Amy Tikkanen
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Amy Tikkanen is Managing Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She has worked at Britannica for more than two decades, handling a wide range of topics that include Hollywood, politics, books, and anything related to the Titanic.
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Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. The B-29 (also called…
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U.S. Presidential Firsts
Famous Hollywood Film Characters Quiz
Understanding the Titanic Disaster
Republican or Democrat?
Famous Astronauts and Cosmonauts
Leonardo DiCaprio
Abraham Lincoln
American Civil War: Who Won Which Battles?
American Reality TV
Scary Movie Quiz
Fifty Shades of Grey
You Can’t Handle the Truth: Famous Movie Quotes
U.S. Navy SEAL Quiz
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cary Grant Quiz
Matthew McConaughey Quiz
The Titanic
American Sports Nicknames
Paul Newman Quiz