~Today in history, singer Marian Anderson sang in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter. 75,000 people gathered to hear her sing after she was denied permission to sing at Constitutional Hall in Washington, D.C. President Roosevelts wife, Elinor, urged her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial. Four years later, she would sing at Constitutional Hall to a mixed audience of Black and White people.
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this is an actual boat used to smuggle Jews across the Kattegat ~How did the majority of Jews in Denmark escape to Sweden? The Jews were smu... -
~We finally met the boy in the striped pajamas from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas . His name is Shmuel (pronounced shmoo-el). He is ... -
the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania where Maniac's parents died the train trestle where the P&W Trolley had its famous ...