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Published: May 21, 2008 at 1:01 am
Although he appeared to most people like a Gilded Age gentleman, this thief--known as Black Bart--confounded Wells Fargo detectives during an eight-year string of stagecoach robberies.
Published: May 20, 2008 at 1:01 am
In 1814, Andrew Jackson called them "hellish banditti."
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Published: May 19, 2008 at 3:05 pm
This quiz is based on history trivia from all points in time. Check out the quiz each day for a new question, and you just might learn a few things along the way!
Published: May 19, 2008 at 1:01 am
He firmly opposed a proposed U.S. visit by Nikita Khrushchev, warning it would confer recognition on the "Kremlin gangsters" and dispirit the captive people of Eastern Europe.
Published: May 18, 2008 at 1:01 am
This Norman leader played an important role in the conquest of southern Italy and became prince of Capua in 1059.
Published: May 17, 2008 at 1:01 am
Born in France, this son of a U.S. senator served in the Army Signal Corps during the Spanish-American War, but made his name as a proponent of air power.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 1:01 am
SEATO, the regional defense organization created to protect members from communist expansionism, formally ended in this year.
Published: May 15, 2008 at 1:01 am
When the Civil War ended, former Union soldier Dorence Atwater sought this person`s help to publish a list of soldiers who had died while interned at the Confederate Andersonville prison camp in Georgia.
Published: May 14, 2008 at 1:01 am
This film producer created a patriotic silent movie about the American Revolution that led to his arrest under the Espionage Act, and to his imprisonment in 1918.
Published: May 13, 2008 at 1:01 am
In 1862, Confederate General Earl Van Dorn attacked Union forces at this Mississippi railroad town in an effort to help Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky.
Published: May 12, 2008 at 1:01 am
At Borthwick Castle on June 11, 1567, a thousand Scottish nobles cornered this person, who fled the castle by jumping out the window, disguised as a pageboy.
Published: May 11, 2008 at 1:01 am
Four days after Virginia seceded from the Union, April 21, 1861, the Gosport Navy Yard on the Elizabeth River near Norfolk was burned and U.S. Navy ships destroyed by:
Published: May 10, 2008 at 1:01 am
This American physician conducted breakthrough research on blood plasma in the years leading up to World War II.
Published: May 09, 2008 at 1:01 am
Best known for his role at the Battle of Gettysburg , this U.S. Army captain faced the British in the Pacific Northwest in 1859.
Published: May 08, 2008 at 1:01 am
In the struggle to succeed Lenin as leader of the Politburo, he lost to Joseph Stalin and was later exiled from the U.S.S.R.
Published: May 07, 2008 at 1:01 am
This Bronze Age site in Britain was accidentally discovered in 1982 by archaeologist Francis Pryor.
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