Showing posts with label Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

August 2002: Julia Child's Kitchen Becomes Historical. And stray thoughts on the period room (not necessarily in that order)

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Traditional "period rooms," once a staple feature of the museum of history or fine arts, fell into disrepute in recent years for ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

‘This is a good Jap–a dead one" - "The armed forces disapprove strongly of this sort of thing."

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Lest one conclude, from recent posts, that the emphasis here should be exclusively on Japanese atrocities and fanaticism: on the contr...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Background to Hiroshima and V-J Day: Death and Life on Okinawa, AP Wirephoto

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Among the first little historical curiosities that I collected as a high school student was a group of World War II Associated Press Wirep...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Background to Hiroshima and V-J Day: Potsdam Conference, AP Wirephoto

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Among the first little historical curiosities that I collected as a high school student was a group of World War II Associated Press Wirep...

V-J Day or VFE Day? August 10 or August 15?

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In the previous post , I described how my parents learned about the atomic bomb and victory over Japan. In the course of writing up that ...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

How My Parents Learned About the Atomic Bomb

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If it's early August, it must be time for the obligatory reflection on the dropping of the atomic bomb, a doubly topical subject this ye...