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A Japanese survived the outbreak of the two atomic bombs in World War II

A Japanese survived the outbreak of the two atomic bombs in World War II

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese industralist of 93 years, has been recognized like the first person who survived atomic bombardments sent by EE both. UU on Japan in World War II.
Day 6 of August of 1945 was in Hiroshima in trip of businesses when it was surprised by the launching of first [...]

They discover an hidden message in the clock of Abraham Lincoln

They discover an hidden message in the clock of Abraham Lincoln

History, that had circulated during 150 years on an hidden message that a watchmaker recorded inside the clock of president Abraham Lincoln, was checked Tuesday by civil servants of the National Museum of History of the United States.
A watchmaker used tiny tools carefully abrir to the old clock in the premises of the museum and a descendant [...]

Not always it was easy to guess if a corpse were really dead

Not always it was easy to guess if a corpse were really dead

To determine if the deads were in fact dead was an amazing and inexact science before the coming of the modern medicine. But the fear was not totally irrational. Throughout history there have been numerous cases of buried people cheers accidentally and peculiar legend spoke of open coffins where was a corpse [...]

 A Portuguese spy, to the service of the Nazis, almost changes the course of World War II

A Portuguese spy, to the service of the Nazis, almost changes the course of World War II

A Portuguese could have changed to the course of World War II, according to declassified documents Tuesday in London that reveals that if it had not been shortage, the Nazi spy would have made fail the assault operation allied in the north of Africa, in 1942.
The Portuguese Gastao de Freitas Ferraz was a simple operator of [...]

The Milgram experiment, the danger of obedience

The Milgram experiment, the danger of obedience

The 1 of June of 1962 died in the gift Adolf Eichmann after to be captured in Argentina by the Mossad, court in Jerusalem by crimes against the guilty humanity and to be declared. Their last words before dying were:
Long life to Germany. Long life to Austria. Long Life to Argentina. These are the countries [...]

Gorée, the island of the slaves

Gorée, the island of the slaves

The Island of Gorée, declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO, is located against the coast of Senegal, country to which belongs, three kilometers of Dakar, the capital. In the past, it belonged to the Portuguese, the Dutch, English and the French.
One became, for more than three centuries, in one of [...]