Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War.It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen.
The Tree of Gernika is a personal account of the Basque campaign of the Spanish Civil War by London Times correspondent G. L. Steer.The book is known for its description of the 1937 bombing of Guernica.
The bombing of Guernica by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria was deliberately chosen to occur on a Monday (April 26, 1937), because it was known that the Basque people who lived outside of Guernica proper would travel into town for the Market Day, thus affording the pilots of the German and Italian aircraft the ...
Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census , its population was 22,039, down from 22,228 at the 2010 census . Its county seat is Huntsville and the largest town is Oneida . [ 2 ]
George Washington Scott (February 22, 1829 – October 3, 1903) was a Florida and Georgia businessperson, education philanthropist, former planter, and former military officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
George K. Schweitzer, the longest serving professor in the history of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has died at 99. In a remarkable career spanning nearly eight decades, he taught tens ...
This season also featured Tennessee's first victory over Vanderbilt [7] Red Rainey: 1913 All-Southern. [8] Rufus Branch: 1909–1912 Chauncey Raulston 1909 J. C. Loucks 1906–1908 Walker Leach: 1905 Captain of 1908 team. T. R. Watkins 1903–1904 Sax Crawford: 1901–1902 He coached Tennessee in 1904, scoring the first ever win over Alabama. J ...