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BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Bob Dowling |
Up From Stove Black A review of the book "The Guggenheims: A Family History," a portrait of the rise and decline of one of America's best-known clans. |
Civil War Times February 9, 2005 Jason Emerson |
How Booth Saved Lincoln's Life A Lincoln family incident during the Civil War became a remarkable snippet of assassination lore. |
Wild West February 9, 2005 R.K. DeArment |
No Sure Bet: Gambling on the Frontier Recreation in the Old West oftentimes meant betting on the turn of a deck of cards. But for many colorful Westerners, gambling was a serious, sometimes deadly, business. |
Reason February 2005 |
25 Years Ago in Reason I think we ought to elect Teddy Kennedy president of the United States... China is joining the ranks of other socialist and communist countries that are being forced by reality... etc. |
Military History February 8, 2005 Daniel A. Fournie |
Hannibal's Epic March Across the Alps to Rome's Gates In 218 BC, Hannibal Barca left Iberia to take the Second Punic War to Rome -- leading a disparate 84,000-man army. |
Vietnam February 8, 2005 Peter Brush |
The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war. |
Science News February 5, 2005 |
From the February 2, 1935, issue Products of winter rain rival cave stalagmites... Texas river terrace yields clues to ancient Americans... New transmission system permits wide D-C use... |
American History February 2, 2005 Dinesh D'Souza |
Abraham Lincoln as Statesman The key to understanding Lincoln's Philosophy of Statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. |
AskMen.com Matthew Simpson |
10 Evil Rulers Of The 20th Century My intent in examining 10 of the evil rulers of the last 100 years are to both recall some of the horrific individuals of the past and to draw attention to some that are still acting in the present. |
Wild West February 2005 Will Bagley |
Wild West: Rescue of the Mountain Meadows Orphans The forgotten legacy of the massacre in Utah Territory in September 1857 includes the 17 children who were spared by the killers and who provided some compelling accounts of what really happened in that Western tragedy. |
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