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1 day ago · Recorded December 8, 1941. Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
2 hours ago · Her name is Frau Hilda Wickenhäuser and she’s seen here behind the wheel of an NSU racer, which she reputedly campaigned in a number of events in the mid-to-late 1920s. This photograph is dated approximately 1927 and is said to have been taken in Berlin. We couldn’t pin down the identity of this impressive motor.
2 hours ago · Ronald H. Spector, Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941–1960 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1983), 336. While early MAAG commanders realized the importance of economic development as part of an overall approach to strategy, Lieutenant General Lionel McGarr, who took over MAAG in August 1960, elevated the importance of counterinsurgency training within the ARVN ranks.
1 day ago · 43 American and 10 Japanese fatalities. Deadliest attack on continental U.S. by a foreign power since the Mexican–American War. 53 1947 Eastern Air Lines Flight 605: Accident – aircraft: Near Port Deposit, Maryland: 53 1949 1949 Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash: Accident – aircraft: West of San Juan-Isla Grande Airport, Puerto Rico: 53: ...
2 hours ago · Military alliances shortly before World War I.Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutual protection and support in case of a crisis that has not been identified in advance.
2 hours ago · Geographically, Liverpool benefitted from its location in northwest England on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, adjacent to the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. The town was ideally located for transatlantic trade, which included the slave trade. An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed in 1807.
2 hours ago · In a new paper published in Royal Society Open Science, Harvard research scientist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril and associate professor Javier Ortega-Hernández present their surprising finding of a new species of chordate, and the first soft-bodied vertebrate to be discovered in the Drumian Marjum Formation of the American Great Basin. This new fossil ...
