The name Colosseum is in fact a much later addition. It was originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, and was conceived as a peculiarly Roman political gesture ... a gift from a new dynasty of Roman emperors to a populace kept happy by bread and circuses.ook tickets for The Roman Colosseum / Guided tour of the Colosseum. The Colosseum, Rome-ticket types, opening times, how to gain admission. The Colosseum, Rome, Italy-visitor information. The Colosseum or Coliseum is today the most recognisable of Rome's Classical buildings.
More On This Day. On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped âLittle Boy,â a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. Within eight days, Japan surrendered, ending World War II. The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941.
  The first Atomic Bomb (called little boy) dropped was on  August 6, 1945 on the city of Hiroshima. The second atomic bomb  (called fatman) dropped was on Nagasaki three days later.  The United States dropped these bombs on Japan in order to end  World War II.Then on August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.he was ended  only 1 day after the second bomb was dropped. The bombs caused  Japan to surrender. Both a-bombs (atomic bombs) caused about  128,000 people to die and over 120, 000 people suffered from  radiation sickness and cancer.