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Red Scare

{ Article added: 07/03/2010 }
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Categories : Cold War, Historical
Red Scare is a phrase used to refer to periods of anti-Communism in the United States. The first "red scare" took place began towards the end of World War I and was generally characterized by worker revolution as well ...Read More »

James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh

{ Article added: 07/03/2010 }
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Categories : Crime, Historical, People
James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was a Scot who, in 1570, committed the first assassination with the use of a firearm (in this case, a carabine of nearly three and a half feet in length). Hamilton's victim was James Stewart, ...Read More »

McLean House

{ Article added: 07/03/2010 }
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Categories : Civil War, Historical
On July 21, 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War took place on farmland owned by Wilmer McLean. It was called the First Battle of Bull Run. Seeking to get away from the war, McLean, ...Read More »

Bushranger

{ Article added: 03/21/2010 }
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Categories : Crime, Historical
Originally, bushrangers were convicts on the run in the British penal colony of Australia. These escapees lived in the bush and used their survival skills to evade capture. The term evolved to refer to outlaws who used the ...Read More »

Essex (whaleship)

{ Article added: 11/21/2009 }
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The Essex was an American whaling ship that was sunk by a sperm whale in 1820 and provided the inspiration for the novel Moby-Dick. The vessel was 87 feet long and was hunting in the Pacific Ocean with twenty-one ...Read More »

Mary Campbell

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Mary Campbell was a young girl from Pennsylvania who, at the age of 12, was kidnapped by the Lenape, a band of Delaware Indians. She was taken by this tribe to the Western Reserve, a section of land in ...Read More »

Bisbee Deportation

{ Article added: 09/27/2009 }
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In 1917, approximately 1,300 striking mine workers were illegally kidnapped from Bisbee, Arizona, and transported to Hermanas, New Mexico. The workers, who had been rounded up by over 2,000 vigilantes (called the largest posse ever formed), found themselves over ...Read More »
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