The Yalta (Crimea) Conference was the second World War II meeting by the “Big Three,“ President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, heads of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.
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“Razor” Tojo – Japan’s Adolf Hitler
Contrary to popular myth, Japan’s version of Adolf Hitler was not the Emperor (Showa) Hirohito but rather its infamous War Minister Hideki Tojo.
The Race for the Polio Vaccine – Salk vs. Sabin
Long before COVID-19, during the early 1900’s, summer was not a welcomed season for both parents and children, but rather a feared one. For back then, summer was also ‘Polio Season.’ Children were susceptible to poliomyelitis, an incurable disease that affects the central nervous system resulting in paralysis. Polio is a highly contagious virus thatContinue reading “The Race for the Polio Vaccine – Salk vs. Sabin”