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Nevil Shute and Scottish ballerina Moira Shearer autograph books at Harrod's, London.

Nevil Shute and Scottish ballerina Moira Shearer autograph books at...

 United States President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met in Vienna in June, 1961, to soften the hostility between their countries, leading adversaries during the Cold War. The meetings, however, were largely unsuccessful and the th

United States President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita...

 The film version of On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer and released in 1959, starred Gregory Peck as Dwight Towers and Ava Gardner as Moira Davidson.

The film version of On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer and...
On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, an industrial port city in Japan. The explosion destroyed nearly half of the city and killed about forty thousand people.

On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki,...