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Early Cinema Was Crude and Had Sexual Content: Soon the Catholic Church Called For Censorship.

August 9, 2015
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Inspiration, Lifestyle, Our Great American Heritage, Uncategorised

A crowd of children going into a movie theatre in Florida. In the early twentieth century, the average American had less than a 5th grade education. To many, memories of the Civil War were still very clear. That generation had...

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The Captains of Industry Refused to Serve in a War That They Profited From.

August 9, 2015
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Andrew Carnegie, (in the center) was one of the leading industrialists of his time. He was drafted in the Civil War, but paid a substitute ($850.00) to serve in his place. He was not alone. In the beginning, it...

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If you want to know the truth about history, start with George Washington’s birthplace.

August 9, 2015
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Inspiration, Lifestyle, Our Great American Heritage, Travel, Uncategorised

George Washington’s Birthplace (Wakefield) located in Westmoreland County, Virginia George Washington would have probably scratched his head in disbelief. Let’s pretend that our first President never died, and instead he has been asleep for over two hundred years. When he...

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The freedom of the world depended on this one thing.

July 30, 2015
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Much of history, including that about World War II, outlines events in general terms — the big names and a summary of what happened. As always, however, the larger truth generally lies in the details. Digging beneath the surface there...

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American Auto Makers: Friends of the Nazi Movement.

July 28, 2015
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As strange as it As strange as it may seem, the growth of Nazism had a friend in a couple of well known American auto makers. Seemingly as American as ice cream and apple pie, Ford and General Motors played...

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Eugenics and Rural Americans: Country People Have Long Been Misunderstood.

July 27, 2015
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In 1915 a national magazine,The American Magazine, published an article written by the highly regarded health expert Dr. Woods Hutchinson, entitled “Health and Horse-Power.” Dr. Hutchinson discussed how the urban areas in America had caught up to the rural...

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