Juneau residents participate Wednesday in a silent vigil to commemorate the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. The event was sponsored by Juneau Friends Meeting.
On any day in Hiroshima, tens of thousands of folded paper...all over the world, arrive daily in Hiroshima as a gesture of support for world peace...to radiation in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. As Sadako lay on her deathbed, she...
Friday, Aug. 6, is the 59th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Alaskans, citizens of the only country to use nuclear weapons, are invited to reflect on that tragedy and to commit ourselves...
...knows exactly where she was at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. At the time, she was a 13-year-old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan. The government had ordered some houses to be knocked down in order to widen some of the city's streets, and Sasamori...
...Next came the bright idea to use them to carve out a harbor near Kotzebue, with an underground blast 20 times the size of Hiroshima's. The plan was not foolproof. Aside from the environmental and human health effects, which weren't totally known at...
...Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant.Riva, who is 85, made her first splash as the star of Alain Resnais' 1959 "Hiroshima Mon Amour," while the 82-year-old Trintignant has starred in some 135 films, including such popular classics as "A...
...soldier who was killed in Iraq when Ichi was very young. But as his grandfather shows him around shrines and war memorials in Hiroshima, Ichiro begins to doubt the glory of war. He feels unsettled and unwelcome in both America (where he and his mom are harassed...
...For one project, called "Auschwitz to Hiroshima: A Pilgrimage, 1995" Schiel embarked...than 10,000 miles from Auschwitz to Hiroshima with a group of people that numbered...and the Philippines before ending up in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1994, 50 years to the day...
...excited."The U-20 World Cup started August 19 and goes through September 8. Matches are in Miyagi, Kobe, Saitama, Hiroshima and Tokyo. Three matches were scheduled for television viewing. The USA won their first match against Ghana on ESPN3.com...
...for 3, hitting two of the game's three home runs in the World's 7-0 victory over the USA at Fenway Park. The former Hiroshima Carp infielder, now the Columbus Clippers shortstop, is named the game's MVP.2000 - Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees...
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