Ponca City designated as a World War II Heritage City by National Park Service
The designation recognizes the contributions of local towns, cities, counties and their citizens who supported the war effort ...
Meet the women who refused to be kept out of boys-only Scottish Flying Club
The Scottish Flying Club’s ‘no ladies allowed’ rule was ditched with months of its formation by five former First World War ...
Plymouth Township named Michigan's first and only World War II Heritage City
Plymouth Township was one of eight newly named communities to receive the National Park Service's American World War II ...
How the Tupperware party changed women's lives
As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US company became woven into the world's cultural ...
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These factory workers were swamped by medical debt. Then their employer stepped in
A decades-old manufacturing company opened a clinic and made primary care and prescriptions free for employees and their ...
World War II Historian Rates WWII Movie Battles
Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in "Masters of the Air," "Pearl Harbor," and "Flags of Our ...
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Detective work: Military labs continue to identify soldiers decades after they died in World War II
Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 were reminders of the urgency of Brown’s work. The forensic ...
Holocaust survivor Kurt Leuchter recalls hiding in France during World War II
During World War II, the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), or Children’s Welfare Organization, was a Jewish charity that rescued Jewish children from Nazi Germany. The organization ...
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World War II veteran and engineer turning 100
Idaho Falls resident Lewis Eaker is turning 100 years old Thursday. The near centenarian called the day “nothing special.” ...
A tiny village has commemorated being the first Dutch place liberated from World War II occupation
Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer has returned to the tiny Dutch village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupa ...
Sri Lanka’s plantation workers live on the margins. But politicians still want their votes
Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...
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Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
Women make up more than half of the voters in Sri Lanka, but not a single one will be on the ballot in Saturday’s presidential election. The island nation of more than 22 ...