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Manfred von Richthofen was born in 1892 into a family of Prussian aristocrats in Breslau.

He was a cavalry officer whose career became obsolete within months of the First World War, when the trenches made horses useless.

He transferred to the German Air Service in 1915, first as an observer and then as a pilot.

He crashed on his first solo attempt. By the end of the war he had 80 confirmed aerial victories, more than any other pilot on either side of the conflict.

What set Richthofen apart was not natural talent but method. Under the guidance of Oswald Boelcke, the first theorist of fighter tactics, he absorbed a philosophy of combat built on discipline: always attack from altitude, always pursue the advantage, disengage the moment it turns.

He was cold, systematic, and extraordinarily effective. He began painting his aircraft red in early 1917, partly for recognition by his own squadron and partly because the sight of a crimson plane diving from the sun had come to mean one specific thing to Allied pilots.

In April 1917, a month British airmen would remember as Bloody April, he personally shot down 21 aircraft in a single month.

On April 21, 1918, he was chasing a novice Canadian pilot named Wilfrid May at dangerously low altitude over the Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme when a single bullet struck him in the chest.

His Fokker Dr.I landed almost intact in a field behind Australian lines. Ground troops ran toward it expecting a prisoner and found a dead man, 25 years old, still strapped in his seat.

He had survived long enough to cut the engine and bring the aircraft down.

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This is an original 1925 photo taken by Charlie Cook of American Flag with Albert Johnson in the saddle.

American Flag was said to greatly resemble his sire.

He was owned and bred by Samuel D. Riddle.

American Flag was by Man o’ War out of the unraced Lady Comfey, by Roi Herode, the winner of the 1907 Prix de la Neve.

He was a full brother:

to Ship Executive: the winner of the 1939 Meadowbrook Steeplechase Handicap;

to Fleet Flag: the winner of the 1932 Amsterdam Claiming Stakes;

to Argosie: was second in the 1932 Coaching Club American Oaks;

American Flag was a half brother:

to Amourette: unraced. The third dam: of Silnet, the winner of the 1952 Prix Greffulhe; and of La Sorellina, the winner of the 1953 Prix Diane and the 1953 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe;

to Exalted: the second dam: of Blue Swords, the winner of the 1942 Eastern Shore Handicap; and of Gay Cavalier, the winner of the 1950 Del Mar Futurity Stakes. She is the third dam of Dinner Partner, the winner of the 1962 Misty Isle Stakes, who produced Jim French, the winner of the 1971 Santa Anita Derby. This is the family of: Native Partner, the winner of the 1970 Maskette Handicap; Dance Partner, the winner of the 1971 Sorority Stakes; Ajdal, the 1987 Champion English Sprinter and the 1987 Champion French Sprinter; Flying Partner, the winner of the 1982 Fantasy Stakes; Formidable, the winner of the 1977 Middle Park Stakes; and Arazi, the 1991 European Horse of the Year; among many others.

American Flag made 18 starts with 8 wins 1 second 1 third earning $82,725.

At two in 1924, American Flag won the Manor Handicap over Single Foot, the winner of the 1926 Brooklyn Handicap, and Cloudland, the winner of the 1926 Scarsdale Handicap.

At three in 1925, he won: the Bayside Handicap over Scorcher and Bright Steel, the winner of the 1925 Southampton Handicap; the Withers over Silver Fox, the winner of the 1926 and 1927 Paumonock Handicap, and Goldstick, the winner of the Okeechobee Highweight Handicap; the Belmont Stakes over Dangerous, the winner of the 1925 Travers Stakes, and Swope, the winner of the 1924 Great American Stakes; and the Dwyer where he was injured after defeating Dangerous by four lengths and Silver Fox.

American Flag was named the 1925 Champion Three Year Old C**t.

At four in 1926, American Flag was second in the Suburban Handicap to Crusader, stablemate, and ahead of King Solomon’s Seal, the winner of the 1923 Avalon Handicap.

He stood stud at Faraway Farm from 1927 to 1942. Then he was donated to the Army Remount Program where he died in the fall of 1942.

At stud his best were:

Gay Dalton: the winner of the 1944 and 1945 Handicap de Las Americas; and who finished third in the 1945 Santa Anita Handicap.

Greek Flag: the winner of the 1947 Battleship Steeplechase Handicap.

Gusto: the 1932 leading money winner, and winner of the 1932 American Derby and the 1932 Arlington Classic.

Momo Flag: the winner of the 1944 Exterminator Handicap.

Polly Flag: the dam of Plucky Flag, the 1945 Mexican Champion Two Year Old and winner of the 1946 Mexican Triple Crown.

Lady Glory: the second dam of Raise A Native, the 1963 Co-Champion Two Year Old C**t.

Nellie Flag: the 1934 Champion Two Year Old Filly and the dam of: Mar-Kell, the 1943 Champion Handicap Mare; who produced: Amoret, the winner of the 1957 Columbiana Handicap, and the dam of Eastern Fleet, the winner of the 1971 Florida Derby; and Mark-Ye-Well, the winner of the 1953 Santa Anita Handicap.

Nellie Flag: produced: Nellie L., the winner of the 1943 Kentucky Oaks, and the second dam of Bold Forbes, the 1976 Champion Three Year Old C**t. Nellie L. Is also the ancestress of Lakeway, the winner of the 1994 Santa Anita Oaks.

Nellie Flag also produced: Whirling Girl, the third dam of Forego, the 1974, 1975, and 1976 Horse of the Year; Sunshine Nell, the winner of the 1953 Barbara Fritchie Handicap, and the dam of Dewan, the winner of the 1970 Brooklyn Handicap.

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Helen Violet Bonham Carter was born in 1887, the daughter of Herbert Henry Asquith, who served as British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916.

She grew up inside the highest levels of Edwardian political life, became a formidable public speaker, and devoted much of her career to the Liberal Party and to causes she believed in with uncompromising intensity.

One of those causes, from the early 1930s onward, was warning Britain about Adolf Hi**er.As other politicians and commentators urged caution and appeasement, Violet was specific and early in her condemnation.

When Hi**er consolidated power in 1933, she declared publicly that nothing within her political memory had moved her more deeply to horror and indignation than recent events in Germany, and that freedom as Britain understood it had perished there almost without a struggle.

She was a close friend of Winston Churchill and aligned with him throughout the years when Churchill's warnings about Germany were being dismissed in Parliament.

She campaigned against appeasement, helped Jewish refugees reach Britain, and used her platform relentlessly to name what she was seeing.

Her name appeared in the Sonderfahndungsliste GB, a secret 104-page document compiled by SS intelligence officer Walter Schellenberg as a handbook for German forces to use following a successful invasion of Britain under Operation Sea Lion.

It contained 2,820 names, each flagged for immediate arrest. Beside Violet's name, the N***s wrote encirclement lady politician. Their company on the list included Winston Churchill, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, Noël Coward, and H.G. Wells.

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Along the dusty highways of Route 66 in 1937, thirty-four-year-old Kansas farm wife Ruth Holloway kept her family moving west after repeated droughts destroyed nearly everything they had worked for. Traveling in an aging pickup truck piled high with blankets, cooking pots, tools, and a few chickens carried inside wooden crates, she prepared beans and cornmeal over roadside fires, repaired clothing torn by wind and travel, and traded fresh eggs for fuel whenever filling stations agreed to help migrant families passing through.

Her children quickly learned how to patch tires, gather dry brush for cooking fires, and search every town for signs offering temporary work. Ruth preserved wild berries and fruit whenever the family stopped near rivers or creeks, and she bartered homemade soap — made from saved grease and lye — in exchange for flour, coffee, or canned food along the journey westward.

The road was difficult.

Summer heat baked the highways.
Dust storms reduced visibility for miles.
Truck breakdowns stranded families for days at a time.

And in many towns, migrants from the Plains encountered signs warning “No Transients” or “No Okies” near camps and businesses unwilling to welcome desperate travelers searching for work and shelter.

Yet despite the hardships, Ruth tried to protect some sense of normal life for her children. She combed dust from their hair each evening before sleep, told stories beside campfires after dark, and insisted the family eat together even when meals were small.

Neighbors along the road later remembered her as someone who rarely complained openly, even when the family had almost no money left and uncertainty followed them from state to state.

One evening beside a roadside camp near New Mexico, Ruth reportedly told her oldest daughter something the girl remembered for the rest of her life:

“The wind drove us away from home,” she said, “but we still carry home with us until we find another place to begin again.”

For thousands of migrant mothers crossing the country during the Dust Bowl years, survival depended not only on finding food or work, but on preserving hope long enough to keep families moving forward through exhaustion, hunger, and loss.

Historic photographs from the era often captured overloaded vehicles parked beside lonely roads, campfires burning against open prairie skies, and families rebuilding temporary homes night after night wherever the journey stopped.

For women like Ruth Holloway, the road west became more than migration — it became an act of endurance, sacrifice, and determination to keep family life alive even after the land they once depended on had disappeared beneath drought and dust.

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This is an original 1938 photo of War Admiral and Charley Kurtsinger after winning the Heather Purse at Hialeah.

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He wasn’t just a robber; he was a master of disappearing into the wild, vanishing as swiftly as he appeared outside a bank or a railcar door, leaving lawmen grasping at echoes. Born Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, the man the world would know as the Sundance Kid carved his legend with quiet precision rather than loud bravado. As a core member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, he moved like a silent storm—calm-eyed, deadly, and efficient. While others chased notoriety, Sundance let his reputation speak for him, his quick draw and steady nerves earning fear and respect across frontier towns and canyon country alike.

What truly set Sundance apart was his discipline in the middle of chaos. When bullets cracked and posses closed in, panic never touched him—he was already measuring distances, memorizing terrain, and choosing the cleanest way out. Reckless was never his style; survival was. He knew the land intimately and used it like a shield, slipping through mountains and deserts most men wouldn’t dare cross. When the pressure finally grew too heavy, he didn’t wait for capture. With Butch Cassidy and the elusive Etta Place, he vanished south, chasing the promise of anonymity on a ranch in Argentina, far from the reach of American law.

But legends rarely settle quietly. The outlaw life followed them even across continents, and Sundance’s final chapter remains wrapped in uncertainty. Some say he died in Bolivia, gun in hand, surrounded by soldiers. Others insist he slipped away once more, returning north under another name, living out his days in obscurity. The truth was never pinned down—and perhaps it never was meant to be. The Sundance Kid was defined by escape, by motion, by the refusal to be caught. In the end, he didn’t just outrun the law—he outran history itself, leaving behind a ghost that still rides the restless winds of the West.

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Richard Leigh "Beaver Dick" about 1885. Leigh may be the most famous mountain man to have lived in Idaho. Leigh claims to have run away from home in England when only sixteen years old. He arrived in Idaho sometime in the 1840's and eventually settled somewhat in the "Forks Country" (Upper Snake River Valley near present day Rexburg) about 1860. It's believed that Brigham Young first called Leigh "Beaver Dick" not from the fact that Leigh was an expert beaver trapper, but on account of the resemblance of his two abnormally large front teeth to those of a beaver. The Bannock and Shoshone also saw the resemblance and called Leigh the "Beaver."

Leigh married a 16-year-old Eastern Shoshone girl from Chief Washakie’s band in 1863. The ceremony was performed by a minister, but with no existing records, the bride’s Shoshone name is not known. Dick gave her the English name of Jenny. He built a cabin near the confluence of the South Teton and Henry's Fork rivers and began raising a family by hunting, trapping, fishing, and guiding often traveling east to Teton Basin. It was Leigh who gave name to the Teton River that had been named Pierre's River by French trappers. He also named Bitch Creek, called the North Fork of the Teton by polite society. Leigh gave name to many things in the Upper Valley.

Leigh guided the second Hayden Expedition of 1872 to Teton Basin, to the Teton Range, and to Jackson Hole. Hayden and his men were so impressed with the abilities and hospitality of Richard and Jenny that they named the lakes at the base of the Tetons for them: Leigh Lake, Jenny Lake, and Beaver Dick Lake now known as String Lake.

During the winter of 1876, an Indian woman seeking food visited the Leighs. They did not know she had been infected with smallpox. All of the Leigh family as well as another hunter caught the disease. Between Christmas Eve and Dec. 28, 1876, all of Beaver Dick’s family died; he and the hunter barely survived due to their European genes having been exposed to the virus. For two years, Dick suffered and struggled to maintain as normal a life as possible near his cabin on the South Teton. In the summer of 1878, some Bannocks left the reservation in a protest over the government’s failure to send promised food and supplies, in a series of events that came to be known as the Bannock War. Beaver Dick and his friends Bannock John and Tadpole laid low, staying out of sight to “keep their hair,” as he put it...that is, to remain unscalped.

My ancestors, John and Jane Powell, were the first settlers to the area arriving in the Forks Country in 1878. Dick advised them to settle near Eagles Nest Ford on the Henry's Fork as it was the only ford on this river for miles. Others arrived and founded the town of Egin near Eagles Nest Ford. In the spring of 1879 and at age 48, Leigh married 16-year-old Susan Tadpole, a Bannock girl who’d been promised to Leigh at birth. The couple had three children: Emma, born in 1881; William, born in 1886; and Rose, born in 1891. The Powell family were friends with the Leigh family and we have family stories about Richard and Susan. Perhaps the most interesting is that Susan wanted badly to hold Jane's baby as she'd never before seen a white baby. Susan pulled her sleeve up to show the Powells that she was very clean and no threat to the baby. Jane, of course, let her hold the baby

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By 1936 the German American Bund had become the most organized pro-Nazi movement in the United States, with 20,000 members and 70 branches nationwide. Their stronghold was Yorkville in Upper Manhattan, where East 86th Street had been nicknamed Sauerkraut Boulevard by locals.

The Bund marched in brown shirts and swastikas, held rallies celebrating Hi**er's Germany, and operated with complete legal protection under the First Amendment. Hate speech laws did not yet exist. Jewish leaders wanted the meetings stopped and had no lawful way to do it.

Nathan Perlman, a New York State judge and former Republican congressman, decided over a cocktail one evening that what the N***s needed was a straightforward beating. The next morning he called Meyer Lansky.

Lansky was one of the most powerful organized crime figures in America, a co-architect of the national crime syndicate and a key figure in the formation of Murder Inc. He was also a Jewish immigrant from Belarus who had grown up on the Lower East Side and understood exactly what was happening in Europe.

Perlman laid out the arrangement: Lansky's men could hurt the Bund members as much as they wanted, provided nobody died. Lansky had one condition of his own. He would take no money for the work.

On April 20, 1938, Hi**er's birthday, Lansky led fifteen men into the Yorkville Casino on East 86th Street where the Bund was holding a celebration. Armed with baseball bats and pool cues and wearing American Legion hats as cover, they split into three groups covering every exit.

When the signal came, they moved through the hall. Within minutes, dozens of Bund members were injured. Many required hospital treatment. Lansky and his crew walked out, dropped their weapons and hats on the street, and disappeared.

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"The Soldier Who Shared His Blanket — Bastogne, Belgium, 1944

During the freezing nights of the Battle of the Bulge, an American soldier named Tom Harris found a wounded German boy in a trench. Instead of finishing him off, he tore his blanket in half and covered the boy. “War ends faster when mercy wins,” he said.

When the area was reclaimed, the boy was found alive—still clutching half of that blanket. He later became a doctor and named his first son Thomas.

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Eastern Kentucky Mountains, 1936
The Teacher Who Walked Five Miles Through Snow to Keep the School Open

By the winter of 1936, many isolated mountain communities across Appalachia were struggling deeply under the combined weight of the Great Depression, failing local industries, and severe winter weather that left roads nearly impossible to travel. In some counties, small rural schools closed entirely because districts could no longer afford coal, repairs, or enough staff to continue operating through the colder months.

But near a remote hollow in eastern Kentucky, one small one-room school remained open largely because of a fifty-eight-year-old teacher named Martha Whitaker.

Every morning before sunrise, Martha walked nearly five miles through mountain trails, creek crossings, and narrow muddy roads to reach the schoolhouse before the children arrived. During snowstorms she carried firewood strapped across her back because the school often lacked enough fuel to heat the single cast-iron stove inside the classroom.

Most of her students came from coal mining or farming families already struggling to survive. Many children owned only one set of clothing suitable for school. Some walked several miles themselves through snow and freezing rain carrying books wrapped in flour sacks to protect them from moisture.

The school building was small and worn.

The roof leaked during storms.
Windows rattled in strong wind.
Coal supplies frequently ran low before winter ended.

Yet Martha refused to close the school unless conditions became truly dangerous.

“If children stop learning,” she reportedly told one county official, “poverty lasts even longer.”

Inside the classroom she taught every grade level herself — reading, arithmetic, geography, history, spelling, and writing — often switching lessons every few minutes while younger students practiced letters on slate boards beside older children studying fractions or grammar exercises.

When supplies ran short, Martha improvised constantly. She used newspapers as reading material, charcoal for drawing lessons, and flattened flour sacks as practice paper. During especially difficult months she sometimes brought extra soup or biscuits from home because she knew certain students had eaten almost nothing before arriving at school.

One former student later remembered that during severe snowstorms Martha reached the schoolhouse before anyone else and started the fire early so children could warm frozen hands around the stove after arriving.

“She was always there before us,” he said decades later. “No matter how bad the weather got.”

By the late 1930s, several nearby schools had closed temporarily due to financial hardship. Martha Whitaker’s classroom remained open nearly every season throughout the Depression years.

Former students often credited her with helping them continue toward high school, college, teaching careers, military service, or skilled trades far beyond the mountains where they were raised.

Martha retired shortly after World War II.

Long afterward, older residents across the county still remembered the sound of the school bell echoing through snowy hills early each morning — proof that somewhere ahead, a tired teacher had once again walked through the dark carrying firewood under her arm because she believed mountain children deserved an education no matter how poor the world around them became.

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