20th Century

3+ hour, 42+ min ago   (744+ words) January 10 should be a special date in American history. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense rolled off the press in Philadelphia and ignited a drive for independence. As Murray Rothbard wrote,“Tom Paine had, at a single blow, become the…...

18+ hour, 40+ min ago   (400+ words) Eighty-four years ago today, the FFVS J 22 took to the skies for the first time as Sweden sought to strengthen its air defenses during World War II. Developed domestically after wartime conditions limited access to foreign fighters, the J 22 combined innovative…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (309+ words) The Arch of Victory Avenue of Honour Committee has criticized recent tree-lopping works carried out by Powercor along Ballarat’s famed Avenue of Honour, describing the treatment of several trees as unacceptable. Committee president Garry Snowden said the trees hold significant…...

16+ hour, 8+ min ago   (231+ words) Jones answered the captain of HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head on 23 September 1779, with his own ship burning. The line reaches us through one officer who wrote it down years later....

18+ hour, 31+ min ago   (708+ words) In brief: A self-taught Ukrainian helped the Americans land on the Moon and Soviet scientists were left kicking themselves. He also calculated the optimal Earth-Moon trajectory for a spaceship and mathematically substantiated the concept of using a gravitational maneuver. Four…...

19+ hour, 40+ min ago   (293+ words) Eisenhower had enormous formal authority and believed cooperation could not be ordered into existence. He described leadership instead as persuasion, conciliation, education and patience....

20+ hour, 42+ min ago   (106+ words) A photo exhibition imagines the life 14-year-old Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago....

1+ day, 12+ min ago   (374+ words) Alumni from Birmingham City Schools born in 1963 came together at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to commemorate the events of that transformative year and reflect on the Civil Rights Movement's impact on Birmingham and the nation. Attendees highlighted 1963 as a…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (496+ words) Teddy Roosevelt gave the line at the Naval War College in July 1897, in a speech he titled "Washington's Forgotten Maxim." The maxim was George Washington's, delivered to Congress in January 1790....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (36+ words) Battleship USS Wisconsin came out of mothballs in 1988, more than thirty years after her last active service in Korea. Seven of her eight boilers were down when the fuel line to the last one ruptured....