The picturesque village of Linby in Nottinghamshire, holds a curious piece of folklore tied to World War II. According to local legend, the German Luftwaffe once mistakenly bombed a nearby field, ...

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946, when the Americans utilised a captured German ...

A mussel bed in Northern California is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two young students surveyed it shortly before one was sent to fight in World War II. Resampling the ...

Scientists revisit a 1941 study of a California mussel bed, finding surprising biodiversity despite climate change.

Old photos rewrite the story of an Egyptian dinosaur lost to World War II. Skeletal remains of Tameryraptor markgrafi in the ...

Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its ...

The underground Churchill War Rooms house the rooms where then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill directed maneuvers against ...

Watch this DoD video by Marine Corps Sgt. David R. Staten detailing how Allied Forces liberated Paris following their storming of Normandy beaches on Aug. 25, 1944. The post Extraordinary Footage ...

Chief Carpenter’s Mate Ted McKindley Furr, who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor attack, will be ...

(AP) - President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.” ...

Central Texas has a new centenarian, and it’s World War II veteran Morris Barker, who got quite the surprise from family and ...

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