Each day it becomes easier to know what we ought to despise: what modern man admires and journalism praises.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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In 1804, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor.
In 1862, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
In 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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