The Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as Ford) is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. The … Read more
In April 1970, James Speed Hensinger, an enlisted man in the U.S. Army, was stationed at Phu Tai, Vietnam. On several nights, a lone Viet Cong sniper had repeatedly crept in among the rocks on a mountain overlooking the base and killed one American soldier and angered the rest. Soldiers were told that an overwhelming … Read more
Thanks to photographers from the past, we now have these interesting that give us ideas of what it was like in the past. 1. The very first photo of a human being, 1838 © Wikipedia Commons It’s a daguerreotype image of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, made by Louis Daguerre from his window … Read more
Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza had taken approximately two million pictures of the former President Barack Obama. He captured the previous Commander-in-Chief in all situations — relaxing with his family or waiting to hear the outcome of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. Here are a few of the amazing … Read more
Winston Churchill called it a “miracle of deliverance” that nearly 340,000 troops were rescued at Dunkirk. It was the key moment in Churchill’s first weeks in office when the British retreat happened in the coastal Belgian town of Dunkirk in late May 1940. Thousands of British and Allied troops were encircled by the Germans. If … Read more
Much of what we know and see of the Vietnam War has been defined by iconic photos taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops. But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had photographers of their own, documenting every facet of the bloody war under the most dangerous conditions. … Read more