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February 10, 2026
The "Coolidge Cruisers."
The 1929 “Cruiser Act” raised some controversy among those who believed that war had become obsolete, But the ships built under the act would be workhorses in the war to come.
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Explosion at the Confederate Ordnance Laboratory
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.
Lava Lamps:1960s Cool
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
