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5 days ago · One of the most famous posters of World War II, "Someone Talked" urges Americans to prevent sensitive information from falling into enemy hands. Closely associated with the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" series communicating the same idea, the image of a drowning sailor dramatically illustrates the consequences of careless talk about military ...
4 days ago · Among the most famous images from the World War II era, the "We Can Do It!" poster of a determined working woman (colloquially dubbed "Rosie the Riveter") has been reproduced thousands of times since its original appearance in 1942. During the war, thousands of American women entered the job market for the first time, many in munitions ...
5 days ago · Defending from Enemy Attack: Tennessee's Civil War Structures 7th-8th grade Social Studies, Career and Technical Education Created by Perry F. Louden, Jr., Rockvale Middle School (Rutherford County)
- Kira Duke
- 2018
1 day ago · The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's ...
- 17–20 April 1961
- Cuban victory, Failure to topple Castro's government, All surviving rebels captured, Increased cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union
1 day ago · The USAF F-117 Nighthawk, one of the key aircraft used in Operation Desert Storm. The Gulf War began with an extensive aerial bombing campaign on 16 January 1991. For 42 consecutive days and nights, the coalition forces subjected Iraq to one of the most intensive air bombardments in military history.
6 days ago · Tornadic events are often accompanied with other forms of severe weather, including strong thunderstorms, strong winds, and hail. There were 1,522 reports of tornadoes in the United States in 2017, [1] of which 1,418 were confirmed. Worldwide, 43 fatalities were confirmed in 2017: 35 in the United States, [2] five in China, two in Paraguay, and ...
1 day ago · As of October 2020, YouTube is the second-most popular website in the world, behind Google, according to Alexa Internet, as of May 2019, more than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. On November 13, 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
