Last month, with a handful of black-and-white archival photos in hand, Associated Press photographer Eugene Hoshiko set out with my camera to document how Hiroshima had changed, 70 years after the atomic bomb. Below is an account of his experience, in his words.
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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes said “we are literally making a miracle happen here.”
NAIROBI, Kenya — Karibu Kenya, President Obama. Welcome to Kenya.
In some blighted neighborhoods in East Baltimore, a deconstruction workforce has started to attack its housing problem by hand, taking apart a selection of vacant houses brick by brick.
Details, a social enterprise branch of human service group Humanim, says it employs people with barriers to employment – like chronic poverty, a conviction, or the lack of a degree — for deconstruction and reclamation work in Baltimore City.
Tuesday, mankind visits its first unexplored world since 1989 – and its last for a long time, if not ever.
The NASA spacecraft was scheduled to be 7,750 miles from the dwarf planet’s surface at precisely 7:49:59 a.m., the pinnacle of a 9 1/2-year, 3 billion-mile journey for the spacecraft designed, built and managed by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel.
The year is 1187 and the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem is beginning to collapse. At the Battle of Hattin, sword-wielding soldiers on horseback chant in Arabic, looking to behead their Christian targets.
Some 60 history buffs are re-enacting the famed battle near an extinct volcano in northern Israel overlooking the Sea of Galilee, where Saladin’s army defeated the crusaders at the end of the 12th century. The Battle of Hattin marked the strengthening of Muslim rule in the region.
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AGUA CLARA, Panama (AP) — Engineers began flooding a newly enlarged section of the Panama Canal on Thursday as authorities prepare to test a series of new locks that will allow the waterway to accommodate much bigger ships, affecting trade around the world.
The 611 was originally retired and replaced by diesel locomotives in 1959 and now is running excursions on a limited schedule.
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The last soldiers and marines occupying the Mare complex of slums will be replaced by police as part of the program to “pacify” and reduce violence in the favela. The process started in April with a June 30 deadline for the army to vacate the neighborhood.
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After a cellphone video of Freddie Gray in police custody at Gilmor Homes went viral, and helped lead to charges against the officers involved, Kevin Moore starts a WeCopwatch group in the area.
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