" Another letter needs to be quoted at length as well to help corroborate Mr. Perkin's testimony. This letter was written by a brilliant (and objectively honest) scientist named Dr. E.H. Bronner. Dr. Bronner was a nephew of the great Albert Einstein, served time in a WWII...
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Responding to Spike Lee's recent allegations that Clint Eastwood failed to include black actors in his 'Iwo Jima' films, Dirty Harry struck back by defending his decision and claiming that the films are historically...
Operation Overlord, commonly known as "D-Day", commenced on June 6, 1944. American, Canadian and British troops stormed Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno Beaches in Normandy as their air support overflew them and scattered paratroops across the French countryside. Facing a...
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"Yes this is your captain speaking...we're experiencing minor delays on the tarmac today, but we should have that gigantic bomb cleared away shortly.""AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport has closed one of its five runways after a Second World War bomb was...
AUSTRALIAN PM KEVIN RUDD announces wreckage of HMAS Sydney, sunk off the West Australian coast during World War II, has been found. Sydney's entire crew of 645 went down with the ship in the Indian Ocean in...
They are unseen photographs of one of the most infamous men in history and a remarkable insight into the brutality of the Nazi regime in its final days. But mystery surrounds how these black and white snaps of Adolf Hitler, taken by a German soldier standing just a few feet...
Tatsuo Okawara was the oldest finisher from Japan in the December 9th,
2007 Honolulu Marathon. At 90 years old, he completed the 42.19 kilometers
(26.2 mile) course in 8 hours, 11 minutes. He walked briskly and...
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"For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park.
The machine is being put through its paces to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer.
It will be used to crack messages enciphered using the same...
"Did you know, sixty years ago, six young women programmed the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer?Six young women mastered the power of the ENIAC – an 80 foot long, 8 foot tall, black metal machine – and harnessed its power through an archaic...
THE exploits of Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, one of the last of the great fighter pilots of a bygone era, had the makings of a Boy's Own book.
Gibbes was one of Australia's most colourful wartime characters and one...
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In what seems like a new found treasure, thousands of people have already viewed the new photos on display at the National Holocaust Museum. The New York Times is presenting these pictures at the URL:...
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“I am the luckiest man alive,” claims eighty-nine year old Rudolph Scheffrahn, pouring slivovitz into three small, heavily cut crystal goblets and handing two of them to the two men in our group of four. He waves...
"It was on this day in 1940 that the German Army marched into Paris. The French had surrendered the city a few days earlier. There was no violence when the Nazis came in. The German soldiers marched through the Arc...
"It's the birthday of Anne Frank, born in Frankfurt, Germany (1929), who, on this day in 1942, her 13th birthday, received a diary as a birthday present. She was living with her family in Amsterdam. They'd gone there...
"It's the anniversary of the biggest military invasion in history, D-Day, (1944). It's when the Allied armies launched the invasion of Normandy. Dwight D. Eisenhower had planned the invasion, and had been arguing for...