April 20, 2024
Tag: Collectors and Their Topics
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Collectors and Their Topics
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Donald T. Matter Jr. Collectors and Their Topics It was Friday morning and I was on my way home after playing a very minor role in the formation of the International Polar Bear Conservation Centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I made my way to the passenger lounge at the…
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January 11, 2024 2 Comments
In wartime, the Christmas cease-fire during World War I, is a good example of a strange happening between combatants. A less familiar event occurred in October 1864, when a Union cavalryman from Pennsylvania shot a Confederate captain from Alabama. One man died and was buried 175 miles from home, the other went home and wrote a letter to his victim’s widow.