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The Bitburg controversy concerned a ceremonial visit by Ronald Reagan, the incumbent President of the United States, to a German military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany in May 1985.
The Historikerstreit (German: [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐˌʃtʁaɪt] ⓘ, "historians' dispute") [1] was a dispute in the late 1980s in West Germany between conservative and left-of-center academics and other intellectuals about how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German historiography, and more generally into the German people's view of themselves. [2]
The Regional Museum of Bitburg-Prüm is housed in a former agricultural school. It contains numerous artifacts of the history of Bitburg and the Eifel Region in general. In the cultural centre Haus Beda are exhibited works of the Düsseldorf painter Fritz von Wille (1860–1941), the Eifel's most widely known artist.
The devastating Bitburg tank explosion took place on 23 September 1954 at the then NATO air base near the city Bitburg, in the municipality of Niederstedem, Germany. The explosion took place in an underground storage tank containing JP-4, a military jet fuel blend. The toll was 34 dead, 2 injured, 3 missing. [1]
"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" is a protest song by American punk rock band the Ramones. It was issued as a single in the UK by Beggars Banquet Records in mid-1985. The song is an emotionally charged commentary on the Bitburg controversy from earlier that year, in which U.S. president Ronald Reagan had paid a state visit to a German World War II cemetery and gave a speech where numerous Waffen-SS ...
An F-105 on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 61-0106 - Museum of the Kansas National Guard, Topeka, Kansas. [26] 61-0107 - National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, adjacent to Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. [27] 61-0108 - Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California. [28]
Mace at Warner Robins Museum of Aviation, Georgia Mace at Belleview Park in Englewood, Colorado. Below is a list of locations which have a Mace missile in their collection or on display: Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. TM-76B / CGM-13B, AF Ser. No. 60-0715, but restored and marked as AF Ser. No. 59-4871.
Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian by Michael Richards. Michael Rolando Richards (August 2, 1963 – September 11, 2001) was an African-American artist and sculptor of Jamaican and Costa Rican ancestry who was killed during the September 11 attacks while in his art studio on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower. [1]