A century ago, on December 9, 1924 William Wrigley secured the trademark for Wrigley's gum. So it seems appropriate to take a bite out of the history of those bits of foil covered joy. And the surprising history of gum might, well, blow your mind.
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.