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día del año del calendario gregoriano. Quedan 169 días para finalizar el año. “There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) - OnPower.org - 1099 - Israel: conquista de Jerusalén por la Primera Cruzada. 1738 - España: se funda en Madrid la Real Academia de Medicina. 1799 - Egipto: descubrimiento de la Piedra de Rosetta. 1864 - Alfred Nobel patenta la nitroglicerina como explosivo. 1898...

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 15, 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was abolished more than 3 1/2 centuries after its creation. On this date: In 1870, Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. Manitoba entered confederation as the fifth Canadian province. In 1910, the term “Alzheimer’s disease” was used to describe a progressive form of presenile dementia in the book “Clinical Psychiatry” by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who...

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Today in History FacebookTwitterEmail Today in History Today is Thursday, July 15, the 196th day of 2021. There are 169 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 15, 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was abolished more than 3 1/2 centuries after its creation. On this date: In 1870, Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. Manitoba entered confederation as the fifth Canadian province. In 1910, the term “Alzheimer’s disease” was used to descr...

History's greatest submarine campaign fortunately never went "hot."

battle of basra modern warfare The battle that Malik was fighting, is famous in history as the “Battle of Layla-tul-Harir.” It was the climax of the grim contest in the plain of Siffin on the bank of the Euphrates. The western urban-rural interface, with the few main access routes into the city, was an operational environment in itself. By early 1987, Iran and Iraq both had about 200,000 troops deployed along the southern front near Basra, Iraq’s second largest city. According to the inte...

Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, June 13, 2021

Many of the boats designed and built during the Cold War remain in service today.

Flanders Fields, Belgium, 1915: Poppies, the hue of human blood, blow in the gentle breeze. The scarlet blooms decorate thousands of Allied soldier graves. Graves of mud transfused with the blood of fallen brothers.  1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all American veterans—by revisiting the story of the vermilion poppies of Flanders Fi...

ROYALSTON — A year after Memorial Day went nearly unrecognized due to restrictions implemented to thwart the spread of COVID-19, residents of Royalston did their best to make up for 2020’s subdued remembrance. About 50 people gathered at the Town...