Tag: History

In this Saturday, May 3, 2014 photo, poppies blow near a barbed wire fence in Geluwe, Belgium. Red poppies were first symbolized as a means of remembrance by Canadian World War I soldier and surgeon Lt. Col. John McCrae, in his famous poem, "In Flanders Fields." (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

World War I and the poppies of Flanders Fields

Raf Casert · May 27, 2014 12:40 pm

Veterans’ hopes of saving USS Saratoga scuttled

National Security

Veterans’ hopes of saving USS Saratoga scuttled

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 11:06 am

Restored US WWII D-Day plane arrives in Germany

Restored US WWII D-Day plane arrives in Germany

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 10:39 am

New York Civil War hero is subject of museum talk

New York Civil War hero is subject of museum talk

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 7:03 am

In 1st since WWII, Japan army chief visits Myanmar

In 1st since WWII, Japan army chief visits Myanmar

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 3:42 am

Separate agency for Lincoln library advances

Separate agency for Lincoln library advances

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 10:12 pm

Ceremony honors Colonial soldiers killed in 1755

Ceremony honors Colonial soldiers killed in 1755

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 6:28 pm

Obama eyes sacred Va. Indian site as US park unit

Energy and Environment

Obama eyes sacred Va. Indian site as US park unit

Steve Szkotak · May 26, 2014 2:57 pm

Art Deco district turns 35 on historic registry

Art Deco district turns 35 on historic registry

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 7:01 am

Eichmann’s Israeli interrogator reburied in Berlin

David Rising · May 23, 2014 2:45 pm

Workers at the Houston Museum of Natural Science work on an exhibit spotlighting the flag from the USS Texas in Houston. The 17-by-9 foot, 48-star flag flew over the battleship on D-Day, June 6, 1944, off the beaches at Normandy. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Flag from Battleship Texas flies again for D-Day

Ramit PlushnickMasti · May 23, 2014 1:31 pm

This undated photo made available on Feb. 4, 2013, by the University of Leicester, England, shows the remains found underneath a car park in Leicester, which have been declared "beyond reasonable doubt" to be the long-lost remains of England's King Richard III.

UK court: Richard III to be buried in Leicester

Jill Lawless · May 23, 2014 10:51 am