The history of our civilization has been one of regular war. In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, grown powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. Though the power moved from one country to another, the general pattern of the political and economic ...
1989-04-08 Washington D.C, USA / Cherry Blossom / Kirschblüte / Flor de Cerejeira / Flor de Cerezo
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Mayor Ozaki donated the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also celebrate the continued ...