Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 6

A set of pictures get your attention at the newly-built hall of Iran’s embassy. The structure was added to the Iranian embassy’s complex about 11 years earlier. The set comprises three historical shots, two Persian and Japanese captions and a badge; Nasseredin Shah, Masaharu Yoshida and Magoichirō Yokoyama are in the shots, and the badge is the Iranian Order of the Lion and the Sun. The caption reads as follows:

Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 5

Today, I cruised the streets of Tokyo; the city abounds with long and narrow streets, underpasses, footbridges, cars, discipline. The many locks attached on every lamp post and public telephones and the nuts and bolts used in iron structures are evident of the fact that quakes are on a constant go in the city and, probably, its neighboring towns. Humidity is also considerable. All the essentials of the city are made of iron strictures and rust is born where of iron and humidity are together.

Hiroshima travelogue - Part 4

We leave 'The Center of the Tokyo Raids and Was Damage' after taking several pictures with two symbols placed at the entrance door. Next, we head for Yūshūkan military museum in Tokyo. They drive to a different location. Someone says there is the emperor's house over the river and the long borough we are passing. (What is going on in there? Only God would know.)

Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 3

It is pleasantly sultry. In the morning we leave for a museum called the “The Center of the Tokyo Raids and Was Damage”. It's a small 3-story building. A polite old woman welcomes us in. We take the steps to the second floor and take a seat. A film is being displayed about the horrific bombing of Tokyo by US forces.

Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 2

We fly over Isfahan, Shiraz, the Persian Gulf and the United Arab Emirates before we land at Dubai Airport. We arrive at a bright city. The airport is itself a shiny, great, picturesque and colorful city; it has this gigantic metal-glass hall filled with big and small shops, passages and people of all races. We walk about the airport during the few hours we have to wait. The airport is built on what was once a desert and has now turned into the ticket to success for the Emirates as a transit zone.

Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 1

I still have a few hours. I am writing the "Chronology of Iran's Contemporary History". It’s about the news on November 21, 1925. One of the pieces is about the military attaché of the Japanese government in India; Masaharu Homma. He is moving toward Iran. Iran's ambassador in Baghdad has informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Masaharu Homma has entered the political chronology, and will be granted a free visa.

fire in Anne Arundel, 50 years later

Joseph Ross of Linthicum stands on Dorsey Road in Glen Burnie, the point of origin for a series of brush fires that swept across much of northern Anne Arundel County on April 20, 1963. He is writing an oral history to show the impact of that day on county firefighting. Joseph Ross sits at his computer, opens Google Maps and types in “Dorsey Road.” He clicks the search button.

Fascinating memoir and exploration of a little-known period of recent history

HANOVER, N.H., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- An oral history comprised of interviews with members of Ukrainian collective farms that were organized after the Bolshevik Revolution.

Historically Speaking: Letters from Nagasaki tell of atomic bomb

This article written by Carolyn Krause features additional information about Carl Bretz. She introduced him to us two weeks ago, cited his career and how he came to be an Oak Ridger. The source Carolyn used is his soon to be published oral history.

When a prison, is not prison

A short while after the 1953 Iranian coup détat (known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup), they set most theaters on fire, closed them down and captured the artists. Under Bakhtiars military command in Tehran, they incarcerated the local populace under the pretext of the Article V of Law and imprisoned every artist. I was, too, arrested in the street. At first, they kept me in a detention center in Tehran where I met Mohammad Ali Jafari and many other artists and radio staff; then, a few days later they took me and Mr. Jafari to Qasr Prison due to lack of room for the detainees in the detention center. The word had gone out that those taken to Qasr would never return home.