Hiroshima Survivor Remembers That Horrific Day
“If you cut off a piece of fingernail and burn it…that’s what burning human flesh smells like,” said Seiko Fujimoto, who was just three years old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Moon Landing: 40 Years Ago, “One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind”
The man who took that first historical step and said the famous words was astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped cautiously from the lunar lander onto the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969.
An estimated 500 million people on earth either watched the event live on TV or listened to it on the radio. The lunar landing was a huge international event both scientifically and politically, it gave the United States a much needed boost of morale as the war in Vietnam was turning into a complete quagmire.
France Celebrates The 220th Anniversary Of The Revolution
Two-hundred-and-twenty years later, the French street can be just as unruly and explosive. The night ahead of Bastille’s day was marked by wide spread vandalism as 317 cars were burned across France. In the last few years, clashes between disenfranchised French youths and the police have