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Operation Enduring Freedom - A 25 Year LEgacy by Mike Walling 8/22/2026 8:07:29 AM
August 30, 2026 marks the 5th year since U.S. military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
It began on October 7, 2001 and ended on August 30, 2021.
A total of 7,286 days.... more
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What if Auschwitz? by Edward w Saint-Ivan 8/8/2026 2:18:20 PM
I 100% support reproductive rights. I was very sad to see the end of Roe. However, I have to ask what if Auschwitz was happening?... more
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Good books! by David Boyle 12/3/2025 5:29:13 PM
Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot
by Robert Gandt
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
Smokejumpers
by Charles W. Sasser... more
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Good books by David Boyle 11/5/2025 5:51:11 PM
In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow 1938-1961 - edited by Edward Bliss, Jr.
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War 2 - by Robert Kurson
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Good books! by David Boyle 9/23/2024 6:25:13 PM
It is my pleasure to mention good books. Happy reading! ... more
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Hey fellow authors! How about feedback? by Dave Tabler 1/8/2024 8:35:37 AM
Hashing out intro for a speech. Need comments from YOU!... more
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They clung to the wrecked ship’s rigging for 12 hours in the storm by Dave Tabler 2/17/2023 1:27:17 PM
A howling winter gale in 1888 very nearly killed the Lewes Station surfmen trying to secure a buoy to the shipwrecked schooner Allie H. Belden. Listen, as they narrate the horrors they faced.... more
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Why is the 2nd Thursday of August ‘Big Thursday’? by Dave Tabler 2/8/2023 2:22:50 AM
It was a day of celebration in the watermen community. The day was also a time for farmers to take a breather: the crops had been planted and were growing along nicely; harvest time was still ahead.... more
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What could be less controversial than naming your estate “Buena Vista” by Dave Tabler 2/7/2023 1:57:01 PM
What could be less controversial than naming your estate “Buena Vista” when in fact it does have a ‘good view’? But that’s not the reason Delaware senator John M. Clayton chose to rename his property. ... more
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Best place in Delaware for a duel? by Dave Tabler 2/6/2023 2:24:56 AM
If you want to hold a duel that avoids the prying eyes of the law, you go to a contested border area, causing confusion between competing jurisdictions.... more
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Quimby's quagmire of an airqaft by Dave Tabler 2/2/2023 12:54:51 PM
W.F. Quimby deserves a footnote in aviation history, if for nothing else than for reminding us that the Wright brothers didn’t spring full blown out of nowhere. Quimby's failures helped them succeed.
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Noise like that of an earthquake by Dave Tabler 2/1/2023 7:29:51 AM
The Dupont family made huge fortunes over many generations from its powder mill. Explosions at the mill were a constant threat. Despite their wealth, the Duponts all lived close enough to be affected.... more
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Red Demons, Green Flyers, and Knock-a-Bouts by Dave Tabler 1/30/2023 1:27:48 PM
The horse & buggy could still be seen on roads jostling with the new fangled automobile for a couple more decades yet. But once the old gray mare was gone, she wasn’t being replaced. The car was king.... more
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Strange trauma reaction from a jilted fiancé by Dave Tabler 1/27/2023 2:11:44 AM
Man builds a house for his bride-to-be. She dumps him. Rather than move into the empty house, or sell it, he simply locks the door and walks away. For a quarter century, the house sits untouched.... more
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The Robin Hood we know today by Dave Tabler 1/26/2023 3:03:01 AM
Close your eyes and think of what the character Robin Hood looks like. Chances are good whatever you envision will be indebted to 19th century artist Howard Pyle of Wilmington, DE.... more
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Duo Brands the Patty Hearst Gun by Sage Sweetwater 11/3/2022 4:29:10 AM
Packaged with a storyline in a Sweetwater film, the M1 Carbine gun is available for purchase.... more
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An Abuse of a Sacred Patchwork Quilt by Sage Sweetwater 9/22/2022 11:44:59 PM
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The shameful secret of England's white slaves in America by Kalikiano Kalei 6/29/2022 10:20:12 AM
In today's United States, to watch the news one would think that blacks are singular victims of white bias and racist attitudes (despite the fact that a whole range of non-white 'minorities' have suffered equally from white bias at various times thro... more
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That Little Bitty Country Showed Us How by Andrew T Halmay 7/4/2021 2:05:43 PM
45 years ago today, while we celebrated Independence Day, great drama took place in the Middle East and Africa. I was in Hollywood and wanted to make a film about it but half a dozen major producers announced they would make the Entebbe film. So I co... more
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It's time for Number 9 by Jerri Blair 4/26/2021 9:26:18 AM
Revolution 9, the longest track ever produced by the Beatles, is a perfect background soundtrack for the current moment in the evolution of America. John Lennon said it was a piece about how revolution would sound, a portrait of what he heard walking... more
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