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The charismatic Ronald Wilson Reagan ( February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004), the 40th President of the United States has been rated as the best American President since World War Two and the second best in history after Abraham Lincoln and followed by George Washington according to the Harris Poll released today ahead of this year's Presidents' Day on February 21, 2012. Guess who is rated the worst President? George W. Bush! The following is the complete report of the poll. NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the nation prepares to celebrate Presidents' Day, it is always interesting to see what people think about some of the past presidents. Looking at all the presidents since World War II, one-quarter of Americans (25%) say Ronald Reagan is the best president, one in five (19%) say Franklin Roosevelt while 15% say it is John Kennedy and 12% say Bill Clinton. The nine other presidents, including Barack Obama, are at 4% or less. Looking at the flip side, just over one-qua...

An African soldier during World War 2 The following true story is for Memorial Day and is published on the Red Room. Lest you forget, my father fought in Burma ~ by Chima Michael Ekenyerengozi May 26, 2011, 3:41 pm (In memory of my father Sunday Eke, who fought and survived the World War II in Burma) I have kept my father's identity card of Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF). But I have forgotten everything he told me about the role he and other thousands of Nigerians played as soldiers who fought for the British Empire and the allies in World War II . I do not know if my father won the coveted Burma Star. Marshall Kebby wrote about their exploits in Burma before he passed away over a decade ago. My father never kept a diary and it was after he died on November 19, 1983, that I knew that keeping a diary like Mr. Kebby would have helped me to know more about his past life as a soldier and ambulance driver before I was born. African soldiers of the Royal West African Frontier...

Cannes boots von Trier for Hitler comments Cannes festival reacts to Danish director's strange remarks about Nazis by declaring him 'persona non grata.' Copyright (c) CBC 2011 Lars von Trier Cannes, please revoke the ban on Lars von Trier The controversial Danish film director and screenwriter Lars von Trier is well known for his provocative art films such as the horrifying Gothic and pornographic Antichrist that also shocked audiences at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Therefore, when it was reported that he has rattled the organizers of the festival at the Wednesday press parley before the premiere of his apocalyptic science fiction film Melancholia at the 64th Cannes Film Festival , I was not surprised, because it is his signature for grabbing headlines. The organizers should have ignored his “I’M A NAZI” joke and claiming to understand Adolf Hitler . He has done it again and got the whole paparazzi going gaga over his unsavoury act. And then apologized after ...

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press . Re: Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Should "Shut His Face", Lee Responds, "We're Not On A Plantation" African-American film director Spike Lee has issues with the racial cast in Clint Eastwood 's 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima on the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima for the Japanese island, because Eastwood failed to represent the heroic roles of African-American soldiers in World War Two . Eastwood said it would be inaccurate and inappropriate to include an African-American soldier among the six men who were Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima . If someone tells a story and you disagree with it, simply go and tell your own version of the story and as Clint "Cowboy" Eastwood said, Spike Lee should shut his face! Spike Lee is a good director, but not as great as Clint Eastwood. Spike Lee knows that over one million African-Americans fought in WW Two...

Days of Infamy: Active History and the Teaching of History by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 04/29/2008 ETUpdated 04/29/2008 ET This week our new novel, Days of Infamy , is being published by St. Martin's Press. Days of Infamy is the sequel to Pearl Harbor , (just released in paperback) and carries on the story of "what might have been" if a different, more aggressive commander -- Admiral Yamamoto -- had led the Japanese Fleet in their surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Wrong Admiral for the Wrong Job In real history, the Japanese high command assigned their Pearl Harbor strike force of six aircraft carriers to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. If ever there was an assignment of the wrong man for the wrong job, it was this one. From the beginning of his forty-year career, Nagumo had been trained in surface warfare, especially the use of destroyers and cruisers as "hit and run" weapons. Thinking like a destroyer commander, he always saw th...