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Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy

A pasta vendor in Naples during the late 19th or early 20th century.

Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy

5 World War I-Era Tips for Celebrating Thanksgiving in Strange Times

Thanksgiving Day menu from November 1917 at Fort D. A. Russell in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

5 World War I-Era Tips for Celebrating Thanksgiving in Strange Times

The Kansas Shoe Salesman Responsible for Veterans Day

Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

The Kansas Shoe Salesman Responsible for Veterans Day

11 Things to Remember This Veterans Day

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11 Things to Remember This Veterans Day

When Woodrow Wilson Caught the 1918 Flu During a Pandemic, But Hid It From the Public

President Woodrow Wilson photographed in good health.

Why Do We Have Daylight Saving Time?

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This Video From 1923 Shows a U.S. Biplane Creating a Smoke Screen to Conceal Itself in Open Waters

Navy planes creating smoke screens during the 1920s.

How the Doughnut Became a Symbol of Volunteerism During World War I

National WWI Museum and Memorial

Why Is Memorial Day Always on a Monday?

Americans were decorating the graves of fallen soldiers on Memorial Day long before it fell on a Monday.

To Avoid Grocery Shopping, Quarantined Americans Are Reviving Wartime-Era Victory Gardens

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6 Times the Olympics Have Been Postponed or Canceled

Sander van Ginkel, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0

6 Facts About International Women's Day

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The 25 Greatest War Movies of All Time

Benedict Cumberbatch in Sam Mendes's 1917 (2019).

10 Facts About the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Henry Johnson, the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I

New York State Military Museum // Public Domain

Reconstructing History: Anna Coleman Ladd, the Mask Artist of World War I

National Archives (165-WW-266B-7)
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