The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced: bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ̯ɐ) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) on August 13, 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. […]
What Is Martial Law
What is martial law and why and how is it used is a question that I’ve been ask repeatedly over the last few weeks and felt that it was time to try to answer that question with some kind of reasonable explanation as well as give a brief history of the times it has been […]
The Life And Times Of Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 1880, the son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and Mary “Pinky” Hardy. Arthur MacArthur was an army officer and a Union hero of the American Civil War. “Pinky” was the daughter of a cotton merchant from Norfolk, VA. During the Civil War, her brothers fought […]
The Once Pacific Theater Is Looking More Like A Modern Day Pacific Circus
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the South-East Asian theater, the Second Sino-Japanese […]
Stagecoach Mary
While the world is utterly obsessed and uselessly focused on a woman who used glue for hairspray, true unsung hero’s lay in the ashes of history without due respect. One such hero is Mary Fields. A Daring pioneer who would not only out-drink most men on the dusty trail, but more often than not, she […]