Last summer I was flying to the UK when I met a family flying from Auckland to London. They were trying to fly from Auckland to London. They had gotten to Los Angeles, where they were supposed to get a direct flight to London Heathrow. But that flight got canceled and they had to get another itinerary, which they thought, was routed through Florida. Imagine their surprise when they wound up next to lake Michigan.
ORD Stands for Orchard: A History of Airport Codes
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.