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decision to use the atomic bomb. in 1999, a poll of journalists ranks the bombing is the top new story of the entire 20th century. beating out the landing on the moon, the attack on pearl harbor, and other prominent stories and events that occurred in the last century. the importance of a story of the atomic bombings of japan, has come over the last five decades or so, a enormous and highly acrimonious controversy, both among scholars and among the general public. it is safe to say that the issue of the atomic bombing is arguably and it is a strong argument the issue of the atomic bombings of japan is the most contentious debate in all of american history. i don t think we are going to settle it today. but i hope we will advance our knowledge of the subject and shed some light on some important issues and perhaps lower the volume of ill will at all to often has been a prominent part of this controversy. truman ssy over decision to use the atomic bomb arises from two ....
light rain. in this area in loudoun county, washington frederick, northern montgomery howard county getting just a few light sprinkles right now. those may be spreading closer to the metro area over the next hour. right now low to mid-60s. breezes gusting 15 to 20 miles per hour. washington monument under a dry sky, but have an umbrella ready. we ll have bluster we rindswinds through the day. showers and thundershowers looking likely this afternoon and this evening. got your bus stop forecast for this friday morning next weather and traffic on the 1s. any volume building yet? we do have control i m building. 95 southbound approaching route 32, take a look here, just a little bit of volume. the deer has been cleared out of the way. again, just seeing volume green single tracking. 95 north at prince william parkway, there a crash reported. just a twlarng. one warning there. inner loop and outer loop moving along. randolph street at 22nd we have a water main break. zach, ....
get out of that plane, bailout. that movie and the acclaim for it led to wyler wanting to make a different movie about another kind of bomber called thunderbolt. filming ofng the extra footage for thunderbolt, a little more footage he wanted to get of the italian coastline, that he experienced this personal tragedy. plane and hadthe gone deaf in the air. wyler was shooting in unpressurized cabins. it was freezing cold up in the air. the noise from the engines was eardrum shattering. he finally ultimately lost his hearing. with that, literally overnight, his army service was over in this unexpected way. the completion of thunderbolt became terribly important to him, even though by the time he was recovered enough to finish the movie the war was over and there was no use for this kind of propaganda film anymore about u.s. military might. that is why you have the anomaly thunderbolt, which was intended for wartime consumption not being shown until 1947. even then b ....
project on my part. i was happy to see it reach print. mong the most notable realities, tom horn occupies a prominent place. throughout the last quarter of century, he participated in many dangerous ctivity, as cowhand, minor, indian fighter, law man, and detective. survive.ed to while wild west aficionados do an equal as horn such notables as wyattern and kidd, he runs them close second. and he s been the subject of articles, books, and hollywood movies. oday you can buy tom horn t-shirts. in one area, horn stands out bove all other western characters. is controversial death by hanging. hangin hanging. missouri in in 1850. he coincided with the civil war were very called difficult times. his parents, devout flowers of of christ, imposed a strict code in the home, prompting young tom to leave the mid 1870s. westward working at odd jobs and became a cow drives on texas cattle to dodge city, kansas. fortune he sought his in the booming camp of ledville, colorado. hen he f ....
incomparable donald wurster. in history lecturer at the university of georgia. before i tell you about brian, let me introduce the topic of his talk by adapting an opening line that another one of our students usede every fall on the first day of the undergraduate history classes that he taught. 100 years from now, he would say , all of you will be dead. how s that for a wake up at 8:00 in the morning for sleepy undergraduates? 100 years from now, all of you will be dead, and unless you accomplish something extraordinary or perpetuate some evil, the odds are that no one alive will remember you. he went on to say, even if you do get into rarefied zone where your name lives on, the odds are it will be as a torture as a caricature. you will be remembered alright, but possibly for the wrong thing. which brings us to barry goldwater. 50 years ago today, the then senator from arizona known as mr. conservative accepted the republican nomination for president in san francisco ....