A volcano belched in south Japan but it wasn’t clear if its volatility was linked to the destructive quake and tsunami that decimated the northeast. Japan’s weather agency reported the Shinmoedake volcano in far southern Kyushu island, calm the past two weeks, resumed activity Sunday with a loud blast, the Los Angeles Times reported. The [...]
Hiroshima is marking the 65th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack. More than 140-thousand people died in the blast, or from radiation poisoning, after the U.S. dropped the bomb in the final days of the Second World War. RT’s Sean Thomas reports from Hiroshima.
Heres a virtual movie of Leo Marks reading his exquisite and much loved code poem written in 1943 “The Life That I Have” the poem is read by an actor. Leopold Samuel Marks (24 September 1920 15 January 2001) was an English cryptographer, screenwriter and playwright. The Life That I Have (sometimes referred to as [...]
Veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War have been marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the conflict. An estimated three millions people died, many of them civilians, in one of the most brutal conflicts since the end of the Second World War. But despite the high death toll and its legacy of division on [...]