Several years had to pass before the uniqueness of this Olympic final was noticed. In 1936 in Berlin, in front of Adolf Hitler, the following were in the competition:a Finnish army soldier, a Polish concentration camp prisoner, an American bombardier who drifted in the Pacific waters for 47 days, a
Today marks twenty-three years since March 24, 1999, when NATO began air strikes against Yugoslavia, after the latter refused to sign the agreement on the future of Kosovo. The official code name of the NATO operation was Operation Allied Force. The bombing lasted almost 3 months and was followe
The rally at Pearl Harbor was just one part of Japans great strategy. The actual goal of all her plans - at the time when Japanese planes were destroying the American navy - was to take control of the resource-rich areas to the south. On December 4 and 5, when Nagumo directed his aircraft carrie
Tuam is a small, quiet town in County Galway, in the northwest of Ireland. The number of its inhabitants does not exceed 9,000 people. This sleepy town, however, has a dark past. In 1975, on the site previously owned by the local Mother and Child Home, run by the sisters of the Bon Secour Congregati