President Obama Commemorates the 70th Anniversary of D-Day

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Published on Jun 6, 2014 At the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy, France, President Obama pays tribute to the U.S. and Allied forces who fought in the D-Day landings in 1944. June 6, 2014.

D-Day in Normandy

Par Miss Lantin

Published on Jun 4, 2014 Nearly 70 years after the Allied Forces' D-Day invasion of France, surviving veterans of the 29th Infantry Division have returned to Normandy to reflect, and recount their experiences. (June 4)

Remembering D-Day

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On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, emotional WWII veterans look back at the largest seaborne invasion in history. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to storm the heavily German-fortified French coastline of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The...

'Big Red One' Soldiers arrive in France for D-Day commemoration

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http://www.army.mil/d-day/

It's official: Nike rhymes with spiky - and you're saying all these wrong too (The Guardian)

Par Miss Lantin

Hermès Nightmare: another Greek deity turned global brand. Obvious, isn't it? You take "her", add "me", and put an "s" on the end. Put them together and what have you got? "Her-mees". Mais non, non, non! In fact, one drops the "h", and sounds the "e"...

Street art : Los Angeles, Nantes, London

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Letter from the Front (a letter sent by an American soldier / WW2)

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_letters.html

Behind the Photo: Robert Capa's D-Day - June 6, 1944

Par Miss Lantin

The story behind Robert Capa’s iconic shot of a soldier in the surf at Normandy, one of the most celebrated pictures of the Second World War, is nearly as complex as it is incredible. In 1944, Capa, later a co-founder of the photography collectiveMagnum,...

Previewing the President's Trip to Europe

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Published on May 30, 2014 Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, previews the President's upcoming trip to Poland, Belgium and France.

Summertime, no school = no lunch for millions of American kids

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It's SUMMERTIME! Summertime is awesome, but unfortunately not for everyone. During the school year, 21 million school children receive free or reduced-price lunch -- but during summer, 90% of those 21 million kids have limited or no access to meals they...