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Quote from 'The Raven' and Dan Sickles: 'Nevermore!'

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Quote from 'The Raven' and Dan Sickles: 'Nevermore!'

Seeing a little higher ground, the Peach Orchard, a couple hundred yards out, he decides, without orders, to move his troops. Big mistake...

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Amelia's impact

Not to be deterred, back in Atchison, Amelia, Grace and her favorite uncle secretly built their own roller coaster off the roof of the...

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A Christmas truce: Peach on Earth

Kaiser William II of Germany, for morale, decided to send hundreds of Tannenbaum trees to his troops who were in deep trenches enduring...

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Mustangs unseat Cowboys, Beavers devour Trees, they give a Dam!

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Mustangs unseat Cowboys, Beavers devour Trees, they give a Dam!

Minor league baseball has some of the great wacky names and mascots: The Hartford Yard Goats, Lansing Lug Nuts, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimps..

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Day two at the Battle of Shiloh: A rebel nightmare

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Day two at the Battle of Shiloh: A rebel nightmare

That night both sides realized the enormous cost of the day's fighting. The dead and dying still littered the field as medical teams did...

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With Abe Lincoln's new proclamation, citizens rejoiced and turkeys scattered

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With Abe Lincoln's new proclamation, citizens rejoiced and turkeys scattered

To remind Americans how fortunate they were even when the country seemed to be falling apart with many families having a loved one on...

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Day one at the Battle of Shiloh: A Yankee nightmare

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Day one at the Battle of Shiloh: A Yankee nightmare

On April 6 and 7,1862, two armies fought on the banks of the Tennessee River in a bloodbath that saw as many casualties as the Battle of...

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Irena Sendler: Truly an amazing hero [part 2]

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Irena Sendler: Truly an amazing hero [part 2]

Even in Poland, Irena’s story had remained dormant and forgotten until the girls showed new light from a different generation...

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Irena Sendler: Truly an unsung hero [part 1]

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Irena Sendler: Truly an unsung hero [part 1]

Warsaw, Poland, had the largest population of Jews in Europe. In September of 1939 after swiftly conquering Poland and employing perverse...

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In the old West, a saloon door swings both ways

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In the old West, a saloon door swings both ways

Back in the day, saloons weren’t fancy like on Hollywood sets. Tents, lean-to’s, dugouts and caves all dotted the West...

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John Brown: From Harpers Ferry to the hangman's noose [part 2]

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John Brown: From Harpers Ferry to the hangman's noose [part 2]

The South considered Brown an enormous threat. Since Nat Turner’s Virginia slave rebellion in 1831 where 50-plus individuals from white...

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John Brown: The man who started the Civil War [part one]

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John Brown: The man who started the Civil War [part one]

That led to my first question when I visited Grady Atwater, the Director of the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas, “Was John Brown...

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New Madrid: It is your fault!

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been able to understand the Richter Scale. Why couldn't they just give us a 1-10 on how bad it was?

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Evel Knievel: Jumping into history

The Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka will soon be on the Vegas Strip or in a theme park, it’s that good. Movies, TV shows, pinball machines...

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How a K-State watering hole in Aggieville saved a downed airman's life

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How a K-State watering hole in Aggieville saved a downed airman's life

On May 10, 1972, Locher and his pilot Major Roger Lodge, part of the 555th, “Triple Nickel” squadron, took off with three other F4s...

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Remembering the Cronkites' impact

It was my first day of kindergarten at Eugene Field Elementary in St. Joseph and I was pretty excited. Mom dropped me off...

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Sir Winston Churchill: The right man, just in time

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Sir Winston Churchill: The right man, just in time

Churchill climbed steadily through the ranks in his formative years at both educational and military institutions.

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The James Gang: Before Joe Walsh

We got in a car, left Corinth for the short drive to the battlefield, which was along the same trails taken by the 40,000 attacking...

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Missouri State Penitentiary: No escaping this history

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Missouri State Penitentiary: No escaping this history

Conditions were deplorable, as you can imagine, long before any cruel and unusual punishment conversation or prison reform...

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Jesse James: It's about time!

James was a product of the violence and turmoil in the mid 1800s involving this divided state. His parents moved to Clay County, Missouri...

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