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Roberto Maestas, "66, "71, was a Seattle legend and a social-justice leader
54+ min ago (1781+ words) Roberto Maestas grew up in a small New Mexico town but became a Seattle legend as a UW student and social-justice leader. You can't say that about Beacon Hill's El Centro de la Raza, however. Even though El Centro's campus…...
More than 8 decades after final mission, Southington native will finally be laid to rest
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (199+ words) SOUTHINGTON " More than eight decades after his final mission over war-torn Europe, U. S. Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant Donald Arthur Dorman, a Southington native who gave his life in service to his country during World War II, will finally be laid…...
Sacramento's Sojourner Truth Museum looks for lifeline as funding drops
9+ hour, 1+ min ago (259+ words) The Sojourner Truth Museum on Florin Road is at risk of closing. The Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum was opened 30 years ago by local activist Shonna Mc Daniels. "SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) -- A Sacramento museum dedicated to Black history is at…...
Nakajima G10 N Fugaku: Japan's Bomber Built to Reach America
9+ hour, 47+ min ago (270+ words) by Max Gr'nwald | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In 1942, with the tide of the Pacific war already turning against them, Japanese planners sketched out an aircraft of breathtaking ambition. It would take off from Japanese soil, fly across the…...
A tribute to Beavers who gave their all in World War II
9+ hour, 21+ min ago (84+ words) Evalyn Lindsey and other costs of war For over a year, I wrote about the 18 young men from Buena Vista College whose lives were cut short during the Second World War. But that number " Closeups at the Farmers Market Fonda…...
AMERICA250: Remington's Impression on America Exhibition Grand Opening
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (67+ words) A movement to establish July 4 as a new national day of charitable giving. We're creating the largest synchronized Fourth of July celebration in U. S. history. Join us on July 4! Help us make the Semiquincentennial a record-setting year of volunteer service. See…...
Operation Vengeance: The P-38 Mission That Killed Yamamoto
15+ hour, 49+ min ago (241+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On a Sunday morning in April 1943, sixteen American fighter planes skimmed the surface of the Pacific so low their propellers feathered the wave tops. They flew for the better part of…...
Nazi Wunderwaffe: The Wonder-Weapons That Defied Reason
9+ hour, 44+ min ago (228+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments As the Third Reich's fortunes collapsed, its engineers reached for ever more extreme ideas. Some were genuinely brilliant. Some were merely enormous. And a few belonged squarely in science fiction. Hitler's faith in…...
How a WWII Torpedo Stayed on Target
9+ hour, 31+ min ago (197+ words) by Max Gr'nwald | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments Launching a torpedo is the easy part. The hard part is what happens next: keeping a one-tonne self-propelled bomb running dead straight and at exactly the right depth, through the chaos of the…...
In Richmond, churches retrace the path of the enslaved to confront their own history
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (1117+ words) RICHMOND, Va. (RNS) " From 1830 to 1860, tens of thousands of enslaved people disembarked ships at Richmond's Manchester Docks, an entry point into a bondage system that built Virginia's wealth and shaped the city's history. Shackled together, the enslaved people trudged along…...