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Daily Quiz for July 22, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff The first coin-operated video game was created in this year. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article Archives
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Today in History for 22nd July 2013
Historical Events 1729 – Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil 1739 – Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade 1922 – Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis...
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Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Gives Birth to a Boy
By Gerald Swick The wait for “birth-watchers” is over. The BBC reports that at 16:24 BST, the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to an 8-pound, 6-ounce boy. The child's name has not yet been released to...
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Daily Quiz for July 23, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff In his early twenties, Joseph Stalin studied to be this. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article Archives
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How can I trace a Civil War ancestor?
By Gerald Swick Mr. History: In the Civil War, how did either side document the people who fought and died for them? Is this information available to the general public? I ask this as our family is...
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Today in History for 23rd July 2013
Historical Events 1745 – Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides 1913 – Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 1973 – Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes...
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Daily Quiz for July 24, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff British World War II flying ace Douglas Bader had this physical disability. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article Archives
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Today in History for 24th July 2013
Historical Events 1946 – 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash 1949 – Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5 1956 – Brendan Behan’s “Quare Fellow,”...
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Interview – David Ferriero, Vietnam Vet Who Is Now Our National Archivist
By dnewbold David Ferriero’s tenure as National Archivist, a Vietnam vet appointed by President Obama in 2009, has seen the most massive document declassification effort in U.S. history …read more...
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Air Cav: How Soldiers in the Sky Reshaped Combat on the Ground
By dnewbold In the Vietnam War, adapting old principles of traditional cavalry to the new capabilities of the helicopter created an unprecedented fighting force …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at...
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Daily Quiz for July 25, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff The mechanical grain reaper invented by this man helped bring about the Industrial Revolution. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo...
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Why did Sweden support the Viet Cong?
By Gerald Swick In 1971 Sweden announced support toViet Cong. What were the motives behind it? A.P. ? ? ? Dear A.P. Growing popular sympathy for the Vietnamese National Liberation Front seems to have...
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Daily Quiz for July 29, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff This poet became known as the Hoosier Poet. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article Archives
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Today in History for 28th July 2013
Historical Events 1402 – Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I 1858 – William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1858 – Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a...
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Today in History for 29th July 2013
Historical Events 1874 – Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court 1907 – 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France 1957 – Jack Paar’s Tonight show premieres 1972 – France performs...
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Letter From Wild West – October 2013
By David Lauterborn Authors Paul Lee Johnson and Scott Dyke, and Wild West History Association President Pam Potter, consider the McLaurys’ and Clantons’ roles in the 1881 gunfight near the O.K. Corral...
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Daily Quiz for July 30, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff Known as President of the Underground Railroad, this man and his wife hid and assisted runaway slaves in Indiana and Ohio. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the...
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What is the Theory of Imerialism and Who Created it?
By Gerald Swick Dear Mr. History Can you explain to me about the theory of imperialism and who made this theory first? Sincerely, Auditya Pahlevi ? ? ? Imperialism, the dominance of a people or...
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Today in History for 30th July 2013
Historical Events 579 – Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. 1908 – Around the World...
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Game Review: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, by Ubisoft
By David Lauterborn Gunslinger, the latest entry in Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez series, offers good gunplay and an interesting blend of fact and fiction, even if the plots are hit and miss. …read more...
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DVD Review: Sugarfoot: The Complete First Season, by Warner Archive
By David Lauterborn Actor Will Hutchins portrayed the sarsaparilla-drinking, easy-to-blush, gunless but forthright and honest Sugarfoot in this offbeat 1950s TV Western. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE...
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Book Review: Texas Ranger John B. Jones, by Rick Miller
By David Lauterborn In his award-winning biography of John B. Jones, author Rick Miller also paints a vivid picture of the Texas Rangers’ heyday. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around...
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Book Review: American El Dorado, by Ron Elliott
By David Lauterborn In his new book American El Dorado, Ron Elliott exposes the infamous 1872 diamond hoax, keeping the facts straight while creating dialogue to flesh out the dupes and perpetrators....
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Wild West – October 2013 – Letters From Readers
By David Lauterborn In the October issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about Josephine Earp’s true identity, Edgar Paxson’s painting of Custer’s Last Stand, ill-fated photographer Mark...
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Interview With Historian Paul Lee Johnson
By David Lauterborn In his new book The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary, author Paul Lee Johnson examines the little-known McLaury side of the October 1881 gunfight near the...
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Book Review: Wyatt Earp, by Andrew C. Isenberg
By David Lauterborn Andrew Isenberg presents compelling arguments about celebrated lawman Wyatt Earp’s flawed character, but he falls short of proving his premise that Earp led a vigilante life. …read...
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Clay Allison: ‘Good-Natured Holy Terror’
By David Lauterborn How much trouble he ever caused in Texas is debatable, and during his time in Colfax County, New Mexico Territory, Clay Allison mostly did his fighting for a cause …read more...
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Wild West Discussion – October 2013
By David Lauterborn Regarding the gunfight that broke out on October 26, 1881, near Tombstone's O.K. Corral: Do you see it as a battle between good and evil or a battle between two flawed frontier...
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Wild West – October 2013 – Table of Contents
By David Lauterborn The October 2013 issue of Wild West features stories about Will McLaury of post-gunfight fame in Tombstone, the 1871 Camp Grant Massacre in Arizona Territory, mythologized gunman...
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Daily Quiz for July 31, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff Thomas Edison’s first laboratory is on display in a museum in this city. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article Archives
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Today in History for 31st July 2013
Historical Events 1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor 1948 – “Brigadoon” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances 1970 – Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends “Huntley-Brinkley...
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Speed Demons
By Scokeley Vanderbilt heir ditched railroads for cars and launched a race that put the American auto industry on the map. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle...
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Daily Quiz for August 1, 2013
By HistoryNet Staff The first Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to an American writer went to this author. …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at History Net Around the world with Bartle Doo Article...
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Was Pres. Lyndon Johnson aware of Soviet plans to invade Czechoslovakia?
By Gerald Swick Dear Mr. History, There is one thing in history that particularly interests me. Was President Lyndon Johnson aware of the plans of the Soviet Union and its vassal states to invade...
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Today in History for 1st August 2013
Historical Events 1785 – Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends. 1942 – German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers 1963 –...
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