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This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter.\u00a0You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"evacuation\"Forgotten Heros: The Accidental Farmer<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortly before 8:00 a.m. on the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese military forces attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. More than 2,400 soldiers were killed in the attack, 18 warships were sunk or damaged, and 188 aircraft were destroyed. The surprise attack was just the opening shot in a military campaign that stretched across Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In the days and weeks that followed, the U.S. territories of Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines fell to the Japanese. So did the British possessions of…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Manfred_von_Richthofen\"Who was the Red Baron?<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a century ago when famed World War I German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen was fatally shot out of the sky. Yet, his nickname \u2013 \u201cRed Baron\u201d \u2013 remains part of American vernacular. Charles Schulz\u2019s comic strip character Snoopy famously took on the Red Baron in his imaginary air battles aboard his doghouse, often yelling \u201cCurse you, Red Baron!\u201d Movies and songs feature the German war hero. Even a Minnesota-based food company co-opted his name and image to sell frozen pizza. So, who was the Red Baron? And why do we celebrate him, even though he was an…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"signing\"Can You Really Sign Things in a Legally Binding Way By Just Writing a Big X?<\/a><\/p>\n

With so many facets of modern life being automated, signatures being easy to forge, and given how difficult it is to prove based on signature alone whether a given person actually signed something, using a person\u2019s exact signature \u201cdesign\u201d for verification purposes after the fact is rapidly going the way of the Dodo. This leads us to the question of the day- given all this, is there any rule about what exactly your signature has to look like? Can you, for example, just sign all your legal documents with a big X like they do in cartoons?
\nAs it turns out…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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