What History Forgot
What History Forgot
What History Forgot
What History Forgot
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Black Tom Island, a major munitions depot in NY Harbor was the scene of a massive explosion in July of 1916 that was originally blamed on lit smudge pots.
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What History Forgot
When NY Harbor Was Bombed by German Agents in 1916
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Before copyright laws lyricists and musicians freely took popular tunes and used them for their own purposes, as Francis Scott Key did with the popular British drinking song The Anacreontic Song.
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US National Anthem Taken from a British Drinking Song
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You may know that Coca-Cola actually started out with its main selling point being that of its cocaine content, but did you know that the drink still uses coca leaves?
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Remember When the Main Ingredient of Coca-Cola was Cocaine?
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Amid the tension and competition of the space race the Soviet Union attempted to steal America's thunder by landing a probe on the moon at the same time as the Apollo 11 landing.
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Russia Tried to Gate Crash Man's First Walk on the Moon
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At the height of the Cold War the US decides to construct a nuclear missile base under the ice sheet of Greenland, without anticipating an unfortunate consequence.
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America's Nuclear Base Under Greenland's Ice Sheet
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Host Joe Moniaci takes a peek into a long-forgotten bomb shelter in New York's Brooklyn Bridge.
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The Forgotten Nuclear Bomb Shelter in the Brooklyn Bridge
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In a long-forgotten passage from civil rights history, Elizabeth Jennings fought for her and other "colored persons'" rights to ride streetcars in New York City after she had been thrown off of one in July 1854.
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Elizabeth Jennings Fights Segregation 100 Years Before Rosa Parks
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Unbelievably, a photo of Jewish Latvian immigrant Hessy Levininsons Taft made its way to the cover of a Nazi propaganda magazine.
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The Jewish Baby That Became the Face Of Nazi Propaganda
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In 1859 farmer Lyman Cutler discovered a pig gorging itself on his potatoes so he shot it. The sequence of events that would follow would bring the United States and Great Britain to the edge of war.
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The Runaway Pig That Almost Started a War
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In 1943 President Roosevelt allowed the formation of a combat unit comprising mostly of interned Japanese-Americans which would later distinguish itself in combat in France and Italy.
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The Japanese-American Combat Unit That Fought the Nazis
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During Prohibition bootleggers filtered industrial alcohol in order to remove poisonous additives, only to see the government react by increasing the levels of poison, thus creating an epidemic of alcohol poisoning.
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The US Government Poisoned Thousands Of People During Prohibition
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In June of 1865 the CSS Shenandoah, a Confederate ship, continued to pursue and attack Union whalers in the Bering Sea despite the Civil War being officially over.
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The Final Shot of the Civil War Happened Off the Coast of Alaska
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At the height of the Cold War the US decides to construct a nuclear missile base under the ice sheet of Greenland, without anticipating an unfortunate consequence.
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America's Nuclear Base Under Greenland's Ice Sheet
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Host Joe Moniaci takes a peek into a long-forgotten bomb shelter in New York's Brooklyn Bridge.
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The Forgotten Nuclear Bomb Shelter in the Brooklyn Bridge
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In a long-forgotten passage from civil rights history, Elizabeth Jennings fought for her and other "colored persons'" rights to ride streetcars in New York City after she had been thrown off of one in July 1854.
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Elizabeth Jennings Fights Segregation 100 Years Before Rosa Parks
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A wealth of information via social media amid the Mumbai attacks only adds confusion to a chaotic situation, particularly within the ranks of the Indian government.
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Mumbai Attacks a Mixture of Confusion and Terror
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Mumbai is under bloody attack and India's National Security Guard, nicknamed the Black Cats, were called to stop the chaos, operating under four main directives.
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Black Cats Corner the Terrorists
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After the Spetznaz eliminates their Chechen separatist captors a gross and tragic oversight ends up killing many of the hostages.
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Moscow Theater Hostages Die After Being Liberated
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After a decade of searching, the CIA begins to activate agents on the ground after they identify in a mysterious compound in Pakistan an HVT, a High Value Target, that they believe is Osama Bin Laden.
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The High Value Target is Bin Laden
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Russia's elite counter-terrorism force, Spetsnaz Group Alfa, face a near-impossible task: to save 800 people held hostage by 40 heavily-armed Chechen rebels and suicide bombers inside a Moscow theater packed with explosives.
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Spetsnaz Group Alfa: Russia's Navy SEALs
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After intelligence gathering on the occupiers of the mystery residence in Abbottabad is complete Head of JSOC Admiral McRaven offers three plans of attack, with the direct commando approach eventually becoming the best choice.
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McRaven Raid Plans
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The SAS conduct a bloody albeit successful raid on a compound housing Al Qaeda militants and important senior leaders in a bid to get closer to Al-Zarqawi.
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SAS Raid on Al Qaeda
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In one of the most famous raids ever, the Unit storms the Ugandan airport at Entebbe to free hostages.
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Airport Assault
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The Unit, the "long arm of the IDF," is the most lethally trained force that Israel possesses.
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Israel's The Unit
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Operation Certain Death gets under way to rescue British soldiers from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.
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Operation Certain Death
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Sierra Leone, Africa is engulfed in civil war, and British soldiers have been captured by the West Side Boys, who are led by a schizophrenic leader.
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Captured in Sierra Leone
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During the British raid, the once feared West Side Boys' leader was found in a surprsing place.
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West Side Boys Leader Not So Brave
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A surveillance team has been sent in by the British army to scout out the location of their captured soldiers and to either wait for back-up or withdraw.
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The SAS Surveillance Team
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