Category: Know Your History

• Know Your History: Munich Massacre 1972

  In what has become one of the greatest tragedies in Olympic history, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team where killed in a terrorist attack by Palestinian extremists. This event, naturally, overshadowed the games as a whole. Israel retaliated with an assassination policy, targeting those it deemed responsible for the murders. This tragic event happened…

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  January 29, 2014

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  1972 Olympics, Israel, Middle East, Munich, Munich massacre, Palestine, Six Days War

• Know Your History: Pan American Exposition of 1900 in Buffalo, NY

  What a spectacle it was! Magnificent avenues sided with majestic buildings and exhibition halls that was the marvel of the world for the better part of the year 1900. The crown jewel of the Pan American Exposition was, indeed, the electric lights which pierced every night like a canopy of fireflies, bringing wonder and awe…

  sassevn

  January 23, 2014

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  1900 Pan Am Exposition, Buffalo NY, Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley Assassination