in gender equality and education for women. Her mother was a member of the National American Woman Read more…
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THE SILENT SENTINELS
I was taking the day off when I read that today is the anniversary of the start of picketing by the Silent Sentinels. I am a huge fan of Alice Paul, ever since I saw the movie “Iron-Jawed Angels”, so Read more…
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THE BEAST OF BELSEN
Irma Grese was the blonde, blue-eyed daughter of a German farmer. Her mother committed suicide as age 13 and she was raised by a strict, violent father. Indoctrinated in the greatness of Nazism at school, she joined the League Read more…