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Europe failed to head off a war they kind of stumbled into. And their pema insured each other it would be over quickly. Home by christmas, it said. And what followed was blood letting on a scale that stunned societies. At the battle for four months in 2016, the british and the french lost 4,000 men, and British Forces lost an estimated 27,000 men dead. In contrast, in 8 and a half years in iraq, some 4800 americans were killed. A war that began with military planners amassing forces to equip large cavalries ended with bombard. Civilian populations. Monarchies in germany and russia all ended th...

Was being built. President eisenhower announced that the airport would be named Dulles Airport. When kennedy took over, he didnt want to name it after a crusty old cold war era. The was pushed back and finally the decision was made to name it after dulles. You can still see the film clip of kennedy opening the airport with eisenhower there and allen dulles there. He pulls back a curtain and behind the curtain is this giant bust of John Foster Dulles. That stands in the middle of this big airport. I went to see it while i was writing this book. I couldnt find it. I started asking security guard...

Day singalong for the 200th anniversary of of our starspangled banner. [applause] thats right. 200 years ago this year, Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem to defense of forth mchenry and set it to a british tune and together, they formed our national anthem, the star spangled banner. Here, we explore americas history through collections, research, and public outreach. We help people understand the past, to and to shape a more humane future. And we are hoping our program will be able to do all of that by bringing the nation together. We are not just bringing people together here in was...

Religious piety. They grew up in a parsonage and were deeply influenced by the ideals of missionary calvinism, the idea that the world is divided between good and evil and that christians have to go out into the world and transform the evil into good. A very short step from that to take it into politics and believe that politically, the world is divided between good regimes and evil regimes. And that it is the duty of the good regimes, that is us to go , out into the world and destroy that evil. That is an important part of the dulles brothers formation. The other big influence on them was the...

Recently died when that super airport in chantilly, virginia was being built. President eisenhower announced that the airport would be named Dulles Airport. When kennedy took over, he didnt want to name it after a crusty old cold war era. The was pushed back and finally the decision was made to name it after dulles. You can still see the film clip of kennedy opening the airport with eisenhower there and allen dulles there. He pulls back a curtain and behind the curtain is this giant bust of John Foster Dulles. That stands in the middle of this big airport. I went to see it while i was writing ...