Tag: Normandy (France)

Maureen Flavin Sweeney, Whose Weather Report Delayed D-Day, Dies at 100

On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history. In 1947, Muhammad edh-Dhib, a young Bedouin shepherd looking for a sheep gone astray, discovered a hidden cave that contained the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest known version of most of the Hebrew Bible. Making his rounds one night […]

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