Author: Fred Ray
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Ancestry.com Free Weekend
Ancestry.com is honoring Veteran’s Day by having a free access weekend (Nov. 11-14), so here’s your chance to save some money (a TOCWOC specialty). You don’t even have to be a veteran (but you do have to give them your email address). Tarheel AP history teacher Betsy Newmark takes a look at some of what’s […]
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The Real Abe Lincoln
The secret’s out—Lincoln was actually a cyborg sent from the future to save the Union and find Sarah Connor’s great-grandmother. Will the next Terminator movie be set in the 1860s with Ah-nold as John Wilkes Booth? (via Gizmodo) Somehow I like this better than Lincoln the vampire slayer. Speaking of Abe’s contemporary appearances, he’s been […]
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Short Takes
Body armor has been around since Neolithic times and made somewhat of a revival in the Civil War. However it was never officially sanctioned and was mostly discarded both for its weight and because it left its wearer open to implications of cowardice. Modern soldiers wear quite a lot of it, but as in the […]