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Weather History
October 29, 2012 - Hurricane Sandy, taking an unusual track up the East Coast and coming to landfall on the New Jersey coast near Atlantic City and Long Island coasts of New York creates significant damage to coastal towns as well as the boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island, to the estimated cost of $65.6 billion. The hurricane, at its peak a Category 2 storm, was the largest storm in recorded history by diameter at 1,100 miles.
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Historic Site of the Month
Congaree National Park
When there used to be thirty-one million acres of old-growth flood plain hardwood forest in the United States, and now there is little more than just the twenty-seven thousand at Congaree National Park and a couple thousand here and there about the United States, you'd think it should be very important to keep it safe. And that is what Harry Hampton did, campaigning for National Monument status in the 1950's, until it was recognized as such in 1976.
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Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Fort Davis National Historic Park
Fort Davis was established on October 23, 1854, in west Texas, by the Commmander of the Department of Texas, General Persifor F. Smith. It was located in the middle of Comanche and Apache territory. The fort was meant to control the area during the fortune seekers traveling to the California Gold Rush.
Timeline of the Month
Timeline 1720s
It's a time for books, libraries, religious ideas, and more colonies for New France and England, which brought more wars between rivals seeking supremacy.
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Fan Favorite
Expo 2012, Yeosu, South Korea
When South Korea bid for their second World's Fair and won, the Bureau of International Exposition already knew of its success at Taejon in Expo '93. After their loss to Shanghai for Expo 2010, it was no surprise that the BIE voted in November 2007 to award the southern city of Yeosu with the winning bid, 77 to 63 over Tangier, Morocco. And Yeosu proved, once again, that the South Korean nation could host the world well with a well conceived exposition with climate change and the oceans as its theme, drawing more than the estimated attendance of eight million visitors to the small, but elaborate site overlooking the Hallyeosudo Marine National Park and Odong Island in the port area of town.
Minute Walk in History
Gettysburg 160 - Day Three
The third day of the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, included walks and talks on the action at Culp's Hill, Pickett's Charge, Farnsworth's cavalry action on the southern fields, as well as a program hosted by the Gettysburg Foundation and the Civil War Breakfast Club at the George Spangler farm, which was used as a Union hospital. Over two thousand soldiers were treated there, including the fateful Confederate General Louis Armistead, who was wounded after crossing the stone wall at the High Water Mark. Not a minute walk, too many important items to touch on, but nearly twenty minutes of the spectacular work of the Gettysburg rangers and others during the 160th anniversary of the battle.
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International Affairs
February 7, 1990 - The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party gives up its monopoly of power, continuing the trend, since the beginning of the Berlin Wall coming down, that the Cold War was about to end. The ending of the Cold War was completed, in many ways, by the strong policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward the Soviet block. Six days later, a plan to reunite Germany was announced.
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Battlefield Preservation
Even in these difficult times, work continues on preserving the battlefields of the Civil War, American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The amazing work of the Battlefields Trust is currently attempting to preserve land at Gaines Mill and Cold Harbor, what some think is the most important land to be preserved at those locations. Check them out.
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