WWII caused the Jews to flock to Palestine but it was WWI which set the stage for the establishment of a Zionist regime by the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. Josephsaid (December 3, 2007): Yes,it all makes sense. War is "good business" and war is inarguably "big business". Peo...
And in New York, a freak accident leaves a B-25 bomber implanted into the side of the Empire State Building. This episode of LAST DAYS OF WWII also chronicles the wartime career of Winston Churchill, who became Britain's Prime Minister on the day Germany attacked France and the Low ...
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, Maurice Sendak's childhood was filled with struggle. There was the Great Depression, WWII (during which a number of Sendak's relatives were killed in concentration camps), and a long string of illnesses, which conspired to keep him bedridden much of the...
From nuclear's origins in small reactors for submarines and planes after WWII to its rapid scaling into gigawatt-scale reactors in the 60s and 70s; from President Eisenhower's calls for "atoms for peace" to the pressures of the original "decels", the degrowth anti-nuclear environmental ...
Sunken German submarines, Kocaeli, Turkey As WWII drew to a close, a contingent of six German U-boats stranded near Turkey were scuttled by their captains in 1944 to avoid falling into enemy hands. Of those six—known collectively as "Hitler's Lost Fleet"—three were subsequently destroyed ...
Book Summary:Legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt must work with his children to unravel old battle plans from WWII to prevent a present-day massacre in this novel in the #1New York Times-bestselling adventure series.In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure...
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Once used to sneak up on enemy warships undetected, submarines of today help to open up an entire untouched underwater world deep below the surface. From WWII's oxygen-hungry diesel subs to the modern marvels like USS Nautilus, propelled by silent nuclear power, witness the evolution of under...
of the US Navy from 1912 through 1945, the USS Texas fought in some of the most horrendous naval battles of the 20th century, including D-Day Normandy, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Today she's been renovated and set up as floating museum in LaPorte, TX, a glorious reminder of two great wars...