World War II Code Machine Found at the Bottom of Baltic Sea 

In a week marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II, one of the war’s most significant items was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. One of the legendary code machines called Enigma, used by Nazis in World War II to code […]

Noritake

Today’s Noritake Company, originally named Nippon Toki Kaisha Ltd., was started in 1904 by the Morimura Brothers, who in 1876 had founded a company that exported Japanese products. They wanted to make porcelain dinnerware in designs and sizes that would appeal to the American market. Dishes made in Japan at the time were not the […]