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  • About Auschwitz  By : michal costaminnego
    Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national event in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. It was first held in January 2001, and has been on 27 January every year since. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union in 1945.
  • American Antique Shop Idols - Abraham Lincoln Became Uncle Sam  By :
    It is the face and eyes and firm resolve of Abraham Lincoln that looks our at you as Uncle Sam, and that is how the Civil War created a hero who stood for one America, all free under God.
  • Diamonds, Gemstones, Pirates- How Sir Walter Raleigh Created the American Dollar  By :
    In the early days when there was a Virginia but not yet an America, Sir Walter Raleigh paid his men, his queen and his colony in America with diamonds, gemstones and most of all Spanish coins, those dollar coins worth their weight in silver. Therein lies their logic for America.
  • The University Boat Race  By : James Walsh
    What started as a friendly challenge between two friends two centuries back has now turned out to be one of the world’s major sporting events. It all began with two friends, Charles Merivale and Charles Wordsworth [nephew of William Wordsworth], who started the idea of having a boat race between the two universities.
  • The US Marine Corps: A Brief History Of The Marines  By : *
    The original incarnation of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was born in 1775 during the Continental Congress in a resolution sponsored by John Adams. The USMC fought diligently throughout the American revolution but, after the Treaty of Paris in April 1783, it was dissolved only to be reestablished in 1798.

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