The Mission San Luis was established in 1656 as a Spanish administrative center for western Florida and as a Catholic church to convert the native Appalachee tribes. Today it has been reconstructed as a living history museum.
The Council House
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During the Second World War, the submarine proved its effectiveness as a weapon. The German U-boats nearly brought England to its knees in the Battle of the Atlantic, while in the Pacific, the US submarine force crippled Japan’s maritime shipping, cutting off its raw materials and sinking over half of its tonnage losses.
USS Albacore on display in Portsmouth NH
A few years after the end of the Revolutionary War, a British textile apprentice named Samuel Slater immigrated to the US. Unknown to anyone, Slater was breaking the law and risking hanging.
Arkwright spinning machine
In 1963, during a civil rights campaign in Birmingham AL, Klansmen blew up a church and killed four little girls. It was a defining event in the civil rights era.
In 1958 the People’s Republic of China launched the “Great Leap Forward”, which was intended to modernize the country and make it a world power. As part of this program, Mao Zedong also began a war against the Eurasian Sparrow. It ended in disaster.
In 1905, the assassination of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg led to a sensational trial which featured some of the most prominent attorneys in the US and turned into a national debate over the existence of labor unions.
When the Civil War began to turn against the Confederates in 1864, they began to desperately search for ways to “take the war to the north”, both to exact a measure of revenge for William T Sherman’s destructive march across the South, and to create havoc and panic among the Yankees. And one of these was a planned firebombing campaign in New York City.
