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3 days before D-Day, a 21 year old Irish woman named Maureen Flavin took her hourly barometer reading and sent it to Dublin. She had no idea that this single data point would be sent directly to Eisen... View More
The Irish Woman Whose Weather Forecast Influenced D-Day Scheduling - Irish America
On June 3, 1944, Maureen Flavin turned 21, on the same day she also changed the course of history with the meteorological information she recorded while working as a post office […]
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Interesting to think that if this woman had been kept home like any civilized society would have done, then perhaps the good guys would have won WW2
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Spanish Galleon
The Spanish galleon (Spanish: galeón, nao, or navío) was a particularly large type of galleon used for both carrying cargo and as a warship armed with up to 60 cannons. Used from the mid-16th century....
The Celtic Myths that Shape the Way We Think (Review)
By the time the Celtic myths were written down in the Middle Ages, not only were they already hundreds of years old but were also written after the influence of the medieval church. Williams works fro...
Grace O’Malley
Grace O’Malley (l. c. 1530-1603) was an Irish chieftain and seafarer who became famous as a pirate and rebel during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603) who was trying to increase her...
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The Members Of The Lü Clan Freely Gave Military Power To Their Eventual Murderers
Emperor Gaozu and Empress Lü, the first royal couple in charge of the Han Dynasty, were a very formidable and competent pair. After Gaozu’s death in 195 BCE, Empress Lü showed her prowess by…
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#OTD 1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
Catastrophe on the Yalu: America’s intelligence failure in Korea
The United States has been in conflict with North Korea since it invaded South Korea in 1950. For decades, it has been a top American intelligence priority to gather information and analysis on the De...
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#OTD 1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
Abel Tasman | Facts, Map, Biography, Ships, & Exploration
Abel Tasman, Dutch navigator who was the first European to sight Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. On his first voyage (1642–43) Tasman explored the Indian Ocean, Australasia, and th...
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#OTD 380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople
Theodosius I - Wikipedia
Solidus depicting Theodosius, with the legend:d n theodosius p f aug (“Our Lord Theodosius, pious, fortunate, august”)
The Legend of Cutha
The Legend of Cutha (also known as the Cutha Legend and Kutha Legend) is a fictional work dated to the 2nd millennium BCE belonging to the genre known as Mesopotamian Naru literature. It features the....
