Everyone has the picture of the American sailor in Times Square passionately kissing a nurse to celebrate the end of World War II already seen once. Scientists now have up to the minute calculated precisely when these two meet in the arms locks.
“A romantic mystery,” say the scientists from Texas State University, which is not focused on the kissing couple, but in the background. And after months of research they know for sure: it was precisely on August 14, 1945 to 17.51u
Why.? In the background of the picture shows a partially visible clock. From this, the scientists were able to deduce that it is about 16:50, 17:50 or 18.50u. In the theater next to the wall where the clock hangs a shadow of the Astor Hotel across the street. Through calculations show that only about 17.51u the shade as could fall to the theater.
The kiss photo grown over the past seventy years into one of the most famous images of the twentieth century. Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died in 1995 without revealing who the nurse and sailor in the photograph. Over the years, several men and women claimed that they were featured on the conscious picture. In 2012 published “The kissing sailor ‘from George Galdorisi and Lawrence Verria and according to that book is about George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman. George was out with his girlfriend Rita. When he heard that the war was over, he stormed into the Radio City Musical Hall outside and he decided the very first woman to kiss. That was Greta. Immediately after the kiss parted ways, they did not exchange a word. In fact, Georges sweetheart Rita is on the same picture, behind him. George and Rita later married.
Earlier, a certain Edith Shain even claimed that she was conscious nurse, but her story the sailor remained completely unknown. Shain died in 2010 at the age of 91.
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