Archive for September, 2010
Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
This week’s winner is PaulO, who won us over with his creepy and vaguely dystopian caption “I am product # 751600.” He wins 30% off a numbered product of his choosing at our eStore. And if you think this tube is an escape route from child-shaped robots run amok, you would be partially right! This picture [...]
Posted by Hilary on September 30, 2010, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: american history, caption contest, eStore, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, weird US history
Comments: 34
Escape and Evasion files at the National Archives
Escape and evasion files are firsthand accounts of a military personnel’s escape from behind enemy lines. In World War II, thousands of U.S. troops crashed in Nazi territory and had to evade capture or escape from German prisons. The National Archives recently digitized 2,953 firsthand accounts of escape and evasion during the war. Each account [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on September 29, 2010, under - World War II.
Tags: 2nd Lt. Jack E. Ryan, 2nd Lt. John Dunbar, 2nd Lt. Robert Laux, 2nd Lt. Wayne Rader, air force, american history, army, Capt. Edgar Williams, escape, Eugene Squier, Francis Murphy, Jin Clark, Lt. Col George Stalnaker, Lt. Philemon Wright, Maj. Donald Willis, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, Richard Smith, Sgt Elton Kevil, Sgt. Abe Helfgott, Sgt. Richard C. Hamilton, Sgt. Rudolph Cutino, Sgt. Thomas Glennan, Sgt. William Davidson, Stanley Miller, weird US history, William Howell, World War II, WWII
Comments: 5
Fillmore, Utah. Population 2,150
Between negotiating the Compromise of 1850, stymieing southern attempts to turn Cuba into a state, protecting Hawaii from French interests, and working to open up Japan for trade, President Millard Fillmore also appointed Brigham Young as the first governor of the Utah Territory. That was 160 years ago this week. As a gesture of thanks [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on September 28, 2010, under Uncategorized.
Tags: brigham young, millard fillmore, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, utahamerican history, weird US history
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1924 round-the-world fliers complete their mission
At 1:28 p.m. on September 28, 1924, two planes landing in Seattle made history. The Chicago and New Orleans had flown 26,345 miles in 66 days to become the first airplanes to circumnavigate the globe. Four planes had started the journey on April 6, but the Seattle and Boston had been forced down over Alaska and [...]
Posted by Mary on September 28, 2010, under - Exploration, - World War I, Rare Videos.
Tags: american history, army, aviation history, early aviation, magellans of the sky, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, National archives and records administration recognition day, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, weird US history
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The doodler who defied crooks and democratized donkeys
There are few artist in America who so greatly affected the popular landscape as Thomas Nast who was born 170 years ago today. Jolly old St Nick? Not so jolly before the Harper’s Weekly cartoonist plumped him up. The Grand Old Party elephant? Popularized in 1874 by the staunch Republican when talk of a third term [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on September 27, 2010, under Uncategorized.
Tags: abraham lincoln, american history, cartoons, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, odd history, Pieces of History, political cartoons, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, thomas nast, weird US history
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