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Warfare History Network

History, Americas

A bloody affair.

Key point: The Battle of Antietam was pitched and especially violent. This is how brother fought brother.

In the late afternoon of September 17, 1862 the 7th Maine Regiment received new orders. The Battle of Antietam had raged throughout the day. Thousands were dead and even more lay wounded on the field or suffering in hospitals behind the lines. After horrible combat at places known afterward as The Cornfield and Bloody Lane... Читать дальше...

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As an outbreak of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus is poised to spread across the globe, people in largely unaffected places like the U.S. might worry about visiting areas where the virus is spreading or traveling by air at all. The answer to whether you should cancel existing travel plans, however, is complicated.

BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – Following a stellar performance by Baker men's and women's indoor track and field teams at the Heart of America Indoor Championships, Myah Yoder has been named women's track athlete of the week and Kwan Brooks was named male athlete of the meet.

Stuff reports: Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the disgraced movie mogul is stunned at the guilty verdict given to him at his New York trial. Weinstein was convicted Monday (Tuesday NZT) of rape and sexual assault against two women – he could now be sent to prison for decades. “The words he said over and over again to me is, ‘I’m […]

Travelling can open your eyes to so many things. Just recently, on my way to a sous vide conference, I saw a woman eating a full-blown thing of Cup Noodles at 5:10 in the dang a.m. Obviously, this woman is a hero, and should be revered as such. More »

Stadia is still missing a lot of common sense features following its launch late last year, including a built-in touch control option. But now, a fan-made Chrome extension called TouchStadia lets you bypass Stadia’s controller requirement and use touch controls on smartphones. More »

Mozilla has started rolling out DNS over HTTPS for all Firefox users, a solid security change that’s meant to address the issue of third parties spying on the websites you’re visiting. Normally, when you type a website into your browser’s address bar and hit Enter, your browser uses DNS to map the domain name to the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Today programme co-host is being wooed by Times Radio after 36 years at the Beeb

Ireland's minister for health Simon Harris has 'a very clear view' that the fixture should be cancelled until further notice due to the 'significant risk' of the deadly virus being transferred from Italy

In the opening scene of Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers, a middle-aged Romanian cop arrives in the Canary Islands to the mocking strains of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger.” It’s not official police business that has brought him here. In trying to supplement his meager 1,000 euro monthly salary, the stolid Bucharest…