General George Washington lead his army of nearly 11,000 poorly
nourished and battle fatigued men to the Valley Forge military camp
of the Continental Army in Pennsylvania. The ill-equipped army spent 
the winter there during the Revolutionary War. At one point the supply shortages caused nearly 4,000 men to be listed as unfit for duty. About
half of these men died from sickness and disease.

    
               George Washington’s headquarters

                A first edition copy of Dickens Ghost Story of Christmas.

                            English author Charles Dickens

RCA’s project SCORE (signal communications orbit relay equipment)
was the world’s first communications satellite. An Air Force Atlas  
inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched the satellite from
Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first voice broadcast from SCORE
was a message from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, shown in
the above photo.

Betty Grable, actress, dancer and singer was the number-one
pin-up girl of during World War ll. Her leg’s were insured for
one million dollars by her studio with Lloyds of London.

The United States Air Force terminated Project Blue Book, a series
of studies of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings, after it was determined that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceship
activity behind thousands of reports. The project, which started in
1952, ceased all activity in January of 1970.