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  2. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of ...

  3. Human Shadow Etched in Stone - Wikipedia

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    WWII. Human Shadow Etched in Stone (人影の石, hitokage no ishi) [2] is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the shadow of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. It is also known as Human Shadow of Death [1] or simply ...

  4. Air raids on Japan - Wikipedia

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    Air raids on Japan. During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military ...

  5. 'Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated' say Japan's last ...

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    Estimates put the number of lost lives in Hiroshima, by the end of 1945, at about 140,000. In Nagasaki, which was bombed by the US three days later, at least 74,000 were killed. Sueichi Kido lived ...

  6. Wrentham Village Premium Outlets - Wikipedia

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    The Wrentham Village Premium Outlets is an open-air outlet power center owned by the Simon Property Group. It is located off I-495 and Route 1A in Wrentham, Massachusetts. The facility opened in 1997, and was expanded in 1998, 1999, and 2000. With 616,000 sq ft (57,200 m 2) and 170 retailers, it has been credited as the reason for the downfall ...

  7. Chicago reels from violent holiday weekend: More than 100 ...

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    Last year over the long holiday weekend, 57 people were shot and eight were killed between Friday, June 30 at 6 p.m. and Tuesday, July 4 at 11:59 p.m., according to Chicago police.

  8. Hiroshima governor says nuclear disarmament must be ... - AOL

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    The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.

  9. Hibakusha - Wikipedia

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    The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji.While the term Hibakusha 被爆者 (hi 被 "affected" + baku 爆 "bomb" + sha 者 "person") has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the United States Army Air Forces on the 6 and 9 August 1945.