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OKI Wanna Know tries to answer your offbeat questions.
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OKI Wanna Know tries to answer your offbeat questions.
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To American slaves, Cincinnati meant freedom.Through the Civil War, Kentucky was a slave-holding state, but during the conflict, remained within the…
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You can listen to my interview with author Richard Haw here. I thought I knew a lot about the Roebling Suspension Bridge. Maybe you do, too.I knew that…
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The year was 1908 and an Ohio doctor, appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as the nation's first Opium Commissioner, warned that Americans "have…
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Most of us today think of the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of…
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He was a celebrated cavalry officer, nationally known and deeply respected by the soldiers who served under him, and rival of Confederate raider John Hunt…
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As Cincinnati slept in the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, the SS Sultana, a steamboat that had been built in the shipyards here two years before,…
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Rearranging historical artifacts is nothing new at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Temporary exhibits come and go. But rarely is the move a big production…
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Visitors at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center rang bells Thursday afternoon marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.…