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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86765)
• United States
25 Jul 23
There are places I’ve been that have brought history home to me in such a powerful way that all I could do was cry. The Vietnam Wall, the Oklahoma City Memorial, and the Flight 93 Memorial are some of them.
This morning I added...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86765)
• United States
2 May 22
One of the big answers to the “counter-culture” of the late 1960s was Merle Haggard’s hit “Okie From Muskogee.” It’s so iconic it was referenced in a movie (“I don’t want some ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ I can get that here!” in [i]An...
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AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
24 Jan 19
In 1639 representatives from three Connecticut towns band together to write what would be the New World's First Constitution. Some dispute this fact, saying that The Mayflower Compact , written 20 years earlier, has that...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86765)
• United States
15 Jan 19
In many ways, it sounds more like the plot of a sitcom or horror movie than fact. But it is fact, a tragic fact...and it happened one hundred years ago today.
On January 15, 1919, a catastrophic collapse of a steel tank holding...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
5 Sep 18
If you enjoy reading biographies, I highly recommend "America's First Daughter." My book club read it a few months ago and, after I read it, my husband did, as well. Everyone I know enjoyed the book immensely.
If you have...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86765)
• United States
6 Apr 18
In 1968 I learned a lot of words that eight-year-olds shouldn't know: "curfew," "race riots," etc.
It was 50 years ago this week that Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel in Memphis. I...
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miamilady
@miamilady (4910)
• United States
21 Aug 09
I had to stop for just a moment to decide if I wanted to post this here in politics or if I should perhaps, just post it under "school".
Is there an interested here in myLot titled "history"? If so, I haven't seen...
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bgerig
@bgerig (1258)
• United States
17 Feb 08
A new poll conducted by Harris Interactive and released this weekend in conjunction with President's Day tomorrow came up with the top ten admired/recommended/'best' presidents. Here is their list:
1 - Abraham Lincoln
2 - Ronald...
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