The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. ...
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So it looks like the Sixties really were swinging! These pictures from a 1960s student house party look pretty debaucherous, everything you hear about the 60s was apparently true from the looks of these photos. ...
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals under the leadership of José Sanjurjo ...
The seventh Miss Universe pageant, Miss Universe 1958 was held in Long Beach, California, USA for the 7th time. In this pageant, thirty six contestants competed, where finally, Miss Colombia, 19-year-old Luz Marina Zuluaga won the ...
June 6th, the 68th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by ...
The story of Forty-Seven Ronin is one of the most famous and well-told tales in Japan. It begins in 1701 and tells of a feud between Lord Asano Naganori, the leader of a group of samurai ...
The gallery below shows images taken at Christmas, in and around New York, ranging from the early to late 1920′s, showing a range of storefronts, decorations, and posed family groups this is a unique look back ...
In the spring of 1955, as the Cold War intensified and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated at a shocking pace, America — as it had many times before — detonated an ...
As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades began to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public called for action. In November 1971, the newly created ...
The question of what compelled so many to abandon their homes for a perilous journey to distant Jerusalem in the Middle Ages is one that has fascinated for centuries. There exists today two popular interpretations of ...
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