Weekly History Wrap-Up: 07/08/11
July 8, 2011
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A fabulous Friday to all our followers. Time for the Weekly History Wrap-Up.
Guam wants reparations for Japanese occupation during World War II. The House will soon consider the issue … again.
Nine Germans, most now in their 90s, were convicted this week in an Italian court of killing civilians during World War II.
Old Bullion, the Civil War-era cannon that sets on the lawn of the Elkhart County courthouse in Indiana is scheduled for a little spit-n-polish.
Documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, is now in the historical tours business.
Kim Phuc, the subject of one of the most iconic photographs from the Vietnam War, was a guest speaker at EMU in Harrisonburg, VA this week.
Vietnam Veterans are finding closure in returning to where “it” all took place.
And lets finish things off with a severed head. A skull was found in BBC correspondent, David Attenborough’s garden, bringing an 1879 murder mystery to conclusion. Stranger than fiction? You bet.
Til Monday, have a historical weekend.