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JUNE 6 In History 1242: Two dozen wagonloads of Talmudic volumes and 200 other rabbinic manuscripts were burned at Paris. 1247: Pope Innocent IV contacts the king of Navarre. In a dispatch he requested the king compel Christian debtors to pay off their...

What an amazing convention.  Fantastic speakers, great performances, great music not accompanied by a takedown order from the artist, and the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans couldn’t be more stark.  When Scott Baio is a key speaker...

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette This is your morning Open Thread. Pour your favorite beverage and review the past and comment on the future. Find the past "On This Day in History" here. July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap...

Some Magnificent p Rrmages P-51 (“Mustang”) fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif. (LOC) Image by The Library of Congress Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer...

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese planes, launched from aircraft carriers, attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, sinking or heavily damaging 18 ships (including eight battleships), destroying 188 planes, and leaving over ...