All posts tagged "world war ii"
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1.1KNew HampshireDartmouth Starts a Campus Navy in World War II
Eighteen-year-old George Berkowitz, wearing his brand-new Marine uniform, lined up in military order with his Dartmouth College classmates and awaited his orders....
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3.0KMaineThe Vanceboro Bridge Bombing: Germany’s Secret War on America
On a wretchedly cold Maine night in 1915, a lightly dressed German army lieutenant walked from his hotel and placed 60 pounds...
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2.6KBusiness and LaborThe Portuguese Farmers Who Made Falmouth Strawberries Famous
In 1892, Manuel Viera Martins retired from whaling and bought a cottage in the Waquoit section of Falmouth, Mass. He and his...
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11.4KArts and Leisure7 Fun Facts About the Trapp Family, Before & After The Sound of Music
There’s a lot more to the Trapp Family Singers than you’ll find in The Sound of Music, one of the most beloved...
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7.8KBusiness and LaborA.C. Gilbert, The Man Who Saved Christmas (and Invented the Erector Set)
In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
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6.3KBusiness and LaborCamp Edwards, Cape Cod’s World War II City
One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...
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