The History of Victory Gardens

<h4>The History of Victory Gardens (Guest Post)</h4>
<p>Thanks to the efforts of community gardeners, locavores, and the First Lady, the victory garden has made a comeback in recent years. And it’s not just the province of hippies and hipsters — many neighborhoods in the inner cities of the United States have fully embraced the community garden model as a way to reduce crime and delinquency, bring up property values, and offset grocery costs. What many people don’t quite realize is that this current upsurge in garden enthusiasm has a precedent: the mass victory garden movement that began in World War I and really took off with World War II.</p>
<p>In 1917, a group of American politicians, intellectuals, conservationists, and social welfare activists formed the National War Garden Commission as a reaction to World War I’s detrimental effect on the food supply. Thanks to the collapse of intra-European trade relations, nations that had previously imported foo...

Today in History, January 13th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 13th!</p>

<p>1794
President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.</p>

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1808
Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H. </p>

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1846
President James Polk dispatches General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms.</p>

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1862
President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War.</p>

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1893
Britains Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.</p>

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1898
Novelist Emile Zolas Jaccuse a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason was published in a Paris newspaper.</p>

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1900
To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Fr...

Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, A Hero Laid to Rest

<h4>Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, A Hero Laid to Rest – A Moment of Silence</h4>
<p>With the posting of this article, the funeral services for Glenn Schoenmann have commenced. Before you go any further, take a moment and be grateful for the men and women that have and will continue to protect our great nation.</p>
<p>Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, prisoner of war held captive during the Korean War, will receive a proper burial today. Glenn Schoenmann will be buried with full military honors at the Brown’s Chapel Cemetery, in Palmer, Tennessee, in the same cemetery with his mother and father. Across the entire state of Tennessee, Governor Bill Haslam has ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of Private First Class Glenn Schoenmann.</p>
<p>Governor Haslam spoke sincere words about the grateful return of Schoenmann’s remains.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Schoenmann family has waited 62 years to give Glenn a proper buria...

Today in History, January 12th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 12th!</p>

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1519
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.</p>

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1773
The first public museum in America was established, in Charleston, S.C.</p>

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1872
Russian Grand Duke Alexis goes on a gala buffalo hunting expedition with Gen. Phil Sheridan and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. </p>

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1879
The British-Zulu War begins. British troops — under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus — invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.</p>

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1908
A wireless message is sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.</p>

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1913
Kiel and Wilhelmshaven become submarine bases in Germany.</p>

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1915
The U.S. Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park. </p>

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1926
U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth mont...

The History of Beef

<h4>The History of Beef (Guest Post)</h4>
<p>In prehistoric times, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The primitive man hunted and consumed wild animals, including the bovine in its many forms. Some of the oldest cave paintings, such as the one in Lascaux, France, depict aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle, being hunted.</p>
<p>As early as 8,000 BC man began domesticating animals including the bovine. The cattle came in two forms, one type Bos taurus came from Europe, and the other Bos indices came from South East Asia and Africa.</p>
<p>The Spanish brought cattle to the Americas through Mexico. Starting with Columbus himself on his second voyage in 1493, cattle began to make their way from Europe to the New World. The trend continued with the Spaniard Vera Cruz and Portuguese traders.</p>
<p>Later, in 1611, the English brought large numbers of cattle to North America, specifically to the Jamestown colony. The French and English col...

Today in History, January 11th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 11th!</p>

<p>1757
American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.</p>

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1805
The Michigan Territory was created.</p>

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1861
Alabama secedes from the Union.</p>

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1862
Lincoln accepts Simon Camerons resignation as Secretary of War. </p>

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1887
At Fort Smith, Arkansas, hangman George Maledon dispatches four victims in a multiple hanging.</p>

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1904
British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland.</p>

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1916
Russian General Yudenich launches a WWI winter offensive and advances west.</p>

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1923
The French enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to extract Germanys resources as war payment.</p>

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1934
The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin.</p>

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1940
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Armys first...