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August 02, 2023

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U.S. President #17: Andrew Johnson (Part I)

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket, coming to office as the Civil War concluded. He favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the former slaves. This led to conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868. He was acquitted in the Senate by one vote. His main accomplishment as president was the Alaska purchase. Johnson was born in poverty in Raleigh, North Carolina and never attended school. He was apprenticed as a tailor and worked in several frontier towns before settling in Greeneville, Tennessee. He served as alderman and mayor there before being elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1835. After...

Japanese Holdouts

Japanese holdouts (Japanese: 残留日本兵 , romanized: Zanryū nipponhei, lit. 'remaining Japanese soldiers') were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific Theatre of World War II who continued fighting after the surrender of Japan in August 1945. Japanese holdouts either doubted the veracity of the formal surrender, rejected demobilization for ideological reasons, or were simply not aware because communications had been cut off by Allied advances. Some continued to fight enemy forces and local police, or volunteered with local independence movements such as the First Indochina War and Indonesian National Revolution, for years after the war was over. Many holdouts were discovered in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands over the following decades, with the last one, Private Teruo Nakamura, surrendering on Morotai Island in Indonesia in December 1974. Newspapers reported holdouts into the early 1980s and said searches had been conduc...

High-Fried Garlic Steak

great combination of garlic, blue cheese dressing, and meat sauce. Ingredients Two steaks, any kind, any size. 3 TBSP blue cheese dressing(fat free optional) 4 TBSP meat sauce 2 TBSP buttter 4 garlic cloves, chopped 1 green bell pepper,chopped 1 red bell pepper,chopped 1 yellow bell pepper,chopped 1/2 cup oil for frying 2 TBSP onion powder salt and pepper to taste Directions Get a frying pan and melt butter, than add garlic. Fry garlic until it turns brown. Take meat and clean, place meat in a large bowl with a cover. Add salt and pepper, onion powder, than add cooled butter from frying (add chopped garlic optional). Next add meat sauce and blue cheese. Massage mixture over meat for 15 seconds. Next add the bell peppers. Then cover and place in the refrigerator for one hour. After one hour is over, let meat sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes. Then add oil to frying pan. When oil is very hot, then add meat (be careful oil may pop when adding meat). Turn mea...

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