Amazing Civil War Facts, bats first! Learn these Amazing Civil War Facts and share Though the Confederacy was far behind the North in technology and manufacturing capability, they were not ever short of ingenuity. Take a look at these amazing Civil War facts. The Confederates utilized bats and their poop. Consider the wealth of bat […]
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Using a Medical Endoscope to Peek at the Past
A not too well-known Union general did something unusual following the Civil War. General Montgomery C. Meigs fought in the war, but he is most known for his architect work later. What he did was create a massive time capsule with one of his structures. In the 18801’s, for the US Pension Building in Washington […]
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[maxbutton id=”3″ url=”http://localhost:8888/curt ” text=”Watch Exciting Trailers for Novels” ] Did you know that criminal agents kidnapped Canadian men for service in the union army in the civil War? During the war, certain civilians, called “Crimps”, enticed unknowing Canadian men with too much drink or drugged them, then enrolled them in a regiment in the […]
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Nazis in the 1930’s and 1940’s tried very hard to convert Christmas to a pride in Germany holiday. They were so bound up in the anti-Jewish attitude, and Jesus was a Jew, they tried both underhandedly and blatantly to eliminate Christmas celebrations as we know them or as Germans knew them then. Historian Gerry Bowle […]
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Heavens to Murgatroyd! Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word, murgatroyd? Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! The other day a not so elderly lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said, “What […]
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1.From 1861 to 1865, the number of #orphans in America doubled. 2. #Horses and other draft animals had about a 7 month #life expectancy during the war. 3. The leading cause of death by disease during the war was diarrhea. About one case in 40 was fatal. Poor sanitation in camps and prisoner of war […]
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