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Operation Urgent Fury: Reagan’s Cold War Invasion Of Grenada In 1983 | Battlezone | War Stories
Post Date: 2022-07-31 11:25:43 by BTP Holdings
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Since the end of the Vietnam War American forces enjoyed a period of relative peace. That is until Operation Urgent Fury, when a strange set of circumstances brought elite units into armed conflict in Grenada, the strategically important island that guards the southernmost access to the Caribbean.
The UGLY Side of the 1950s - Life in America
Post Date: 2022-07-30 16:34:55 by Esso
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FULLER BRUSHES FACTORY PROMOTIONAL FILM DOOR TO DOOR SALESMAN 47384
Post Date: 2022-07-29 09:55:16 by Esso
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Made in the 1940s, this profile of the famed Fuller Brush Company and its products and manufacturing techniques, gives some insight into one of America's most famous brands of the 20th Century. The film stars Alfred C. Fuller, who began what was to become Fuller Brush Company in a basement shop in Somerville, Massachusetts; In 1906 he moved to Hartford, Connecticut (the factory is seen at 3:00) and founded the company. The company began with door-to-door sales of brushes of various sorts, including hairbrushes with a lifetime guarantee for which they are famous. A brief bit of this selling is seen at the 2:30 mark, with a salesman going door to door with dusters. Much of the rest of ...
'You Can’t Be Pro-Insurrection And Pro-American,' Says President Of Nation Founded By An Insurrection
Post Date: 2022-07-28 08:13:45 by Ada
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The president shot back at what he called "Super Duper Ultra MAGA Turbo Titans" Monday as he claimed "you can't be pro- insurrection and pro-American" despite being the commander in chief of a nation founded by an insurrection. "Can you imagine Thomas Jefferson calling for the blood of tyrants? What if John Adams refused to pledge fealty to King George? England would've nuked us to oblivion. It would've been total malarkey anarchy!" said the unblinking Biden, unflinching in the face of a citizenry increasingly questioning whether he is fit to be president. "Look, here's the deal, these Capitol insurrectioneserutes ...
Battle of the Bulge | Patton 360 (S1) | Full Episode
Post Date: 2022-07-27 21:05:41 by BTP Holdings
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As Patton's men prepare to cross the Rhine River into Germany, other American units in Belgium are completely shattered by a German counterattack, kicking off the Battle of the Bulge, in Season 1, "Battle of the Bulge."
Hitler’s Teeth Reveal Nazi Dictator’s Cause of Death
Post Date: 2022-07-22 07:41:30 by BTP Holdings
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Hitler’s Teeth Reveal Nazi Dictator’s Cause of Death A new analysis of Adolf Hitler's teeth and bones puts to rest questions of how he died. NATASHA FROST | UPDATED:DEC 26, 2018 ORIGINAL:MAY 19, 2018 In a new study, French scientists analyzed fragments of Adolf Hitler’s teeth to prove that he died in 1945, after taking cyanide and shooting himself in the head. The research, published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine in May 2018, seeks to end conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler’s death through scientific analysis of the dictator’s teeth and skull. “Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945,” lead study author Philippe Charlier told ...
Thunder In The Ozarks: The Battle Of Pea Ridge
Post Date: 2022-07-19 20:53:40 by BTP Holdings
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A presentation of the National Park Service: The story of the most decisive Civil War battle west of the Mississippi. Produced by Harpers Ferry Center, Department of Audio Visual Arts National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
Cowpens: America's Most Perfect Battle
Post Date: 2022-07-19 20:05:07 by BTP Holdings
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The January 1781 American defeat of the British at Cowpens, South Carolina is one of the most ingeniously scripted displays of tactical genius, ever, by an American commander. Some historians call it “the most perfect battle fought in the Americas” The American commander, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, a self-taught frontiersman, outwitted, and his forces outfought, the well-trained British regulars, finishing the battle with a military maneuver history rarely sees: a double envelopment. The battle served as inspiration for the final battle of Mel Gibson’s 2000 film “The Patriot.” Cowpens was a turning point in the war, the British surrendered ten months later. ...
TOMBSTONE Clip - Doc Holiday meets Johnny Ringo (1993) Val Kilmer
Post Date: 2022-07-17 20:04:50 by BTP Holdings
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TOMBSTONE Clip - Doc Holiday meets Johnny Ringo (1993) Val Kilmer Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his brothers, Morgan (Bill Paxton) and Virgil (Sam Elliott), have left their gunslinger ways behind them to settle down and start a business in the town of Tombstone, Ariz. While they aren't looking to find trouble, trouble soon finds them when they become targets of the ruthless Cowboy gang. Now, together with Wyatt's best friend, Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), the brothers pick up their guns once more to restore order to a lawless land. Release date: December 24, 1993 (USA) Directors: George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre Poster Comment:Doc Holiday died of Tuberculosis on November 8, 1887 in ...
The Seedy Underbelly Of The American Presidency | Destination: White House | Timeline
Post Date: 2022-07-15 21:09:22 by BTP Holdings
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This doc probes the presidential campaigns that have changed America through the eyes of former campaigners, journalists and researchers. Find out how financing, crime and corruption, and TV debates play a major role in swaying political opinion on the way to the White House. Poster Comment:When Spiro Agnew resigned, Gerald Ford was appointed as Vice President. After Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford took over as President. After the second attempt on the life oof Gerald Ford he exclaimed, "It is getting so the President may no longer walk among the people."
Totally Illegal (Jon Brewer's Wedding)
Post Date: 2022-07-15 07:58:37 by Esso
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John Brewer's wedding. Poster Comment:When me and Paul and Skillethead touched down in Madison, there was a Lincoln Town Car waiting. We were kids with buck in the 80s. Some guy wanted to beat me up because he thought I was Sonny Crockett. He was close, Crockett carried a Bren Ten, I Carried a 1911. Best flight ever. I could carry, don't get all spun up. I ceased to be a bad guy in 1995. Oooo, I'm a hardcore civilian now.
You Should Be Here (Pam)
Post Date: 2022-07-15 00:03:05 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Damn Punk. I wish you were here to get me through this one. I miss you so much. I'm OK. See you soon.
WATER GLASSING EGGS: PRESERVE YOUR EGGS FOR WINTER!
Post Date: 2022-07-14 20:45:40 by Esso
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Unwashed eggs only, NO store-bought.
The Lost Cause of Conservatism
Post Date: 2022-07-14 16:35:58 by X-15
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The history of political parties in America is as old as the United States itself and while the seeds of England’s Whig and Tory Parties goes back to 1679, those in America even predated the rise of most such factions in Europe by several decades. However, for half a century many of America’s founding fathers, particularly those in the South, maintained a deep distrust of such organizations, as expressed in 1822 by President James Monroe who considered “ their existence as a curse of the country.” The initial political party in America was the Federalist, founded in 1789 by a group of political leaders from the Northeast led by Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and John ...
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma
Post Date: 2022-07-12 20:55:43 by BTP Holdings
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Poster Comment:Liddy was an east coast guy, born in Brooklyn in 1930 and died in Mount Vernon, Virginia in 2020. Liddy and E. Howard Hunt were part of the Plumbers who burglarized the DNC HQ in the Watergate Hotel. This subsequently led to Nixon's resignation as President. I can recall the Nixon campaign chant in 1968, "DUMP THE HUMP". Hubert Humphrey was LBJs Vice President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/G._Gordon_Liddy
Captain Newman M D - Gregory Peck and Tony Curtis
Post Date: 2022-07-11 02:41:54 by Esso
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My Back Pages
Post Date: 2022-07-07 00:28:09 by Esso
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Poster Comment:God, I miss you Punk. I'm OK, saving the world at 5X what it used to cost. Odin's afraid I'm gonna turn everybody into a drunk, I'm stuck for now. I'm on my way with some good-ass whiskey soon. Mead sucks.
Died On The 4th Of July
Post Date: 2022-07-04 08:38:44 by Ada
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Revisiting Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy. I told a friend of mine I was going to write a profile on Fisher Ames. “Who?” he asked. “Fisher Ames. One of our Founding Fathers and a preeminent Federalist.” “And you’re writing a profile on him?” “Yep.” “Why?” “Well… he’s largely forgotten. And his brand of conservatism was actually conservative. You know, interestingly enough, he died on July—” “No, no. I mean why?” “I don’t follow.” “Well, it’s an election year, in case you haven’t noticed. And I don’t think a dead Federalist is going ...
What Did Famous WW2 Generals Sound Like?
Post Date: 2022-07-01 21:44:11 by BTP Holdings
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The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: SkillsharePoster Comment:Patton beat Mongomery to Messina in the Battle of Sicily.
Himmler's Prince Charmless - Royal Nazi War Criminal
Post Date: 2022-07-01 21:22:32 by BTP Holdings
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Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont was a fabulously wealthy German royal who became an SS general and a close confidante of Heinrich Himmler. With command responsibility for Buchenwald Concentration Camp and involvement in other controversial actions, he was one of many German royals and nobles who joined the Nazis and paid the price at war's end.
White Feather - The Most Hardcore American Sniper
Post Date: 2022-07-01 13:52:07 by Esso
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Poster Comment:What a sad story. I wish they would've expounded on that thumbnail pic of the Ma Deuce with the spotting scope on it.
Hürtgen forest and the end of World War II | DW Documentary
Post Date: 2022-06-26 14:45:57 by BTP Holdings
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Thousands of soldiers were killed in the last battles of World War II. US troops who fought in the Hürtgen Forest nicknamed it the "Death Factory." This documentary features original film from US archives that bring the battle back to life. It's estimated that as many as 30 thousand US and German soldiers were killed in fighting in the northern Eifel region of Germany in the autumn and winter of 1944 and 1945. Traces of the battle - old bunkers, munitions, trenches and tank tracks - are still visible even today. The scarred landscape bears witness to a little-known chapter of World War Two. The "Hürtgen Forest" was the last obstacle standing between US ...
Hunting Göring's Grand Cross - What Happened to Göring's Valuable Medals?
Post Date: 2022-06-25 18:40:55 by BTP Holdings
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Hermann Göring was the only recipient of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. After he surrendered to the US Army in May 1945, he medals and decorations were taken from him and many, including his Grand Cross, disappeared. Worth today around $120,000, can its fate by discovered?
Forgotten Prelude To WW1 - Italo-Turkish War 1911-1912 (History Documentary)
Post Date: 2022-06-15 17:34:06 by BTP Holdings
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Sign up for Audible and get 60% off your first three months: audible.com/greatwar or text greatwar to 500-500 The Italo-Turkish War 1911 was one of the last classic imperial wars over colonial processions between two great powers. But it was in many ways also a first glimpse into what would come during the First World War: trenches, artillery, combat aircraft, motorboat attacks. This war in Ottoman Libya was fought between the Italian Army and Ottoman-led local Senussi forces. Poster Comment:The Italians were nearly as bad as the French.
Dixie Africanus
Post Date: 2022-06-15 00:15:02 by X-15
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Black slaves toiling in the fields of large plantations, gentlemen in frock coats and ladies in hoop skirts relaxing on the verandas of large mansions . . . all set in places named Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Mississippi. Most would imagine this to be a picture of the antebellum American South, but they would be mistaken, as it would actually be a scene from mid-Nineteenth Century Africa. More specifically, an area on the Ivory Coast that contained not only Liberia, but the colonies of several Southern states. To set the stage for our African story, we must first return to America’s earliest days. Contrary to what is claimed by the “1619 Project,” the first ...
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