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Panama Canal Opens
August 3, 1914 - The first ship passes through the completed Panama Canal after the United States finishes construction over ten years.
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Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Laura Ingalls Wilder Home
For the last three generations, many families across the United States and world have been entertained by the series Little House on the Prairie, which recounted the Ingalls family, and especially daughter Laura, as they ventured across the midwest from home to home. Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home, yes, the home of the author, grown up Laura, was her home as an adult from 1894 until her passing.
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Musikfest Festival Bethlehem
Take in the sights and sounds of the largest free music festival in the United States, Musikfest during its 40th anniversary season in the historic town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and its sister site, the ruins of Bethlehem Steel, now turned into an arts, music, and museum center. Here upcoming artists like Kendal Conrad, Grammy nominated musicians in the band Rumble, featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux, Jr., from New Orleans, and nearly five hundred acts over the 10 days of the festival.
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Bentonville
Often overshadowed by the concurrent events around the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, the Battle of Bentonville was a de factor continuation of Union General Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia, burning of Atlanta, then a turn north chasing General Johnston's diminishing Confederate forces through the Carolinas.
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Battle of Long Island
General Washington had guessed right that the next target of the British would be New York. So in March 1776, he began marching the nineteen thousand Continental soldiers into Gotham City. Washington fortified defenses there, including the construction of new forts in Brooklyn Heights and north Manhattan. The British appeared in late June and early July with four hundred ships and thirty-two thousand men off Staten Island. The subsequent battle would be the first major engagement after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Timeline 1700s
The conflict of colonies in their empires as England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands compete for settlement and trade as the American plantations grow along the Atlantic Coast.
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San Francisco Earthquake
April 18-19, 1906 - The San Francisco earthquake occurs, estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale. Its proximity to the epicenter of the San Andreas Fault and the subsequent fire that followed the quake and aftershocks left 478 reported deaths, although estimates in the future peg that figure at nearly 3,000. Between $350-$400 million in damages were sustained. Refugee camps were constructed at twenty-one sites throughout the city, including the Presidio, Fort Point, and Golden Gate Park.
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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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