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WWII Animals (1941-1945)

By Aaron Siegel

Animals have been used to aid military efforts for thousands of years. The U.S. military in WWII enlisted animals to carry supplies, transmit messages, track...

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Women Against Women's Right to Vote (1918)

By Aaron Siegel

In the decades leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920,  as the women's suffrage movement was growing, an anti-suffragist movement also emerged....

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Nixon Declines to Obey Subpoena (1973)

By Aaron Siegel

In the letter below from President Nixon to Judge Sirica, Nixon states he refusal to obey the subpoena and turn over his tapes. Nixon cites...

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Iowa Statehood Request (1844)

By Aaron Siegel

On the 4th of July in 1838, the U.S. Congress established the Territory of Iowa, which had a population about roughly 23,000 at the time....

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U.S.-Australian Relations in WWII (1941)

By Aaron Siegel

The history of U.S.-Australian relations largely dates back to the Battle of Hamel on the 4th of July, 1918. The Battle of Hamel was a...

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Confederate War Ship Photo (1865)

By Aaron Siegel

From the early days of photography, pictures we used for intelligence gathering. During the Civil War, the Confederacy purchased many foreign ships, largely from Great...

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Michael Jackson's Patent for Anti-Gravity Shoes (1993)

By Aaron Siegel

On October 26, 1993, the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, filed United States Patent #5,255,452: Method and Means for Creating Anti-Gravity Illusion. The patent is...

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Britain Helps Confederate Navy (1865)

By Aaron Siegel

As the American Civil War was ending, U.S. Secretary of State wrote this letter in March of 1865 to the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain...

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Nixon's FBI Application (1937)

By Aaron Siegel

After graduating from Duke Law School, Richard Milhous Nixon applied to be a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on April 23,...

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