Posts Tagged President Dwight Eisenhower
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November – Veterans, Elections and Thanksgiving
By Eloise Graham Veteran’s Day On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then called "the Great War." The following year, November 11 became known as “Armistice Day.” Many states ...
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“The Mother Road”
By Mary Schricker Gemberling John Steinbeck and his wife Carol had just arrived in Chicago where they purchased a Victory Red 1936 Chevrolet sedan. They headed west on Route 66, a voyage that would later become fodder for one of the greatest American novels ever written. In his famous social c...
