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View ArticleWatch Leonard Nimoy in a Marine Corps instructional video from 1954
Long before he played the greatest Starfleet officer of all time and directed the immortal 'The Voyage Home' Leonard Nimoy spent 18 months in the Army reserve. According to Military.com, Nimoy achieved...
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21 beautiful, vintage photographs of NASA's glory days
Space exploration's golden age was arguably at its very start, when ambition was boundless and progress came in great strides.A massive collection of vintage photos from this era went up for auction on...
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The credit card was invented by a man who forgot his wallet at dinner
Recently I was reading Jason R. Hastie's "The Dollar Code: Get Out of Debt With One Number," where I came across the story of Frank McNamara, the creator of the credit card.The story caught my...
View ArticleScientists discovered why the Washington Monument is shrinking
Though some discrepancies in the Washington Monument's height may be the result of different measurement methods, they appear to be partly due to lightning strikes.This video originally appeared on...
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US and Norwegian troops reenacted a successful WWII special forces operation...
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of a successful sabotage campaign against the Nazis, members of the Minnesota National Guard reenacted the mission in Snaasa, Norway, the US Army reports.The...
View ArticleHere's what Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen actually found at the bottom of...
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen announced that he has discovered Musashi, a World War II Japanese battleship that was sunk by US forces over 7o years ago. Allen and his research team...
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Hundreds of medieval bodies unearthed under a supermarket in Paris
More than 200 bodies were recently unearthed in several mass burials beneath a Paris supermarket.The bodies, which were lined up head to feet, were found at the site of an ancient cemetery attached to...
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Circumcision has a long and complicated history
On a recent Saturday morning, Craig Adams stood outside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.It was sunny but cold. Adams, who had turned 40 the day before, wore...
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ISIS just 'bulldozed' the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud
The Islamic State group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage.The Islamic State, also...
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This broken 700-ton generator demonstrates everything that went wrong with...
It has been almost four years since US forces withdrew from Iraq, and the fate of the country has never seemed more uncertain.ISIS continues to control large swathes of the country, Iran's influence is...
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Hardly anyone realizes the classic board game Monopoly started as an early...
Ralph Anspach wasn't going to stop making his Anti-Monopoly game just because Parker Brothers told him to. At least not without a fight.It was 1974 and Anspach, an economics professor at San Francisco...
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Long before drones, the US tried to automate warfare during the Vietnam War
In this excerpt from Andrew Cockburn's 'Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assasins', Cockburn delves into the strategic, historical, and technological developments that led to the widespread use of...
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The Marines were the first US ground troops to land in Vietnam 50 years ago
On the morning of March 8, 1965, 3,500 US Marines landed on a beach in South Vietnam, becoming the first US ground troops to be committed to the Vietnam War, The Guardian reports.While it was a clear...
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A spherical bunker in Russia was the most secure place in the entire Cold War
The Dead Hand system was the Soviet Union's last line of deterrence in the event of a crippling nuclear strike, a way to inflict millions of casualties on its enemies even if the Soviet chain of...
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Here's why the Apple Watch always shows the time as 10:09 in advertisements...
If you see an advertisement for a watch, chances are you'll see the watch's time set to 10:10.Watchmakers have traditionally chosen 10:10 as their display time because it ensures that the watchmaker's...
View ArticleWe went inside the top-secret tunnel under Grand Central that only presidents...
It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as president. He went through great lengths...
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The Queen has reigned for so long that other world leaders look like temps...
People forget just how historically long Queen Elizabeth's reign has been.She is the second-longest-serving, still-living monarch in the world today, having been Queen for 62 years. And she will...
View ArticleHere's how humans have evolved over the past 550 million years
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These charts helped US troops identify enemy aircraft during World War II
Distinguishing between friendly and enemy forces can be difficult in war, and World War II posed its own basic battlefield challenges. US soldiers — most of whom were conscripted men who might not have...
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