Australian troops expected the war to drag on, so peace was greeted in the trenches with stunned silence, says senior war memorial historian Aaron Pegram. Back home there were scenes of celebration in Sydney and Melbourne. But the euphoria subsided...
Walk down the streets of Ramallah on any given weekday, and the call to prayer from the city’s mosques is likely to be drowned out by the sound of construction, while dust from newly dug foundations always seems to find its way into homes. The de-fa...
Over the fireplace at Mingo Creek Craft Distillers, a whiskey purveyor in the small town of Washington, Pennsylvania, a portrait of Alexander Hamilton hangs upside down. With snowy hair and a black velvet jacket, Hamilton wears an impassive look tha...
In 1942, the Workplace of Warfare Info was created by the U.S. authorities to create and distribute info and propaganda concerning the warfare effort at residence and overseas. The OWI absorbed the photographic unit of the Farm Safety Administration...
Shortly after getting into World Conflict II, the USA army discovered that delivery and delivering immense volumes of mail to and from servicemen abroad can be a problem, particularly given the necessity to reserve cargo area for essential weapons an...
For a number of months in 1969, the torrent of water dashing over American Falls, one in every of three waterfalls that makes up Niagara Falls, was decreased to little greater than a trickle. American Falls is recognizable for the immense rock pile,...