April 30, 2026
Tag: Four Centuries of Navigation
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Centuries of Navigation
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In a recent (September 2019) Smithsonian Magazine article authored by Amy Crawford, a freelance journalist from Michigan who writes on a wide variety of topics, we find the perfect text to accompany a set of wondrous postcards published in Germany close to nine decades ago. This set of cards is the largest I know about. There are
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March 3, 2024 11 Comments
We will never know what Lee would think about the hotels and motels named in his honor. During the Civil War, he stayed in a tent with his troops, declining more comfortable lodgings. Even when he fell ill in March 1863, he reluctantly left his tent on doctor’s orders to recuperate in a house, but he remained close to where his troops were bivouacked.