Some months ago the New York Times published a piece by Thomas L. Friedman, in which he noted that no two countries that both have a McDonald's restaurant have ever fought a war against each other. He...
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When World War I seemed imminent, the enormously wealthy Andrew Carnegie went to see the Kaiser. He handed him a signed check with the amount left blank. He told him he could write in any amount if he...
When General Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in the early part of World War II, he made a short speech: "I will return." Later on in the war, he came back to the Philippines in victory. Cameras...
During World War II one of the churches that was destroyed was St. Mark’s in Frankfort, Germany. When the roof collapsed a statue of Christ was buried in the ruins. After the war, people were cl...
England's Coventry Cathedral is one of the most impressive church buildings in the world. The old Cathedral was destroyed by Nazi bombs during World War II. After the war, Christian youth from Germany...
Life is filled with apparent contradictions. Upon entering a U.S. Airbase one sees a large sign: Peace is our Profession. Well, actually war is their profession, but one could argue that being prepare...
According to Paul Boller, people were fond of telling this anecdote about Woodrow Wilson. At the end of World War I, Wilson presented his "Fourteen Points" to make sure nothing like the Great War woul...
During the American Civil War, Northern men could pay a substitute to serve in the army in their place. ...
Wilmer McLean owned a home near Bull Run. His house was seriously damaged during the opening battle of the Civil War, and so, falsely believing he would be safer from future conflicts, he rebuilt his ...
The world was shocked when popular NBC newsman, David Bloom, died while covering the Iraq war....
In Saratoga, N.Y., there is a strange monument. It is comprised of a sculpture of a boot and an inscription of praise that never mentions by name the one being memorialized. The monument is in honor o...
The world was shocked when popular NBC newsman, David Bloom, died while covering the Iraq war. Some thought if he died it would be from hostile fire, but he died from a pulmonary embolism. Bloom ha...
Did you know that the idea for Mother's Day was born in a small Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia? It was 1876 and the nation still mourned the Civil War dead. While teaching a Memori...
During World War II, the Dutch royal family fled to Canada and lived in the capitol, Ottawa....
In the latter days of the Vietnam War, an American Colonel named Earl Woods made a promise......
Years ago when the Salvation Army celebrated its 100th anniversary, their journal, The War Cry, wrote of the founding of the organization and its founder, General William Booth. This significant sente...
For many years the license plates of New Hampshire, bore the slogan, made famous by Revolutionary War general John Stark - live free or die....
The Trojan War was over, and Ulysses was on his way home about to leave the enchanted island where Calypso lived....