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How the man and his marriage will forever be remembered | Ruth First paid tribute to the couple: Walter and Albertina
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How the man and his marriage will forever be remembered | Ruth First paid tribute to the couple: Walter and Albertina
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7 May 2003
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Americas Civil War: Defense of Little Round Top – Part 1 – Part 2
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Shortly after the Federals had taken up their positions, the 824 men of the 4th and 5th Texas regiments of Maj. Gen. John B. Hood"s division hammered up the slope of Little Round Top, pushing toward the center and right of Vincent"s line. During that assault, Captain James H. Nichols, the commander of the 20th Maine"s Company K, ran to alert Chamberlain that the Confederates seemed to be extending...
The Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum
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‘The envy of the world’ is how Ed Vaizey, Minister for Communication, Culture and the Creative Industries described the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), through which amateur treasure finders and metal detectorists can responsibly lodge their finds to the benefit of archaeologists, museums and the public at large. Since the scheme launched in 1996 700,000 objects discovered this way have entered...
Americas Civil War: Defense of Little Round Top – Part 1 – Part 1
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Late in the afternoon of July 2, 1863, on a boulder-strewn hillside in southern Pennsylvania, Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain dashed headlong into history, leading his 20th Maine Regiment in perhaps the most famous counterattack of the Civil War. The regiment"s sudden, desperate bayonet charge blunted the Confederate assault on Little Round Top and has been credited with saving Major General...
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Like the bombs, shells and mortar rounds dropped and fired in their millions during the conflict a total history of the Second World War is more easily weighed than described. Simply to narrate a war that circled the globe several times over in the course of six years requires a lot of words and demands the skills of a marathon runner....
A Pilots Family Finds a Gift at the End of a Long Wait
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"Red, there are two ways to die. To die for nothing at all, or to die for life—for thousands of lives"
"It is now the 26th of the month and I still have received no word," Lt. Don W. Moore wrote to his wife Doris in August 1943 from England. "I am kind of beginning to wonder a little bit." The newly married couple was expecting a child, and the 25-year-old B-17 pilot from Toledo, Ohio, could...
Under the auspices of the Council, we convened a meeting of merchant tailors and middlemen tailors and Mr. Madden and I appealed to them to help us improve conditions in the tailoring industry. We pointed out how the whole industry would benefit from the elimination of sweating and unfair competition. We offered to help to adjust wage rates gradually, provided employers stopped faking registers and...
Book Review: Lincoln’s Unknown Private Life: An Oral History by His Black Housekeeper, Mariah Vance, 1850-60 (edited by Lloyd Ostendorf and Walter Oleksy) : CWT
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LINCOLN'S UNKNOWN PRIVATE LIFE: AN ORAL HISTORY BY HIS BLACK HOUSEKEEPER, MARIAH VANCE, 1850-60
Lincoln's Unknown Private Life: An Oral History by His Black Housekeeper, Mariah Vance, 1850-60, edited by Lloyd Ostendorf and Walter Oleksy, Hastings House, Mamaroneck, New York, 580 pages, $30.00. Memoir raises controversial questions about Lincoln and his wife.
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Pippa Middleton pens party book, "startled" at fame
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LONDON - Paparazzi favourite Pippa Middleton is already a global celebrity. Now the 29-year-old sister of the future British queen is aiming to become a global brand.
The woman whose appearance at the spectacular 2011 wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William caused as much of a sensation as the bride herself has written a recipe and party planning book which hits the shelves this week.
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Technology Today In History
Posted by prototype at 1:54 on December 10 2012
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Bibliographical note and further reading
Posted by prototype at 1:10 on December 10 2012
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For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of the history of indentured Indians, the Indian Immigration records (I. I.) in the Natal Archives are essential. There are also valuable printed sources: in the annual reports of the Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Indian Immigration Trust Board. The documents we have included from the I. I. series are representative of the kind of material...
Times Magazine interview, May 2012 – Part 1 – Part 2
Posted by prototype at 22:57 on December 09 2012
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I suggest the role of the deliberately childless woman in history would make an excellent book, although perhaps a slim one, since until reliable contraception, those not wishing to procreate had to remain celibate. “There were nuns, of course,” says Worsley. “And schoolteachers. But there has always been an element of weirdness about that choice.”
Americas Civil War: Battle for Kentucky – Part 4
Posted by prototype at 22:26 on December 09 2012
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As for Buell, he turned over command to Rosecrans without much regret. Although he had blunted the boldest Confederate offensive of the war in the western theater of action, he had suffered the same fate as fellow Democrat General George McClellan, who had also been sacked after stopping Robert E. Lee at Antietam a few weeks earlier. No longer was it enough for Northern generals to win battles–now...
Times Magazine interview, May 2012 – Part 1 – Part 1
Posted by prototype at 19:14 on December 09 2012
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Janice Turner in The Times Magazine, 19 May 2012
Historian Lucy Worsley discusses her own childlessness and the inspirational women who feature in her new documentary series
By his unofficial harem of mistresses, Charles II sired 13 illegitimate babies, yet his queen, Catherine of Braganza, produced not a single heir. History, as Dr Lucy Worsley reflects in her new TV series, is so
Aviation History: November 97 From the Editor
Posted by prototype at 18:50 on December 09 2012
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From the Editor
Aviation History
It"s time for the nation"s military toequalize personnel expectationsregardless of gender or rank.
One of the best co-pilots I flew with when I was a Douglas C-47 pilot in the U. S. Air Force was a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft commander. A B-52 pilot, a major yet, flying right seat for a mere second lieutenant? (Co-pilot"s motto: Shut up, follow me and carry...
Names: Matlala, Klaas
In summary: Banished person
Biography Summary First name: Klaas Last name: Matlala Gender: Male
Banished person
Seretse Khama is asked to renounce his chieftaincy of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (Botswana), by the British colonial g
Posted by prototype at 17:19 on December 09 2012
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Date: 13 November, 1950
Seretse Khama is asked to renounce his chieftaincy of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (Botswana), by the British colonial government, and is offered a pension in return. (Bechuanaland was thrown into turmoil when he married Ruth Williams, an English woman without the permission of the tribal elders). The British ban him from returning to Bechuanaland when he refuses. The...
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
Posted by prototype at 17:18 on December 09 2012
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William Morris, one of England's foremost Socialists, poet and artist 1834-96, also had two daughters, but only one of them-May - took a keen interest in his work, attended all the meetings and social gatherings; the home of William Morris was famous for these. Bernard Shaw was one of the propagandists of that school. William Morris, having a good business as an architect and designer, was a wealthy...
Interview with President Thabo Mbeki on SABC Radio & Television, 05 November 2007 – Part 4 – Part 2
Posted by prototype at 16:52 on December 09 2012
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Presenter: Mr President, on the issue of crime. One of the most important annual campaigns Government and the ANC are pushing forward, ‘16 Days Activism of No violence Against Women and Children’. A special message to our listeners at home?