Today in History - November 28 https://t.co/4YYH0IXkXK Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan entered "The Sea of the South" on November 28, 1520. Continue reading. At 8:55a.m. on November 28, 1895, six "motocycles" left Chicago's Jackson …
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Quote of the Day: "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward
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When the Girl Scout "District VII" was created for Black Girl Scout troops, its appointed leader, Virginia Richardson McGuire, only accepted the position as long as the GSNC offered an equal program to Black troops as they did to white ones. https://t.co/12wTL41rAQ #DCHistory …
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Circa 1905 postcard of the U.S.S. Mayflower, a luxury steamship purchased by the Navy in 1898 for the Spanish American War and then decommissioned to become a presidential yacht in 1904. Behind the graceful ship are the still-standing Navy Yard power plant and smoke stacks. …
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Because President James Garfield's assassination took place in the women's waiting room at the Sixth Street station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, "some fifty or sixty ladies" witnessed the event. https://t.co/ShFOTpWKRA #DCHistory Because President James Garfield's …
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Today in History - November 27 https://t.co/P0s0ujJz3O November 27, 1746, marks the birth of Robert R. Livingston, jurist and statesman. Continue reading. James De Lancey, lawyer, jurist, and eventual acting governor of New York, was born in New York City on November 27, 1…
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Quote of the Day: "The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it." - Dorothy L. Sayers
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