World War I

4+ hour, 45+ min ago   (984+ words) Deep within the Ma Da forest in Dong Nai City, forest rangers and conservationists tirelessly protect the forest, care for historical sites, and pass down stories of the resistance war to today's generation. Eighty years after the formation of the…...

23+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1602+ words) Germany’s covert operations network in North America was organised as a hierarchical and multi-layered structure concealed under the guise of diplomatic immunity[5]. The command and control of this network was carried out directly through the Embassy in Washington and consular…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (987+ words) On board the submarine, the crew had assembled on the deck in dress uniforms, which were starkly different than what American sailors were wearing. A dashing figure in officer’s regalia bearing a row of medals across his chest stood at…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (463+ words) A forgotten World War II air-raid shelter was recently rediscovered ahead of residential construction in Quedlinburg, in west Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The underground trench-like shelter, whose discovery was announced in late July by Saxony-Anhalt’s Heritage Management and Archaeology State Office (LDA),…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (353+ words) ‘Queen Marie Antoinette’ was a fashion icon, known for her fantastic outfits and gravity-defying hairdos. Her extravagant life of excess eventually made her the target of revolutionary fury, and she… Did Marie Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”? ‘Queen…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (220+ words) Greeley, PA – When John T. Thompson first began researching a portable hand-held automatic weapon in 1915 little did he know that he would be changing history forever. Now, 100 years later, the Thompson semi-automatic rifle, also referred to as the Chicago Typewriter,…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (261+ words) The quick-firing 25-pounder was the main field gun of Commonwealth forces from the early years of the war into the 1960s. Australia began building the guns in 1942, including at General Motors-Holden, and the Army kept them in service until 1965, when it…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (814+ words) On State Game Lands 252 near the Union, Lycoming County line is where you can be transported back in time, finding large metal doors that lead into a room with a big open space. They are the bunkers of Alvira. "These…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (258+ words) A 250-kilogram German bomb from the Second World War has been discovered at a construction site in Vecsés, just outside Budapest, alongside a smaller 50-kilogram bomb. The explosives were found recently on the outskirts of Vecsés, in Pest County, after…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (116+ words) washingtonpost.com A salvage crew has been working to stabilize the SS Richard Montgomery, which sank a few months after D-Day in 1944, with 1,500 tons of explosives in her holds. SHEERNESS, England — In the mouth of the River Thames, just downstream…...