Tag: History

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Boulevard in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man, calling for an end to the recent violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way. The Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, killing hundreds, or perhaps thousands of demonstrators in the strongest anti-government protest since the 1949 revolution. Ironically, the name Tiananmen means "Gate of Heavenly Peace". (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)

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Congressional leaders commemorate Tiananmen massacre as China cracks down on democracy activists

Blake Seitz · May 29, 2014 9:14 pm

Springfield events to celebrate Civil Rights Act

Springfield events to celebrate Civil Rights Act

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2014 9:01 am

French Navy ship to visit Yorktown

French Navy ship to visit Yorktown

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2014 7:08 am

List of New York state WWII dead available online

List of New York state WWII dead available online

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2014 7:02 am

FILE - In this June 6, 2004 file photo, French President Jacques Chirac, left, greets Queen Elizabeth II, of Britain, and her husband Prince Philip at the British military cemetery in Bayeux, northwestern France, during ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. The perils of World War II directly shaped the lives of Elizabeth, 88, and Philip, 92. The anniversary is so heartfelt that the royal couple is preparing to cross the English Channel once more, this time on a Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel Elizabeth helped 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

D-Day: Queen Elizabeth making rare foreign trip

Gregory Katz · May 29, 2014 6:55 am

Ill. historic board opposes Lincoln library split

Ill. historic board opposes Lincoln library split

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2014 10:31 pm

ADVANCE FOR STORY SLUGGED D-DAY FRENCH GI BY LORI HINNANT FOR RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014. In this photo dated July 1944 and provided by Dargols' family shows Bernard Dargols posing next to a Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep in Normandy, France. When the young Frenchman left Paris at age 18, the plan was to go to New York for a year and learn the sewing machine trade. Six years later, Bernard Dargols found himself crossing the English Channel in a U.S. Army uniform, sloshing ashore at Omaha Beach to a homeland that had stripped his Jewish family of their rights and sent some to die in concentration camps. This French GI, now in his 90s, recounts to AP his remarkable story. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Bernard Dargols' family)

Frenchman joined US D-Day forces to free homeland

Lori Hinnant · May 28, 2014 3:02 pm

Ill. Legislature OKs giving items to Obama Library

Ill. Legislature OKs giving items to Obama Library

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2014 1:03 pm

Shenandoah Valley battlefields group names CEO

Shenandoah Valley battlefields group names CEO

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2014 7:23 am

FILE - In this Feb,. 10, 2012 file photo, school students enter the "White House" as a life-size Abraham Lincoln replica stands outside, while touring the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has denied that personal friendships are driving his proposal to make the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a separate state agency. A House committee on Monday,May 26, 2014, approved Madigan's idea to break the decade-old institution off from the Historic Preservation Agency. The measure moves to the House floor. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

House approves plan to separate Lincoln library

John O'connor · May 28, 2014 12:53 am

Pedestrians and traffic cross the Truckee River in Reno, Nev., Tuesday, May 27, 2014, on the historic Virginia Street bridge. Built in 1905, demolition and reconstruction of the bridge has been postponed perhaps into next year due to a delay in federal permitting for a comprehensive flood control project. The bridge became legendary after it was portrayed by Hollywood and the news media as the site where people tossed wedding rings into the Truckee after securing divorces at the nearby courthouse. (AP Photo/By Scott Sonner).

Demolition delayed for historic Reno bridge

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 8:05 pm

This image provided by the Dallas Museum of Art shows a late 10th- to 11th-century carved crystal ewer from Egypt cut from a single piece of rock crystal. The pitcher is the first item the Dallas Museum of Art is putting on display from a rarely-shown Islamic art collection that it recently got on long-term loan. (AP Photo/Dallas Museum of Art)

Work from Islamic collection goes on view in Texas

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 5:39 pm