Bettmann / CORBISRescue boats move in on the battleships U.S.S. West Virginia and U.S.S. Tennessee which sit low in the water and burn after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec., 7 1941.
The “infamy” of December 7, 1941, is deeper than most Americans have ever imagined. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was almost certainly the result of a Soviet plot—“Operation Snow”—carried out by Harry Dexter White, a figure of enormous influence in the Roosevelt administration and a known Soviet spy. Read More...
While many people have been inducted into the Guinness Book of World Record because of their contributions to mankind and other laudable achievements in different spheres of human life, for Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal and Jyoti Amge of India, they earned their rights into the special book due to their size.
* Dangi with his certificate
In February this year, Dangi made headlines across the globe when he was crowned the world's Shortest Man, standing at 54. Read More...
The Spokesperson of the command, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta and made available to newsmen on Saturday. Odutola stated that a concerned citizen made a distress call to the Divisional Police Station, Igbeba, on August 12, and reported that rival cults fought each other, where the deceased, called ‘Mosquito’, “was shot, macheted, and his left hand severed and taken away by his killers”. Read More...
