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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
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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What History Forgot
The Final Shot of the Civil War Happened Off the Coast of Alaska
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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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Veterans and footage from the invasion of Normandy provide the details as to just how treacherous the initial landings and fierce the German defenses were their with underwater mines, 88-milimeter artillery rounds and machine gun emplacements.
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D-Day to Victory
Unimaginable Noise and the Hellish Defense in the Waters of Normandy
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Private Hal Baumgarten and his fellow GIs are victims of a deadly German ambush as they advance inland from the beach at Normandy. As he is about to be evacuated a sniper hits him, then gets "exterminated" by an unexpected friend.
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D-Day to Victory
Saved By an Unexpected Friend in a Ditch in Normandy
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A formidable German defense in Caen forces the Allies to unleash a massive aerial bombardment on the key city, with both the enemy and allies forced to seek cover.
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D-Day to Victory
Massive Allied Bombing of Caen Hits Both Friend and Foe
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As Lance Cpl. Stan Matulis is moving house to house clearing out the Germans in the Falaise pocket during the Battle of Normandy he and his comrades take a break in a home. After passing a window a couple of times he is shot in the neck by a sniper.
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D-Day to Victory
Surviving a German Sniper's Bullet
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As the Germans were withdrawing from Normandy and Belgium many regrouped in Holland and attacked the Allies, inflicting many casualties. As the body count grew so did the letters that had to be written to family members of the deceased.
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D-Day to Victory
A Battalion of Germans Came Down the Road and Attacked My Bridge
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Besides the cold and lack of supplies and onrushing German forces soldiers of the 101st Airborne had to contend with the fear of the unknown, and fear of letting your fellow soldier down during the harsh Siege of Bastogne.
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D-Day to Victory
The 101st is Surrounded and Cut Off in Bastogne
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Airman Leonard recounts the chaos and cruelty of nighttime bombing raids over Berlin in a Lancaster and how he and his crew had to crash-land their disabled aircraft on one particular sortie.
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D-Day to Victory
Bombing Berlin in a Sea of Flak
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By October 1939 after the Soviets and Nazis had partitioned Poland the Gestapo and Soviet secret police were looking for ways to increase and render more effective their collaboration
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WWII Confidential
The Soviets and Nazis Throw the Poles to the Wind
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During a trip to Moscow in December 1941 British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden learns of Stalin's desire to hold onto eastern Poland after the end of the war.
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WWII Confidential
Stalin Reveals to the British His Polish Pretension
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Despite the massive loss of life of his own people Stalin is viewed in the US as a hero by the end of 1942.
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WWII Confidential
Stalin Man of the Year as His Country Bleeds
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As German forces gradually retreat from the Eastern front and Soviet forces wait just outside Warsaw the Polish resistance rises assuming that Stalin will come to their aid.
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WWII Confidential
Stalin Watches as The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 Gets Crushed
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As part of the Soviet control that Stalin imposed over Poland Russians were made to pose as Polish officers.
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WWII Confidential
Russians Pretending to Be Polish Officers
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A former interpreter of Stalin's confirms that he felt betrayed by the Allies because they only opened up a second front in Western Europe when the Red Army began to approach Germany and the West.
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WWII Confidential
Stalin Feels the Allies Betrayed Him During the War
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Due to their inexperience many airborne troops including those of Fox Company loaded themselves up too much for their jump into Normandy on D-Day.
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Against the Odds
Carrying Too Much Gear For Jump Into Normandy
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Eugene Sledge recounts in his diary how he and his fellow soldiers were being trained in subhuman slaughter before their landing at hellish Peleliu.
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Against the Odds
Being Drawn Into the Flaming Abyss of Peleliu
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