Popular Memorial Pages by chris

• World Trade Center attacked

  On September 11, 2001 at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, Al Qaeda suicide hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the northern facade of the North…

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  Updated 16 Sep 2011 - 48 views this week (6,620 total)

  Contributions 22 images, 4 stories

• RMS Titanic Timeline

  The last days of the 'unsinkable' ocean liner on April 15, 1912

  by chris

  Updated 16 Sep 2011 - 34 views this week (40,045 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 7 comments, 8 stories

• The Galveston Hurricane of 1900

  The deadliest US storm to date caused between 6,000 - 12,000 deaths.

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  Updated 08 Apr 2009 - 34 views this week (6,839 total)

  Contributions 4 images, 1 story

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  (February 4, 1906 - 13 April 9, 1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian and participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism.

  by chris

  Updated 01 Sep 2010 - 25 views this week (8,024 total)

  Contributions 4 comments, 16 stories

• Washington’s Resignation Speech (Final Draft)

  The speech, scholars say, was a turning point in U.S. history. By resigning his commission as commander in chief to the Continental Congress, Washington…

  by chris

  Updated 13 Nov 2008 - 18 views this week (35,088 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 2 stories

• Report from the Grand Compromise Committee

  The document that broke the Constitutional Convention deadlock.

  by chris

  Updated 13 Jan 2007 - 18 views this week (5,669 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 2 stories

• Halloween History

  Spooky, surprising and macabre stories about Edgar Allen Poe, UFOs, Lizzie Borden and more from the Footnote archives.

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  Updated 07 Jan 2010 - 17 views this week (4,041 total)

  Contributions 25 images, 10 stories

• Cmdr. Dudley W. “Mush” Morton

  Commander of the USS Wahoo.

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  Created 14 May 2009 - 15 views this week (2,961 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 1 story

• American Airlines Flight 77

  Boeing 757 en route from Dulles International Airport near Washington to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two…

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  Updated 15 Sep 2008 - 13 views this week (1,661 total)

  Contributions 1 image

• Salem Witch Trials: Rebecca Town Nurse's death warrant

  Rebecca Towne Nurse (baptized February 21, 1621 - July 19, 1692) was an important figure in the trials who was accused of, convicted of and executed for…

  by chris

  Updated 24 Feb 2007 - 13 views this week (14,727 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 2 stories

• CG-4A Glider Pilot Training Manual

  Prepared for Headquarters AFF. March 1945.

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  Created 19 Apr 2009 - 11 views this week (1,168 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 4 stories

• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

  The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). The B-17 was primarily…

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  Created 10 Sep 2008 - 11 views this week (1,559 total)

  Contributions 6 images

• Caroline Mary Cepuch Cryvoff

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  Updated 17 Apr 2009 - 7 views this week (1,187 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 3 stories

• James "Joe" Ferguson

  Assistant director of Educational Department of National Geographic Society who was killed on 11 September 2001 as a passenger of American Flight 77,…

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  Updated 15 Sep 2008 - 7 views this week (1,074 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 2 stories

• Sailors Lost On USS WAHOO (SS 238) 11 Oct 1943

  The USS Wahoo was one of the Submarine Force’s most valuable units during her six patrols, and her feats have become submarine legend. She sank 27…

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  Updated 08 Nov 2011 - 7 views this week (5,344 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 5 stories

• B-17G (42-37786) 8th Air Force, 381st, (MACR 2933)

  This aircraft is highlighted in the book Finding a Fallen Hero.

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  Updated 15 Jun 2010 - 6 views this week (1,029 total)

  Contributions 4 images

• Harry Elionsky

  Champion long-distance swimmer and "aquatic freak" of the early 1900s.

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  Created 05 Aug 2010 - 6 views this week (1,565 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 story

• 381st Bomb Group: MIA 535th N/42-31357

  Coming soon.

  by chris

  Updated 09 Jan 2009 - 6 views this week (1,605 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• Teresa BOOSE

  by chris and others can contribute.

  Created 11 Aug 2010 - 5 views this week (394 total)

  Contributions 1 story

• Pentagon attacked (11 Sep 2001)

  On September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, killing its 64 passengers and crew members and 125 people working at the…

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  Updated 14 Sep 2008 - 5 views this week (1,451 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story