July 16, 2026
Tag: Blacckstone
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Fort Pickett
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An uncertain spokesman once said to George Pickett that the “Old Man” (Robert E. Lee) gave him immortality. That rather dubious “gift” came by way of having his name associated with a battlefield calamity at Gettysburg that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge.
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April 13, 2025 6 Comments
Did you ever wish you could mail yourself to a sunny Caribbean island? Well, once you could, but no longer. Today postal regulations prohibit mailing any odd-shaped postcard. These cards were mailed before the rules were changed.