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'Dear Dickie': A Window Into Family History Through Post-WWII Love Letters

10:49am July 26, 2017

by Sara Kehaulani Goo

Sara Kehaulani Goo's father recently discovered the 28 letters, written from 1946 to 1947, stashed in a wooden box hidden at the bottom of a chest in her late grandparents' bedroom.

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's driver, Elsie Hargrave, and Sgt. Michael McKeogh, his orderly, were married at Versailles during World War II. The Battle of the Bulge broke out the same day, so Eisenhower had to leave the reception early.

At Versailles Palace, An American Looks For Clues To Family History

7:00am April 08, 2017

by Eleanor Beardsley

Maureen Hargrave's aunt and uncle were married at Versailles in 1944. "She's piecing together family history, and I'm piecing together the history of a very special moment," says the palace archivist.

Exhibits at Poland's newly opened Museum of the Second World War include photographs, letters and other memorabilia donated by private individuals.

Poland's New World War II Museum Just Opened, But Maybe Not For Long

9:38am April 04, 2017

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

The museum opened March 23 in Gdansk, where the war began. "This is the museum of a war, but not a military museum," says historian Pawel Machcewicz. The government wants something different.

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This 1945 photo provided by the family shows Shizuko Ina, with her son Kiyoshi (left) and daughter Satsuki in an internment camp in Tule Lake, Calif. This photograph was taken by a family friend who was a soldier at the time, since cameras were considered

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75 Years Later, Americans Still Bear Scars Of Internment Order

4:48pm February 19, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the executive order that paved the way for Japanese-American internment. Decades later, those dark days resonate.

Many of the Japanese Americans incarcerated at Tule Lake had been farmers before the war. At camp, they were employed as field workers, often for $12 a month. Here, incarcerees work in a carrot field.

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Farming Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-Americans Remember WWII Incarceration

7:00am February 19, 2017

by Lisa Morehouse

Many of the incarcerated were farmers, coerced to work the land in the camps. The food they grew was meant for the incarcerated but camp administrators sold it on the open market. Resistance ensued.

Residents leave their houses in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Sunday as part of a mandatory evacuation. It preceded an operation to defuse a World War II bomb discovered there.

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After A Massive Evacuation, Greek City Defuses A World War II Bomb

10:48am February 12, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The unexploded bomb, which had been buried for decades, was discovered near a gas station in Thessaloniki. Officials took no chances, evacuating more than 70,000 people before removing it.

On Wednesday, a police officer looks into the hole where an unexploded World War II-era bomb was found during work on a gas station's underground tanks. The city's authorities have planned a massive evacuation Sunday while they attempt to defuse and remov

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Long-Buried World War II Bomb Prompts Massive Evacuation In Greece

12:12pm February 10, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

To make matters worse, the unexploded bomb rests next to a gas station in Thessaloniki. Up to 72,000 people will be evacuated from the country's second-largest city on Sunday during defusal efforts.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sweet potato consumption in the United States nearly doubled in just 15 years.

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Why America Is Growing The Most Sweet Potatoes Since WWII

11:52am January 19, 2017

by Kristofor Husted

These sugary spuds are cheap and easy to grow, but the rise of postwar industrialization and processed foods made them less popular. Now, fad diets and trendy restaurants have sparked a renaissance.

Pasta Carbonara is made with spaghetti, eggs, cheese and pork.

Bacon, Eggs, Cheese — And Spaghetti? The Italian Twist On A Hangover Cure

7:00am January 01, 2017

by Deena Prichep

This New Year's day, consider a bowl of pasta carbonara for a hangover fix. Made with spaghetti, eggs, cheese and pork, some say it's just as effective as bacon, egg and cheese on toast.

Ignacio Nicolas Campillo, director of a hops production facility in northern Spain, peels apart the flower of the hops plant, to reveal yellow powder inside. The powder is used to make beer.

No Bitterness Here: Craft Beer Boom Boosts Spain's Hops Growers

4:41pm December 15, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

When Germany halted exports in WWII, Spanish brewers asked farmers in a town in northern Spain to plant hops. Now, the town produces 99 percent of the country's hops used by the craft beer industry.

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