Making the world a better place

Isn't that our claim to fame?

We've been doing it ever since we sailed from England and landed in the "New World".

Here's an anniversary from 50 years ago (a couple days late):

BIKINI ATOLL, Marshall Islands — At first glance, it looks like a tropical paradise: an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where palm trees encircling a pristine blue-green lagoon sway in the breeze. But to the native islanders, Bikini Atoll is more like an exhausted, scorched wasteland, where they eke out an existence in a place that today is forgotten by much of the world. But March 1, 1954, it became ground zero during the Cold War. A half century ago Monday, the United States conducted its largest nuclear test. Code-named Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll, producing an intense fireball followed by a 20-mile-high mushroom cloud.

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And the worst city to live in worldwide today?

Thanks to us...

Baghdad, which suffered war and occupation in 2003, ranked the worst place to live in the world in a survey just published.

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