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Showing posts with label World History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World History. Show all posts
Saturday, March 31, 2018

More Historical Photos of Houston, the US, and the World

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Click this link to view color photos of Houston in the 1950s and '60s .  These next photos come from a Rice history blog that I ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

More Historic Photos from Around the Wold

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I can't recall who sent me these photos, but I always appreciate contributions. Thank you, whoever sent them. Click the image b...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Odds & Ends

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I have a few miscellaneous items from recent research. The first comes from Jackie James, who said the following: "... Of course...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

More Photos from US and World History

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I want to thank my aunt, Mayme Rachuig Hause, for emailing me these photos. Click the image below to view the photo album.   ...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Alvin Kadlecek

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I want to thank Gloria Farrugia and Brenda Albers Miles (DHS '66) for providing me the details for this item. Fort Bend ISD has ...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

World War II

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  I've just finished reading a book I highly recommend.  It's title is Voices of the Pacific, by Adam Makos.  Here's a li...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

German WWII POWs in Fort Bend County

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I've posted an item about this topic in the past - click here to view the entry .  I found another article a couple of weeks ago, wh...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Color Photos of WWII

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I want to thank Donna Christopher Baker (DHS '63) for sending me a link to these photos.  I'm sure most of us visualize WWII in ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Flights

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My thanks go to Lou Payton (SLHS '46) for sending me this link.  It accesses a video of Charles A. Lindbergh's historic flight a...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Then and Now Images from WWII

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I want to thank BJ Binford Pitts (DHS '61) for sending me this link.  I really like the technique of showing then-and-now images of ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Then-&-Now Photos of the Normandy Invasion in 1944

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Thanks to Donna Christopher Baker (DHS '63) for sending me the link to these photos.  I really like this type of presentation and hope...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Sugar Land's Fourth of July Celebration 95 Years Ago

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I've found contemporaneous newspaper articles describing how  Sugar Land celebrated the 4th in 1919 - 95 years ago.  It was an all-d...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Follow Up

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I found another photo of Dorothy Trout Mason (SLHS '31) later in her life.  (She was the Sugar Land woman who joined the US Navy dur...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Follow Up From Earlier Postings

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A handful of people were able to identify Blondie Moses in the photo below, but just two people, Mayme Rachuig Hause (SLHS '47) and ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

A Belated Memorial Day Entry

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Milton Strickland (DHS '66) asked me recently about a Dulles alum, Dixie Berger (DHS '65), who was killed in the Vietnam War.  He...
Monday, March 17, 2014

The Battleship Texas Video

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Click this link to view a Texas Parks & Wildlife video commemorating the Battleship Texas, which is celebrating its 100th birthday t...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Battleship Texas Is 100 Years Old

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The Battleship Texas, now docked at the San Jacinto Battle Grounds, will be 100 years old on March 12, 2014.  The Battleship Texas Found...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Audio Recordings of Houston & Dallas Radio on November 22, 1963

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I thought I'd post one last item on the Kennedy assassination.  I've been surfing through old radio recordings and found the fol...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Dallas Morning News Articles on the JFK Assassination

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Thumbnail of Dallas Morning News Front Page, Saturday, November 23, 1963   As we passed the 50th anniversary of JFK's assa...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

JFK's Trip To Texas

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As everyone knows, we're coming up to a big anniversary of the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963.  I found a few articles from T...