What it’s like to be a US historian right now
History is meant to be debated and revised. Professional historians engage in rigorous discussions within scholarly ...
Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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Visiting veterans remember WWII Battle of Okinawa on 80th anniversary
The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...
Remains of captured WWII U.S. airman identified as Cpl. Glenn Hodak
Forensics investigators identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber ...
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Dozens of miniature ships moored inside Philadelphia’s Seaport Museum for its new exhibition
You cannot visit the USS Indianapolis — it’s at the bottom of the Philippine Sea — but you can visit a 13-foot scale model at ...
The 10 Most Destroyed Cities in Movies, Ranked
Unfortunately, filmmakers tend to go for the same cities over and over again, usually due to a variety of factors. Sometimes ...
How to survive nuclear war after a bomb is dropped: what to do, how to prepare
A minute-by-minute guide on how to survive a nuclear bomb attack, and ways to be prepared for war.
Digital Journal14d
Trump’s US government erases minorities from websites, policies
Among the more than 26,000 items marked to be removed were references to the Enola Gay, the US aircraft that dropped the ...
Art2114d
“Hiroshima Projection”
Krzysztof Wodiczko discusses his 1999 project, Hiroshima Projection, which involved projecting the hands of atomic bomb survivors onto the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, one of the few structures still ...