November 4, 2026 / 10:24 PM CST / CBS Minnesota Historians will tell you that Richard Bong was America's greatest combat pilot during World War II. "If you look at all the exhibits, behind them is a local person, a local veteran's story for the most…
Vital City - Crime: Looking Back at 2025, and Ahead to 2026 It Wasn’t the Dutch Who Shaped New Amsterdam Get the best ideas, every week. A close reading of the letter that recorded the purchase of Manhattan from Native peoples Four hundred…
The Maya pyramids of Mesoamerica or the great stone structures of the Andes are among the first examples that come to mind when discussing the monumental architecture of ancient American societies. For years, these structures were associated with political power,…
BBC Safety checks on Leicestershire's oldest canal tunnel
“He was reared in the country, but managed to get enough education to enable him to read all the books he could find on natural philosophy. He studied all kinds of birds and flying insects, going over the tiny wings…
William Barker, a First World War flying ace, is the most-decorated service member in Canadian history.Pat Hewitt/The Canadian Press No one in Toronto could remember a funeral as large or elaborate as William Barker’s. Two thousand troops paraded…
News History & Fun in Michigan Home - News - History of Selfridge Field – The Michigan Home to One of the Oldest Continuously Operating Military Airfields in the United States The History of Selfridge Field includes a landing ground that Michigan supplied each…
It was something utterly different Historian James Holland made a strong and elegant case for the P-51 Mustang being “the most decisive aircraft in history”, but let me offer an alternative: the Douglas SBD Dauntless. Thanks for reading Hush-Kit Aviation Newsletter!
TRIGGER WARNING: The B-52 does not make our list, and the reason is simple: from next year, more of its service life will have been spent in the post-Cold War era than in the Cold War itself. By the year 3000, that…
The sights and sounds of an airplane soaring overhead may be routine today, but in the early decades of the 1900s, Lebanon County residents would flock to rooftops for a glimpse of a “birdman” or race to a farmer’s field to…
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