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Hamas Slam Palestinian Official's Visit To Auschwitz
GAZA (Reuters) - The Hamas Islamist group in charge of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday denounced a Palestinian official's visit to the site of a Nazi death camp in Poland, and called the Holocaust in...
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See What's Left Of The Manhattan Project
As World War II raged overseas, the United States tapped its best talent and resources for The Manhattan Project, a program to create the first nuclear weapons. Â Click here to see the sites >...
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How A Last-Minute Decision Led To The Nuking Of Nagasaki
Days after Hiroshima, a deadlier atomic bomb was bound for an armaments factory in Kokura – until bad weather forced a change of plan. In an extract from his new book, Nagasaki, Craig Collie gets...
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Photos Of Tourists Flocking To Watch Atomic Explosions [SATIRE]
On Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The blast killed around 140,000 people and ravaged 90 percent of the city. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. An...
View ArticleHere's What Hiroshima Looked Like 9 Months After It Was Hit By An Atomic Bomb
Today marks the 67th anniversary of the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. Home to about 250,000 people when the bomb was dropped, a single 4,000 kg uranium bomb is thought to have killed over 140,000...
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Giant WWII Bomb Found Beneath Holland Airport
Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam services 48 million people a year. It's also been hiding a gigantic unexploded World War II bomb beneath Terminal C. Peter Allen of the Dailymail reports that builders...
View ArticleWatch A 550-Pound Bomb From World War II Explode In The Middle Of Munich
A bomb from the World War II era that was discovered Monday night by workers at a demolition site had to be exploded because it couldn't be diffused, Reuters reported Wednesday. While there are "tens...
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Defunct Military Planes Are Reborn As Amazing Works of Art
For defunct military planes, the common resting place is a "boneyard," where retired aircraft are stored or used for scrap metal. Looking at the old planes, gallery owner Eric Firestone envisioned a...
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World War II Veteran Carried A Pile Of Bomb Shrapnel In His Knee For More...
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Desperate Trends From Early 20th Century Britain Show What REAL Austerity...
Those who have lived during wartime or the Great Depression know that desperate times call for desperate measures. British journalist Hunter Davies uncovered some of the most interesting austerity...
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They Just Discovered A Bunch Of Awesome WWII Spy Gadgets
A rare wartime book documenting the ingenious James Bond-style gadgets invented by British 'spooks' to help prisoners of war escape has been discovered. The 1942 classified catalogue contains the...
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Five Statistics Problems That Will Change The Way You See The World
Even a rudimentary look at probability can give new insights about how to interpret data.Simple thought experiments an can give new insight into the different ways misunderstanding of statistics can...
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WWII-Era Love Letters Washed Ashore During Sandy
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J. (AP) — Love letters from World War II written by a New Jersey woman to her boyfriend washed ashore during Superstorm Sandy.A 14-year-old found the 57 letters inside a box...
View ArticleWe'll Never Forget This WWII Vet Telling Us How He Met The Most Famous Marine...
Aside from repeating his accomplishments over and over in bootcamp ("Only Marine to be awarded five Navy Crosses, Sir!"), the closest I had ever been to anything relating to Chesty Puller was the...
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Code Breakers Finally Crack The Mysterious Cypher On The WWII Carrier Pigeon
A coded message from the Second World War found tied to the remains of a carrier pigeon in a chimney contains details of German tank movements sent by a British soldier, a team of Canadian researchers...
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Photo Found Of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Mushroom Cloud Splitting In Two
A rare photo showing the mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in two distinct parts, one above the other, has been discovered in the city, a museum curator said Wednesday.The...
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A British Team May Have Found Dozens Of WWII Fighter Planes Buried In Burma
An excavation team searching for a stash of Second World War era British Spitfires in Burma says it has found a wooden crate believed to contain one of the planes, but it is full of muddy water.It was...
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One Of Hitler's Rare Kamikaze Rockets To Go On Display In Britain
A rare kamikaze-style rocket capable of launching a direct hit on Buckingham Palace will go on display in Britain almost 70 years after Hitler had it made in the hope it would help destroy London.This...
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Man Refuses To Give Up On A WWII Spitfire Hunt That's Consumed Him For Years
The hunt for 36 lost RAF Spitfires at a Burmese airfield may not be completely over despite the failure to find a single rivet belonging to the aircraft.Almost two weeks ago David Cundall’s dreams were...
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Russia's Old Soldiers Remember The Country's Bloodiest Battle
Russia has marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad with memories of survivors and fallen soldiers as President Vladimir Putin warned the country can be 'invincible'.Safron Ryzhakov, 90,...
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