The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...the soldiers killed in action during the American Civil War were positively identified. Soldiers had a legiti... ...g and selling metal disks to soldiers. During the Civil War , Harper’s Weekly magazine advertised &ldquo... ...al identification ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/08/Its-a-Dog-Tags-Life/We are taught about Civil War politicians and generals, dates and places, but t... ...liticians and generals, dates and places, but the war was full of everyday people who did extraordinary... ...ry things. The podcast Uncivil has stories of the Civil War that you won't hear i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/05/Pvt-Lyons-Wakeman-of-the-Union-Army/Video game companies typically try to release game... ...trip to Ancient Greece, you head to the American Civil War and hop into the body of a slave boy named George...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/01/Totally-Insane-Video-Games-From-Otherwise-Normal-Companies/(Image credit: Al Jazeera English)One man's vacati... ...o be nestled in Sri Lanka, a country ravaged by civil war for the past 20-plus years.Sri Pada is a modest,... ...tain's nickname, Adam's Peak).Despite the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese government an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/29/10-Sacred-Sites-Worth-Seeing/Instead of an iron fist, King Louis XIV ruled with... ...o recover funds from the Thirty Years’ War , and the nobility was opposed to the increase. B... ...nobility was opposed to the increase. But when civil war erupted, some factions tried taking control...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/22/The-Dancing-King/In a case of fake news that goes back 150 years, t... ...icy to not share, and, encouraged by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the press pounced on it. The lasti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/30/Jefferson-Davis-in-Womens-Clothing/(Image credit: Flickr user Diann Bayes) The follow... ...ating vast new estates for themselves. During the wars with Napoleon Bonaparte from 1805 to 1810, many o... ...that crops could be grown year-round. But he also warned that settling large numbers of Germans in Texas w... ...scription of the republic&hel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/27/A-New-Germany-in-Texas/The following article is from Uncle John’s F... ...n intelligence gathering. The president wanted to ward off any foreign threats against the new nation by... ...against Maine and in support of Great Britain.UN- CIVIL INTELLIGENCEThe first formal intelligence agency... ...organized in early 1863, about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/13/The-History-of-American-Spy-Agencies/Phantom limb pain is one of those mysterious sensa... ...n seems today imagine how it was perceived when a Civil War doctor named Silas Weir Mitchell proved his patie... ...ected as impossible to treat. When his specialty ward in Philadelphia filled up, the Army Medical Depar... ...ostly pain that lingered i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/10/The-Civil-War-Doctor-Who-Proved-Phantom-Limb-Pain-Is-Real/What we say today shapes the vocabulary of tomorro... ...ould witness great economic expansion. During the Civil War , they coined skedaddle as a mocking description o... ...levity in dark times.Born around the upheavals of war , the Missionary Generation (born 1860 to 1882) be... ...ion (born 1883 to 1900) h...
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