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You might think I'm ridiculously excited, but I can not wait until Free Birds (formerly known as Turkeys) is released in November.
Two
buddy turkeys, Reggie and Jake travel back in time to the first Thanksgiving to take turkey
off the menu. They are joined by the feisty Jenny on an
awesome adventure to save Turkey-kind. Catch it in theaters Nov. 1,
2013!
Time traveling turkeys?! Count me in!
Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate surrender at Vicksburg
A Confederate army invading the North under Gen. Robert E. Lee and
the Union Army of the Potomac led by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade collided
over three blazing summer days at Gettysburg, Pa., 150 years ago this
week in the Civil War. The July 1-3 battle on Pennsylvania farmland
would mark the turning point of the war as the Union claimed its biggest
victory, repulsing Lee's second incursion into the North. Gettysburg
also would be the bloodiest battle with some 51,000 casualties and give
rise to Lincoln's timeless "Gettysburg Address." The battle began July
1, 1863, when Lee massed his Army of Northern Virginia at a crossroads
at Gettysburg, driving Union defenders back to Cemetery Hill. More
troops arrived overnight for both sides and vicious fighting resumed the
next day. The fierce combat raged over fields, a sunken road and on
hilltops until nightfall. Through it all, the Union desperately held its
positions, and then on July 3, momentum turned against Lee. Confederate
infantrymen were flung backward. But a major Confederate assault,
Pickett's charge, briefly punctured the Union line until frenzied
federal fighters forced back the charge and the Union line held. By July
4, 1863, a defeated Lee began withdrawing southward toward Virginia,
his bloodied and exhausted column strung out for miles. Lee's defeat at
Gettysburg marked a turn for the worse for a Confederacy whose end would
come ultimately in 1865. That July 4, 1863, also brought another Union
victory: Confederate forces weathering a long siege at Vicksburg, Miss.,
capitulated to federal forces now in full control of the Mississippi
River.
Oops, I'm a day late but yesterday was the 99th anniversary of the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, both of whom were fatally shot on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo.
Six Bosnian Serb assassins worked together to kill the Archduke. The first two failed to throw their bombs or shoot. The third threw his bomb, but it bounced off the Archduke's automobile and damaged the car behind - wounding 20 people.
Shaken, the Archduke and his wife went on to their destination at the town hall where he gave a speech. However, after leaving town hall to go visit the wounded a fourth assassin successfully shot both the Archduke and his wife, fatally wounding both.
Why? The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. Serbian military officers stood behind the attack.
Why was the assassination so important? The attack led to the outbreak of World War I one month later on July 28, 1914. Nearly 10 million people died as a result.
