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National Day of Prayer, Obama, Ground Zero
National Day of Prayer, Obama, Ground Zero (photos, video) May 5th, 2011 12:21 pm PT By Sheila OConnor SF Top News Examiner On National Day of Prayer, Obama visits Ground Zero, thanks firefighters Obama visits Ground Zero, thanks firefighters Credit: Getty Images San Francisco residents are learning that President Barack Obama has visited Ground Zero and the firefighters who lost colleagues in the attacks of September 11th, 2001. He chose today, the National Day of Prayer, to do so. The National Day of Prayer was established back in 1952 by Congress. It was established as an event by a joint resolution and was signed into law by President Truman. Today, 5th May…
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Top 10 Evil Lairs
For years, the accepted wisdom was that Osama bin Laden was holed up in a cave along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It turns out he was living in a rather large, heavily armed house in an affluent town outside Islamabad. With his Abbottabad house being carefully examined, TIME takes a look at the horrible hideouts of other evildoers Full List HOME IS WHERE THE HATE IS Hitler’s Bunker As the Soviets were closing in from the East, and British and U.S. troops were moving toward Berlin from the West, Adolf Hitler took refuge in an underground lair — the Führerbunker, a massive complex of rooms directly below the New Reich Chancellery…
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Last World War I Combat Vet Dies at 110
By AP / KRISTEN GELINEAU SYDNEY) — Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died in a Western Australia nursing home Thursday at age 110. And though his accomplishments were many — including a a 41-year military career that spanned two world wars — the man known as “Chuckles” to his comrades in the Australian Navy was happiest being known as a dedicated family man. “We all loved him,” his 84-year-old daughter Daphne Edinger told The Associated Press. “It’s going to be sad to think of him not being here any longer, but that’s the way things go.” Choules was born March 3, 1901, in…
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How Do Astronauts Go to the Bathroom in Space?
It is a common question people have about astronauts. There must be complications at zero gravity when it involves this highly personal activity that everyone, even those in the highest ranks of power, must do, the act of visiting the John, as we have nicknamed the necessary room, named after inventor of the flushable toilet was named Sir John Harrington. According to a Time magazine article, going to the bathroom in space, involves a complicated invention known as “WCS” or “waste collection system.” To learn more visit Time magazine online.