Category: General History

Frank Buckles the last doughboy dies at 110


Frank Buckles died Sunday, not unexpectedly at age 110, having achieved a singular feat of longevity that left him proud and a bit bemused. In 1917 and 1918, close to 5 million Americans served in World War I, and Mr. Buckles, a cordial fellow of gentle humor, was the last known survivor. “I knew there’d be only one someday,”he said a few years back. “I didn’t think it would be me.” “I feel like an endangered species,” he joked. As a rear-echelon ambulance driver behind the trenches of the Western Front in 1918, he had been safe from the worst of the fighting. But “I saw the results,” he would say.
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Categories: American History British History

Presidential Ham

In remembrance of upcoming President Day, this next web site is a tongue-in-cheek representation of portraits depicting US presidents past and present with their hams, (you heard right, hams).
Abraham Lincoln

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Categories: American History Just for fun'

Geraldine Doyle, 86, dies; one-time factory worker inspired Rosie the Riveter and ‘We Can Do It!’ poster

Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan “We Can Do It!,” died Dec. 26 at a hospice in Lansing, Mich.

Her daughter, Stephanie Gregg, said the cause of death was complications from severe arthritis.

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Categories: American History

Jamestown unearths inscribed 400-year-old pipes

RICHMOND, Va. ? Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English settlement.


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Categories: American History

Military genealogy site for the UK

Military Genealogy is the ONLY site where you can find military records of over 2 million British Armed Forces personnel exclusively cross matched with over 4000 Regiments, Bases and Ships of the British Armed Forces going back to before 1630, making your genealogy task much easier and more complete.

Here is the link.

Categories: British History Featured website