All posts tagged "War Department"
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16.3KbostonLincoln’s Bixby Letter, The Inspiration for Saving Private Ryan
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, Gen. George Marshall reads a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Boston widow who...
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10.6K7Arts and LeisureThe 1773 Old Librarians Almanack: The Literary Fraud That Fooled the Critics
In 1773, librarian Jared Bean published his Old Librarians Almanack in New Haven, Conn., following the traditional format of Poor Richard’s almanac....
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45.6K4New HampshireThe Mysterious Death of Tobias Lear
Tobias Lear meticulously recorded the details of George Washington’s death, but was strangely silent about the events leading to his own. As...
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