Who remembers this day in 1945?

I wasn’t born yet. The story, a real one, was related to me at school. Else I only read about it. It’s exactly 62 years today. It was the first time a nuclear weapon was used in warfare; the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It contained uranium. This followed a successful test of [...]

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Small Steps… Giant Leaps…

20 July is a day of remembrance. For various reasons. But I’ll single out two. Both are linked with what may be referred to as “small steps” that led to “giant leaps” in the history of mankind.
The first reason has to do with a child that was born on this day in 1919 in Auckland, [...]

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This time in history

Great English writer and novelist, Charles Dickens (full name Charles John Huffam Dickens) passed away on 9 June 1870 at Gad’s Hill near Chatham, Kent. Born on 7 February 1812 at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, Charles Dickens was considered as the greatest of the Victorian era. He is particularly famous for his Great Expectations, Christmas Carol, [...]

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Did you know?

[1] Famous French author, Honoré de Balzac (original name Honoré Balssa) was born on 20 May 1799 at Tours, France. He is considered as one of the greatest fiction writers of all time. He produced a vast collection of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He died on 18 August [...]

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