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Union soldiers called the rout after First Battle of Bull Run this.

Connecting the dots between established facts and a previously untapped interview, the author fingers ‘Killin’ Jim’ for the notorious unsolved murder

The future creator of Star Trek served in the South Pacific as a B-17 pilot, surviving tropical storms, flak and a fatal crash

Howard W. "Kroger" Babb made a bundle hawking a movie melodrama about a girl who gets in trouble

“Kroger” Babb made a bundle hawking a movie melodrama about a girl who gets in trouble AMERICA HAS SPAWNED hordes of skillful scammers but only a precious few have concocted a scheme so brilliant that it became a work of art. Howard W. “Kroger” Babb is among those precious few. If there was an American Schemers …

Kateri Tekakwitha shunned marriage and expressed her faith with mortification

Spanish-built versions of the Me-109 lend an air of authenticity to World War II feature films. If ever a pair of warbirds owed much of their survival to the film industry, it is the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Me-109—or more often in the latter case, its stand-in, the Hispano Aviación HA-1112 Buchón. Ever since …

The C-47 Skytrain was unofficially, but frequently called this.

Troops in Vietnam blow off some steam during their one-year tour of duty

The amazing Rocketdyne F-1 powered Apollo astronauts to the moon