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On Monday, in honor of the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary, there was a ceremony led by veterans and a costumed ride ...
Viewers of the Super Bowl have come to expect a showstopping performance with elaborate costumes, choreography, artists, and ...
When "Clergyman" wrote his letter, most Vermonters who made maple sugar only produced enough to meet their own families’ needs.
He was a big gelding who caught the eye of a Union colonel, a swarthy Irishman from rural Ohio with long arms, short legs and an ... of 1864 and a staple of patriotic entertainment for veterans ...
Free Museum Day at the Renton History Museum: Enjoy the wonders of the past with free admission to the museum from 10 a.m. to ...
Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...
Key was alarmed by the sound of “bombs bursting in air”—British shells detonating short of their ... objected that Key’s poem extolled military glory, equating patriotism “with killing ...
While she’s most celebrated for her diary, first published in 1947, she also penned fairy tales, poems, and short stories ... offered nightly notes of patriotic inspiration.
Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.