Archive for November 10th, 2011

WAR BONDS POSTER ~ THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA

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BEECH-NUT GUM AD FROM THE 1950s

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STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE ON THIS DAY IN 1871

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Stanley greeting Livingstone…"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 

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Henry Stanley                   

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David Livingstone         

Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his
exploration of Africa. He is also famous for being sent by the New York Herald
newspaper to find David Livingstone, a Scottish medical missionary with the
London Missionary Society and explorer who had completely lost contact with
the outside world for six years and was ill with malaria. Stanley found Dr.
Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. Livingstone
remained ill for most of the last four years of his life. He died May 1, 1873
at the age of 60.  

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SONG ENTERED CHART ON THIS DAY IN 1963

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“Louie, Louie” by The Kingsmen of Portland, Oregon peaked at #2
on the Billboard chart in early January of 1964 and held the spot
for six weeks.  

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WAR MEMORIAL DEDICATED ON THIS DAY IN 1954

IWO JIMA STATUE DEDICATION

Mothers of two Marines who lost their lives after helping to raise the flag
on Mt. Suribachi pose with and Vice President Nixon (center) in front of
the Iwo Jima monument.
  

The Marine Corps War Memorial (also called the Iwo Jima Memorial) is a military
statue located outside the walls of the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,
Virginia. The memorial was officially dedicated to all personnel of the U.S. Marine
Corps by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on November 10, 1954, which at the
time was the 179th anniversary of the Marine Corps.  

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 IWO JIMA MEMORIAL TODAY

            happy birthday marines

                                (10 November 1775 – present)

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