Its command modules and other objects and artifacts are displayed throughout the world, notably in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museums in Washington, DC and at NASA’s centers in Florida, Texas and Alabama. The Apollo 13 Command Module is housed at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center...
"A preliminary assessment in Odesa has revealed damage to several museums inside the World Heritage property, including the Odesa Archaeological Museum, the Odesa Maritime Museum and the Odesa Literature Museum," the U.N. agency wrote in a release. "They had all been marked by UNESCO and local...
Manassas National Battlefield Park is located near a little stream named Bull Run. This battlefield is just north of I-66 and near Washington, D.C. Manassas National Battlefield Park highlights two battles fought nearby. The first battle was fought in the summer of 1861 and it was the firs...
Learn about the local history of Washington with a stop at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Experience the area's acclaimed art scene and fascinating museums. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Constitution Gardens An oasis of calm in an area of political activity, this park is a place for quie...
Farmers harvest a wheat field near Melitopol in Ukraine. Wheat, soybean, sugar, and corn futures have fallen from their March highs back to prices seen at the start of 2022. Olga Maltseva | Afp | Getty Images Russia's proposals on how to resume Ukrainian grain exports were "largely support...
Every day so many neighbors decide not to pick up, leaving it for the people they live near to deal with. “I only care about me,” there is no better summation of why I left New York. But alongside the little things are of course the big ones. New York is a failed experiment. ...
One such event began nearHaskell IslandinHarpswellwhen the Confederate privateerArcherforced local fishermen to guide them into Portland Harbor. There, on June 29, 1863, they commandeered the revenue cutterCaleb Cushingand attempted to escape with it. But, realizing they would soon be captured, they...
Much of this destruction took place at PT Base 17 at Samar, Philippine Islands, near Bobon Point. Only nine PT boat hulls survive today, some on display in museums such as the PT Boat Museum at Battle Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States....
Texans served in every major campaign of the war from Virginia to the territory of New Mexico. The fighting came to an end in May 1865 in South Texas at the Battle of Palmito Ranch near Brownsville, after the Confederacy had already surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in the East a whole ...
MUSEUMSANDTHE REPRESENTATIONOF WAR23It is also worth mentioning that the name war memorial museum in Auckland is a clear precedent for the choice of the name of the Holocaust memorial museum in Washington, DC, and reflects the same mixture of the sacred and the profane in the thinking of the...