I've long been fascinated by this chain of more than two dozen fortified bunkers built along the border between France and Germany, built to protect France from German invasion after World War I. the Maginot Line was a massive military miscalculation. In the spring of 1940, Germany simply went around it, through Belgium and into Northern France.
Sarah Josepha Hale was an author, poet, magazine editor, and activist, born in 1788. Her work had enormous national impact despite the times, when society strictly limited “acceptable” roles for women.
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