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Researchers and historians are still arguing about why Omaha Beach was the hardest beach to capture in the D-day landings. Presenter Richard Hammond analyses the latest theories with Dr. Simon Trew of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

in this post you can watch this interesting bbc documentary, read wikipedia’s article on “omaha beach”, and watch the video of the making of bloody omaha.

omaha beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the allied invasion of german-occupied france in the normandy landings on 6 june 1944, during world war ii. the beach is located on the coast of normandy, france, facing the english channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of sainte-honorine-des-pertes to west of vierville-sur-mer on the right bank of the douve river estuary. landings here were necessary in order to link up the british landings to the east at gold beach with the american landing to the west at utah beach, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the normandy coast of the bay of the seine. taking omaha was to be the responsibility of united states army troops, with sea transport provided by the u.s. navy and elements of the royal navy. [wikipedia]
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atheism: a rough history of disbelief – known in the united states as a brief history of disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary series written and presented by jonathan miller for the bbc and tracing the history of atheism. it was first shown on bbc four and was repeated on bbc two. it was first shown in the u.s. on pbs in 2007. read the rest of this entry »

the enemies of reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist richard dawkins. read the rest of this entry »

arthur c. clarke’s mysterious world is a thirteen part british television series looking at unexplained phenomena from around the world. it was produced by yorkshire television for the itv network and first broadcast in september 1980.