MHQ Magazine
In 1862 Union general John Pope had a chance to cut the Confederate army in half. He blew it. ...
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The Armstrong 100-ton gun is the largest muzzle-loading artillery piece in English history. Made by the ordnance division of Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing firm, the 17.7-inch gun is also considered to be the first fully...
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When it came to military and diplomatic matters, these six people were able to accurately foretell the future....
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Cho Chi-hun was born on December 3, 1920, in Yongyang, North Kyongsang Province, in what is now eastern South Korea. After graduating from Hyehwa College in 1941, Cho taught at Odaesan Buddhist College until Korea, with the end of World...
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The medieval period’s faltering and largely unsuccessful steps to constrain the worst excesses of war were an important beginning....
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In 1915 Ellen La Motte volunteered to work in a hospital near the Western Front. Then she was censored for describing what she saw. In August 1916, as World War I slogged into its third year, the Atlantic Monthly published a story...
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When Andy Rooney died in 2011 at age 92, he was probably best known for his folksy, often cranky commentaries for the CBS television program 60 Minutes. (The 1,097th installment of “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney,” the show’s closing...
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In 1943 some Italian prisoners of war on Scotland’s Orkney Islands decided to convert a pair of steel huts into their own place of worship....
