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Most Americans have heard about how Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star- Spangled Banner” while onboard a British ship during the shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. (Technically, he was on an American truce ship tethered to a British ship) The poem went on to become our national anthem after being set…
The man was known as Omeroh, Moro, or Omar Ibn Seid and caused quite a curiosity in Fayetteville back in the early 1800s. The story goes that in 1810, John Owen — a man who later became governor of North Carolina — went to the Cumberland County jail and secured the release of a “strange-looking,…
David Marshall Williams was so good at hiding his moonshine stills and keeping his illegal business under wraps, even his wife didn’t know about it. However, on a fateful day in 1921, that secret came to light and almost cost Williams his life. Sheriff’s deputies raided his Cumberland County operation near Godwin where Williams and…
There have been plenty of movies made about America-Russia conflicts, the Cold War, the Berlin Wall. “Red Dawn” came out when I was a teenager and featured a Russian invasion of America. However, it seems lost to history that Americans actually fought Russians in Russia during the Russian Revolution. In 1918, America, France, Canada, and…