Tag: “Cold War”
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A journey to the DMZ
In 2004 I visited the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea. This is my tale.
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The Titan
The last remaining Titan II ICBM in its silo at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley Arizona.
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Titan Missile Museum
The Titan Missile Museum is home to the sole remaining Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) complex of the original 54 that were on alert during the Cold War. The Titan II carried a nuclear payload 600 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan!
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Driftwood on A Beach in Northern Iceland
My travel partner Sean kept referring to the driftwood hotel in Iceland and for some reason the detail stuck in my mind so that every time we passed driftwood on the beach i remembered his descriptions of Iceland - the ones that made me want to see it for myself. the funny thing is - there was no driftwood hotel, just the occasional pieces of driftwood on almost every stone cold beach we passed in Iceland.
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Arromanches
This place is a very beautiful French place. This is where the invasion in the second world war took place.
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outdoor snooker in China
Turpan lays in the province Xinjiang, the biggest province of China. Fifty procent of the population is Uyghur, a Muslim society with people who seem to have a mix of Turkish, Chinese and Russian blood in them.
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Belle Isle
Former prison island during the civil war. Now is a city park and houses several abandoned buiildings and other fun spots.
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Galena
Galena is a small, historic town. It is the adoptive home of the 18th President, Ulysses Grant, renowned Civil War General.
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Arromanches
The view on the boulevard of Arromanches. In the water some remains of the second world war.
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War Memorials of the Falklands
Two War Memorials and the Christ Church Cathedral (1892) hold honored places along the main street--Ross Road, in Stanley on the Falkland Islands. The 1914 Battle Memorial is an imposing monument as is the 1982 War Memorial designed by a Falklander and built by volunteers.
