Feb 10th, 2012 at 1:00PM: Fantasy of Flight is an aviation-themed Florida exhibit showcasing vintage aircraft from the world's largest private collection, themed immersion experiences, interactive exhibits and more. Now through February 11, Fantasy of Flight is celebrating National Black History month with its Fourth Annual Legends & Legacies Symposium Series with a visit from famed World War II heroes, the Tuskegee ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Feb 10th, 2012 at 1:00PM: Fantasy of Flight is an aviation-themed Florida exhibit showcasing vintage aircraft from the world's largest private collection, themed immersion experiences, interactive exhibits and more. Now through February 11, Fantasy of Flight is celebrating National Black History month with its Fourth Annual Legends & Legacies Symposium Series with a visit from famed World War II heroes, the Tuskegee ...The Athens War Museum
Feb 6th, 2012 at 9:00AM:
This is a Heckler & Koch MP5 9mm submachine gun with gold plated parts. It was given by the Defense Minister of Kuwait to former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, probably as a thank you for his nation's help in liberating Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. It's one of a case of Papandreou's personal weapons on display at the Athens War Museum.
Greece has a long and proud ...Never forget: Holocaust museums and memorials around the world
Jan 27th, 2012 at 10:30AM:
Here at Gadling, our goal is to introduce readers to travel ideas that are relevant. While we strive to find the new and the cool, we realize that some journeys must occasionally lead us to confront difficult episodes in our past, whether on a personal or global scale.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations in 2005 to mark the anniversary of the ...Missing plane found 71 years after it disappeared
Jul 27th, 2011 at 9:00AM: A Royal Canadian Air Force plane, missing since 1940, has been found at the bottom of a lake, ending a 71-year old mystery regarding the final resting place of the aircraft and its crew. The plane was lost on Dec. 13, 1940, but was recently discovered by a group dedicated to finding missing airplanes, who used sophisticated radar to guide divers to the site.
On December 12th, 1940, another RAF ...Witness to War: important reading this Memorial Day
May 30th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Every Memorial Day weekend we remember the soldiers who fought for the United States. For those of us who have never experienced war, however, it's hard to understand their experiences.
The Witness to War program is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the wartime memories of veterans and helping to give civilians a better idea of what they went through. As their website says, ...Warsaw, Poland: an up-and-coming European museum destination
Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:30AM:
As an EU member with a good exchange rate and low prices, Poland is becoming a popular tourist destination in Eastern Europe. Most of the love goes to Krakow, with its original architecture and "new Prague" charm, but capital city Warsaw has plenty to offer as a European museum destination. While much of the old town was leveled in World War II, the restorations have been painstakingly done and ...Coming face to face with history in Hiroshima, Japan
Mar 4th, 2011 at 2:15PM: Hiroshima.
Just saying the name can often evoke a strong emotion or reaction. When I told people I intended to visit Hiroshima on my Japan trip, the response was usually the same.
"Why would you want to visit there?" my friends asked.
"Why not?" I quipped. "The city is home to one of the most epochal events in modern history!"
Despite the admonishments and the bitter winter ...GadlingTV's Travel Talk - Thailand Part 9: Hellfire Pass
Mar 3rd, 2011 at 1:00PM:
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In the first half of Travel Talk's grand Thai expedition, we've tamed elephants, explored Bangkok's temples, eaten scorpions, taken in a Muay Thai match, and witnessed a train running directly through a bustling market. Now, we're taking you to explore a lesser known province of Thailand for a closer ...American-Muslim group urges Palestinians to visit Holocaust Museum
Dec 23rd, 2010 at 8:30AM:
The Islamic Society of North America is defying Hamas and urging Palestinian youths to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Jewish news service JTA reports.
A group of A-students from the Gaza Strip are to visit the nation's capital on a UN-sponsored educational visit. Their tour is to include the Holocaust Museum, but Hamas, which runs the Palestinian Authority, ...Art thought destroyed by the Nazis is discovered
Nov 10th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
The Nazis called it "Degenerate Art", works that didn't conform to their taste for Germanic propaganda. Anything too experimental, anything too avantgarde, anything too Jewish, got locked away or destroyed.
Before they did that, however, they held the art up to public ridicule at a 1937 exhibition called Degenerate Art. Thousands of Germans went to this exhibition, although it's hard to say ...Veterans blocked from Wolfgang Puck restaurant in Dallas
Oct 17th, 2010 at 9:00AM: Okay, it has to be hard to turn a nonagenarian away from a restaurant, right? How about one who's a decorated World War II hero who spent two years in a POW camp and five of his buddies? Well, this is what happened at the up-market Five Sixty restaurant, a Wolfgang Puck property in Dallas.
Their transgression: failing to meet the dress code.
The vets were holding their annual reunion; they ...The East Highland Way: hiking Scotland's newest trail
Aug 19th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
I'm in Ft. William on the west coast of Scotland, the starting point for many popular long-distance hikes, including Scotland's newest trail--the East Highland Way. Over the next six days I'll be walking 76 miles past lochs, mountains, historic sites, and remote countryside. The hike is so new there isn't even a guidebook yet, but Kevin Langan, who established the route and is writing a ...The animals that helped win World War Two
Jul 20th, 2010 at 12:30PM:
Animals have always been used in war, but historians tend to dismiss them as living equipment and say little about their experiences. A new exhibition at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans seeks to right that imbalance by focusing on the war effort of animals on both sides of the conflict.
Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII features life-sized mannequins of horses and mules with ...WWII submarine struggles to survive
Jul 12th, 2010 at 9:00AM: England's last submarine built during World War Two needs £1.5 million ($2.7 million) to avoid ending up on the scrapheap of history.
The HMS Alliance was launched just weeks before the end of the war and never saw action. It is the last surviving Amphion class submarine specially designed for long-range Pacific warfare. While it missed the big show, it saw active service until 1973. Now ...London museum airbrushes out Churchill's cigar
Jun 18th, 2010 at 1:00PM: While there have been a lot of angry comments here on Gadling about Egypt's smoking ban and the even stricter smoking ban in Finland, neither country has tried to pretend people didn't smoke in the past. Now someone at the Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience, a London museum, seems to have decided dead people could get lung cancer and airbrushed out a cigar from a photo of Winston ...Schindler's List factory becomes museum
Jun 12th, 2010 at 3:00PM: During World War Two, German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved some 1,200 of his Jewish workers from extermination. His enamelware and munitions factories were considered vital for the German war effort and he claimed his workers all had special skills vital for the operation of his factories, whether they had or not. Many of his "skilled mechanics" were in fact children or handicapped people.
...The swastika: symbol of peace and harmony
May 8th, 2010 at 1:30PM: Sixty-five years ago today German President Karl Dönitz declared an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces, ending the war in Europe. Berlin had fallen to the Soviets, Hitler had killed himself a week before, and the Third Reich was dead.
The scars from that terrible conflict are slow to heal, and symbols used by the Nazis still cause controversy. When the Hamburg Radisson Hotel ...Celebrating the Battle of Britain
May 7th, 2010 at 10:30AM: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, an epic struggle for the skies between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is celebrating this key victory of World War Two with a host of activities. A photographic exhibition runs to the end of the year and shows what life was like at the RAF Duxford base. There's a series of flight ...The bureaucracy of genocide
May 7th, 2010 at 9:00AM: The typical image of a Nazi is a jackbooted thug gunning down innocent people. While there were all too many killers like that in the Third Reich, the majority of Nazis were civilians. It takes a lot of people to run a government and an army, and many Nazis never personally killed anyone. They were educated, middle-class bureaucrats who loved their children, were kind to their neighbors, and spent ...Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons: Where to see them inflate and balloon history facts
Nov 25th, 2009 at 4:30PM: Starting this afternoon and on into tonight the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade character balloons will be inflated at Central Park West and Columbus Avenue on 77th and 81st Streets. The public is able to watch the process between 3:00 and 10:00 p.m. From what I've read, arrive closer to the end to get the balloons' full effects.
The balloons, that take trained volunteers to safely maneuver them ...
