News tagged with world war ii
Thanksgiving Combines Myths, Traditions and Truths, CU Professor Says
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the centuries Thanksgiving in America has meant many things to many people. What we consider the traditional Thanksgiving holiday today has been around only a few decades, according ...
Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...
Prized mushroom collection returns to China
Nov 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
Father of China's space tech program dies at 98
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.
Holocaust survivors at higher risk for all cancers
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Jewish survivors of World War II who were potentially exposed to the Holocaust are at a higher risk for cancer occurrence, according to a new study published online October 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Apology for human rights abuses has precedent in US
Sep 28, 2009 |
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A growing global movement to apologize and make restitution to victims of human rights abuses is now gathering steam in the United States, but it won't be a first for the country, says the president of The Western History ...
New AFOSR magnetron may help defeat enemy electronics
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum ...
NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...
Japanese imperial army maps to go online
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Old Asia-Pacific maps from Japanese Imperial Army archives are going online for modern use, such as studying changes in forest cover or the growth of cities, a Japanese researcher said Friday.
iPod Touch offers video-game fun
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 25, 2009 |
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My video-game addiction took on a new, smaller footprint after the holidays. Resigning myself to the fact that my four-year-old iPod was never going to die of its own accord, I proactively put the clunky, ...
Link between unexploded munitions in oceans and cancer-causing toxins determined
Feb 18, 2009 |
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During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS Killen, expecting to find evidence of radioactive matter - instead he found a link to cancer. ...
