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Biography. Kissing Sailor - Found at Last Glenn Edward McDuffie knows why the sailor kissing a white-clad nurse in that famous photo has his wrist bent back in an awkward position. Taken August 14, 1945 in New York City's Times Square moments after the crowd there heard World War II had ended, that photo has epitomized the jubilant mood of a nation who had won our hard fought victory. Glenn knows why that sailor has his wrist twisted because he is that sailor. Glenn had come to New York after coming off the SS Alexander Lillinton with Jack Holmes (from Pittsburg), the sailor in the dark uniform seen laughing in that same photo. Glenn also knows the sailor in the white uniform's name is Bob Little from Buffalo, New York since he also served on the same ship. Now ready to turn 80 this August 3rd, Glenn wants to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of his kiss of an overjoyed nurse by setting the record straight.

Glenn will turn 80 this August 3, 2007. Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla Pretty much everybody even remotely associated with real-time strategy games has heard the name Tesla before – the Serbian God of Lightning's omnipresent, ever-zapping coils have been ruining the lives of digital Allied soldiers and gibbing U.S. war machines into spare parts since the release of Command & Conquer: Red Alert in 1996 – but surprisingly few people these days are familiar with the life and times of one of humankind's most eccentric, badass, and volumetrically-insane scientific super-geniuses.

First off, Nikola Tesla was brilliant. And not just like Ken Jennings brilliant, either - I mean like, "holy crap my head just exploded (from all the awesome)" brilliant. Of course, much like many other eccentric giga-geniuses and diabolical masterminds, Tesla was also completely insane. Tesla also ordered the construction of the Wardenclyffe Tesla Tower, a giant building shaped like an erect penis that would have housed the largest Tesla coil ever built. Tesla in his lab. Russian International News Agency Releases 100 Previously Unseen World War II Images. Children take shelter drawing an air raid, near Minsk, 1941, part of a largely unseen Russian archive.

Now, the Russian International News Agency has an enormous archive of photographs spanning many decades, many of which have never been seen before. It has recently committed to making part of this archive open to the public and to this end has started a project known as Eternal Values. Above, citizens of Leningrad leave their houses after a particularly brutal bombing raid in 1942. This year the first batch (featuring Russia during the Second World War) was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for the world to share. The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, uploaded one of the pictures to Wikimedia Commons himself.

A mechanic inspects a plane while a young soldier uses a stencil to add another kill star to its side, taken on the southwestern front in 1942. September 1941 and as the war progresses, universal conscription means that women as well as men must undergo military training. The Navajo Code Talkers Helped to Win World War II. The Navajo Code Talkers: Helped to Win World War II The early hours of December 7, 1941, marked the dawn of what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “a date which will live in infamy.” The day that the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands was the day that brought the United States into World War II. Image via Wikipedia For the next three and a half years, many islands in the Pacific Ocean became a vast, fragmented battlefield.

An incident on the island of Saipan was typical. Image via Wikipedia Finally the mariners received a curious request: “Do you have a Navajo – and convinced headquarters that the unit was one of their own. Language Barrier: The unwritten language of the Navajo Indians was used at the basis of a cryptic code that the Japanese never deciphered throughout the Pacific campaign. Hidden Weapons Total Success. Famous People Painting with Wiki Links | Historical Figures With Image Map - ClipTank.com. The Oscar Schindler Story. Home Page. Stubby. How Long Does a Queen Last? Memory, after 63 years!